Essays on the First Nations of Canada, including Inuit and Métis, by Wayne K. Spear
[This is an extract from my 1998 doctoral thesis. You can also read my thesis chapters on Eleanor Brass and James Tyman. The introductory, “Autopoetics,” chapter is here.] Maria Campbell’s Half-Breed constitutes a Metis-centred history of the Metis and conceives history itself… Read More ›
[This is an extract from my 1998 doctoral thesis. You can also read my thesis chapters on Maria Campbell and Eleanor Brass. The introductory, “Autopoetics,” chapter is here.] AUTHENTICATING THE SUBJECT: ROLE-PLAYING AND THE SELF. Inside Out: An Autobiography of… Read More ›
[This is an extract from my 1998 doctoral thesis. You can also read my thesis chapters on Maria Campbell and James Tyman. The introductory, “Autopoetics,” chapter is here.] The Interested Subject: Irony in Eleanor Brass’s “I Walk In Two Worlds”… Read More ›
CANADA’S INDIAN RESIDENTIAL School System began officially in 1892 with an Order-in- Council.
I have been asked by the editor of a local magazine to prepare an essay “that deals with the issues of being Native in Niagara, or of growing up Native in this region.” It took me a good deal of… Read More ›
