Browsing by Author "Fagan, Kristina"
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"Dance your style!" : towards understanding some of the cultural significances of pow wow references in First Nations' literatures
McConney, Denise Suzanne (2006-04)"Dance Your Style": Towards Understanding Some of the Cultural Significances of Pow Wow References in First Nations' Literatures References to pow wows, pow wow dancers, and pow wow songs abound in First Nations' literatures. ... -
Looking for snob hill and sq’éwqel : exploring the changing histories of aboriginality and community in two aboriginal communities
MacDonald, Katya Claire (2009-12)This thesis explores notions of community and Aboriginality within the histories of two Aboriginal communities: the primarily Métis town of Île-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan and the Stó:lõ reserve of Seabird Island, British ... -
Minjimendaamowinon Anishinaabe : reading and righting All Our Relations in written English
Acoose, Janice M. (2011-01-03)Following the writing practice of learned Anishinaabe Elders Alexander Wolfe (Benesih Doodaem), Dan Musqua (Mukwa Doodaem) and Edward Benton-Banai (Geghoon Doodaem), this Midewiwin-like naming Manidookewin acknowledges ... -
A Process of Thought and Being: Aboriginal Realism and Cultural Healing in Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road and Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen
Iles, Caitlin (2012-01-13)In this thesis I examine the relationship between the healing of cultural trauma and connections to Aboriginal communities in Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road and Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen. These novels are ... -
A psychological analysis of the struggle with racism in In Search of April Raintree
Dyck, Melanie (2009-07-10)Focusing on Beatrice Mosionier’s fictional autobiography In Search of April Raintree, this thesis analyzes April and Cheryl Raintree’s emotional and psychological responses to oppression and racism and to freedom and love. ... -
Re-searching Metis identity : my Metis family story
Turner, Tara (2010-04)This research explores Metis identity through the use of a Metis family story. The participants of this Metis family were my father and his two sisters and his two brothers. As children, they lost both their parents at the ... -
The relationships of place : a study of change and continuity in Stó:lõ understandings of I:yem
Fehr, Amanda Beth (2008)Building out of recent scholarship that examines the way colonialism has altered Aboriginal people’s relationships with the land, this thesis employs the theories of historical anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, historical ... -
Toward decolonized conceptions of space and literature of place in ecocritical analysis : the process and production of landscape in William Bartram's travels and Samuel Hearne's a journey to the Northern Ocean
Milligan, Richard Anthony (2006-12-18)The tendency to stage appreciation for and attention to nature as a passive, guiltless enterprise was necessary for eighteenth-century colonial claims to space, but it also remains a very deeply entrenched aspect of ... -
Trickster and Weetigo : Tomson Highway's Fur Queen
Spray, Mitchell Leslie (2008)This project paper discusses the Cree mythology present in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen. I contend that Highway’s conflation of the two mythological characters, Weesageechak and Weetigo, in the figure of the Fur ... -
"The trouble with history - it never is" : interrogating Canadian white identity in Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic
Ewert-Bauer, Tereigh Danielle (2005-01-10)In writing this thesis, I plotted where the streams of whiteness theory, life-writing theory and practice, and Daphne Marlatt’s novel Ana Historic converge. In the introduction, I outline the development of my own ... -
The use of the anecdote in the critical study of aboriginal literature
Moore, Robyn Heather (2009-12)This paper examines the use of the anecdote in critical scholarship as an ethical approach to studying Aboriginal literature. As many scholars are now becoming aware of the damage that has been done to texts by critiquing ... -
A war of wor(l)ds : Aboriginal writing in Canada during the 'dark days' of the early twentieth century
Edwards, Brendan Frederick R (2008)From the late fifteenth century onward the new world has been described, imagined, and created via the written word and the printing press. Europeans and Euro-North Americans laid claim to the new world through print ... -
A woman writing thinks back through her mothers : an analysis of the language women poets employ through an exploration of poetry about pregnancy and childbirth
Atherton, Carla Maria (2007-09-04)This thesis discusses the relationship between the experiences particular to the female body, namely pregnancy and childbirth, and the language employed to voice these experiences. This thesis is set up to reflect the ...