Diapozitiv 1

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CANADIAN NATIVE PEOPLE AND SHORT STORIES
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A NATIVE AMERICAN - CREE
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NATIVE AMERICANS

• THE PEOPLE
• FIRST MEN
• ORIGINAL PEOPLE
• CANADIAN INDIAN
• NATIVE
• ABORIGINAL

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STEREOTYPES

• bows and arrows
• campfires
• tepees
• music (drums)
• medicine men
• ponies
• pipes of peace
• chiefs

• buckskin
• wampums
• braids
• spirits of animals
• peyote
• good hunters
• religion

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REALITY OF ABORIGINALS

• Native people and unemployment
• Suicides
• Crime
• Discrimination
• Low economic situation
• Violence

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UNHIDING THE HIDDENby Robert Kroetch

• Survival itself is the Canadian apocalypse.
• The Canadian cannot die and therefore writes
  fiction. He longs to be destroyed by America in
  his wrath at Americas failure he sets out to be
  the destroyer. It is his only hope.

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W. P. KINSELLA

• William Patrick Kinsella, OC, OBC (born May 25,
  1935) is a Canadian novelist and short story
  writer who is well-known for his novel Shoeless
  Joe (1982) which was adapted into the movie Field
  of Dreams in 1989. His work has often concerned
  baseball, which is a significant part of all of
  his novels. His work also concerned Canada's
  First Nations and other Canadian issues.

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REAL INDIANS

• Social aspect
• Story
• Language
• Relationships
• Characterization

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MARGARET LAURENCE

• Born in Neepawa, Manitoba, Laurence was the
  daughter of solicitor Robert Wemyss and Verna
  Jean Simpson. Following the death of her mother
  when Laurence was four, Margaret Simpson, a
  maternal aunt, came to take care of the family. A
  year later, Simpson married her father and in
  1933 they had a son, Robert. In 1935, Robert
  Wemyss Sr. died of pneumonia.

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THE LOONS

• Socio-economic situation
• Nature
• Animals
• Relationships
• Both are 1st person singular