Literary Land Claims Plays Neganigwane Company

Neganigwane Company

The book covers the contributions made Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

taking a job as the princess’s personal assistant

is a coming-of-age story about a teen girl who experiences her Indigenous heritage in a meaningful way

Grasshopper Girl is written by Teresa Peterson

Literary Land Claims Plays Neganigwane CompanyLiterary Land Claims: From Pontiacs War to Attawapiskat analyzes works produced between 1832 and the late 1970s by writers who resisted these dominant notions. Margery Fee, professor of English at the University of British Columbia, where she has taught Indigenous literature since 1996, examines the standard notions of Canadian literature that views the land as Canadians' home and native land, and has been used as evidence of the civilization needed