Poitras, once labeled an angry artist, believes anger is foreign to Indigenous philosophies and traditions, instead dictates forgiveness. Her works have display evils done to First Nations people by the church, Western materialism, residential schools and alcohol, but her own worldview is that trials and suffering lead to redemption.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 3, 2006, pp. 129-178
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Book reviews of:
Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America edited by Brian Swann.
Building on a Borrowed Past: Place and Identity in Pipestone, Minnesota by Sally J. Southwick.
The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature edited by Joy Porter and Kenneth M.