Braided Tales: Lives and Stories of Women in a Northern Alberta Reserve Community
Theses
Author/Creator
Linda Ann Foulds
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 1997.
Primary source for titles was Amazon Best Sellers in Children’s Native Canadian Story Books, as well as publishers' web pages, and library and authors' lists. Objective was to identify fiction books for ages 0-18 written by Indigenous authors that contained reconciliation-related themes. More than 150 books met the inclusion criteria.
Discussion on the early writings by Aboriginal authors and the lack of Aboriginal fiction and poetry in the sixties.
Excerpt from an essay that examines the themes in Maria Campbell's Halfbreed.