Indigenous people have long been represented as roaming "savages" without land title and without literature. Literary Land Claims analyzes works by writers who resist these dominant notions and posits that literary studies needs a new critical narrative, one that engages with the ideas of Indigenous writers and intellectuals.

Margery Fee is a professor of English at the University of British Columbia, where she has taught Indigenous literature since 1996. Her most recent articles in that field appeared in What's to Eat? Entrees in Canadian Foodways, edited by Nathalie Cooke, and Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations, edited by Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra. She co-authored the Guide to Canadian English Usage.

Table of Contents for
Literary Land Claims: The "Indian Land Question" from Pontiac's War to Attawapiskat by Margery Fee

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1 Imagining "The Indian Land Question" from Here

2 "Why have they taken our hunting grounds?": John Richardson's Lament for a Nation

3 "That 'ere Ingian's one of us!": Richardson Rewrites the Burkean Savage

4 "We have to walk on the ground": Constitutive Rhetoric in Riel's Addresses to the Court

5 "We Indians own these lands": Performance, Authenticity, Disidentification, and E. Pauline Johnson / Tekahionwake

6 "They taught me much": Imposture, Animism, Ecosystem and Archibald Belaney / Grey Owl

7 "They never even sent us a letter": Literacy and Land in Harry Robinson's Origin Story

Conclusion: Attawapiskat v. #Ottawapiskat

Notes

Works Cited

Index