The Shagganappi
When “Fire-Flint” Larocque said good-bye
to his parents, up in the Red River Valley, and started
forth for his first term in an Eastern college, he
knew that the next few y...
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The Mohawk writer and performer E[mily] Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) was born on 10 March 1861 at Chiefswood, the impressive house built by her father on the Grand River Reservation of the Six Natio...
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Pauline Johnson is a symbol of the sharp division between the so-called serious and popular literary cultures in Canada. Although she has been almost entirely ignored in scholarship and academic antho...
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Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) was the first Native American poet to have her work published in Canada and was one of the few women of her time who succeeded in supporting herself from her writings and r...
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