Editorial: Learning to Listen
Articles
One Generation from Extinction / Basil H. Johnston
Reassessing Traditional Inuit Poetry / Robin McGrath
That Also Is You: Some Classics of Native Canadian Literature / Robert Bringhurst
“A Parcel of Whelps”: Alexander Mackenzie among the Indians / Parker Duchemin
Savage, Degenerate, and Dispossessed: Some Sociological, Anthropological, and Legal Backgrounds to the Depiction of Native Peoples in Early Long Poems on Canada / D.M.R. Bentley
Red & White Men; Black, White & Grey Hats: Literary Attitudes to the Interaction between European and Native Canadians in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century / Mary Lu Macdonald
Mourning Dove’s Canadian Recovery Years, 1917-1919 / Alanna Kathleen Brown
Contemporary Native Women’s Voices in Literature / Agnes Grant
Equality among Women / Mingwon Mingwon (Shirley Bear)
Jeannette Armstrong & the Colonial Legacy / Noel Elizabeth Currie
Yin Chin / Lee Maracle
Upsetting Fake Ideas: Jeannette Armstrong’s “Slash” and Beatrice Culleton’s “April Raintree” / Margery Fee
The Politics of Representation: Some Native Canadian Women Writers / Barbara Godard
Border Work / Celia Haig-Brown
A Double-Bladed Knife: Subversive Laughter in Two Stories by Thomas King / Margaret Atwood
Lines and Circles: The “Rez” Plays of Tomson Highway / Denis W. Johnston
The Baffin Writers’ Project / Victoria Freeman
Cultures in Conflict: The Problem of Discourse / Robin Ridington
The Prophecy / Basil H. Johnston
Poems
Artifacts / Frank Conibear
Negative of You; Shawnandithit (Last of the Beothuks); The Blizzard Moans My Name / Joan Crate
A Prairie Museum; Belugas; Four Dancers / Jim Tallosi
Chewing the Pieces / David P. Reiter
Pakashgoogan / Denis Stokes
Shoreline, Old Lake Iroquois / M.T. Kelly
Nightmare Comfort / Ben Abel Klu'skap-o'kom / Rita Joe
Nostalgia; The Red in Winter; “Progress” / Emma Larocque
Earth Nites; I'm Not in Charge of This Ritual; Big Steve; Down on the Yucatan; Shaman and the Raven / Wayne Keon
Yin Chin / Lee Maracle
The Wet; Working on Titles; Eagle Caught Salmon / Bruce Chester
Song on Starling Street; Breakdown Moon; Blue Moon; Inukshuk / Daniel David Moses
Coyote Learns to Whistle; Coyote Sees the Prime Minister; Coyote Goes to Toronto; The City on the Hill / Thomas King
The Dancing Sun; The Water Moved an Instant / Alootook Ipellie
April 23, 1985: Aboriginal Rights Conference / Mingwon Mingwon (Shirley Bear)
Review Articles
No Writing at All Here: Review Notes on Writing Native / L.R. Ricou
Sucking Kumaras / Gary Boire