| Vocabulary: | lcsh |
| Type: | topical |
| Status: | approved heading [active] |
| Date Created: | 2002-08-21 00:00:00 |
| Date Modified: | 2012-10-02 16:08:42 |
Indian women poets
Broader Concepts
Sources
- Work cat.: Strong-Boag, V. Paddling her own canoe : the times and texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), c2000: p. [3] (By Canadian law, she was Mohawk) p. 4 (Throughout her public life Pauline Johnson played with the fundamental question of identity posed by her dual heritage from an English mother and a mostly Mohawk father. As with subsequent Mixed-race generations ...) p. 5 (we ask what it means for us to take up the story of a Mohawk-English Canadian woman) p. 8 (A few words to be said about terminology ... Where we wish to specify that ancestry is both First Nations and European, we have employed Métis/Métisse when referring to those of French-First Nations origin)
- Online, Aug. 16, 2001 (Encyclopaedia Britannica: Pauline Johnson: Johnson, Pauline b. March 10, 1862, Six Nation Indian Reserve, Brant county, Upper Canada [now in Ontario] d. March 7, 1913, Vancouver, B.C. in full Emily Pauline Johnson, Canadian Indian poet)
- Online, Aug. 16, 2001 (Biography Resource Center: Source: Notable Native Americans. Gale Research, 1995. She is remembered for her contributions to First Nations literature (as work by indigenous Canadians is called) and to the acceptance of Native women of letters ... Her father, Henry Martin Johnson (Onwanonsyshon) was a Mohawk chief.
