Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: nêhiyawak Life Writing

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: nêhiyawak Life WritingCarrying the Burden of Peace provides critical examination of Indigenous masculinities that is also an honour song. Sam McKegney weaves together stories of Indigenous life, love, eroticism, pain, and joy to map the contours of diverse, empowered, and non dominant Indigenous masculinities to offer a place from which a balanced world may be pursued. Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities be an honour song one that celebrates rather than

Her mother gently asks what is troubling Anna

It is a space that constructs identities in very particular ways

aunts and the patriarch and matriarch of the household

and visiting other fishermen and homesteaders along the way

Themes: sled dogs

Through case studies and conversations with contemporary Indigenous artists

they can be used as condiment cups and serving bowls

friendship

Natives and Settlers reclaims the vitality of Indigenous laws and paradigms in Canada

She is afraid of falling off the boat

Yet Hughes lived a notoriously private life

Northwest Coast Native Art and Marquetry