The Good Red Road: Journeys of Homecoming in Native Womens's Writing
”There are those who think they pay me a compliment in saying that I am just like a white woman. My aim, my joy, my pride is to sing the glories of my own people. ours is the race that taught the world that avarice veiled by any name is crime. ours are the people of the blue air and the green woods,...
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ftcdlib:oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0rj5d76r 2023-09-05T13:19:29+02:00 The Good Red Road: Journeys of Homecoming in Native Womens's Writing Brant, Beth 1997-01-01 application/pdf https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0rj5d76r unknown eScholarship, University of California qt0rj5d76r https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0rj5d76r CC-BY-NC American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol 21, iss 1 Emily Pauline Johnson Mohawk article 1997 ftcdlib 2023-08-21T18:07:40Z ”There are those who think they pay me a compliment in saying that I am just like a white woman. My aim, my joy, my pride is to sing the glories of my own people. ours is the race that taught the world that avarice veiled by any name is crime. ours are the people of the blue air and the green woods, and ours the faith that taught men and women to live without greed and die without fear.”’ These are the words of Emily Pauline Johnson, Mohawk writer and actor. Born of an English mother and Mohawk father, Pauline Johnson began a movement that has proved unstoppable in its momentum - the movement of First Nations women to write down our stories of history, of revolution, of sorrow, of love. The Song My Paddle Sings August is laughing across the sky Laughing while paddle, canoe and I Drift, drift Where the hills uplift On either side of the current swift. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations University of California: eScholarship |
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”There are those who think they pay me a compliment in saying that I am just like a white woman. My aim, my joy, my pride is to sing the glories of my own people. ours is the race that taught the world that avarice veiled by any name is crime. ours are the people of the blue air and the green woods, and ours the faith that taught men and women to live without greed and die without fear.”’ These are the words of Emily Pauline Johnson, Mohawk writer and actor. Born of an English mother and Mohawk father, Pauline Johnson began a movement that has proved unstoppable in its momentum - the movement of First Nations women to write down our stories of history, of revolution, of sorrow, of love. The Song My Paddle Sings August is laughing across the sky Laughing while paddle, canoe and I Drift, drift Where the hills uplift On either side of the current swift. |
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The Good Red Road: Journeys of Homecoming in Native Womens's Writing |
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol 21, iss 1 |
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