“The Game Never Ends”: Gerald Vizenor's Gamble with Language and Structure in Summer in the Spring

• Main Author: McNeil, Elizabeth
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 1995
• Subjects: Summer in the Spring: Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories; The Progress; Indian reservation newspaper; Anishinaabe audience; non-Anishinaabe academic audience; engaged discourse; Theodore Beaulieu; Indian; Theodore; anishina*
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8mm5813d

The trickster myths in Gerald Vizenor’s Summer in the Spring: Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories come nearly verbatim from a series of tales in The Progress, the first newspaper published on an Indian reservation in Minnesota. Appearing in the late 1880s, the series was originally edited by Theodor...