Iskwewak Neither Indian Princess: Second Edition University children posing in front of

children posing in front of a one-room schoolhouse

Indigenous wildland firefighters

he makes carvings of what he wants to say

The currents against it are very strong but I believe we can reach that destination and this is the reason for our survival

Akuluk figures

Iskwewak Neither Indian Princess: Second Edition University children posing in front ofIn the impressive and powerful first book, Iskwewak Kah' Ki Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak: Neither Indian Princesses Nor Easy Squaws, Janice Acoose deconstructs stereotypical images of Indigenous women in popular literature. Exposing literature as an institution of a Euro Canadian nation shaped by non Indigenous scholarship, Acoose calls attention to its projections of Indigenous women as Indian princesses, easy squaws, suffering helpless victims and tawny