Volume 31.1, 2006

“FOR THE LOVE OF WORDS”
ABORIGINAL WRITERS OF CANADA

Co-Editors:
Jennifer Andrews
Renata Eigenbrod
Emma LaRocque

“it’s all good this”
Duncan Mercredi

Introduction
From Conference to Special Issue:
Selected Articles on "For the Love of Words":
Aboriginal Writers of Canada”
Renate Eigenbrod and Jennifer Andrews

“Sweeping”
Emma Larocque

Opening Address
Emma LaRocque

Keynote Address: The Aesthetic Qualities of Aboriginal Writing
Jeannette Armstrong

“Les Animaux”
Marilyn Dumont

The Grandmother Language:
Writing Community Process in Jeannette Armstrong’s whispering in shadows
Jane Haladay

“How He Served”
George Kenny

Understanding Cree Protocol in the Shifting Passages of “Old Keyam”
Deanna Reder

Keynote Address:
The Rolling Head’s “Grave” yard
Skydancer
Louise Bernice Halfe

Intersections of Memory, Ancestral Language, and Imagination;
or, the Textual Production of Michif Voices as Cultural Weaponry
Pamela V. Sing

“A Weasel Pops In and Out of Old Tunes”:
Exchanging Words
Marie Annharte Baker
Lally Grauer

“The Song I am Singing”: Gregory Scofield’s Interweavings of Métis, Gay, and Jewish Selfhoods
June Scudeler

“making elbow room for poetry and that last bus down sergeant”
Marvin Francis

“How Come These Guns Are so Tall”: Anti-Corporate Resistance in Marvin Francis’s City Treaty
Warren Cariou

Afterword