ENGL 105W Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Siwash Rock, Cornplanter, Alexander Graham Bell

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 105W
• Professor: Carole Gerson

Document Summary

Eng 105 march 3 pauline johnson. Pauline has many different voices according to her audience. Assertion of native rights & values through a female perspective. She can"t get away from the fear of hell mistresses, their squaw natives. The following poems are balladic story poems (ballad style: verses in regular rhyme and rhythm; frequent repetition of phrases; recount legends) Pilot of the planes yakonwita & white lover die in the winter & turned into legends. Dawendine through heroine"s agency, native lovers create peace & happiness: has to choose between her lover/her people. A conflict arises b/w her lover & her brother. Assertion of native rights & values through stories for boys (published in the us) The potlatch validates west coast indigenous culture & language. We-hro"s sacrifice validates onondaga culture (most traditional) (six nations reserve) & traditional pagan religion (worship of the great spirit) equivalent to christianity: rest of the tribe doesn"t view it as wrong, but we-hro does.