This book is an outcome of my deep observations of Lee Maracle’s first-hand experience with racism, cultural discrimination, traditional spiritual beliefs besides infringement of social and political sovereignty of the Aboriginal. I venture to explain in this book, how Lee has sincerely represented the ‘Native’ world, once misinformed and misrepresented; how Lee struggled with honor for native womanhood/sisterhood, and her hope for the unity of humanity beyond the colonizer and the colonized, us and them, binaries

WHERE DO YOU BEGIN TELLING SOMEONE THEIR WORLD IS NOT THE ONLY ONE? While Stacey, a 17-year-old Native girl, struggles to save her family and community from a devastating influenza epidemic, a white classmate’s suicide hints that the village is threatened by forces more sinister and powerful than the epidemic itself. Ravensong, the first novel of celebrated author Lee Maracle, tells an extraordinary story about a young woman’s quest for answers, combining both tragedy and joy in its unforgettable depiction of an urban Native community in the 1950s. Maracle speaks unflinchingly of the gulf between two cultures: a gulf that Raven says must be bridged. Evocative and prescient, filled with oral traditions, humour, and deep insight, Ravensong is more than just a novel—it is a necessary story for our time.

With Elijah Harper's symbolic blockage of the Meech Lake Accord and the high intensity of the Mohawk Warrior Society's defiant stand, 1990 marked a significant change for both First Nations and all the other people living in Canada. Sundogs is a novel about the struggle of a young First Nations family for love and solidarity in the context of that turbulent year. From urban Vancouver, to a small town in the Okanagan Valley, and across the country on a desperate bid for peace between the Canadian government and the Mohawk Nation, Marianne, Sundog's heroine, finds a moment of peace from the confusion and dis-unity in her own life. In returning to the beliefs of her ancestry, she comes to chart the course of her life anew. Through Sundogs, Lee Maracle takes the reader on a cultural and spiritual journey into the heart of First Nations country. The agony, the joy and humour of First Nation's people makes the novel a lively and inspirational piece of work. Sundogs presents the reader an intimate look at the lives of one family during the momentous events surrounding the downfall of Meech Lake and the Oka crisis from a very personal perspective.

This accessible and unusually wide-ranging book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial and African American women's writing. It provides a valuable gender and culture inflected critical introduction to well established women writers: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Suniti Namjoshi, Bessie Head, and others from the U.S.A., India, Africa, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and introduces emergent writers from South East Asia, Cyprus and Oceania. Engaging with and clarifying contested critical areas of feminism and the postcolonial; exploring historical background and cultural context, economic, political, and psychoanalytic influences on gendered experience, it provides a cohesive discussion of key issues such as cultural and gendered identity, motherhood, mothertongue, language, relationships, women's economic constraints and sexual politics.

Mink is a witness, a shape shifter, compelled to follow the story that has ensnared Celia and her village, on the West coast of Vancouver Island in Nuu’Chahlnuth territory. Celia is a seer who — despite being convinced she’s a little “off” — must heal her village with the assistance of her sister, her mother and father, and her nephews. While mink is visiting, a double-headed sea serpent falls off the house front during a fierce storm. The old snake, ostracized from the village decades earlier, has left his terrible influence on Amos, a residential school survivor. The occurrence signals the unfolding of an ordeal that pulls Celia out of her reveries and into the tragedy of her cousin’s granddaughter. Each one of Celia’s family becomes involved in creating a greater solution than merely attending to her cousin’s granddaughter. Celia’s Song relates one Nuu’Chahlnuth family’s harrowing experiences over several generations, after the brutality, interference, and neglect resulting from contact with Europeans.

"An angry, humorous and loving search for the truth behind the myth and legend of the 'Indian princess.' With her powerful words, Monique Mojica lays bare the hearts and minds of Pocahontas, Malinche, Sacajawea and the uncounted native women who first met and fought the European invasion of our lands. Moving across and through time, Mojica engages our imagination, our spirit, and invites us to witness this time-travel of exploding illusions and delusions, to the triumph and honesty of survival"-Beth Brant-- Back cover.