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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813330603321

Autore

Anahareo <1906-1986.>

Titolo

Devil in Deerskins : My Life with Grey Owl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Winnipeg, : University of Manitoba Press, 2014

ISBN

0-88755-455-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

First Voices, First Texts ; ; v.1

Altri autori (Persone)

McCallSophie <1969->

Disciplina

971

Soggetti

Anahareo, -- 1906-1986

Conservationists -- Canada -- Biography

Grey Owl, -- 1888-1938

Indians of North America -- Canada -- Biography

Native peoples -- Canada -- Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Photographs""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Foreword by Katherine Swartile""; ""Foreword by Anne Gaskell""; ""Devil in Deerskins""; ""Reframing Anahareo�s Devil in Deerskins: My Life with Grey Owl""; ""Colonial Regimes in Algonquin and Mohawk Territories""; ""Anahareo �s Life and Times : Reconstructing Algonquin and Mohawk Histories""; ""From My Life with Grey Owl (1940 )to Devil in Deerskins (1972)""; ""Challenging Stereotypes, Defending the Wilderness""; ""Works Cited""

Sommario/riassunto

Anahareo (1906-1985) was a Mohawk writer, environmentalist, and activist. She was also the wife of Grey Owl, aka Archie Belaney, the internationally celebrated writer and speaker who claimed to be of Scottish and Apache descent, but whose true ancestry as a white Englishman only became known after his death. Devil in Deerskins is Anahareo's autobiography up to and including her marriage to Grey Owl. In vivid prose she captures their extensive travels through the bush and their work towards environmental and wildlife protection. Here we see the daily life of an extraordinary Mohawk woman whose independence, intellect and moral conviction had direct influence on Grey Owl's conversion from trapper to conservationist. Though first published in 1972, Devil in Deerskins's observations on indigeneity,



culture, and land speak directly to contemporary audiences. Devil in Deerskins is the first book in the First Voices, First Texts series. This new edition includes forewords by Anahareo's daughters, Katherine Swartile and Anne Gaskell, an afterword by Sophie McCall, and reintroduces readers to a very important but largely forgotten text by one of Canada's most talented Aboriginal writers.