ABSTRACT
When we discuss Canadian literature and Native people, we generally talk about the use that Canadian writers have made of Native people and Native culture, and we spend most of our critical energy drawing lines from writers such as Duncan Campbell Scott, Isabella Valancy Crawford, and E.J.Pratt to more contemporary literary figures such as Howard O’Hagan, Robert Kroetsch, Sharon Pollock, W.O.Mitchell, W.P.Kinsella, and Rudy Wiebe. We do so because the literary Indian is a rather visible feature of Canadian literature. Indeed, the list of Canadian authors who have not made use of the Native is almost easier to compile than the list of those who have.
