Pursued by a Bear

Tricksters, medicine shows, and ghosts are some of the story elements discussed in this collection of essays about First Nations Canadian authors. Posing questions abouthow such folklore adds tothe country'scollective memory, the essays look atBen Cardinal's "No Name Indians and Generic Warriors;" Tomson Highway's "The Sage, the Dancer and the Fool; "Billy Merasty's "Fireweed; "Beatrice Mosionier's "Night of the Trickster;"andFloyd Favel Starr's" Lady of Silences. "An eye-opening look at Native Canadians as theynegotiate their way through white culture, the book also offers insights on Native Americans in similar predicaments in movie westerns and the musical "Oklahoma ""