Indigenous Literature

A brief history of Indigenous Literature in Canada

By: Izzy Cheung, staff writer We’re all familiar with ‘classic’ literary moguls like Shakespeare and Jane Austen. For those like me who have endured at least a few English classes in so-called Canadian institutions, we’re taught all about the significance of the green light in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), or the way Edgar Allan Poe characterizes true fear in The Tell-Tale Heart. However, the literature that Canadian education systems tend to spotlight in our classes often puts an emphasis on authors from Europe and other locations instead of those who know the land we live on. An accomplished…

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