Let the drums be your heart: new native voices

✍ Scribed by Maki, Joel T

• Publisher: Douglas and McIntyre
• Year: 2017;1996
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Let the Drums be Your Heart brings together the work of more than forty aboriginal writers from all over Canada. concerned with family and days gone by, romance and adventure, tragedy and danger, these poems, short stories, articles and life stories ring with native pride and determination.

As editor Joel T. Maki points out in his introduction, storytellers and historians have always played a vital role in aboriginal communities, ensuring that indvidiual cultures, languages, legends and customs would survive. In this book, as in his earlier anthology Steal My Rage, Maki presents the work of writers from a variety of nations and backgrounds. Honouring past and present struggles of Native peoples everywhere, this anthology will serve to remind readers, as Maki says, of the proud warrior spirit that lies within.

✦ Subjects

Autochtones--Canada--Anthologies;Canadian literature (English)--20th century;Canadian literature (English)--Indian authors;Littérature canadienne-anglaise--20e siècle;Littérature canadienne-anglaise--Auteurs indiens d'Amérique;Native peoples--Canada--Literary collections;Canadian literature (English) -- Indian authors;Canadian literature (English) -- 20th century;Native peoples -- Canada -- Literary collections;Littérature canadienne-anglaise -- Auteurs indiens d'Amérique;Littérature canadien