Diversity as Discrimination: Lee Maracle's Sojourner's Truth and Other Stories

Abstract

Canada, colonised by the British and the French, was originally the land of Inuits, Indians and other tribal communities like Abenakis, Alongkins, Beothuk, Chippewas, Crees, Eris, Eurons, Iroquois, Kiskakons, Mahicans, Mohawks, Naskapis, Onondagas, Puants, Sokokis, etc., who a re now variously called the natives, the indigenous and the 'First Nations'. The natives, collectively, are sometimes also referred to as Indians of Canada. In fact, the word 'Canada' is a derivation of the Huron-Iroquois term 'Kanata' meaning a village or a settlement.