A really good brown girl
By: Marilyn Dumont.
Publisher: Brick Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 77
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Canada -- Poetry.
Description: Marilyn Dumont's Metis heritage offers her challenges that few of us welcome. Here she turns them to opportunities in a voice that is fierce, direct, and true, she explores and transcends the multiple boundaries imposed by society on the self. She mocks, with exasperation and sly humour, the banal exploitation of Indianness, more-Indian-than-thou oneupmanship, and white condescension and ignorance. She celebrates the person, clearly observing, who defines her own life.

These are Indian poems, Canadian poems, human poems.