The Moccasin Maker

Long, before American Indian women's literature achieved its current popularity, the writings of E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) pioneered the field. A mixed-blood of Mohawk-English descent, Johnson gained renown for her literary recitals and theatrical performances in Canada, England, and the United States, being billed at turn of the century as the "Mohawk Princess". Many of Johnson's stories in The Moccasin Maker depict nineteenth-century India women cause between the forces of cultural c...