Oxford, Toronto, 1990, 1st pr.  ISBN 0-19-540796-2.  Large trade soft cover, 213 pages including Notes, Bibliography and Index.  Wraps show light edge and cover wear; tight binding; some warping to lower part of front wrap and text block but does not affect readability; light soil on fore-edge page block.  Interior clean and unmarked with black & white photos and reproductions.  ‘Focusing on the work of Indians and Metis, and beginning with an examination of the oral tradition from which their literature grew, and that continues today, it discusses both works generically classified as literature, and forms such as speeches that are significant for their eloquent expression of protest and alienation. … Orations, sermons, petitions, letters, journals, autobiographies, historical and travel writings, and journalism are considered, as well as short stories, novels, poetry, drama, traditional tales, and essays.’ (from rear wrap)