![]() ![]() However, far from being a pessimistic pamphlet denouncing the lack of sovereignty of the first nations over their land, Through Black Spruce displays an interesting literary plea for individual self-reinvention. In this part of the continent as on others, land exploitation has mirrored human subjection. Furthermore, Native people have suffered additional estrangement when both governments assigned them specific reservation land off coveted natural resources. ![]() ![]() Indeed, the Great Lakes Region, though a unified cultural and linguistic territory prior to colonization, has been since split into two countries. Native American writer Joseph Boyden sets his second novel on several North American contested landscapes where nature undergoes the consequences of economical and political tensions between communities. ![]()
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