An analysis of five of Louis Owens's critically acclaimed novels: The Sharpest Sight, The Bone Game, Wolfsong, Nightland, and Dark River. LaLonde argues that the "trickster discourse" of Owens's work is instrumental to Native survival.

This Monograph demonstrates that disruptions to young people's developing conceptions of personal or cultural persistence begin to explain the suicide rates among Aboriginal Canadian and non-Aboriginal Canadian youth.

• Presents a developmental and cross-cultural investigation into suicide among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadian youth.


• Links disruptions to developing conceptions of personal or cultural persistence with suicide rates
  
• Finds, through a series of normative studies, that Aboriginal Canadian and...