#E. Pauline Johnson

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Chiefswood, birthplace of E. Pauline Johnson (aka Tekahionwake), located outside Brantford, Ontario, Canada

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thoughts on E Pauline Johnson/Tekahionwake

don't got enough energy to make this as coherent as i'd like but I'm thinking about the writings of E Pauline Johnson (also known as Tehakionwake) a lot -- I really like her writing, and as a Canadian, I'm happy to learn about Canadian literature since all I was taught in school was American and English stuff until I finally took Canadian Lit in uni

I tend to think about certain peices of her writing from a "female rage" standpoint -- and idk if that's accurate or fair - I don't know if I'm forcefully imposing a modern label on her works, but not only is that what I see when I read ""Ojistoh," "A Cry from an Indian Wife," "The Cattle Thief" and (especially) "As it Was in the Beginning," -- but I particularly appreciate having examples of "female rage" art that don't only depict white girls/women

because while I love this kind of art, especially in film, I never see myself in it. we have reached a point where female rage can be glamourized or celebrated...to a certain extent. the rage of women of colour is still largely used to justify apathy or even violence against us -- and I've yet to see it explored in mainstream media the same way regular, unlabled (and therefore white) female rage is

any way, back to johnson -- my favourite examples of her writing aren't just about women in general - they're about Indigenous women resisting the forces of sexism, imperialism, and religious violence in 19th century Canada

however...there's still more to think about

Johnson was half-white, came from a very finanically privileged background and was thus able to use both of those to her advantage white navigating white spaces. In her live readings where she wore "Indian" costume - essentially an amalgamation of stereotypes from a variety of first nations -- you could argue that she was intentionally playing into audience expectations only to subvert them by returning in her white/european clothes -- but you could also argue that she was playing into the shock value of the transformation and somewhat legitimizing the audience's perception of Indigenous cultures as exotic, homogenous, and non-specific.

she was aware of the audience's often overly-simplistic interpretations of her work though and wrote about them, saying "I could do so much better if they'd only let me"

and yeah, that's all I've got for now. Should be working on my actual school work but I'm more interested in this right now.

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Witness Examinations

Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United StatesSeries: Admiralty Case FilesFile Unit: Martha Stewart v. Steamer "Sue"

IN THE U. S. DISTRICT.

MARTHA STEWART, et al :

:

Vs. : Before MORRIS, J.

:

THE STEAMER SUE. :

Baltimore, M'd January 29th, 1885.

M A R T H A S T E W A R T (colored)

sworn and examined

By Mr. STIRLING:

Q. Are you married or singe? A. Single.

Q. Where do you live? A, 254 Townsend street.

Q. In Baltimore city? A. Yes, sir.

Q. What do you do for a living? A. I am assistant cook at a

boarding house.

Q. Your are a cook? A. Yes, sir.

Q. On the 15th of August, 1884, di you go as a passenger on

the steamer Sue? A. I did. I taken a first-class ticket.

Q. Did you go on board by yourself, or were there others with

you? A. I went with my three sisters and my aunt.

Q. Give their names> A. Lucy Jones, Mary M. Johnson, Winnie

Stewart and Pauline Braxton.

Q. The others are the other three libellants her, are they?

A. Yes, sir: they are my sisters.

Q. Where were you going on that steamer? A. Down to Virginia.

Q. To what landing? A. Kinsale.

Q. On what river? A. The Potomac.

Q. For what purpose were you going to Kinsale Landing? A. I

was going down there to visit my mother.

Q. Where did your mother live? A. In Westmoreland County, Va.

Q. Just state fully what happed when you went on board the

steamer at Baltimore; what ticket you bought, and what took place

afterwards, if anything, in regard to your desire for sleeping accommodations.

A. We bought first-class tickets and paid three dollars

for the round trip. After we settled the fare, I taken the

wraps down in the cabin, and taken four bunks; and a short while

after I went in the saloon the chambermaid comes up with the wraps

and puts them in my lap. I asks her what was that for; we had

the first-class ticket? She said it was the captain's orders; it

was his orders for her to go down and bring them wraps up, and not

a colored person should stay in the saloon. I says to the chambermaid,

:The captain must know very well he can't prevent us from

going in that cabin. We got the first-class ticket." She says

"I can't help it; it's the captain's orders, and I'm going to obey

the captain's orders." I says, "Well, I'll go down and see if

that door is locked, and if it isn't locked I'll carry the wraps

down again". She says "I've locked the door;" and I went down and

rapped three times, and it was locked, and I couldn't get in any

More.

[complete document and transcript at link]

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Scarlet Pearl: A Double Life SMP Pearl Web Weave

A Fairy stories/Autumnal inspired web weave for @ollyboros as part of the Mcytblr Holidays Exchange

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Hope you have a nice holiday season!

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Sources:

Fields Swaledale Gunnerside by Kreuzschnabel on Wikimedia National Dress Cape of Gbraltar by John Cummings on Wikimedia Vagabonds by Emily Pauline Johnson Under Canvas by Emily Pauline Johnson Autumn Path by Yuko Kudos on Wikimedia Hallowmas by Madison Julius Cawein Country Brick, Autumn Maple Tree by Forestwander on Wikimedia Black Fisherman Sandals with Orange Tights and Fall Leaves by Jamie on Wikimedia Decorated Sword on Swordwallpapers.com Song V by E. E. Cummings Tikaani 2 by Saweiss on Wikimedia The Phantom Horsewoman by Thomas Hardy Horse Riding, Mountain Pass by Vyacheslav Argenberg on Wikimedia Bow and Arrow by Arrows and crosses on Wikimedia Quiver and Arrows by Thos E. Hill on Wikimedia All Hallows Night by Lizette Woodworth Reese New Jersey Tree with Autumn Leaves by Tomwsulcer on Wikimedia

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Nakajima Katsuhiko & Shizoaki Go: For a while it was love, wasn't it? For me it was love.

Catherynne M. Valente // Nakajima Katsuhiko & Shizoaki Go via 健ちゃん and Yukiko // Florence + the Machine, I’m Not Calling You a Liar // Nakajima Katsuhiko & Shizoaki Go via Yukiko and siroiro // Ocean Vuong, Prayer for the Newly Damned // Mitski, I'm Your Man // The Betrayal of Jesus, Giotto di Bondone // Julius Caesar, Shakespeare // Nakajima Katsuhiko & Shizoaki Go via here and here // Lily Chatterjee // Judas, K. Wright // F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby // Nakajima Katsuhiko & Shiozaki Go via Wakik0 // E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake, Ojistoh // A Primer For The Small Weird Loves, Richard Siken // Nakajima Katsuhiko & Shizoaki Go via ちゃぴこ and まちおか // Carved Into My Heart: The Grief of Go Shiozaki // Little Red Riding Hood Addresses the Next Wolf // Nakajima Katsuhiko & Shiozaki Go via Yukiko and まちおか

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Bring Me The Horizon, True friends

E. Pauline Johnson / Tekahionwake, Ojistoh

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Part 3: Science Fiction and Fantasy Books by Black Authors

Black Sci-Fi Short Stories Tia Ross (Editor), Sandra M. Grayson (Introduction) Dystopia, apocalypse, gene-splicing, cloning and colonization are explored here by new authors and combined with proto-sci-fi and speculative writing of an older tradition (by W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin R. Delany, Sutton E. Griggs, Pauline Hopkins and Edward Johnson) whose first-hand experience of slavery and denial…

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2024 (66)

nausea (jean-paul sartre) - 6/10 the weans (robert nathan) - 10/10 legends of vancouver (e. pauline johnson) - 8/10 woman running in the mountains (yuko tsushima) - 9/10 every man for himself and god against all (werner herzog) - 9/10 i don't want this poem to end (mahmoud darwish, mohammed shaheen ed.) - 7/10 the temple of the golden pavilion (yukio mishima) - 9/10 miss julie (august strindberg) - 8/10 the father (august strindberg) - 8/10 interpreter of maladies (jhumpa lahiri) - 10/10 on earth and in hell: early poems (thomas bernhard) - 6/10 the slave girl (buchi emecheta) - 10/10 the homecoming (harold pinter) - 9/10 the boy who followed ripley (patricia highsmith) - 9/10 beartown (fredrik backman) - 9/10 hymns to the night (novalis) - 8/10 in a german pension (katherine mansfield) - 7/10 the tunnel (ernesto sabato) - 8/10 between two worlds (miriam tlali) - 9/10 tales of hulan river (xiao hong) - 10/10 family ties (clarice lispector) - 10/10 butterfly burning (yvonne vera) - 9/10 i saw ramallah (mourid barghouti) - 10/10 fences (august wilson) - 10/10 almond blossoms and beyond (mahmoud darwish) - 8/10 «selected stories of xiao hong» (xiao hong, howard goldblatt ed.) - 10/10 the stream of life (clarice lispector) - 9/10 the perfect nine: the epic of gikuyu and mumbi (ngugi wa thiong'o) - 8/10 over all the mountain tops (thomas bernhard) - 7/10 why did you leave the horse alone? (mahmoud darwish) - 8/10 brocade river poems (xue tao) - 9/10 human mourning (jose revueltas) - 8/10 return of the spirit (tawfik al-hakim) - 9/10 the visit (friedrich durrenmatt) - 10/10 down and back: on alcohol, family, and a life in hockey (justin bourne) - 10/10 juha (juhani aho) - 10/10 only in the meantime & office poems (mario benedetti) - 9/10 springtime in a broken mirror (mario benedetti) - 10/10 the sonnets (stephane mallarme) - 7/10 bestiary: or the parade of orpheus (guillaume apollinaire) - 8/10 maze of justice: diary of a country prosecutor (tawfik al-hakim) - 9/10 tales and stories for black folks (toni cade bambara et al) - 10/10 the black woman (toni cade bambara et al) - 10/10 fictions (jorge luis borges) - 10/10 a raisin in the sun (lorraine hansberry) - 9/10 memory for forgetfullness (mahmoud darwish) - 10/10 black friend: essays (ziwe) - 10/10 are prisons obsolete? (angela y. davis) - 10/10 waiting for godot (samuel beckett) - 10/10 the garden party (vaclav havel) - 9/10 dust tracks on a road (zora neale hurston) - 9/10 wild thorns (sahar khalifeh) - 10/10 everything good will come (sefi atta) - 10/10 men in the sun and other palestinian stories (ghassan kanafani) - 10/10 minutes of glory and other stories (ngugi wa thiong'o) - 10/10 midaq alley (naguib mahfouz) - 9/10 a man of letters (taha hussein) - 7/10 the beggar's opera (vaclav havel) - 8/10 soul gone home (langston hughes) - 8/10 mulatto (langston hughes) - 10/10 the weary blues (langston hughes) - 9/10 the quarter (naguib mahfouz) - 10/10 pedagogy of the oppressed (paulo freire) - 10/10 after midnight (irmgard keun) - 9/10 a gentleman in moscow (amor towles) - 7/10 peace and its discontents (edward said) - 10/10

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Fifty Years of Halfbreed: How the Memoir Opened Up Indigenous Literature

Maria Campbell’s landmark book remains as captivating and unforgettable as it was on publication

“All kinds of people have written books about half-breeds before,” said Maria Campbell in a 1973 interview with the Leader-Post, “but nobody who is a half-breed has written a book before.” Half a century ago, there were very few books published in Canada written by Indigenous authors. Aside from the work of Mohawk poet E. Pauline Johnson, most Canadians had likely read about Indigenous people only through the words of settlers.

Read more at thewalrus.ca.

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Hey, I love your webs, your blog was a huge part of why I've started reading/writing poetry. Would you do one about betrayal you should have seen coming / knife in the back imagery?

E. Pauline Johnson / Tekahionwake, Ojistoh

Breaking Bad (2008–2013) 5x09: Blood Money

The Truman Show (1998) dir. Peter Weir

Caleb Carr

Garth Ennis, Preacher (#55)

Lily Chatterjee (attrib.)

The Social Network (2010) dir. David Fincher

Tricia Sullivan, Sweet Dreams

David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary

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One hand caressed his cheek, the other drew The weapon softly — “I love you, love you,” I whispered, “love you as my life.” And — buried in his back his scalping knife.

E. Pauline Johnson, from Ojistoh; Flint and Feather: The Complete Poems, 1912

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E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) Poetess Town Hall Lanark November 4th 1904 -- Documenting Aboriginal History

E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) Poetess Town Hall Lanark November 4th 1904 — Documenting Aboriginal History

CLIPPED FROMThe Lanark EraLanark, Ontario, Canada26 Oct 1904, Wed  •  Page 1 Documents in the LAC Collection that trace her life and times. Born: March 10, 1861Six Nations of the Grand River, Canada WestDied: March 7, 1913  Vancouver, British ColumbiaGreat-grandfather:     Tekahionwake (Jacob Johnson)Grandfather:    Chief Sakayengwaraton (John “Smoke” Johnson)Grandmother:    Helen (Nellie)…

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Rest in peace, E. Pauline Johnson.  The daughter of Mohawk chief Onwanonsyshon (George Henry Martin Johnson) and the Englishwoman Emily Susanna Howells, Pauline (Tekahionwake) started performing in amateur theatre in the 1880s, and began writing and publishing poetry around the same time.  Her “The Song My Paddle Sings” (Be strong, O paddle! be brave, canoe!/The reckless waves you must plunge into./Reel, reel./On your trembling keel,/But never a fear my craft will feel.) is still consistently anthologized (and no wonder--how well this stamp enthusiast relates!), and while her funeral in 1913 was the largest Vancouver had seen, her popularity declined in the decades following her death (possibly due to her mixed blood), but has since seen a steady rise as interest in First Nations literature has grown.  She died on this date in 1913 at the age of 51.

Stamp details: Issued on: March 10, 1961 From: Ottawa, Canada MC #339

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In the land of silver birch,

asleep again        solarium,   some peeling paperback— a crayfish  cleaning pool by     hotrock  barefoot;  warboat  waiting when her paddle sings a summer without blackflies—  quick campaign of cliffs; of cleaving lakes &  fortress-tree the cave of branches; fire— pre-Columbian Prometheus; some animistic instinct  then, to burn    the secret lives of stones  of figurines—     libating bowl of coins & hockey cards    atone    hubris for the carving of our names on giants' tombs— we left our mark, in love with some Algonquian Madonna; we left the warboat waiting, tied  awaiting  paddlesong of loons. * * * Written January 2017.

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tommy, you are hereby exiled or, c!clingyduo exile scene; love and the knives it can wield

after the movie, marie howe // tubbo exiles tommy from l’manberg // preacher (#55), garth ennis // @/jazetallo on twitter + antigone // @/jazetallo on twitter + a self-portrait in letters, anne sexton // waiting for godot, samuel beckett // henry and june, anaïs nis // ojistoh, e. pauline johnson and tekahionwake

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death as an act of love, death as an act of mercy

akseli gallen - the lovers

jujutsu kaisen

agustín gómez arcos - the carnivorous lamb

james dashner - the death cure

the untamed (2019)

the case study of vanitas

e. pauline johnson - ojistoh