Anahareo (1906-1985) was a Mohawk writer, environmentalist, and activist. She was also the wife of Grey Owl, aka Archie Belaney, the internationally celebrated writer and speaker who claimed to be of Scottish and Apache descent, but whose true ancestry as a white Englishman only became known after his death.
Devil in Deerskins is Anahareo’s autobiography up to and including her marriage to Grey Owl. In vivid prose she captures their extensive travels through the bush and their work towards environmental and wildlife protection. Here we see the daily life of an extraordinary Mohawk woman whose independence, intellect and moral conviction had direct influence on Grey Owl’s conversion from trapper to conservationist. Though first published in 1972, Devil in Deerskins’s observations on indigeneity, culture, and land speak directly to contemporary audiences.
Devil in Deerskins is the first book in the First Voices, First Texts series. This new edition includes forewords by Anahareo’s daughters, Katherine Swartile and Anne Gaskell, an afterword by Sophie McCall, and reintroduces readers to a very important but largely forgotten text by one of Canada’s most talented Aboriginal writers.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.004/970092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Reprint. Originally published: Toronto : New Press, 1972. With new forewords and an afterword Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9780887554551 9780887557651
- LCCN
- E90.G75
- LCCN Item number
- A62 2014eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xii, 210 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00910795 (OCoLC)879870319 (CaOOCEL)447630
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- My life with Grey Owl
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 6
- List of Photographs 7
- Acknowledgements 8
- Foreword by Katherine Swartile 10
- Foreword by Anne Gaskell 14
- Devil in Deerskins 20
- Reframing Anahareo’s Devil in Deerskins: My Life with Grey Owl 208
- Colonial Regimes in Algonquin and Mohawk Territories 211
- Anahareo ’s Life and Times : Reconstructing Algonquin and Mohawk Histories 214
- From My Life with Grey Owl (1940 )to Devil in Deerskins (1972) 222
- Challenging Stereotypes, Defending the Wilderness 226
- Works Cited 230