Kurdish Studies

ISSN: 2051-4883 | e-ISSN: 2051-4891
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Debunking the White Lies in Janet Rogers’s Poem “Pocahontas”

Noor Zaid Farajullah
Aliraqia University, College of Arts, Translation Department, Iraq
Keywords: Rogers, Indigenous, White People, Pocahontas, Natives, White Lies..

Abstract

Janet Rogers is an Indigenous Canadian poet and a recording artist who was born on (January 29, 1963). She is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from Six Nations territory. She lives in Coast Salish territory since 1994 and she is known as the Poet Laureate of Victoria, the University of Northern British Columbia Writer-in-Residence for 2015 and the Ontario College of Art and Design NIGIG Visual Culture Visiting Artist in 2016. The literary heritage she has consisted of Splitting the Heart, Ekstasis 2007, Red Erotic, Ojistah 2010, Unearthed, Leaf 2011, “Peace in Duress” Talonbooks 2014, Totem Poles and Railroads 2016 and Between Spirit and Emotion 2018. (Vancouver Poetry House.com).

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