Introduction : writing "Indians" and the Manichean allegory -- Representation and identification : gender and genre in the first Canadian novel(s) -- "A curiosity ... natural and feminine" : race, class, and gender in the colonial writings of Anna Jameson and Susanna Moodie -- "Poor creatures, once so benighted" : imagining race in early colonial narratives -- Inhabiting a Manicheal world view : colonialism, ideology, and discourse -- Administering/ministering to the Indians : Duncan Campbell Scott and the politics of church and state -- The temptations of Rudy Wiebe : history and postmodern Indians -- "Contamination as literary strategy" : a postcolonial ideal -- "Children of two peoples" : hybrid texts, hybrid people? -- The healing aesthetic of Basil H. Johnston -- Conclusion : finding an appropriate(d) voice.