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Sam McKegney

Sam McKegney is the author of Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community After Residential School and numerous articles on Indigenous and Canadian literatures. He is an associate professor of English and Cultural Studies at Queen’s University.

Indigenous Men and Masculinities

Legacies, Identities, Regeneration

Robert Alexander Innes (Editor), Kim Anderson (Editor), Warren Cariou (Interviewee) + others

What do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies? Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions of gender equity, complementarity, and the sacred feminine, concepts that were unimaginable and shocking to Euro-western peoples at contact.

Masculindians

Conversations about Indigenous Manhood

Sam McKegney (Editor), Joseph Boyden (Interviewee), Tomson Highway (Interviewee) + others

Inspiring interviews with leading writers and activists on the past, present, and future of Indigenous masculinity.

Magic Weapons

Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community after Residential School

Sam McKegney (Author), Basil Johnston (Foreword)

Magic Weapons is the first major survey of Indigenous writings on the residential school system, and provides groundbreaking readings of life writings by Rita Joe (Mi’kmaq) and Anthony Apakark Thrasher (Inuit) as well as in-depth critical studies of better known life writings by Basil Johnston (Ojibway) and Tomson Highway (Cree).