Abstract This paper analyzes how in her in her essay "Stop Stealing Native Stories" , Lenore Keeshig-Tobias refers to non-native authors? interest in telling native stories as "cultural theft" and the "theft of voice". In order to comprehensively understand Lenore Keeshig-Tobias' argument, it explores Canadian society and defines and contrasts opinions on what it is to be "indigenous" to a land. It also looks at the importance of Canada's well-known native poets ? in particular, Marilyn Dumont and E. Pauline Johnson.
From the Paper "Another of E. Pauline Johnson's interests was the depiction of Natives in white literature. The decision to include Natives and the way in which they were portrayed was a topic she explored as a part of her essay, "A Strong Race Opinion: On the Indian Girl in Modern Fiction". Marilyn Dumont shows similar interests in her involvement in representing ?part of a new literary trend that encourages indigenous writers to create more realistic images of Native women and ultimately break down the established misrepresentations portrayed in non-Native literature.? (Kobayas) In exploring Natives in non-Native literature in such a way, both Johnson and Dumont are acknowledging that white Canadians do, indeed, write Native stories or perhaps stories with Native characters in them."
