Slash
- Publisher
- Theytus Books
- Publication date
- May 1995
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894778459
- Publish Date
- May 1995
- List Price
- $23.95
Where to buy it
About the author
Jeannette Armstrong is an award-winning novelist, activist and poet born on the Okanagan Reserve. Known for her literary work, Armstrong has always sought to change deeply biased misconceptions about Indigenous people. Her novel Slash is considered by many people to be the first novel by a First Nations woman. In 2013 she was appointed a Canada Research Chair in Okanagan Indigenous Knowledge and Philosophy to research, document, categorize and analyze Okanagan syilx oral literature in Nsyilxcn.