E. Pauline Johnson

Having made her debut in Toronto, Ontario, Indian Princess Pauline Johnson was "bewitching audiences with wampum belts, trade brooches, a bear-claw necklace and fiery oratory."  Between October 1892 and May 1892 alone, Pauline gave 125 recitals in 50 different towns and cities in Ontario ~ Paris, Fergus, Berlin, Strathroy, Watford, Renfrew, Smiths Falls, Rockland, Kingston, Lindsay. . .  "The poet sometimes felt that wherever steel rails went, she was bound to follow."

~ Flint & Feather, The Life and Times of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake, Charlotte Gray, HarperFlamingo Canada, 2002.
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