HOMEWORK Activity 2.5.3 - Canadian Aboriginal Post-Colonial Perspective

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Carefully read the poem Helen Betty Osborn by Marilyn Dumont. 

Note: Helen Betty Osborne (1952–1971), was a Cree Aboriginal woman who was kidnapped and murdered while walking down Third Street in The Pas, Manitoba.

Marilyn Dumont is a Cree and Metis writer based in Alberta.


Create a document which you will title “A Glossary Of Definitions And Images for the poem Helen Betty Osborn.”  This Glossary will be used later in the course when we study the novel Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese.

Your document should have brief explanations of the following words and images copied from the Internet.

  1. Photo of Betty Osborn
  2. Definition of Aryan Nations 
  3. Photos of Anna Mae Aquash, Donald Marshall or Richard Cardinal and brief explanation of who they are
  4. Indicate three standards in the “British Standards of Womanhood” 
  5. Define the meaning of the lines “in a town with fewer Indians / than ideas about Indians” 
  6. Besides being written from a Post-Colonial Perspective, from which other perspective is Dumont writing 

Submission: PDF format. (file size can't be more than 20 MB)