International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Research

The First Nations of Canada are known by various labels: Indigenous people, Aboriginal people, Amerindians, First Peoples, Tribal, Indians, Native people, etc. These expressions are used interchangeably and appear to be emerging preferences in the Canadian literature or New Literature in English. The First Nations Canadian author Maria Campbell’s Achimoona is a collection of nine different children stories and a special poem written by eight Native authors in the course of a workshop in 1985. In Achimoona, she raises the magnitude of oral narratives in creating and telling stories in past and transmitting them from one generation to other. They are rich in creative and deluge myths but different than Western mind-set. In this work, Maria Campbell and other native authors have perfectly presented their philosophical and spiritual perspectives on the world through the power of oral voices.