"Indians" are woven into the conversations of the Settlers who
live on one side of the settlement of Northwest River.
Ostensibly, these appear to be references to the Naskapi who are
on the other side--a river runs between the two communities.
However, Evelyn Plaice demonstrates that talking about "Indians"
is a way for Settlers to speak of delicate, sometimes
controversial aspects of their own settlement, its history and
its factions. ". . . conceptually interesting, sensitively
perceptive . . . a significant contribution, first to cultural
theory, second to the study of self . . . and third to the study
of ethnicity . . ."--Jean Briggs, author of Never in Anger