From the Editors

In this, the penultimate issue of our editorial tenure, Adrienne Akins and Jonathan Wilson turn to two of SAIL's favorites, Leslie Marmon Silko and Louise Erdrich. Indeed, this journal has published more articles on Silko and Erdrich than any other authors. In 2008, the last time we counted, SAIL had published approximately twenty articles on each. In her article on Ceremony, Akins addresses "how the novel treats the themes of education and cultural memory within the historical context of the schooling of American Indians." Wilson focuses on a familiar topic in the field, home, as Erdrich considers its meaning for the Ojibwe characters in Tales of Burning Love and The Bingo Palace.

In the issue's other article, Aubrey Jean Hanson approaches Beatrice Culleton Mosionier's In Search of April Raintree from the perspective of her own work as a Métis educator. Teaching a book such as April Raintree, Hanson asserts, "is and must be tied to questions of social responsibility, as it is a political project with material consequences for Aboriginal people." SAIL readers, we believe, will agree with Hanson's pedagogical view. If you haven't already, you might also take this opportunity to read Mosionier's wonderful book and consider the way it resonates with much of Silko's and Erdrich's writing.