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@article{186270,
        author = {Shamna R},
        title = {Reimagining Geopoetics through Indigenous Autobiography: Anahareo’s Devil in Deerskins as a Cultural Landscape},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {6},
        pages = {1021-1027},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=186270},
        abstract = {Anahareo’s Devil in Deerskins: My Life with a Trapper reconfigures the act of life writing as a geopoetic practice in which ecological imagination and Indigenous ethics converge to articulate a living dialogue between self, land, and community. This study situates Anahareo’s narrative within the intersecting frameworks of Kenneth White’s geopoetics, Carl Sauer’s cultural-landscape morphology, and Indigenous epistemologies articulated by scholars such as Robin Wall Kimmerer, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, and Shawn Wilson. Through textual and contextual analysis, the paper argues that Devil in Deerskins advances an Indigenous form of geopoetics grounded in relational accountability, reciprocity, and ecological remembrance. The autobiography transforms the Canadian wilderness from a scenic backdrop into an active participant in cultural continuity and moral reasoning, redefining landscape as an archive of experience and renewal. By integrating geopoetic theory with environmental ethics and cultural memory, this research reveals how Anahareo’s narrative broadens the theoretical scope of environmental humanities and demonstrates the power of Indigenous storytelling to enact ecological restoration through language and imagination.},
        keywords = {Anahareo, cultural landscape, Indigenous geopoetics, environmental humanities, Indigenous autobiography},
        month = {November},
        }