One Good Story, That One

One Good Story, That One is a collection steeped in native oral tradition and shot through with Thomas King’s special brand of wit and comic imagination. These highly acclaimed stories conjure up Native and Judeo-Christian myths, present-day pop culture, and literature while mixing in just the right amount of perception and experience.

Thomas King is one of Canada’s premier Native public intellectuals. He was the first Aboriginal person to deliver the prestigious Massey Lectures, and he is the best-selling, award-winning author of six novels, two collections of short stories, and two nonfiction books. His work The Inconvenient Indian won the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the RBC Taylor Prize. He is a recipient of the Order of Canada and lives in Guelph, Ontario.

Contents

One Good Story, That One TotemMagpiesTrap LinesHow Corporal Colin Sterling Saved Blossom, Alberta, and Most of the Rest of the World as WellThe One about Coyote Going West A Seat in the Garden Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre A Coyote Columbus StoryBorders