Amazon.com description: Product Description: Pauline Johnson was a Canadian author and performer. She wrote poems and performed celebrating her aboriginal heritage. The Moccasin Maker is composed of selected stories which Johnson wrote on a number of sentimental, didactic, and biographical topics. Johnson was the daughter of an Englishwoman and a Mohawk chief. When she performed her poetry she was billed as "The Mohawk Princess." This volume, consisting of one essay and eleven short stories, focuses primarily on women. Johnson's stories dramatize the effects of mixed-blood marriages and the clash of two separate cultures.