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Stories are an integral part of who we are as people.. For First Nations people traditional story telling was mostly based on the spoken word. The literature produced by the native women writers of Canada is the literature of protest challenging established value systems: colonial, patriarchal or upper class. The history of Canada is a history of the colonization of Aboriginal people. It is a society marked by a structural and psychological relationship between the colonizer and the colonized whose relationship is reflected in its history, politics and literature. Lee Marable, is one of the first Aboriginal writers in Canada to publish fiction and she is considered the grandmother of Aboriginal literature, especially after her groundbreaking work in �Bobby Lee: Indian Rebel� and �I am a woman.� In this paper an attempt is made to analyze Lee Miracle�s novel Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel, especially the impact of colonization and dehumanization which seem to surface in the lives which help understand what it really means to be a native in Canada. The social and cultural background traces the writer�s feminine concerns to find out how she became personally and politically aware not only as a women but as a true �Native woman�. Living in isolation in the margins of society, the original people of Canada have suffered a great loss that can never be recovered.