One does not have to denigrate the Idle No More movement in order to support the writings of Joseph Boyden.  I too adore his work.  I recently completed his Through Black Spruce, and found it magnificent. Other writers have imaginatively embraced the native experience. I suggest Rudy Wiebe's Last Temptation of Big Bear and George Ryga's Ecstasy of Rita Joe. But the Idle No More movement is doing much to energize and move the native community beyond a numbed victimization. We must deal with the lack of clean drinking water. We must come to grips with the missing and murdered Aboriginal women.