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This paper examines the cultural politics of race, gender, and nature in the nationalist ideas of the Canada First Movement, the Group of Seven, Margaret Atwood, and Northrop Frye. It argues that symbols of nationhood are used flexibly to differentiate and define the boundaries of the imagined nation, often switching between defining" others" and nature as noble andlor ignoble savages, and the nation as male or female, depending on the needs of nation-building. T he way such images are used reflect and reinforce the broader contradictions and inequalities of Canada's settler past and its current officially" multicultural" nationhood. This is because they sometimes exclude and sometimes appropriate the cultural symbols and points of view of marginalized populations, without creatinggenuine respect and equality. Nationalist representations of nature also reflect a central conflict about whose" native land" the settler nation of Canada now occupies.