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Acceptance and Rejection of Assimilation in the Works of Luther Standing Bear

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frederick Hale
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1993, pp. 25-41
Examines underlying themes and attitudes in the works of Luther Standing Bear, focusing on European-American culture and control towards Lakotas. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Achikosis and the Weetigo

Alternate Title
[Frontier School Division Native Studies Publications]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Raymond Beaumont

Children's book tells the story how a Cree boy escapes the cannibal spirit with the help of Wesakaychak.

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Acorn Soup is Good Food: L. Frank, News from Native California, and the Intersections of Literary and Visual Arts

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Bernardin
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 27, no. 3, Fall, 2015, pp. 1-33
Argues that more attention should be paid to cross-genre nature of Indigenous creative production. Focuses on the recurring single frame cartoon "Acorn Soup" featured in the journal as an example.
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"Active Readers...Observe Tricksters": Trickster Texts and Cross-Cultural Reading

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bradley John Monsma
Modern Language Studies, vol. 26, no. 4, Autumn, 1996, pp. 83-98
Discusses use of tricksters in oral and written narratives of many cultures that can aid in forming new literary histories, articulating resistance, reinterpreting individual author's works and to the colonizing literary theory.
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Ada Clegg Interview #1

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Ada Clegg
David Stevenson
Indian History Film Project
Brief description of the Hamatsa ritual.
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Adam Solway Interview 2

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Adam Solway
Christine Welsh
Tony Snowsill
Indian History Film Project
This is a continuation of an interview with Adam Solway on January 29, 1983 on the Blackfoot Reserve.
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Adams, Howard, Prison of Grass (Ch. 7-9)

Articles » General
A copy of Chapters 7 to 9 of Prison of Grass by Howard Adams ca. 1975, with notes from Laurie Barron attached. These chapters cover Adams' view of the 1885 North-West resistance. Barron has made a list of comments and questions, marked by page number, which appear to be directed to the author. These notes are perhaps Barron's feedback to Adams regarding the revised edition published in 1989.
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Addressing Shared Stereotypes of Native Americans and Veterans in a Composition Course’s Reading Sequence

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 12th, 2017
Representations and Realities
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Tara Hembrough
Discusses using the character Jackson in Sherman Alexie’s short story “What You Have Pawned I Will Redeem” in a post-secondary classroom to draw parallels between stereotypical representations of Indigenous people and American veterans.
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Afterword: Native American Literatures Were Going There

Alternate Title
Native American Literatures Were Going There
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 3, Series 2; Twentieth-Anniversary Issue on the Flagstaff Conference on Native American Literatures, Fall, 1997, pp. 41-48
Author reflects on the legacies of the Flagstaff Conference of 1977 and the challenges that lay ahead. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Again Around the Maypole

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Annie Osburn
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 85-100
Short story.
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Aginjibagwesi

Alternate Title
Maajii-Ojibwemowag = They Begin to Speak Ojibwe
Stories of the Flyers: A Giiwedinong Book
[Maajii-Ojibwemowag = They Begin to Speak Ojibwe: ANA Language Project Teacher/Caregiver Supplemental Document]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Niiyogiizhig (Wesley Ballinger)

Children's story teaches counting and basic phrases; in Ojibwe and English.

Related Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.

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Alex Cywink Interview #1

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Max Ireland
Alex Cywink
Indian History Film Project
Consists of an interview where he tells of legends concerning the arrival of white men in North America; Parallels to the Norse (Viking) sagas -- (Is this possibly an example of the oral tradition presenting the Indian view early Viking settlement?). He tells of prophecies concerning the arrival of white men and the eventual return of Indian ways; describes the role of women in pre-Columbian America; and gives accounts of native medical practices and the linguistic evolution.
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Alexander Posey’s Nature Journals: A Further Argument for Tribally-Specific Aesthetics

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Craig Womack
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 13, no. 2 & 3, Series 2, Summer/Fall, 2001, pp. [49]-66
Contends that to be effective, authors should ground their work in their specific culture rather than creating characters who are generic, tribeless and placeless. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Alexie-Vision: Getting the Picture

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Bernardin
World Literature Today, vol. 84, no. 4, July/August 2010, pp. 52-55
Discusses the influence of television on the work of Sherman Alexie.
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Alienation and Broken Narrative in Winter in the Blood

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathleen M. Sands
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2, A Special Symposium Issue on James Welch's , 1978, pp. 97-105
An examination of James Welch's episodic narrative style and its effectiveness in the novel.
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Alienation and the Female Principle in Winter in the Blood

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
A. Lavonne Ruoff
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2, A Special Symposium Issue on James Welch's , 1978, pp. 107-122
Takes a feminist approach to analyzing James Welch's story structure and characters in the novel. The female characters are the cause of and the resolution to the story's conflict.
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Alive and Well: Native Theatre in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Drew Hayden Taylor
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 3, Fall, 1996, pp. 29-37
Argues that the old culture of storytelling is the reason for the success of Indigenous theatre.
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Allotment Knowledges: Grid Spaces, Home Places, and Storyscapes on The Way to Rainy Mountain

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marcel Brousseau
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 136-167
Looks at Kiowa responses to allotment by comparing N. Scott Momaday’s canonical literary work to Mark Palmer's "Indigital" cartography in terms of understanding, recording and remembering the process and effects of the United States government’s policy in the Oklahoma territory.
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