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Canadian Indian Literary Nationalism?: Critical Approaches in Canadian Indigenous Contexts – A Collaborative Interlogue

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristina Fagan
Daniel Heath Justice
Keavy Martin
Sam McKegney
Deanna Rede
et al.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies , vol. 29, no. 1/2, 2009, pp. 19-44
Discusses Indigenous literary nationalism, a philosophy that places Indigenous intellectual and cultural values at the center of analysis by looking at creative and critical endeavors in Canadian contexts.
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Canadian Indigenous Books for Schools: Selected and Evaluated by Teacher-Librarians and Educators: 2019/20

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia
Lists recently released works which have been evaluated for representing an "authentic voice" and annotations are written by Indigenous educators. Organized by elementary (K-7), cross-grade (suitable for all levels) and secondary (8-12) levels, then alphabetically by title.
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Canadian Indigenous Books for Schools: Selected and Evaluated by Teacher-Librarians and Educators: 2020-2021

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia
Lists recently released works which have been evaluated for representing an "authentic voice" and annotations are written by Indigenous educators. Organized by elementary (K-7), multi-grade (suitable for all levels) and secondary (8-12) levels, then alphabetically by title.
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Canadian Indigenous Children's Books through the Lense of Truth and Reconciliation

Alternate Title
Canadian Indigenous Children's Books through the Lens of Truth and Reconciliation
Polar Libraries Colloquy 2018: Developing Polar Networks: Ideas & Possibilities for the Future
Polar Libraries Colloquy 2018 Proceedings
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Sarah Campbell
Maria Tan
Andrea Quatattini

Primary source for titles was Amazon Best Sellers in Children’s Native Canadian Story Books, as well as publishers' web pages, and library and authors' lists.  Objective was to identify fiction books for ages 0-18 written by Indigenous authors that contained reconciliation-related themes. More than 150 books met the inclusion criteria.

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Canadian Indigenous Writers Bibliography

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[NWT Literacy Council]

Material divided into seven categories: graphic novel, nonfiction, novel, play, poetry, short stories, and stories. Each entry contains summary, information about the author and list of titles also written by them.

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Canadian Studies: An Introductory Reader

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
M. J. Whittles
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 37, no. 3, Autumn, 2007, pp. 403-405
Book review of: Canadian Studies: An Introductory Reader edited by Donald Wright.
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Canadian Versus American State Discourse on Racial Categorization in Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart and Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water

Alternate Title
Culture and the State ; v. 2
Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jessica Wegmann-Sanchez
pp. 49-59
Compares how two well-known Aboriginal works challenge limiting definitions of Aboriginal peoples and shows how the legal system manipulates these definitions to take away land or rights. Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies. Entire book on one pdf. To access paper, scroll to p. 49.
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Canoe, Canoe, What Can You Do?

Alternate Title
Look at What I Found!
Ocean-Going "Fishing" Canoe
Building of a Canoe
Carving of a Canoe
Herbie & Slim Nellie's First Journey
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jerome M. Jainga
[Keith Egawa]
[Maria Parker Pascua]
[David Neel]

Six stories connected to the Northwest coast canoe in one volume: Look at What I Found!; Ocean-Going "Fishing" Canoe; Building of a Canoe; Carving of a Canoe; and Herbie & Slim Nellie's First Journey.

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Captain Cook Was Here

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Keith Vincent Smith
Aboriginal History , vol. 34, 2010, pp. 333-335
Book review of: Captain Cook Was Here by Maria Nugent. Review located by scrolling to page 333.
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Caretaking and the Work of the Text in Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anna Carew-Miller
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 3, Series 2: Linda Hogan: Calling Us Home, Fall, 1994, pp. 37-48
Examines the relationship between work, profit, and the land in Mean Spirit; and invites the reader to think and act on the issues, such as the health of our culture and our physical world. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Caring Is the Universal Language

E-Books
Author/Creator
Jody Nyasha Warner

Three stories about bullying prevention, justice and belonging told in English, Cree, Inuktitut, Michif, Mohawk, Oji-Cree, Ojibwe, and Oneida.

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Carter in Space

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eric Gary Anderson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue in Honor of Carter Revard], Spring, 2003, pp. [26]-31
Explores the author's use of space, in an intellectual, astronomical, atmospheric and geographical sense, and illustrates this by focusing on the poem An Eagle Nation and the essay How Columbus Fell from the Sky and Lighted Up Two Continents. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Carter Revard as Auto-Ethnographer

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Suzanne Evertsen Lundquist
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue in Honor of Carter Revard], Spring, 2003, pp. [67]-73
Discusses the key elements in author's work which demonstrate the formulation of his sense of self and personal identity. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Cartographic Lessons: Susanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush and Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Florence Stratton
Canadian Literature, no. 161-162, On Thomas King, Summer-Autumn, 1999, pp. 82-102
Argues that maps illustrate power relationships, as when colonizers' place names and territorial boundaries attempted to erase the prior occupancy and ownership of lands by First Nations.
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Casper Solomon Interview #2

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Casper Solomon
Jocelyn Keeshig
Indian History Film Project
Consists of an interview where he gives a description of naming ceremonies, explains the significance of "grandfathers" in Indian sprituality, and recounts several ghost stories.
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Casting a Spell: Acts of Cultural Continuity in Carlisle Indian Industrial School's the Red Man and Helper

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Bess
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 26, no. 2, Fall, 2011, p. 13
Presents a students perspective on how Richard Henry Pratt, founder and superintendent of Carlisle residential school, planned to assimilate students, and discusses how students found ways of interpreting and mastering their environments through storytelling.
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Catholicism in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and Tracks

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dennis Walsh
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 25, no. 2, 2001, pp. 107-127
Investigates Catholicism and its relationship and conflict with traditional shamans. It looks at the spiritual failure of this European religion among the Ojibwa nations.
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Cathy Smith Exhibition

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lew Richards
Whispering Wind, vol. 42, no. 3, Issue 289, July 2013, p. 5
Presents commentary on Plains Indian Leaders, Exhibition at the Cowgirl Museum, Whispering Wind, v.42, no. 2 and author Bill Lawrence's oversimplifications, misconceptions and factual errors.
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The Ceded Landscape of Gerald Vizenor’s Fiction

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chris LaLonde
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Gerald Vizenor, Spring, 1997, pp. [16]-32
Discusses the use of combination and selection in the author's fictional works. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Celebrate, 'Ohana1

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kimo A. Cashman
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010, pp. 152-154
Discussion on the power of family caring and love.
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Centering Words: Writing a Sense of Place

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kimberly Blaeser
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 14, no. 2, Autumn, 1999, pp. 92-108
Author suggests that writers link imagination, dream, and story with the physical realities of place.
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Ceremony Earth: Digitizing Silko’s Novel for Students of the Twenty-first Century

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rick Mott
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 2, Digital Technologies and Native Literature, Summer, 2011, pp. [25]-47
Provides background to the author's multimedia project which was designed to contextualize the novel for students. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 25.
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The Chain

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter Ewart
The Northern Review, no. 31, Northern Literature, Fall, 2009, pp. 66-76
A short fictional story.
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Chair of Tears

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Maria Orban
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 37, no. 2, The Settler Complex, 2013, pp. 242-244
Book review of: Chair of Tears by Gerald Vizenor. Review located by scrolling to page 242.
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Chair of Tears

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Deborah L. Madsen
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 2, Tribalography, Summer, 2014, pp. 101-104
Book review of: Chair of Tears by Gerald Vizenor. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 101.
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Chair of Tears

Alternate Title
Native Stories: A Series of American Narratives
E-Books
Author/Creator
Gerald Vizenor
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Chance and Ritual: The Gambler in the Texts of Gerald Vizenor

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nora Barry
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1993, pp. 13-22
Looks at how the mythic process is a part of everyday reality in Vizenor's works. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Chanco

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charles Brashears
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 2, no. 2, Series 2: New Native American Writing, Summer, 1990, pp. 34-42
Short story. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Changemakers Lesson Plans: Remote Learning

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Illuminative

Lesson plans focus on Native Americans who are fighting invisibility and creating change through their work, contributions from the past, and current actions which will impact the future.

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