Literature & Stories

Author believes televison shows dehumanize Native Americans and takes a critical look at how audiences' percieve representations, what frame of reference the audience uses to evaluate what they view, and argues that there is a need to view representations without accepting the status quo provided in encoded form.

Discusses how the author shifts the story between past and present while fusing Aboriginal oral traditions with Western literary forms.

Book review of: D'Arcy McNickle's The Hungry Generations edited by Birgit Hans. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 84.

Narrative about missionaries and missionizing.

Illustrated with drawings from Captain Eastman

Book review of: Daisy Bates, Grand Dame of the Desert by Bob Reece. Review located by scrolling to page 239.

Book review of: The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest by Wanni W. Anderson.

Book review of: The Dance Boots by Linda LeGarde Grover. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 136.

Very brief book review of The Dance Boots by Linda Legarde Grover.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Saskatchewan, 2005. Includes analysis of works by Susan Power, Drew Taylor, Joy Harjo, Beth Cuthand, Louise Halfe, Patricia Monture-Angus, and Annharte.

Talks about rebuilding nations from inside out as sovereign beings as indigenous women have been doing for centuries. Book launch and reading presented at First Voices! First Women Speak! A Teach-in and Community Gathering Duration: 35:08.

Presents two versions of Dreamer Charlie Yahey's creation story. Preface, introduction and chapter one from Where Happiness Dwells: A History of the Dane-zaa First Nations by Robin Ridington and Jillian Ridington.

[English] Thesis (M.A.)--University of Guelph, 1999.

Outlines the importance of understanding the trickster in female form in contemporary Native American literature.

Website for Delaware poet and playwright contains links to bibliography, biography, awards and honours.

Book review of: The Dark Island by Robert J. Conley. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Compares Ceremony to the darker version Almanac of the Dead by looking at violence and the effect it has on the characters in the novel.

Presents a short story about a troubled relationship.

Short story.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Texas at Arlington, 1999.

Comments on a play that focuses on the contemporary situation of youth in Montreal and the imaginary community of Kinogamish.

Interview with a graphic novelist on his work based on a true story. Duration: 34:43.

Book review of: Native American Fiction: A User's Manual by David Treuer.

Publicizes the award which was established to honour previously unpublished Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers in Australia. The 1997 winner is John Brodey from Darwin, Northern Territory.

Book review of: Dawnland Voices edited by Siobhan Senier.

A non-profit organization site that nurtures artistic expression of original works by playwrights, actors and artists.

Looks at social justice as viewed through First Nations, Métis and Inuit children's literature.

English Philology Thesis (M.A.)-- University of Tampere, 2014.

[English] Thesis (M.A.)--Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, 2014. Focuses on Tracks and Love Medicine.

Discusses death and authenticity in Sterlin Harjo's film in relation to the philosophical ideas of Martin Heidegger.

A thank-you note to A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, Dean of Native American Literary Studies. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 83.

Fictional short story.

Comments not only on the lack of literature but the need to ensure the content of the literature is culturally appropriate.

Looks at storytelling as one form of meaningful caring at end of life to help heal the living and honor the dead.

Book review of: A Death Feast in Dimlahamid by Terry Glavin.

Playwright discusses The Death of a Chief, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and issues related to power, betrayal and the interconnectedness between languages and politics.

Discusses the novel The Death of Jim Loney by James Welch as a conflicting perspective between European-American worldviews and Native American worldviews.

Highlights articles in themed issue.

Looks at the different relations between reader and text as well as different readings of literary elements. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book review of: Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit by Marie Battiste.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2012.

Book review of: The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures by Mareike Neuhaus.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Purdue University, 2005. Includes critical look at the works of Leslie Marmon Silko, James Welch, Linda Hogan, Luci Tapahonso and Diane Glancy.

Discusses how reading this novel helps students understand the importance of historical and cultural contexts when reading American Indian literature.

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2006.

Looks at Sixkiller #1 by writer Lee Franics IV and artist Weshoyot Alvitre, Deer Woman Anthology and Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection.