American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 2, [Rethinking Blackness and Indigeneity in the Light of Settler Colonial Theory], 2019, pp. 89-112
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The author investigates the novel Almanac of the Dead and how it's content and structure focus attention on the central question "who had spiritual possession of the Americas?".
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 1, Winter, 1987, p. [?]
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Discusses how Ortiz uses the harmonious relationship between the Acoma Pueblo people and their rural environment in his literary works.
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, 2005, pp. 21-36
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Analysis of the authors work, paying particular attention to first descriptive and then the more critical and meaningful construction and presentation.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 16, no. 2, Autumn, 2001, pp. 129-137
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Contends that author Sherman Alexie, through humour and satire, challenges stereotypes and the status quo by portraying the complex and humanizing image of contemporary Native Americans.
Introduces Native American literature and history and looks at the influences and accuracy of Alexie's work.
Philology Thesis (B.A.)--University of West Bohemia, 2013.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue in Honor of Carter Revard], Spring, 2003, pp. [1]-15
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Speech delivered by Carter Revard at the Mystic Lake Symposium on Native American Literature, Prior Lake, Minnesota, April 11, 2002.
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Abstract and full text of speech given by Lee Maracle at the interdisciplinary conference TransCanada One: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship held in June 2005 at Simon Fraser University.
Transmotion, vol. 2, no. 1 - 2, November 28, 2016, pp. 144-154
Description
Literary criticism essay engages the poetry of five different Indigenous women:
Joy Harjo. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings
Casandra Lopez. Where Bullet Breaks
Kimberly L. Becker. Words Facing East
Kim Shuck. Clouds Running In
Allison Adele Hedge Coke, Effigies II: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 31, no. 1, For the Love of Words: Aboriginal Writers of Canada, 2006, pp. 129-145
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Examines how Scofield employs different identities in his work, rejecting being placed in any particular category. Argues that his identities overlap and are braided together much like a Métis sash.
[Weber Studies], vol. 12, no. 3, Native American Special Issue, Fall, 1995, p. [?]
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Questions whether critical theory should attempt to enable the 'not we' to access the 'so much' that lies beyond the song [Native American literature]".
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 9, no. 2, Autumn, 1993, pp. 37-43
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Argues that sovereignty is the glue that binds communities together and that the characters in James Welch's novels respond to an Indigenous specific concept of sovereignty.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 3-4, Series 2, Fall-Winter, 2003-2004, pp. 7-22
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Interviews with Gloria E. Anzaldúa, author of the seminal work Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza and Simon J. Ortiz.
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Transmotion, vol. 6, no. 1, Ralph Salisbury, June 21, 2020, pp. 170-240
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Author interviews Ingrid Wendt, widow of the late Ralph Salisbury, about his writing, his teaching, his identity and legacy, and their life together as writers.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 4, Autumn, 1990, pp. 379-386
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Author discusses some of the difficulties raised by teaching pieces of Indigenous literature that contain information considered to be sacred, ceremonial, or confidential.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 1, 2019, pp. 99-112
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Author discusses the devices used and the layers of meaning contained within the 1971 film, How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman. Stresses a reading of the film as an allegory resistance to colonial and imperialist influence.
Critical paper which uses international Human Rights Law to examine the legal arguments made by Vizenor in his 1991 novel; discusses the relationship between Indigenous speculative fictions (SF) and international law at the end of the twentieth century.
Illustrates that women's writings must not only deal with the marginalization of being Aboriginal, but with the further marginalization of being female.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, 1994, pp. 95-118
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Investigates Kenny’s combination of historic, local histories and poetic work and Brant's "insider" perspective on the collective rather than the individual.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 4, Autumn, 1990, pp. 367-377
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Literary criticism article in which the author considers the role that “spirit animals” play as symbols of adaptation and resistance in Leslie M. Silko’s novel Ceremony.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 4, Special Issue: In Honor of Simon J. Ortiz, Winter, 2004, pp. 3-8
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Introduction to a special issue featuring the works of Acoma Pueblo author Simon J. Ortiz. Includes select bibliography.
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Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 4, Fall, 2015, pp. 377-389
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Review essay of:
The Native American Renaissance: Literary Imagination and Achievement edited by Alan R. Velie and A. Robert Lee.
The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature edited by James H. Cox and Daniel Heath Justice.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 4, Special Issue: In Honor of Simon J. Ortiz, Winter, 2004, pp. 51-53
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Reflects on the significant contributions Acoma Pueblo author Simon Ortiz has made to Native American literature.
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