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Changing Debates in Museum Studies since NAGPRA

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Author/Creator
Max Carocci
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018, pp. 127-132
Review Essay which examines the ways that three different titles, Naamiwan’s Drum: the Story of a Contested Repatriation of Anishinabe Artefacts (Maureen Matthews), The Changing Presentation of the American Indian: Museums and Native Cultures (National Museum of the American Indian), and Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture (Chip Colwell) describe, interpret and relate to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).
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Charles A(lexander) Eastman

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Author/Creator
Literature Resource Center
Brief biography of author and physician, whose writings focused on Native American spirituality, morality and mythology. Best-known for the autobiographical works Indian Boyhood and From the Deep Woods to Civilization.
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Charles Alexander Eastman: Sioux Storyteller and Historian

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anna Lee Stensland
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 3, Autumn, 1977, pp. 199-208
Examines the cultural and historical relevance of Santee Sioux author Eastman's autobiography and short stories and the criticisms that have been made about their accuracy.
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Charles Eastman's Life and Work

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Author/Creator
World Wisdom
Includes links to biography of the Dakota physician and writer, comments on his life and work, bibliography and excerpts from his writings, photos and slideshows.
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Checking Under the Bed for My Guests

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Author/Creator
Drew Hayden Taylor
Windspeaker, vol. 17, no. 7, 1999, p. 5

Questions about the legendary little people are raised by the author after someone tugged on a house guest's hair.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.5.

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Cherokee Modern

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Mackay
Transmotion, vol. 6, no. 1, Ralph Salisbury, June 21, 2020, pp. i-vii
In this introduction to the special issue on the work of Ralph Salisbury the author introduces Salsbury and his work to the reader, highlighting the elements of his life and of his writing that are especially influential.
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Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Patti Jo King
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 203-205
Book review of: Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club by Christopher B. Teuton. Review located by scrolling to page 203.
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Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars’ Club

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jace Weaver
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 2, Tribalography, Summer, 2014, pp. 104-106
Book review of: Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars’ Club by Christopher B. Teuton. Entire article on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 104.
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Chief Joseph

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Author/Creator
Contemporary Authors
An hereditary leader of the Nez Perces, is widely known for leadership during the Nez Perce War of 1877 and his essay "An Indian's Views of Indian Affairs," published in North American Review, April, 1879.
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Children of Change, Not Doom: Indigenous Futurist Heroines in YA

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lynette James
Extrapolation, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 151-176
Proposes that “Indigenous futurism is a deliberate, intentional, and purpose-driven position that addresses not only inclusion but intersectionality for its protagonists and themes;” and ask the reader to consider it both an aesthetic and a framework for critical theory. Examines different dystopian YA texts in this context.
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[Children's Author Peter Eyvindson About Kookum's Red Shoes]

Alternate Title
At the Edge of Canada: Indigenous Research
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Author/Creator
Peter Eyvindson
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Interview with the author of children's book related to Residential schools and how and when this history should be introduced to children. Duration: 34:34.
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Chinook Sad Song in Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leonard Shotridge
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 3, Fall, 2005, p. 115
Poetry by Alaskan Tlingit poet and graduate of Haskell Indian Nations University. Entire issue on one pdf. To access issue, scroll to page 115.
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Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Monique Mojica
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3-4, Indigenous Women in Canada: the Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 160-168
Essay is a revised version of two oral presentations by the actor and playwright.
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Christine Quintasket

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Author/Creator
Heather Andrews Miller
Windspeaker, vol. 25, no. 1, April 2007, p. 30

Chronicles the life and works of the novelist and advocate of Aboriginal land rights.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.30.

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Circling Back, Closing in Remembering James Welch

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathryn W. Shanley
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 3, Fall, 2006, pp. 3-13
Reflects on the contributions of Blackfeet author James Welch as a poet and philosopher who sought alternate ways of explaining issues using narration, passion, and commitment. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 3.
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Circling the Question of Nationalism in Native Canadian Literature and its Study

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristina Fagan
Sam McKegney
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, vol. 41, no. 1, May 2008, pp. 31-42
Examines to what extent Native writers, critics, and researchers, as well as non-Native people who work in Native Studies, are led or constrained by beliefs about what is traditional, spiritually appropriate, politically effective and beneficial to Native communities.
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Circular Design in "Ceremony"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert C. Bell
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 1, A Special Symposium Issue on Leslie Marmon Silko's , 1979, pp. 47-62
An analysis of the "tripratate" structural design of Silko's novel and how it places the hoop dance ceremony at the heart of the story despite the ritual only appearing in the middle of the novel.
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Claiming Europe: Native American Literary Responses to the Old World

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lee Schweninger
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 2, 2003, pp. 61-76
Discusses writers that have chosen to challenge mainstream conceptions of what constitutes Indian literature by offering Native American critiques of Europe.
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Claiming Native Narrative Control: Tomson Highway on Residential Schooling

Alternate Title
Culture and the State ; v. 2
Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Sam McKegney
Presents an examination of how Highway's novel wrestles with the terms of the Residential School debate to explore the meaning of the Residential School experience in imaginative, mythic, and spiritual terms. Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies. Entire book on one pdf. To access paper, scroll to p. 66.
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Claims to Native Identity in Children’s Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Debbie Reese
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 123-132
Discusses successful children's writers that falsely claim Indigenous ancestry and the effect their success had on maintaining stereotypes that fit the popular conception of what constitutes an Indigenous person. The four of the writers profiled are: Jamake Highwater Anpao, Paul Goble, Sharon Creech, and Asa Carter.
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The Clash of Two Cultures in Ceremony

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Author/Creator
Tereza Střižová
Examines novel Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. English Language and Literature Thesis (B.A.)--Masaryk University, 2013.
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Clear Waters: A Conversation with Louis Owens

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Purdy
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 2, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Louis Owens, Summer, 1998, pp. 6-22
Interview with the author of Wolfsong and Other Destin[i]es: Understanding the American Indian Novel. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Closure in James Welch's Fools Crow

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bette Weidman
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 3, Fall, 2006, pp. 90-97
Argues that James Welch's work Fools Crow constructs the story of first contact from within Native American subjectivity and redefines the meanings of religion, culture and virtue by exploring the gap that exists between official national histories, early novels by Euroamericans, and the voice of Native Americans. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 90.
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Coffee House Discourse

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rodney Simard
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1993, pp. 1-2
Presents an introduction to the issue and the works of Gerald Vizenor. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Collaboration and the Complex World of Literary Rights

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alanna Kathleen Brown
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Autumn, 1997, pp. 595-603
Author explores the complicated series of issues around the use of text composed by Indigenous authors and co-created or edited by Euro-American partners; article covers individual vs collective ownership, historical disregard for Indigenous ownership, and inheritance rights.
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Collaborative Authorship and Indigenous Literatures

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Albert Braz
CLCWEB: Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 13, no. 2, Thematic Issue: About Indigenous Literatures, June 2011, pp. 1-10
Looks at traditional definitions of writer versus author and how these definitions do not fit within Indigenous literatures.
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Colonial Violence in Sixties Scoop Narratives: From In Search of April Raintree to A Matter of Conscience

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Petra Fachinger
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 115-135
Author analyzes three different novels in order to provide a complex and nuanced perspective on the different ways that the ‘60’s Scoop has been treated by Indigenous authors over a prolonged period (1983-2018). Includes discussion of Beatrice Mosionier In Search of April Raintree, Robert Arthur Alexie's The Pale Indian, and James Bartleman's A Matter of Conscience.
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Colonialism and Native American Literature: Analysis

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jack Forbes
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Autumn, 1987, pp. 17-23
Analytical review, that should be approached from an holistic perspective that is both realistic, and historically and socially accurate.
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Colonization as Subtext in James Welch's Winter in the Blood

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sidner Larson
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 29, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 2005, pp. 274-280
Literary criticism article examines different manifestations of colonialism and the effects thereof on and for Indigenous peoples in Welch’s novel.
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Coming-of-Age Notables

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Bonnie Smothers
The Booklist, vol. 97, no. 6, November 15, 2000, p. 622
Brief book reviews of: Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson and Motherland by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan.
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