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Critical and Theoretical Perspectives: Collaboration in the Works of Erdrich and Michael Dorris: A Study in the Process of Writing

Alternate Title
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Louise Erdrich
Approaches to Teaching World Literature
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Tom Matchie
Looks at the married authors' collaborative process between 1970 and 1997. Chapter in book: Approaches to Teaching the Works of Louise Erdrich edited by Greg Sarris, Connie A. Jacobs, and James R. Giles.
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Critical Compassion: The Reader as Witness in Maria Campbell's Halfbreed

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Keely Cronin
The Quint, vol. 6, no. 3, 2014, pp. 7-30
Comments on three aspects to the act of witnessing: an effective response, an intellectual engagement, and an ethical responsibility to the narrative and its narrator. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 7.
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Critics, Reviewers and Aboriginal Writers

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Judith Wright
Aboriginal History, vol. 11, no. 1, 1876, pp. 24-26
Discussion of how to apply critical standards to Aboriginal literary and historical writings.
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Cross-Cultural Reading and Generic Transformations: The Chronotope of the Road in Erdrich's Love Medicine

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara L. Pittman
American Literature, vol. 67, no. 4, December 1995, pp. 777-792
Examines the concept of the road as a conduit for encounters, which Montana Ojibwa author Louise Erdrich uses to represent chance meetings between characters in the opening and closing portions of her novel.
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Crossroads: A Conversation with Sherman Alexie

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Purdy
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 4, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Sherman Alexie, Winter, 1997, pp. [1]-18
Interview with the acclaimed author conducted in October 1997. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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"Crying for Pity" in Winter in the Blood

Alternate Title
"Crying for Pity" in Winter in the Blood
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William W. Thackeray
MELUS, vol. 7, no. 1, The Need for Choice, Spring, 1980, pp. 61-78
Contends that James Welch's novel is strongly influenced by the Gros Ventre and Arapaho cultures, especially the themes of spirituality and commitment to insight.
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Cultural Collision and Magical Transformation: The Plays of Tomson Highway

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Nothof
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 20, no. 2, 1995, pp. 34-43
Argues that Highway's plays have succeeded in bridging the gap between cultures through dramatizing the collision of feelings of hope and despair, comedy and tragedy, order and chaos and social issues like poverty, crime and abuse. Looks at The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing.
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Cultural Resistance and "Playing Indian" in Thomas King's "Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Timothy Glenn
Western American Literature, vol. 45, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 228-251
Looks at how role reversals and racial imitations in Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre transforms the stereotypical trappings of Indian roles by redescribing and incorporating a sense of the past into the present.
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Cultural Shrines Revisited

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elaine Jahner
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 1, The Literary Achievements of Gerald Vizenor, Winter, 1985, pp. 23-30
Comments on George Vizenor narrative style to help readers from different cultures relate to one another through his writing.
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D.C. Scott's View of History & the Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
L. P. Weis
Canadian Literature, no. 111, Nature, Natural, Naturalists, Winter, Winter 1986, pp. 27-40
Discusses the seeming inconsistencies between Scott's actions as a bureaucrat for the Dept. of Indian Affairs, and the attitudes expressed in his poetry. Enitre journal on one pdf. Scroll down to page 27 to read article.
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Dan Cushman Reader

Theses
Author/Creator
Brent D. McCann

Journalism Thesis (MA) -- University of Montana, 2001.

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Dancing Gods: Erna Fergusson's Travels toward Exoticism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert F. Gish
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 3, Summer, 1992, pp. 361-372
Author explores the tropes of exoticism contained in Fergusson’s novel Dancing Gods, situates Fergusson’s writing within the genre, and relates it to similar works by other writers within the genre.
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Dancing on Our Turtle's Back

Alternate Title
[Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence]
[First Voices! First Women Speak! A Teach-in & Community Gathering]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Leanne Simpson
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.
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The Danger of a Single Story

Alternate Title
TED Talks
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses the way that story shapes our understanding of people and places, and how only having one narrative about a place or a people leads to a stereotypical and incomplete understanding. Duration: 18:33.
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Dead Voices

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gerald Vizenor
World Literature Today, vol. 66, no. 2, From This World: Contemporary American Indian Literature, Spring, 1992, pp. 241-242
Excerpt from the authors' novel Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World
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The Death of a Chief: An Interview with Yvette Nolan

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Yvette Nolan
Sorouja Moll
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.
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The Death of Jim Loney as a Bicultural Novel

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Yosuke Murakami
Joshidai Bungaku, vol. 50, 1998, pp. 59-84
Discusses the novel The Death of Jim Loney by James Welch as a conflicting perspective between European-American worldviews and Native American worldviews.
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Decolonizing Pedagogy: Teaching Louise Erdrich's The Bingo Palace

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret A. Toth
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 1, Special Issue, Spring, 2007, pp. 91-116
Proposes a model to assist non-Indigenous educators with the novel and some general guidlines for teaching Native American literature without "colonizing" it. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 91.
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The Delicate Dance of Reasoning and Togetherness

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristina Fagan
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 2, 2008, pp. 77-101
Discussion of the book, Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collection, which the author considers a very important theoretical work, contains essays by Indigenous literary critics. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 77.
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Deloria was the Voice for a Generation of Indians

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, November 18, 2005, p. A13
Comments on how the late Vine Deloria Jr's books, which articulated the relationship between America and its First Peoples, still ring true today. One of Deloria books was Custer Died for Your Sins.
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