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Dead White Writer on the Floor

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ryan Winn
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 24, no. 2, The Future of the Tribal College Movement, Winter, 2012
Very brief review of: Dead White Writer of the Floor by Drew Hayden Taylor.
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Deconstructing the Master's House with His Own Tools: Code-Switching and Double-Voiced Discourse as Agency in Gerald Vizenor's Heirs of Columbus

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bernadette V. Russo
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 4, Winter, 2017, pp. 58-75
Explore Vizenor’s use of devices such as humour, code-switching, and subversion of the English language to undermine Eurocentric narratives and create agency for the characters in his writing.
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Don Nielson Interview 2

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Don Nielson
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
One of the original organizers of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan in 1964 discusses problems within native organizations between north and south, status and non-status, Liberal and CCF.
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A Double-Bladed Knife: Subversive Laughter in Two Stories by Thomas King

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Atwood
Canadian Literature, no. 124-125 , Native Writers & Canadian Writing, Spring/Summer , 1990, pp. 243 - 250

Analysis of two short stories, Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre and One Good Story, That One, commenting on King's use of irony and humor. 

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“Down the Memory Spilling Out into the World” (Silko): The Spiral Cycle of Repetition With Variation in the Serious Comedy of Native American Traditional Mythoi as an Adaptive Bridge into the Future

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 9th, 2011
Where No One Else Has Gone Before: Proceedings of the Ninth Native American Symposium
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Joseph Faulds
Discusses how the spiral journey of mythic heroes is used to provide a shift in viewer perspective.
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[Drew Hayden Taylor on Using Humor Against Racism]

Alternate Title
George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
[Drew Hayden Taylor
George Stroumboulopoulos]
Brief interview with author who explains his identity and why he writes Aboriginal stories. Duration: 2:05.
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Editing Johan Turi

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas A. Dubois
Western Folklore, vol. 72, no. 3/4, Summer, 2013, pp. 272-293
Describes challenge of creating new translation of Muitalus Sámiid Birra / An Account of the Sámi due to lack of formal punctuation and apparent ambiguities in the original.
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Ending Winter, But Not Storytelling

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Drew Hayden Taylor
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 2, May 2012, p. 12

Comments on the proper season for telling stories and the reason why.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.12.

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English First Peoples: Grade 10-12 Resource Guide

Alternate Title
FNESC/FNSA English First Peoples 10, 11, and 12 Teacher Resource Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Education Steering Committee (FNESC)
First Nations Schools Association (FNSA)
Includes advice for non-Indigenous teachers teaching the class, list of recommended texts, and instruction and assessment units. Course conforms to the British Columbia curriculum, but incorporates literature from across Canada and the United States.
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Evolution of Alex Posey's Fus Fixico Persona

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel F. Littlefield
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 2/3, Series 2 , Summer/Fall, 1992, pp. 136-144
Discusses the various literary influences of Alex Posey and his strong sense of humor. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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First Nations Curatorial Incubator

Alternate Title
Curatorial Incubator; v. 3
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lisa Steele
Zoe Leigh Hopkins
Wanda Nanibush
Looks at two curators and the films they chose to fit the themes of tragic comedy and traditional storytelling.
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First Nations Identity

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jennifer Kramer
Canadian Literature, no. 167, First Nations Writing, Winter, 2000, pp. 126-129
Book reviews of: The Star-Man and Other Tales by Basil H. Johnston and Jonas George Privileging the Past: Reconstructing History in Northwest Coast Art by Judith Ostrowitz The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art by Allan J. Rayan What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses? by Richard Van Camp and George Littlechild Mythic Beings: Spirit of the Northwest Coast by Gary Wyatt.
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Fistfighting "Super Injun": Reinscribing Native American Literature in the English Classroom.

Theses
Author/Creator
Marianne Frantzen
English and Education Thesis (M.A.)--Arctic University of Norway, 2015. Focuses on Sherman Alexie's short storiesThis Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona and Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock, and the movies Pocahontas and Smoke Signals.
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From the Hilltop

Alternate Title
Native Storiers : A Series of American Narratives : From the Hilltop
E-Books
Author/Creator
Toni Jensen
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Gerald Vizenor: Compassionate Trickster

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 1, The Literary Achievements of Gerald Vizenor, Winter, 1985, pp. 67-73
Describes how Gerald Vizenor literary work examines the inter-relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures.
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Get Juiced Over APTN Series

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Debora Steel
Windspeaker, vol. 27, no. 10, January 2010, p. 22

Article about a new comedy series on APTN by Métis writer/producer Jason Friesen titled, Health Nutz.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.22.

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Here's a Good One: Leaping the Native Cultural Divide with Teasing, Parodies and Jokes

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Gerry Flahive
Literary Review of Canada, vol. 14, no. 4, May 2006, p. 10
Book review of: Me Funny: A Far-Reaching Exploration of the Humour, Wittiness and Repartee Dominant among the First Nations People of North America, as Witnessed, Experienced and Created Directly by Themselves, and with the Inclusion of Outside but Reputable Source Necessarily Familiar with the Indigenous Sense of Humour as Seen from an Ojective Perspective compiled and edited Drew Hayden Taylor.
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Humor and Resistance in Modern Native Nonfiction

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steven Salaita
Alif, no. 31, The Other Americas, 2011, pp. 133-151
Discusses Jim Northrup's Rez Road Follies, Thomas King's The Truth About Stories, and Paul Chaat Smith's Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong in terms of the techniques used to critique government actions in their respective countries.
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“I Have Seen the Future and I Won’t Go”: The Comic Vision of Craig Strete’s Science Fiction Stories

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristina Baudemann
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 4, Winter, 2017, pp. 76-101
Seeks to understand the lack of academic attention Strete’s work has received and examines his short stories using several different critical Indigenous perspectives on speculative fiction by Aboriginal or Native American writers.
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Imagination, Conversation, and Trickster Discourse: Negotiating an Approach to Native American Literary Culture

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul L. Tidwell
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Autumn, 1997, pp. 621-631
Literary criticism article that emphasizes the need for a culturally informed perspective in the criticism of Indigenous literatures; stresses the roles of reciprocity, humour, and the act of positioning the self as a fiction.
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Indian Country Diaries: For Educators

Alternate Title
A Seat at the Drum
Spiral of Fire
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Nicole Bihr Menard
Links to resources to accompany the documentaries, Indian Country Diaries based on four key elements: Assimilation, Sovereignty, Culture, and Humor. Lesson plans are directed to grades 9-12.
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The Indianness of Louise Erdrich's The Beet Queen: Latency as Presence

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dennis M. Walsh
Ann Braley
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 1-17
Explains how Louise Erdrich uses "survival humor" to compare a white world that is spirituality bankrupt, with no meaningful tradition and ceremony, to that of the Ojibway culture that tends to have coherent meaning.
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Indigenous Comics in the United States Indigenous Comics in the United States

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tony Chavarria
World Literature Today, vol. 83, no. 3, May/June 2009, pp. 47-49
Discusses how American Indians employ visual methods of storytelling to comment on their world. Content based on exhibit from the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture entitled, Comic Art Indigène:Where Comics and the Indigenous Meet
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Inhabiting Indianness: Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer and the Phenomenology of White Sincerity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Zachary S. Laminack
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 4, Winter, 2017, pp. 29-57
Author discusses novel’s criticism of white masculinity and the way in which its nature allows white men to feel that they are offering solidarity Indigenous people while effectively controlling the narrative and undermining sovereignty.
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Interview with Darrell Dennis

Alternate Title
Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library
Native Theater Festival Interview Series
Native Theatre Festival Interview Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Darrell Dennis
Elizabeth Richards
Actor and writer of Moccasin Flats discusses his one-man show Tales of an Urban Indian. Duration: 12:26.
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An Interview With Drew Hayden Taylor

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Drew Hayden Taylor
Birgit Däwes
Contemporary Literature, vol. 44, no. 1, Spring, 2003, pp. 1-18
One of Canada's leading playwrights is interviewed about his career, which includes nearly 60 professional productions of his plays.
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It's Not Easy Speaking Bizarro Languages

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Drew Hayden Taylor
Windspeaker, vol. 16, no. 8, December 1998, p. 11

Humorous article regarding the difficulties encountered when trying to use Ojibway to fulfil the second language requirement at a Canadian university.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.11.

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