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Alphonse Antoine 3
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The Baffin Writer's Project
Looks at a project that encourages Inuit people to begin writing their stories and, in this way, pass on Inuit culture and language to the next generation.
Books in Review
Books in Review
Books in Review
Books to Avoid
Communal Buffalo Hunting among the Plains Indians: An Ethnographic and Historic Review
Contemporary Native Women's Voices in Literature
Looks at one way to cross the cultural boundary in Aboriginal literature by examining the purpose of author Maria Campbell, in Halfbreed, Beatrice Culleton, in In Search of April Raintree, and Lee Maracle, in I Am Woman.
[Cry of the Eagle: Encounters With a Cree Healer]
Cultures in Conflict: The Problem of Discourse
Discussion on the problem of discourse in the Dunne-za/Cree trial, which pitted written documents against knowledge gained from the oral tradition of First Nations peoples.
Delima F. Parenteau Interview
A Double-Bladed Knife: Subversive Laughter in Two Stories by Thomas King
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.
Ernest L. Debassigae
Introduction [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, vol.2 no.2]
James Simon
Jeannette Armstrong & The Colonial Legacy
Discussion on the effects of colonization, the solutions to a path of healing and the changes required to alter the future.
Jim Panamick 1
Jim Panamick 2
Julia Petatagoose
Kate Assinewe
Kelsey’s Journal of 1691 Reconsidered
Lines and Circles: The "Rez" Plays of Tomson Highway
Discussion of two plays, The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, which expose the problems, challenges and injustices that Aboriginal people face.
The Long Road Back: Maria Campbell
McColl and the Indians
Medicine River
Le Messianisme de Louis Riel
Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography
Mourning Dove's Canadian Recovery Years, 1917-1919
Discusses the period in Christine Quintasket's life when her health improved and she regained the strength to pursue her ambitions as a writer.
Native Writers and Canadian Writing: Canadian Literature Special Issue
Northern Saskatchewan Native Students' Readings and Storytellings of Culturally Relevant and Culturally Non-Relevant Stories
One Generation from Extinction
Discussion on the death of tribal languages.
"The Orders of the Dreamed": George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823
Pauline Johnson
The Phenomenon, the Explanations and the Responses: Metaphors Surrounding Diabetes in Urban Canadian Indians
[Phil Fontaine's 1990 account of physical and sexual abuse at residential school]
[The Plains Cree: Diplomacy and War 1790 to 1870]
[Poems]
Poems
Policing the Boom Town: The Mounted Police as a Social Force in the Klondike
The Politics of Representation: Some Native Canadian Women Writers
Discussion on reviving traditional storytelling techniques, in new forms, and challenging the Canadian literary tradition.
The Prophecy
Looks at a fictional visionary's dream about the horrors that await the First Nations of the Americas.
Raymond Armstrong 1
Raymond Armstrong 2
Reassessing Traditional Inuit Poetry
Discussion on Inuit poetry; and the difference between the contemporary Canadian poetic tradition and that of the traditional Inuit.
Red & White Men; Black, White & Grey Hats: Literary Attitudes to the Interaction between European and Native Canadians in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Investigates how attitudes changed between European and Indigenous Canadians in early literature.