American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 1, A Special Symposium Issue on Leslie Marmon Silko's , 1979, pp. 13-18
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Looks at the role animals play in Leslie Silko's story and its reflections on Indigenous people needing to learn what to accept and what to resist in order to survive.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 116-134
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Author uses a transnational framework for engaging with Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel; argues that this approach allows the reader to see similarities between Indigenous people in North America and other colonized nations, and to compare settler-colonial and colonial contexts.
American Literature, vol. 86, no. 3, September 2014, pp. 611-614
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Book reviews of:
Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period by Drew Lopenzina.
The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism by Jodi A. Byrd.
On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory Andrew Newman.
Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies by Chadwick Allen.
Western American Literature, vol. 45, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 228-251
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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.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 139-159
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Discusses the complexities in determining identity , as revealed in personal correspondence of Chinquilla, Jones and Bonin regarding Native American organizations in the 1920s.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 305-325
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Contends contemporary authors like Owen's explore the complexites of relationships fundamental to individual and cultural identity in an attempt to rediscover a sense of place and community, but also to bring about political and cultural change.
MELUS, vol. 27, no. 3, Native American Literature , Autumn, 2002, pp. 133-145
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The poet, author, and scholar discusses his background, influences on his work, the issue of what constitutes an "authentic" author and the current status of literature.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 259-279
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Literary criticism article in which the author examines the ways that Hopkins uses liminality and liminal identity as a means of social critique and of subversion, as well as an intersection of creativity.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 227-235
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Author discusses worldview, identity, Indigeneity, and religion in the context of The Spirit and the Sky: Lakota Visions of the Cosmos, God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance and the Making of Modern America, and Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 3, Autumn, 1974, pp. [183]-192
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An analysis of the writings of the author and discussion about how both her fiction and non-fiction works provided a better understanding of Indigenous people during her time.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn, 1984, pp. 315-329
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Examines the protagonists and use of the trickster archetype in Indigenous author's fictional stories. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn and James Welch's Winter in the Blood and The Death of Jim Loney are the novels examined.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 4, Autumn, 1995, pp. 519-525
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Examines how Blackfeet author James Welch depicts characters from two eras who improvise and appropriate Blackfeet and white cultures while facing loss of political autonomy, illness and attack while retaining hope for the future.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 1, 1978, pp. 19-31
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An examination of how writer John Muir's views on the American Indigenous populations changed due to his own personal interactions with the Indigenous populations throughout his life.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 20-48
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Argues that Maria Campbell's use of Michif was necessary to convey the true essence of the narratives.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 20.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, Autumn, 1994, pp. 495-506
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Literary criticism article that examines the ways that themes of isolation, disconnection from community, and individual/cultural identity are explored in Welch’s novel.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter , 2019, pp. 36-73
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Cultural and artistic criticism piece; considers Alexie’s film as an adaptation and as a poetry film. Discusses artistic tools of referencing, trans media adaptation, and genre defiance; and considers the social and political statements made about identity formation, cross cultural relationships, and the centering of Indigenous narratives.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 4, Summer, November 9, 2018, pp. 387-406
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Article examines the work of Marnie Walsh, a writer from South Dakota, who was frequently anthologized as a Sioux author, in spite of her not claiming to be so; discusses the way that the mistaken identity of Walsh has led to misrepresentations of Indigenous voices and lives.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 3, Summer, 1989, pp. 239-248
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Looks at Indigenous author D'Arcy McNickle's first novel and his creation of the lost conflicted mixed-blood protagonist that would become common in Indigenous literature.