American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 189-212
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Discussion of "place" being incorporated into people as in Leslie Marmon Silko's and N. Scott Momaday's novels. Alcatraz, for example, became a "place of cultural emergence" though the process of reciprocal approriation.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, Autumn, 1994, pp. 481-494
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Literary criticism article which examines Black Hawk: An Autobiography and argues that in addition to its value as a historical text, it should also be considered as an act of literary resistance against the narratives imposed on Indigenous peoples by mainstream society.
American Literature, vol. 85, no. 2, June 2013, pp. 399-401
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Book reviews of:
Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature by Birgit Brander Rasmussen.
Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause by Melanie Benson Taylor.
English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830 by Hilary E. Wyss.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 3, Series 2: Linda Hogan: Calling Us Home, Fall, 1994, pp. 37-48
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Examines the relationship between work, profit, and the land in Mean Spirit; and invites the reader to think and act on the issues, such as the health of our culture and our physical world.
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Comments on works by following authors: Oliver La Farge, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Willa Cather, Leslie Marmon Silko, Simon Ortiz.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University College Cork, Ireland, 2013.
Explains James Welch used strategic omissions as a way to imply the spirituality as a rationale for some character's disconnection with other characters.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 187-209
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Looks at Gladys A. Reichard's book Dezba: Woman of the Desert, a fictional novel based upon her work among the Navajo, which discusses the struggles of a "traditional" mother.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 4, Series 2. Critical Approaches, Winter, 1994, pp. 107-113
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Looks at the power of spirituality and the way that it seems to transcend the limits that conventional worldviews would place upon it.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, Winter, 1994, pp. 71-86
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Literary criticism article that examines the social and historical commentary contained in Vizenor’s novel, Heirs of Columbus, and how that commentary works to dismantle mainstream realities.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 3, Fall, 2013, pp. 33-56
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Examines strategies and techniques used to sway American public opinion in three Atlantic Monthly articles: Impressions of an Indian Childhood, School Days of an Indian Girl, and An Indian Teacher Among Indians, and in the report Oklahoma's Poor Rich Indians.
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Review of International American Studies, vol. 6, no. 1-2, Decoding American Cultures in the Global Context, Spring-Fall, 2013, pp. 215-236
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Looks at the writings of Marilyn Dumont and Louise Erdrich and compares their earlier and recent work.
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Looks at the stereotypes constructed in movies, television and other popular American media and allows the reader to question identity, history, popular culture and humour.
Literature Senior Paper (B.A.)--University of North Carolina at Asheville, 2013.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 1-17
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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.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, Winter, 1994, pp. 43-59
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Article examines the records made by Jesuit missionaries of the oral literary traditions of the Algonquian-speaking First Nations; discusses how these texts have become foundational in the study of Indigenous literatures.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, Winter, 2013, pp. 3-33
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Contends that Oskison believed Native Americans need not assimilate fully into United States society but should be self-sustaining and make contributions equal to those of other citizens.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 4, Series 2. Critical Approaches, Winter, 1994, pp. 51-76
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Looks at how the negative representations of women in N. Scott Momaday’s novels demonstrates a lack of harmony and balance, and an underlying of dislike, or mistrust of women.
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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.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 3, Series 2: Linda Hogan: Calling Us Home, Fall, 1994, pp. 15-21
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Looks at the exploitation against Native American Indians as they struggle against the greed that threatens their lives and the survival of their culture.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 1, Series 2: Feminist and Post-Colonial Approaches, Spring, 1994, pp. 99-113
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Discusses the cultural dislocation and identity confusion created by the imposition of one culture on another.
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Author and poet discusses living "in between" mainstream and Native American culture, the consequences of tribalism, being bipolar, and social media.
Duration: 39:19.
Introduces Native American literature and history and looks at the influences and accuracy of Alexie's work.
Philology Thesis (B.A.)--University of West Bohemia, 2013.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, 1994, pp. 95-118
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Investigates Kenny’s combination of historic, local histories and poetic work and Brant's "insider" perspective on the collective rather than the individual.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, 1994, pp. 145-157
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Argues that ecofeminism, or those who found a connection between technological exploitation of land and oppression of women, could benefit from a careful reading of Ceremony.