American Literature, vol. 80, no. 3, September 2008, pp. 611-613
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Book reviews of: Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer by Michael A. Elliot; Speak Like Singing: Classics of Native American Literature by Kenneth Lincoln.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 2, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Louis Owens, Summer, 1998, pp. 6-22
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Interview with the author of Wolfsong and Other Destin[i]es: Understanding the American Indian Novel.
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Finding Common Ground: Re-Examining the Theme of Renewal in James Welch's The Death of Jim Loney
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Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 249, 2008, pp. 342-343
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Argues that Jim Loney's life symbolizes a regeneration of Aboriginal American culture. This article was originally published as "Finding Common Ground: Re-Examining the Theme of Renewal in James Welch's The Death of Jim Loney" in South Dakota Review vol. 40, no. 4, (winter 2002) at pages 67-87.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 2, Summer, 2008, pp. 47-63
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Comments on e-mails, phone calls and a luncheon meeting that spanned over three years with Native American author David Treuer.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 343-362
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Literary criticism article (from a conference paper) which uses the text Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King to illustrate the conversation narrative style of many Indigenous authors.
Discusses the novel The Death of Jim Loney by James Welch as a conflicting perspective between European-American worldviews and Native American worldviews.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 2, 2008, pp. 77-101
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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.
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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.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 4, Autumn, 1998, pp. 469-484
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Contends that the authenticity of the autobiographical work, Crashing Thunder edited by Paul Radin, relies in large part on the circumspect confessions of the narrator, Sam Blowsnake, and should be approached as trickster discourse.
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.
Includes brief article, podcast (7:39) discussing the artist's work, and 17 images of paintings from the exhibitions Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian and Fritz Scholder: An Intimate Look.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 104-115
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Abbott interviews film producer and director Sandra Sunrising Osawa about her work and how it relates to her family's history, her identity and her sense of place, and the larger cultural survivance and resurgence movements.
Interview of James Welch by South Dakota Review on October 27, 1989, which includes biographical information and discussion of major works.
Chapter from Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volulme 249
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 326-342
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Literary criticism piece in which the author considers the fictional writings and autobiography of Oliver La Farge, who was both a novelist and an anthropologist; argues that La Farge’s work engages in a process of critique of the anthropology and ethnography disciplines.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 3, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Almanac of the Dead, Fall, 1998, pp. [1]-33
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Interview with the acclaimed author of Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 1-23
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Discusses the Pequot activist and writer's attempts to subvert the myth of the "Vanishing American", and his unique position as an Indian intellectual in the early 1800s.
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Site provides bibliographies of published works, biographical information and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and Tribal websites for many contemporary authors.
Examines how a new translation of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft's poem "Ain Dah Nuk Ke Yaun, prepared by Dennis Jones, Heidi Stark, and James Vukelich, differ from her husband Henry Schoolcraft's translation.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 2, Summer, 2008, pp. 102-112
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Discussion of the book, Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective, which contains essays by Aboriginal literary critics.
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English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 1998. Explores Indigenous writings and collections; analysis of works including Mourning Dove, E-Yeh-Shure, Zitkala-Sa, Luther Standing Bear, Charles Eastman, Arthur Parker, Francis LaFlesche.