Article examines the German fascination with North American Indigenous peoples and contemporary Indigenous responses; considers the works of Drew Hayden Taylor and Kent Monkman as practices of survivance and resistance to the “Indianer,” a romanticized German imagining of Indigenous people.
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018 , pp. 25-39
Description
Literary criticism article which offers a close and critical reading of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” using an English translation if the text “Navajo Nightway” as a lens through which the author examines the aesthetics and worldview of Whitman’s work.
American Society of International Law Proceedings, vol. 95, 2001, pp. 153-161
Description
Discussion of patenting, copyrighting and trademarking Indigenous knowledge by pharmaceuticals is not by direct appropriation, rather it is by indirect transfer of information by academics, and placing the information in the public domain.
Discusses the authentic representations of Indigenous peoples and cultures in the film The Revenant and contrasts them to common cinematic stereotypes.