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Book Review: Learning to Write "Indian": The Boarding-School Experience and American Indian Literature
Code-Switching in Navajo Orthographic Poetry: On Places, the Mythic, and Mythic Places
Composite Indigenous Genre Cheyenne Ledger Art as Literature
The Girl Who Lived with the Bears
Retelling of traditional Tlingit story. Lesson plan for Grades 4-6.
Related Material: Teacher resource including Tlingit language wall cards, retelling materials, transformation story elements, reader's theatre script for The Woman Who Married a Bear, and calendar icons.
Healing Art: Tribal Consciousness, Narrative, and Trauma in Contemporary American Indian Poetry
How Raven Stole the Sun
Retelling of a traditional Tlingit story also known as Box of Daylight or How Raven Brought Light to the World. Lesson plan intended for Grades K-5.
Related Material: Teacher Resource.
Introduction: Language and Literature
Introduction to the Special Issue: Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Literatures
Language Reflection and Lamentation in Native American Literature
The Mouse That Sucked: On "Translating" a Navajo Poem
Reviews
Tale of an Alaska Whale
Retelling of traditional Tlingit story also known as Naatsilanéi, The Origin of the Killer Whale or Kéet Shagoon. Literature unit also teaches Tlingit vocabulary. Lesson plans intended for Grades K-5.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Resources.
Thinking in Subversion
Translation Moves: Zitkala-Ša's Bilingual Indian Legends
Waņna Dakota uņkiapi kate!
Which Place, What Story? Cultural Discourses at the Border of the Blackfeet Reservation and Glacier National Park
Yaakwx': Canoes
Focuses on Tlingit language and culture. Lesson plan is for Grades 2-3.
Related Material: Teacher Resources.