Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 3, Fall, 2009, pp. 66-89
Description
Comments on the underrepresentation and exclusion of Indigenous voices in scholarly works.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 66.
Explores how Coyote First Person has incorrectly come to be seen as a trickster archetype but actually is a character who supports Indigenous ideas about the world.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 343-362
Description
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.
Explores themes such as use of oral tradition, humour, dreams and visions, nature, and family.
Excerpt from the book, A Literary History of the American West..
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2007, pp. 101-118
Description
Review essay on: Remember This! Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives by Waziyatawin Angela Wilson and In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors edited by Waziyatawin Angela Wilson.
Note: Spine title: Religion of the N.A. Indian Jarvis' discourse begins with an assertion that North American indigenous peoples' religion has been degraded or dismissed by western thinkers. He then goes on to make observations regarding the spiritual idealogies and practices of, primarily, the Iroquois and the Chipewyan and place them into a Christian framework.
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 2, December 5, 2019, pp. 1-22
Description
Article discusses the different ways that Something Inside is Broken brings attention decolonization and how the language and music in the piece are both made to serve this purpose.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 18-37
Description
Explains that although the author was planning on writing a novel with no political subject matter, she found that gardening was actually very political.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 18.
Journal of the Southwest, vol. 47, no. 1, Oral History Remembered: Native Americans, Doris Duke, and the Young Anthropologists, Spring, 2005, pp. 11-28
Description
Provides overview of the program and goals which included documentation of the history of Native Americans in their own voices and from their own perspectives.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 31, no. 1, 2008, pp. 311-317
Description
Author shares a mnemoic pictograph, symbolic of a dream, with the audience at an American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting held in Chicago in May 2007.
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Esther Ilutsik
Ina Bouker
Description
Comments on an education system that combines Western and Yup'ik pedagogical approaches.
Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 3-4, Series 2; [Indigenous Intersections], Fall/Winter, 2003/2004, pp. 168-180
Description
Explores how Aboriginal perspectives / attitudes are made accessible to both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal audiences in the plots of two contemporary novels.
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FNESC/FNSA English First Peoples 10, 11, and 12 Teacher Resource Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Education Steering Committee (FNESC)
First Nations Schools Association (FNSA)
Description
Includes advice for non-Indigenous teachers teaching the class, list of recommended texts, and instruction and assessment units. Course conforms to the British Columbia curriculum, but incorporates literature from across Canada and the United States.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 32-61
Description
Presents a written version of an academic play in four acts that was performed at the Native American Literature Symposium on November 30, 2000. It begins with historical essays on Lakota oral tradition and ends with discussion on comtemporary Native theater.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to page 32.
Social Science History, vol. 34, no. 2, Summer, 2010, pp. 113-128
Description
Examines the study of ethnographic cultures and Indigenous customs as it developed in the American Indian communities in the era of the Indian Claims Commission.