American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 2, 1979, pp. 135-154
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A look at Washington Irving's portrayal of Indigenous people during the nineteenth century and how his stories reflected his own attitudes towards Indigenous populations.
Article explores the posts and comments from three different Blogs by Indigenous women; examines how intersectional rhetoric is constructed and used in these spaces, and how it serves to defend Indigenous rhetorical sovereignty.
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 34, no. 1, 2009, pp. [204]-226
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Looks at the use of storytelling and humour to explore connections between the traumatic experience of Aboriginals' past and their problems in the present.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 105-131
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Contends that the work of Sioux writer Alexander Eastman reflects not only an assimilationist perspective but also examines Native Americans within the oppressive socio-cultural context of 19th and 20th century.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 105.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 3, 2006, pp. 23-43
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Essay arguing for a way of reading responsibly that takes into account socioeconomic realities. The essay further argues that the roles of reader and critic must also become that of active teacher and citizen to become agents for change.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 83-114
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Literary criticism article that gives close readings of work from Chrystos's Not Vanishing; argues that Chrystos’s poetry work combat the rhetorical invisibility experience by two-spirit and queer Indigenous people in contemporary feminist movements.
Canadian Literature, no. 136, Spring, 1993, pp. 24-44
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Argues work is an example of cultural appropriation and discusses the pitfalls of a non-Aboriginal writing about Aboriginal literature.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 24.
English Studies in Canada, vol. 29, no. 3-4, September/December 2003, pp. 220-241
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Explores the difficulties in cross-cultural collaboration, and asserts that the creative relationship between Maria Campbell and Linda Griffiths was neither equal nor like-minded due to their Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal backgrounds.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Fall, 1997, pp. 663-673
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Argues that while Indigenous authors are determined to express their unique perspectives while doing so in a hostile environment..
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring, 1974, pp. 27-33
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An investigation of how the author's fictional works use Native American characters to accentuate the relationships between races in the American South.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 6, no. 2, Spring, 1953, pp. 47-52
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Discusses Lewis’ novel Mantrap in the context of the research trip he took into Northern Saskatchewan, accompanying Indian Agents as they toured reserves to deliver annual “treaty money” payments.
Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 47.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 2000.
Examines works by Rudolfo Anaya, Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, Ana Castillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Paula Gunn Allen and Sandra Cisneros.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. 171-185
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Author examines oral storytelling and the ways that meaning is made in and by the act. Discusses issues of context, timing, cross-cultural engagement, and resistance to colonialism and neocolonialism.
The Midwest Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 3, Spring , 2001, pp. 320-333
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Looks at a few of the problems that writers have created, surveys some of the ways Native Americans have been portrayed and comments on some modern and postmodern fiction.