American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 103-106
Description
Author examines and compares that practice of making poetry and the and the practice of re-discovering or returning to traditional knowledge and ways of knowing.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 50, no. 1, Winter, 2016, pp. 36-69
Description
Addresses how Western educated people can learn from Indigenous ways of knowing and telling through the practice of listening and writing in alternative ways.
Book review of: Halfbreed by Maria Campbell as a life history, in the style of an autobiography. (Reproduced in Literature Resource Center, Gale Group)
Mosaic (Winnipeg), vol. 36, no. 1, March 2003, pp. 121-134
Description
Commonalities in Native American and Mexican American healing practices as evidenced in the fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko, Rudolpho Anaya and Ana Castillo.
Examines a number of Canadian works about remembrances of lost mothers including novels:Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson, At the Full and Change of the Moon by Dionne Brand and Away by Jane Urquhart.
Critique Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 41, no. 3, Spring, 2000, pp. 290-304
Description
Explores myths about "cowboys and Indians" as warriors, the consequences of the influx of settlers, and the conflict between new and old conceptions of family, friendship, and spirituality.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 36, no. 3, Fall, 2001, pp. 24-34
Description
Story expresses themes of fracture and uncertainty; briefly touches on the Supreme Court of Canada ruling Delgamuukw, which recognized the validity of evidence extends beyond documentary history to oral history.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 2, 1991, pp. 217-223
Description
Literary Criticism article in which the author considers different aspects of the novel Harpoon of the Hunter and attempts to classify the text using contemporary Western literary labels. Argues that the novel focuses on community well-being over individuality.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 20-48
Description
Argues that Maria Campbell's use of Michif was necessary to convey the true essence of the narratives.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 20.
MELUS, vol. 10, no. 4, The Ethnic-Novel: Appalachian, Chicano, Chinese and Native American , Winter, 1983, pp. 66-72
Description
Interview with the writer and storyteller about problems faced by Native American writers when trying to "create an image of the Indian and his universe in literature".
Foreign Correspondence: Michael Kusugak: Reviving Tradition, Bridging Cultures
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Author/Creator
Joanne Schwartz
Horn Book Magazine, vol. 85, no. 1, January/February 2009, pp. 65-70
Description
Looks at Kusugak's stories and books and the different structure of Inuit storytelling, with no beginning, middle and end; but once the story is over readers can see a pattern.