American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 4, 2008, pp. 145-200
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Book reviews of 20 books:
Being and Place Among the Tlingit by Thomas F. Thornton.
The Cultivation of Resentment: Treaty Rights and the New Right by Jeffery R. Dudas.
Diabetes Among the Pima: Stories of Survival by Carolyn Smith-Morris.
Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music by Lynn Whidden.
First Families: A Photographic History of California Indians by L. Frank and Kim Hogeland.
Households and Hegemony: Early Creek Prestige Goods, Symbolic Capital and Social Power by Cameron B.
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, vol. 41, no. 1, May 2008, pp. 31-42
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Examines to what extent Native writers, critics, and researchers, as well as non-Native people who work in Native Studies, are led or constrained by beliefs about what is traditional, spiritually appropriate, politically effective and beneficial to Native communities.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, Summer, 2008, pp. 324-351
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Author believes televison shows dehumanize Native Americans and takes a critical look at how audiences' percieve representations, what frame of reference the audience uses to evaluate what they view, and argues that there is a need to view representations without accepting the status quo provided in encoded form.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. ix-xxxii
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Author discusses the way that the ethnographic approach to captivity narratives such as Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, etc., in the Captivity of John Gyles and A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson promotes several assumptions about Indigenous culture and portrays them as foreign.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2, Spring, 2008, pp. 121-140
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Author argues that the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States doctrines contain no legal basis for regulating or eliminating the use of Indigenous symbols, images, or stereotypes as mascots or logos in sports and/or business.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 46-69
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Author examines text and video about the Honor the Earth environmental organization's campaign against Enbridge pipeline projects to understand how the organization represents itself to the public, and how it’s represented by other media outlets. Finds a cultural and a procedural narrative are both present in the discourse.
Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 1, February/March 2017, p. 8
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Editor's introductory article to issue comments on the exploitation of Indigenous peoples in the late 1800s by photographers looking to capture, "cowboys and Indians".
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 31, no. 2, 2008, pp. 4-14, 174
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Looks at popular interpretations of the Huron childhood experience and finds that the historical representations regarding disrespect and freedom, associated with children, are simply not true.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 4, Winter, 2017, pp. 76-101
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Seeks to understand the lack of academic attention Strete’s work has received and examines his short stories using several different critical Indigenous perspectives on speculative fiction by Aboriginal or Native American writers.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 98, no. 2, Summer, 2017, pp. 230-260
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Looks at articles published in The Province, the Vancouver Sun, and the Vancouver Times between 1957 and 1970, and analyzes the language that was used to describe the women and their deaths.
Montana: The Magazine of Western History, vol. 58, no. 3, Autumn, 2008, pp. 3-22, 92-94
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Examines how Native communities maintained their social and cultural identities amidst the attempt of middle class whites to preserve their own version of Indian culture.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 1, Destabilizing Canada / Le Canada déstabilisé, Winter, 2017, pp. 37-63
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Analyzes representations of activities associated with the Idle No More movement in editorial and commentary of sections in the Globe and Mail and the National Post.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, 2017, pp. 61-86
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Authors examines the (neo)colonial narratives present the English print media coverage of the Glenbow Museum’s 1988 exhibit The Spirit Sings. The exhibit, a headliner of the 1988 Winter Olympic Arts Festival in Calgary, is often considered to be the “catalyst for Canada's Task Force on Museums and First Peoples (1992).”
Journal of Film and Video, vol. 60, no. 2, Summer, 2008, pp. 15-25
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Examines the role of visual anthropology in creating and interpreting cultural images and discusses how documentary video techniques could be used for cultural preservation.
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 19, no. 2, 2008, pp. [204-223]
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Discusses theme of "Indian" versus "White" identities, intertwining of real-world setting with mythology, and the juxtaposition of biblical and Aboriginal creation stories.