Modern Language Studies, vol. 26, no. 4, Autumn, 1996, pp. 83-98
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Discusses use of tricksters in oral and written narratives of many cultures that can aid in forming new literary histories, articulating resistance, reinterpreting individual author's works and to the colonizing literary theory.
Canadian Review of American Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, 2007, pp. 111-134
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Discusses the relationship between the protest essay and the protest novelsand concludes that essays may actually achieve greater success than novels or poems in achieving desired political goals.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 136-167
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Looks at Kiowa responses to allotment by comparing N. Scott Momaday’s canonical literary work to Mark Palmer's "Indigital" cartography in terms of understanding, recording and remembering the process and effects of the United States government’s policy in the Oklahoma territory.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 3, Summer, June 1, 2000, pp. 420-440
Description
Wynema: A Child of the Forest, by S. Alice Callahan, originally published in 1891, contains one of the few literary critiques of the Dawes Act (commonly known as the General Allotment Act).
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 2, Summer, 2016, pp. 56-79
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Discusses the connection between the Chickasaw people's relationship with water and efforts at resource management and themes in the novels Mean Spirit, Power, Solar Storms, and People of the Whale.
American Literature, vol. 86, no. 2, June 2014, pp. 391-393
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Book reviews of:
The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination by Mark Rifkin.
Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization by Scott Morgensen.
Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading by Martin Joseph Ponce.
American Literature, vol. 86, no. 3, September 2014, pp. 611-614
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Book reviews of:
Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period by Drew Lopenzina.
The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism by Jodi A. Byrd.
On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory Andrew Newman.
Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies by Chadwick Allen.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 265-298
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Literary criticism article which explores the way that Indigenous bodies appear and are used to articulate the struggles between Indigenous and Euro-American cultures in the novels Winter in the Blood and Bearhear.
Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 60, December 2013, pp. 11-17
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Overview of the quality of water in Aboriginal communities and interviews Grandmothers about the nature of water, its meaning and the importance of water to Aboriginal women.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3/4, Special Issue: The National Museum of the American Indian, Summer - Autumn, 2005, pp. 496-504
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Author discusses their political concerns and the realities of attending the celebrations of the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian as a member of the Kanaka Maoli (Indigenous Hawaiian) independence movement.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 4, Winter, 2017, pp. 58-75
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Explore Vizenor’s use of devices such as humour, code-switching, and subversion of the English language to undermine Eurocentric narratives and create agency for the characters in his writing.
American Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 4, 1996, pp. 653-679
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Chronicles the life of the author of the first full length autobiography done by a Native American, with special focus on Methodist religious influences and his civil activism efforts.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 139-159
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Discusses the complexities in determining identity , as revealed in personal correspondence of Chinquilla, Jones and Bonin regarding Native American organizations in the 1920s.
American Literature, vol. 80, no. 4, December 2008, pp. 677-705
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Discusses how Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk contextualizes the Battle of Bad Axe within previous conflicts between the U.S. government and Indigenous peoples of the Great Lake region over conceptions of landholding, diplomacy and trade.
Discusses how communication is linked to Aboriginal histories, cultures and beliefs. Uses Louise Erdrich's poem Dear John Wayne and the film Smoke Signals by Sherman Alexie as an examples.
Retelling of concluding treaties in trickster style about how the First peoples of British Columbia lost their land, languages, fishing and hunting rights.
Print version published by Talonbooks, 2005.
Maclean's, vol. 115, no. 51, December 23, 2002, p. 39
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Interview with a Métis veteran recalling wartime experiences and postwar difficulties as a non-status Indian ineligible for a Aboriginal veterans' benefits.
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 164, 2015, pp. 36-43
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Interview with the writer, director and producer of the film at the closing performance at the Aboriginal Pavilion of the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 2, Spring, 1993, pp. 209-225
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Article examines the meanings and significance of the Snoqualmie Falls to the Snoqualmie people; considers historic, political, and spiritual/traditional contexts. Examines a current conflict surrounding the falls which involves the Puget Sound Power and Light Company.