Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2006, pp. 205-208
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Book review of: An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English, 3rd. ed. by Daniel David Moses and Terry Goldie and Our Story: Aboriginal Voices on Canada's Past with a preface by Rudyard Griffiths and a foreward by Adrieenne Clarkson.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 116-134
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Author uses a transnational framework for engaging with Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel; argues that this approach allows the reader to see similarities between Indigenous people in North America and other colonized nations, and to compare settler-colonial and colonial contexts.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 58-83
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Author discusses the 1846 translation and annotation of Black Hawk’s autobiography by the Dutch pastor Rinse Posthumus; offers critical commentary on Posthumus’ station and politics as an influencing factor in his additions to and translation of the text.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2, Spring, 2019, pp. 168-203
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Critical essay in which the author argues that Coups’s autobiography, originally published in 1930 as American: The Life Story of a Great Indian, Plenty- coups, Chief of the Crows is best read as multivocal text that presents both human and more-than-human voices and perspectives.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 29, no. 1, 2006, pp. 58-74
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Describes a program that records the narratives of youths who were bullied, the films were shown to non-Aboriginal youth in an effort to address racism and its effects.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 115-135
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Author analyzes three different novels in order to provide a complex and nuanced perspective on the different ways that the ‘60’s Scoop has been treated by Indigenous authors over a prolonged period (1983-2018). Includes discussion of Beatrice Mosionier In Search of April Raintree, Robert Arthur Alexie's The Pale Indian, and James Bartleman's A Matter of Conscience.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 83-104
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Explains how Cheyenne text-images including glyphs, pictographs, winter counts, and ledger books helped sustain a unique literature form and present a legitimate alternative to European defined literacy.
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NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 157-164
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Author, Brooks, discusses new book, Our Beloved Kin, with interviewer, Cohen. Brooks's book offers an Indigenous Perspective on King Philip's War, its scope, and its impact.
Reference and Research Book News, vol. 21, no. 3, August 2006
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Short review of: Cross-cultural Analysis of the Writings of Thomas King and Colin Johnson (Mudrooroo) by Clare Archer-Lean, with particular reference to oral storytelling and magic realism.
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 1, March 2019, pp. 75-81
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Illustrates the new character tropes being developed by Aboriginal Australian writers to challenge the stereotypical representation of Indigenous peoples in detective fiction.
The American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 2006, pp. 49-60
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Discusses shifting between English and Cree and the dualistic use of languages to emphasize the cultural interaction between Cree peoples and mainstream Canadian society.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 34-53
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Examines the elements in novels by Native American authors James Welch and Leslie Marmon Silko that focus on past and present relationships of European and Indigenous peoples.
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