Antipodes, vol. 26, no. 2, December 2012, pp. 203-208
Description
Uses Kevin Keeffe's two forms of Aboriginality: Aboriginality-as-persistence and Aboriginality-as-resistance as a framework for understanding different representations of Aboriginal cultures.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 49, no. 1, 2012, pp. 136-147
Description
Analysis of poems of Rauni Magga Lukkari and interviews with individuals who remember when the "hunger road", which brought the two cultures into contact, was built.
Discusses books published to coincide with the quincentenary, The Crown of Columbia by Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich and The Heirs of Columbus by Gerald Vizenor.
American Literature, vol. 84, no. 4, December 2012, pp. 691-714
Description
Analyzes the autobiography A Son of the Forest in terms of the author's references to the reservation and what this says about the tribe's political identity and sovereignty.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 46, no. 2, Special Issue: Finding Common Ground, Spring, 2012, pp. 178-195
Description
Comments on J. Edward Chamberlin’s belief in the formative power of story to be able to examine the role of public health narratives and their effect on daily bodily practices and experiences.
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, vol. 12, no. 4, December 2012, pp. 389-414
Description
Looks at the study of five First Nations communities with young children participating in the Aboriginal Head Start on Reserve (AHSOR) program concluding that many practices used by parents and caregivers constitute literacy.
Film about the Canadian government's residential school system as experienced by two children, their stories and the lasting after-effects.
WARNING: Contains disturbing content.
Duration: 83:05.
Accompanying Facilitators Guide.
To accompany We Were Children, a film about the damage caused by the residential school system in Canada.
Designed to support delivery of a four-hour workshop and Power Point presentation.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, Winter, 2012, pp. 34-49
Description
Literary criticism of book, Solar Storms by Linda Hogan with a focus on intergenerational trauma and healing in the lives of three women and the pain, suffering, and psychological abuse they underwent.
European Journal of American Culture, vol. 31, no. 3, Native Americans In Europe in the Twentieth Century, October 18, 2012, pp. 187-203
Description
Looks at Buffalo Bills "Wild West" show which travelled across England, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Holland and Belgium between 1886 and 1906.