Prose Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, April 1997, pp. 58-76
Description
Discusses how Zitkala-Sa used her literacy and command of the English language as a weapon to fight preconceptions and racist attitudes in the wider society.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, Summer, 1997, pp. 409-422
Description
Author examines different frameworks and themes related to mixed ethnicities/identities and considers how these factors might motivate an author to create mixed characters.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Autumn, 1997, pp. 579-593
Description
Focuses on the overlapping legal and ethical issues regarding non-Native collaborators and the colonizing relationship to Native American texts or put more simply intellectual property rights of Native American life stories.
Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 69, no. 2, Negotiating the Culture of Indigenous Schools, Winter, 1994, pp. 12-18
Description
Author uses personal experiences to explain the stresses involved with understanding two cultures relating to values, activities, obedience, worldview and contemporary cultural tools.
Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 40, no. 3, 1994, pp. 509-542
Description
Discusses photography, its use for family records and these three novels about Australian women seeking personal meaning in old pictures, which leave them to untangle the story of before and after the photo.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, Autumn, 1994, pp. 507-531
Description
Article draws on Collier’s autobiography and other writings to explore perceptions of his ideals and and actions as an Indian Affairs agent in the USA during the New Deal era (early 1900s).
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 29, no. 3, Fall, 1994, pp. 158-162
Description
Author laments on the decline of major institutions that once defined Canadians in such a way as to bind people together, comments on Canada's image to outsiders, and briefly mentions perspectives on First Nation peoples.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, Summer, 1997, pp. 333-357
Description
Literary criticism article that draws on reader response theory to explore oral tradition and orality in written texts, considers the implications for analysis of Indigenous texts and specifically Silko’s Storyteller.
Legend about a man who didn't want to brag about his strength. Reprinted from GEIST (The Canadian Magazine of Ideas and Culture, Spring 1996, Vol. 5, 21)
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 149-169
Description
Author describes different types of Koyukon traditional stories and their role in the in the spiritual and storytelling practices of the people; summarizes four stories and discusses the themes they share related to acquiring shamanistic power.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, Summer, 1997, pp. 385-407
Description
Author examines three different autobiographies of Indigenous women that were published between the late 1920s and mid 1930s with an eye to the ways that gender influences the construction of the text.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 171-193
Description
Literary criticism article that explores the underlying themes at work in the Autobiography of Delfina Cuero. Discusses bi-culturalism, borderlands theory, ethnocriticism, and transculturation.