Foreign Correspondence: Michael Kusugak: Reviving Tradition, Bridging Cultures
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Joanne Schwartz
Horn Book Magazine, vol. 85, no. 1, January/February 2009, pp. 65-70
Description
Looks at Kusugak's stories and books and the different structure of Inuit storytelling, with no beginning, middle and end; but once the story is over readers can see a pattern.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3/4, Decolonizing Archaeology, Summer - Autumn, 2006, pp. 632-645
Description
Author examines the commentary on the opening exhibits at National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), offers their own criticism on the museum’s “failure to discuss the colonization process in a clear and coherent manner.”
Article includes listing of 100s of missing persons including: the late Amber Tara-Lynn Redman, Daleen Bosse, and the late Melanie Dawn Geddes, Shelley Napope, Calinda Waterhen, Eva Taysup, Mary Jane Serloin, Joyce Lucille Tillotson (missing since 1983) and many others.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 38-68
Description
Looks at theme of characters who are a combination of masculine and feminine genders in The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, The Master Butchers Singing Club, and Four Souls.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 38.
Comparative Literature Studies , vol. 43, no. 3, Classics and Contemporary Literature/Culture/Theory, 2006, pp. 355-374
Description
Shows how the tradition of monkey stories can be blended into American literature in Gerald Vizenor's Griever: An American Monkey King in China, Maxine Hong Kingston's Tipmaster Monkey: His Fake Book and Patricia Chao's Monkey King.
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, vol. 62, no. 1, 2006, pp. 65-83
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Discussion of how the narrative by Mounring Dove (or Hum-ishu-ma) is a complex read due to intrusion of the collaborating author, nevertheless reveals her perspectives, which places Metis women in roles equal to men.
Native Studies Review, vol. 18, no. 1, 2009, pp. 53-65
Description
Looks at the historical events surrounding the implementation of the escalation clause in the Robinson Treaties which promised a minor rise in treaty annuity payments should provincial resource revenues warrant an increase.
Studies the monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota and the changes since 2004 when Gerald Baker became the facilities first Native American superintendent.
Our Schools, Our Selves, vol. 18, no. 2, Sex Ed and Youth: Colonization, Sexuality and Communities of Colour, Winter, 2009, pp. 11-16
Description
Looks at workshops designed to increase knowledge in youth about the risks associated with sex and sexuality and how to reduce the risk in their own lives.
Visual Anthropology , vol. 19, no. 3-4, 2006, pp. 201-222
Description
Discusses director Robert Flaherty's methodology, which combined aspects of a documentary with a fictional storyline, and his portrayal of the Inuit in film.