Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 10-35
Description
Examines author Leslie Marmon Silko’s post-1990 works, Almanac of the Dead, Sacred Waters, Gardens in the Dunes, and Oceanstory in the context of a growing focus on water scarcity and sovereignty; highlights Aboriginal and Native American perspective on the privatization of water for profit, and neocolonial and imperial interests.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 2, Special Issue: Honoring A. Lavonne Brown, Summer, 2005, pp. 18-31
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Silko confirms the importance Pueblo Nations' women and gender equity in their way of life as illustrated in her essay Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 18.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 3, Fall, 2004, pp. 1-28
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Examines how Native American teacher Gertrude Simmons Bonnin's autobiography combines her shared Anglo and Yankton Sioux cultures to produce a new bicultural type of Native American female role.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
Biographical and critical essay about Zitkala-Sa, most famous for the book, Old Indian Legends, Retold by Zitkala-Sa (nom de plume of Gertrude Bonnin) in 1901.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 3, 1979, pp. 229-238
Description
Delves into the life and literary work of Indigenous author Zitkala Sa by analyzing her struggle to find acceptance from both Indigenous people and mainstream audiences.