Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 2, Summer, 2018, pp. 34-55
Description
Article seeks to disrupt the critical discussion surrounding Silko’s novel and the narratives it contains, asserting that the text demonstrates that mainstream culture forces people with divergent traits to choose between acceptance of their own difference and membership in the majority culture.
Looks at the challenges accessing Canadian residential school records and how the decision to destroy certain survivor accounts regarding abuse in residential schools is a threat to the memory of cultural genocide in Canada.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2018, pp. 129-152
Description
Article offers artistic/literary criticism of Simpson’s video poem; discusses new possibilities for human relationships with our more-than-human relations, and calls on settlers to take up “intergenerational responsibility” for settler colonial violence.
Early American Literature, vol. 47, no. 3, 2012, pp. 685-698
Description
Book reviews of 4 books:
Oriental Shadows: The Presence of the East in Early American Literature by Jim Egan.
So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism by James R. Fichter.
Empires and Indigenes: Intercultural Alliance, Imperial Expansion, and Warfare in the Early Modern World edited by Wayne E. Lee.
The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History by Emma Rothschild.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, Les Peuples de l’Arctique et le Bois / Arctic peoples and Wood, 2012, pp. 214-217
Description
Review of: Je Veux que les Inuit Soient Libres à Nouveau: Autobiographie (1914-1993) by Taamusi Qumaq, introduction, notes and chronology by Louis-Jacques Dorais.
Review in French.
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018 , pp. i-vii
Description
Guest editor introduces the issue and discusses the origins and evolution of the idea for an issue that focuses on Indigenous-centered film criticism and literary criticism. Discusses the process and value of “Red Readings.”
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018 , pp. 1-10
Description
Literary criticism article which examines Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Author performs a close reading of the text to examine the ways that Gilman engages with and criticizes America’s federal Indian policy.
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, April 25, 2018 , pp. 94-103
Description
Article details how the journalist John Sedgwick solicited editorial readings of his book, Blood Moon, from the author and another scholar and how, after refusing to make the fact and tone based change the had recommended, included notes in the texts thanking the scholars for their work and making it seem as though they had endorsed the text.
Examines the role that the setting and the audience play in a telling of an oral history, the Nenet way of storytelling, and the differences between the Nenet oral history of participation in the Second World War and the public discourse surrounding the same.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 53, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 312-330
Description
Author uses perspectives from school teachers and Indigenous writers to argue that “Indigenous literary arts can foster relational understandings between readers and Indigenous communities.” Encourages educators to draw on Indigenous literatures for inspiration and motivation in this work.
Pimatisiwin, vol. 10, no. 2, Winter, 2012, pp. 177-190
Description
Discusses four relational components: emergence, flow, convergence and continuity and the possible application to other non-Aboriginal researchers and Aboriginal populations.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 2, Summer, 2018, pp. 79-105
Description
Describes the varying themes, aesthetics, and influencing factors at play in “Native” or “Indian” art and how those issues are discussed in Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water, Eddie Chuculate's Cheyenne Madonna, Gerald Vizenor's Shrouds of White Earth, and Louise Erdrich's Shadow Tag.
Indigenous Perspectives on Repatriation: Moving Forward Together
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jordan Coble
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 23-26
Description
Discusses author's perspective and experience building an Indigenous-led and -focused museum.
Extract from author's presentation at “Indigenous Perspectives on Repatriation: Moving Forward Together” symposium, March 2017.
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 81-94
Description
Author--who is an anthropologist specializing in Coast Salish culture, a member and chair of the collections committee, and a board member of the Museum--discusses several examples of repatriating objects, and the process of developing a formal policy.
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.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 42, no. 4, 2018, pp. 43-66
Description
Article offers a critical review of the film Rhymes for Young Ghouls; asserts that the film intentionally juxtaposes the genres and conventions of the Gothic novel and the Red Power-era exploitation film and in doing so creates a new genre which the author calls the Residential School Gothic.
Environmental Education Research, vol. 24, no. 1, 2018, pp. 50-66
Description
Examines the importance and implications of land-based approach and discusses how this particular community has taken control of programs, gained leadership in wisdom traditions and taught respect for the land and its inhabitants.
BC Studies, no. 197, Spring, April 24, 2018, pp. 107-121
Description
Discusses the text and its critical framework—title page, introduction, and other framing elements. Considers the roles of Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Chief Joe and his wife Mary Capilano as co-authors, and the decolonization of the text by reconnecting it to unceded Coast Salish lands using platform called ArcGIS Story-Map Journals,
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 179-199
Description
Provides a close reading with literary cricism of González’s novel which is set during the Guatemalan civil war. Author examines the Maya responses to this conflict in the context of the social, political, and economic factors, and discusses issues of cultural revitalization, Maya self-determination, education and leadership.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4, Free, Prior, and Informed Consent, December 2012, p. [?]
Description
Discusses Language Keepers project which includes the development and production of a new dictionary, audio recordings, and a video archive of natural group conversations.
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, vol. 17, [Indigenizing and Decolonizing Environmental Education], 2012, pp. 46-61
Description
Looks at the life histories of six Indigenous artists who are members of the Beat Nation collective and how this musical style can be used in environmental education.