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Eagle Feather News, vol. 15, no. 5, May 2012, p. 23
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Looks at Darren Préfontaine, winner of the Saskatchewan Book of the Year award for his book Gabriel Dumont: Li Chef Michif in Images and in Words.
Article located by scrolling to page 23.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Autumn, 1997, pp. 703-712
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Literary Criticism article which explores the motivations of and the stylistic choices made by Mourning Dove and her collaborator, Lucullus V. McWhorter, in the novel Co-ge-we-a, The Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Montana Cattle Range<.>
Investigates Campbell's work for anticolonial qualities and subsequent responses.
Chapter from Maria Campbell: Essays on Her Works edited by Jolene Armstrong.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Autumn, 1997, pp. 621-631
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Literary criticism article that emphasizes the need for a culturally informed perspective in the criticism of Indigenous literatures; stresses the roles of reciprocity, humour, and the act of positioning the self as a fiction.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 24, no. 3, Fall, 2012, pp. 53-70
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Looks at a prolific author who used his wilderness experience to write about the Native American experience in the United States.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 53.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1997, pp. [41]-56
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Discusses the autobiography of John Joseph Mathews in terms of the discrepancy between the actual man and his depiction of himself.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
European Journal of American Culture, vol. 31, no. 3, Native Americans in Europe in the Twentieth Century, October 18, 2012, pp. 219-230
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Focuses on the specific influences James Fenimore Cooper had on Polish writers. Uses writings by Henryk Sienkiewicz and adaptations of Leatherstocking Tales as examples.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, Summer, 1997, pp. 409-422
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Author examines different frameworks and themes related to mixed ethnicities/identities and considers how these factors might motivate an author to create mixed characters.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring, 1997, pp. 47-87
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Examination of literary forms, as some non-Native scholars believe that oral myths are the only genuine Aboriginal literature. The author questions if something Aboriginal remains, despite the form?
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, 1997, pp. 43-60
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Looks at basketball in works of fiction such as James Welch's The Indian Lawyer and Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Reservation Blues.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 4, 1997, pp. 1-28
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Argues that a closer look at humour, in the work of Rowlandson, provides readers with a greater understanding of the Algonquian side of early cross-cultural relations and reveals the ways in which cultural discomfort and disharmony are not rare, but rather integral concepts for early American identity.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 299-320
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Author examines both the text and its reception to offer a critical analysis of factors that affect the interaction between dominant and marginalized cultures including acts of appropriation on the part of reviewers, and the devaluing of oral literatures.
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 22, no. 2, 1997, pp. [83]-104
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Discusses novels in which the main plot is about the writing of a novel. The reviewer gives many Canadian examples and argues that they all fit into Robert Kroetsch's theory that by telling, we create.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, 1997, pp. 483-497
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Literary criticism article in which the author examines the Silko’s novel and its relevance to Laguna narratives of land, territory, resistance, and cultural survivance.