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The Baffin Writer's Project
Looks at a project that encourages Inuit people to begin writing their stories and, in this way, pass on Inuit culture and language to the next generation.
Chanco
A Choctaw Odyssey: The Life of Lesa Phillip Roberts
Commentary [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, vol.2 no.2]
Commentary [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, vol.2 no.3]
Contemporary Native Women's Voices in Literature
Looks at one way to cross the cultural boundary in Aboriginal literature by examining the purpose of author Maria Campbell, in Halfbreed, Beatrice Culleton, in In Search of April Raintree, and Lee Maracle, in I Am Woman.
Cultures in Conflict: The Problem of Discourse
Discussion on the problem of discourse in the Dunne-za/Cree trial, which pitted written documents against knowledge gained from the oral tradition of First Nations peoples.
D'Arcy McNickle: An Annotated Bibliography of His Published Articles and Book Reviews in a Biographical Context
A Double-Bladed Knife: Subversive Laughter in Two Stories by Thomas King
Analysis of two short stories, Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre and One Good Story, That One, commenting on King's use of irony and humor.
Equality Among Women
Discussion on the power of women and the inequality of paternalism, racism, sexism, and the materialistic society. Attached is a short poem titled The Red in Winter by Emma LaRocque. Entire issue on one pdf.
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From Creation Stories to '49 Songs: Cultural Transactions with the White World as Portrayed in Northern Plains Indian Story and Song
From White Man to Redskin: Changing Anglo-American Perceptions of the American Indian
"He Was Going Along": Motion in the Novels of James Welch
Introduction [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, vol.2 no.2]
Jeannette Armstrong & The Colonial Legacy
Discussion on the effects of colonization, the solutions to a path of healing and the changes required to alter the future.
The Legend of the Good Fella Missus
Lines and Circles: The "Rez" Plays of Tomson Highway
Discussion of two plays, The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, which expose the problems, challenges and injustices that Aboriginal people face.
Literature Against History: An Approach to Australian Aboriginal Writing
The Literature of Indian Oklahoma: A Brief History
Lone Man and First Creator Make the World
Medicine River
A MELUS Interview: Joy Harjo
Mourning Dove's Canadian Recovery Years, 1917-1919
Discusses the period in Christine Quintasket's life when her health improved and she regained the strength to pursue her ambitions as a writer.
Multiple Levels of Religious Meaning in Culture: A New Look at Winnebago Sacred Texts
Myth and Ceremony in Contemporary North American Native Fiction
N. Scott Momaday: A Man of Words
The North-West Rebellion, 1885: A Memoir by Colour Sergeant (Later General) C.F. Winters
The Oklahoma Plays of R. Lynn Riggs
One Generation from Extinction
Discussion on the death of tribal languages.
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Poems
Poems [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, vol.2 no.2]
A Poet in the Wild
Policing the Boom Town: The Mounted Police as a Social Force in the Klondike
The Politics of Representation: Some Native Canadian Women Writers
Discussion on reviving traditional storytelling techniques, in new forms, and challenging the Canadian literary tradition.
Prickly Pears
Primitivism in Missinippi Cree Historical Consciousness
The Prophecy
Looks at a fictional visionary's dream about the horrors that await the First Nations of the Americas.
The Protagonist as a Mixed-Blood in John Joseph Mathews' Novel: "Sundown"
Reading Between Worlds: Narrativity in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich
Reassessing Traditional Inuit Poetry
Discussion on Inuit poetry; and the difference between the contemporary Canadian poetic tradition and that of the traditional Inuit.
Red & White Men; Black, White & Grey Hats: Literary Attitudes to the Interaction between European and Native Canadians in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Investigates how attitudes changed between European and Indigenous Canadians in early literature.