Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 2, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Louis Owens, Summer, 1998, pp. 6-22
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Interview with the author of Wolfsong and Other Destin[i]es: Understanding the American Indian Novel.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 343-362
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Literary criticism article (from a conference paper) which uses the text Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King to illustrate the conversation narrative style of many Indigenous authors.
Discusses the novel The Death of Jim Loney by James Welch as a conflicting perspective between European-American worldviews and Native American worldviews.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 305-325
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Contends contemporary authors like Owen's explore the complexites of relationships fundamental to individual and cultural identity in an attempt to rediscover a sense of place and community, but also to bring about political and cultural change.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, 1984, pp. 23-32
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Book reviews of anthologies of prose and poetry published in the 1980s:
A Nation Within: Contemporary Native American Writing edited by Ralph Salisbury.
A Gathering of Spirit edited by Beth Brant.
The Clouds Threw This Light: Contemporary Native American Poetry edited by Phillip Foss.
Songs From This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry edited by Joseph Bruchac.
Earth Power Coming: Short Fiction in Native American Literature edited by Simon J. Ortiz.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 2, Spring, 1984, pp. 117-125
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Using the work of writer-artist Paul Goble to compare the depiction of Plains natives in his books versus the more stereotypical images found in most children literature. These inaccurate depictions become part of children's worldviews depicting Indigenous peoples as a lost culture rather than a group that continues to adapt throughout history.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 4, Autumn, 1998, pp. 469-484
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Contends that the authenticity of the autobiographical work, Crashing Thunder edited by Paul Radin, relies in large part on the circumspect confessions of the narrator, Sam Blowsnake, and should be approached as trickster discourse.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 259-279
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Literary criticism article in which the author examines the ways that Hopkins uses liminality and liminal identity as a means of social critique and of subversion, as well as an intersection of creativity.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn, 1984, pp. 315-329
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Examines the protagonists and use of the trickster archetype in Indigenous author's fictional stories. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn and James Welch's Winter in the Blood and The Death of Jim Loney are the novels examined.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 104-115
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Abbott interviews film producer and director Sandra Sunrising Osawa about her work and how it relates to her family's history, her identity and her sense of place, and the larger cultural survivance and resurgence movements.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 326-342
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Literary criticism piece in which the author considers the fictional writings and autobiography of Oliver La Farge, who was both a novelist and an anthropologist; argues that La Farge’s work engages in a process of critique of the anthropology and ethnography disciplines.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 3, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Almanac of the Dead, Fall, 1998, pp. [1]-33
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Interview with the acclaimed author of Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead.
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Book review of: Halfbreed by Maria Campbell as a life history, in the style of an autobiography. (Reproduced in Literature Resource Center, Gale Group)
Essays on Canadian Writing, no. 65, 1998, pp. 141-164
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Discusses aspects of the works of Pauline Johnson that illustrate an interrelationship between issues of identity, Indigenous peoples and legislative amendments.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 1998. Explores Indigenous writings and collections; analysis of works including Mourning Dove, E-Yeh-Shure, Zitkala-Sa, Luther Standing Bear, Charles Eastman, Arthur Parker, Francis LaFlesche.
English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alaska Anchorage, 1998.
Examines Disappearing Moon Café by SKY Lee, Away by Jan Urquhart and Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King.
The Northern Review, no. 19, Special Klondike Issue, Winter, 1998, pp. 101-112
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Discusses how the work The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance was somewhat of an autobiographical novel.
Original pdf displays #18 Summer 1998 in header.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 7, no. 4, 1984, pp. 87-107
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Book reviews of:
The View From the Top of the Temple: Ancient Maya Civilization and Modern Maya Culture by Kenneth Pearce.
Earth Power Coming edited by Simon Ortiz.
Bibliography of Algonquian Linguistics by David H. Pentland.
License for Empire: Colonialism by Treaty in Early America by Dorothy V. Jones.
Indian Traders on the Middle Border: The House of Ewing, 1827-54 by Robert A.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, 1984, pp. 59-107
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Book reviews of:
An Ethnohistoric Study of Easter James Bay Cree Social Organizations, 1700-1859 by Toby Morantz.
Partners in Furs: A History of the Fur Trade in Eastern James Bay, 1600-1870 by Daniel Francis and Toby Morantz..
The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos by Richard White.
Ethnic Identity and the Boarding School Experience of West-Central Oklahoma American Indians by Sally J.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 8, no. 3, 1984, pp. 81-131
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Book reviews of:
Lakota Society by James R. Walker.
Lakota Myth by James R. Walker.
Living the Sky: The Cosmos of the American Indian by Ray A. Williamson.
The Sons of the Wind edited by D. M. Dooling.
Cev'armiut Qanemciit Qulirait-llu compiled by Anthony C. Woodbury.
The Hidden Half: Studies of Plains Indian Women by Patricia Albers and Beatrice Medicine.
The Imperial Osages: Spanish-Indian Diplomacy in the Mississippi Valley by Gilbert C. Din and Abraham P.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 3, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Almanac of the Dead, Fall, 1998, pp. 88-96
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Book reviews of:
Blue Horses Rush In by Luci Tapahonso.
The Oklahoma Basic Intelligence Test: New and Collected Elementary, Epistolary, Autobiographical and Oratorical Choctologies by D. L. Birchfield.
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American Studies in Scandinavia, vol. 30, no. 2, 1998, pp. 50-59
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Discusses two autobiographies: Wilma Mankiller's Mankiller: A Chief and Her People and Russell Mean's Where White Men Fear To Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means.
College English, vol. 46, no. 6, October 1984, pp. 598-609
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Looks at what has happened in the 15 years since James Welch became known for his fiction and how many silenced Native Americans have now found a litrary voice.