American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 1, 2019, pp. 99-112
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Author discusses the devices used and the layers of meaning contained within the 1971 film, How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman. Stresses a reading of the film as an allegory resistance to colonial and imperialist influence.
Panelists discuss theatre as an expression of identity and cultural practice, how personal experience is interwoven in their projects, and how their work manifests their connections to their homelands and ancestral knowledges.
Engaged Scholar Journal, vol. 5, no. 2, Engaged Scholarship and the Arts, Spring, 2019, pp. 235-243
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Interview with artist Carey Newman about the process of creating The Witness Blanket project, a multimedia installation which incorporated items collected from residential schools, churches, government buildings, and traditional structures from across Canada.
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 56-75
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Literary criticism article in which the author suggests that Welch’s use of Indigenous understandings of time as a narrative device in the novel Fools Crow works to both dismantle Western histories and to disrupt the mainstream perception of Western ontologies as universal and self-evident.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter , 2019, pp. 1-35
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Literary criticism essay that uses Hogan’s novel Solar Storms and the incidents Standing Rock, ND to illustrate a connection between the violence enacted on Indigenous bodies and the social discourses surrounding extractive resource practices. Argues that conscious storytelling could help to reshape the discourse surrounding trauma, the more than human community and environmental/climate justice.