American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 4, Autumn, 1998, pp. 469-484
Description
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.
Interview: Indigenous Writing and the Residential School Legacy: A Public Interview with Basil Johnston
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Basil Johnston
Sam McKegney
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 34, no. 2, 2009, pp. 264-274
Description
Transcript of an interview, conducted in 2007, in which Johnston discusses his personal experiences as well as what he sees as the wider impact of the residential school system.
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, vol. 47, no. 2, 2009, pp. [201]-251
Description
History of publishing company started by a group of journalists and socialites from Vancouver who got together to publish Legends of Vancouver to help their sick friend pay for medical expenses.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 326-342
Description
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.
English and Comparative Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--Madurai Kamaraj University, 2009.
Focuses on the following works: In Search of April Raintree,Whispering in the Shadows,Slash, and Halfbreed.
Essays on Canadian Writing, no. 65, 1998, pp. 141-164
Description
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.
The Northern Review, no. 19, Special Klondike Issue, Winter, 1998, pp. 101-112
Description
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.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 3, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Almanac of the Dead, Fall, 1998, pp. 88-96
Description
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.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access reviews, scroll down to appropriate page.
Follows the writer's career, first as a columnist with Windspeaker, then with the Calgary Herald and finally as a novelist. Discusses The Terrible Summer, Keeper 'n Me, A Quality of Light and for Joshua in relation to other Aboriginal authors' works.
Chapter from the book Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature edited by Donna Coates and George Melnyk.
American Studies in Scandinavia, vol. 30, no. 2, 1998, pp. 50-59
Description
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.
Canadian Literature, no. 156, Spring, 1998 , pp. 83-103
Description
Comments on an autobiography that was published the same year as Halfbreed by Maria Campbell but lacked critical attention.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 83.