American Indian Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 1, Winter, 1999, pp. 45-53
Description
Author explores the different characteristics and purposes of storytelling, comparing Indigenous and Western traditions, oral vs written storytelling, and the different cultural values that are embedded in the stories.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 1-17
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Explains how Louise Erdrich uses "survival humor" to compare a white world that is spirituality bankrupt, with no meaningful tradition and ceremony, to that of the Ojibway culture that tends to have coherent meaning.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, Winter, 1994, pp. 43-59
Description
Article examines the records made by Jesuit missionaries of the oral literary traditions of the Algonquian-speaking First Nations; discusses how these texts have become foundational in the study of Indigenous literatures.