American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 2, Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways, 2018, pp. 57-76
Description
Author examines the work of Sarah Winnemucca, a Northern Paiute author, lecturer, interpreter, and army scout; argues that Winnemucca challenges the stereotypes of Indigenous authenticity which have been used as a strategy of settler biopolitics.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 1-23
Description
Discusses the process of theorizing life experience through storytelling. Asserts that the stories told by Indigenous women about their lives should be considered as theories for the purposes of research, writing, and living.
Canadian Literature, no. 167, First Nations Writing, Winter, 2000, pp. 141-144
Description
Book reviews of:
I Knew Two Métis Women: The Lives of Dorothy Scofield and Georgina Houle Young by Gregory Scofield.
Red Blood: One (Mostly) White Guy's Encounters with the Native World by Robert Hunter.
The Visions and Revelations of St. Louis the Métis edited by David Day.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 54-71
Description
Describes Miranda’s tribal memoir as an act of resistance which disrupts archival and mainstream narratives around Indigenous nations, dispossession, and human-land relationships. Focuses of female voices and perspectives, and on narrative sovereignty.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 2, Fall, 2018, pp. 16-36
Description
Discusses the texts Halfbreed (Campbell, 1973) and Prison of Grass (Adams, 1975), contrasting their treatments of gender in the discussion of colonial violence; calls on contemporary scholars to consider in their works “the way gender is animated in a decolonizing political movement.”
Winner of the 2000 George Wicken Prize in Canadian Literature: The Raced Female Body and the Discourse of Peuplement in Rudy Wiebe's The Temptations of Big Bear and The Scorched-Wood People
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Catherine Higginson
Essays on Canadian Writing, no. 72, Winter, 2000, pp. 172-190
Description
Examination of Rudy Wiebe's novels and his use of conventional 19th-century depictions of women.