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An Art of Saying: Joy Harjo's Poetry and the Survival of Storytelling
The Autobiographings of Mourning Dove
Discusses importance of three books: Cogewea the Half-Blood, Coyotes Stories, and Morning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography.
The Bear-Walker & Other Stories
"Being a Half-Breed": Discourses of Race and Cultural
Syncreticity in the Works of Three Metis Women Writers
Between Voice and Text: Bicultural Negotiation in the Contemporary Native American Novel
Beyond the Nineteenth Century: Thomas King's Decolonization of the Literary Image of the Native
Book Reviews/Recensions
Books in Review
Commentary [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, vol.2, no.4]
Contemporary Native Women's Voices in Literature
Looks at one way to cross the cultural boundary in Aboriginal literature by examining the purpose of author Maria Campbell, in Halfbreed, Beatrice Culleton, in In Search of April Raintree, and Lee Maracle, in I Am Woman.
Contemporary Reinvention of Chief Seattle: Variant Texts of Chief Seattle's 1854 Speech
Cross-Cultural Reading and Generic Transformations: The Chronotope of the Road in Erdrich's Love Medicine
Crying for the Children of Sacred Ground: A Review Article on the Hopi-Navajo Land Dispute
Cultural Collision and Magical Transformation: The Plays of Tomson Highway
D'Arcy McNickle: An Annotated Bibliography of His Published Articles and Book Reviews in a Biographical Context
Earthboy's Return--James Welch's Act of Recovery in Winter in the Blood
Feminist Neo-Indigenism in Chicana Aztlán
"The Game Never Ends": Gerald Vizenor's Gamble with Language and Structure in Summer in the Spring
Gender Construction Amid Family Dissolution in Louise
Erdrich's The Beet Queen
Gerald Vizenor's Indian Gothic
A Ghostly Splendor: John G. Neihardt's Spiritual Preparation for Entry into Black Elk's World
"He Was Going Along": Motion in the Novels of James Welch
Imag(in)ing Indians: Representations of Native people in Rudy Wiebe and W.P. Kinsella
In the Belly of This Story: The Role of Fantasy in Four American Women's Novels of the 1980s
The Indian in the Mirror: White Women Writers and the Native American Other
Indian School Days
Intercultural Identity in James Welch's Fools Crow and The Indian Lawyer
Iskwewak—Kah' Ki Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak: Neither Indian Princesses Nor Easy Squaws
Jeannette Armstrong & The Colonial Legacy
Discussion on the effects of colonization, the solutions to a path of healing and the changes required to alter the future.
Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts
Knotted Bellies and Fragile Webs: Untangling and Re-Spinning in Tayo's Healing Journey
Lines and Circles: The "Rez" Plays of Tomson Highway
Discussion of two plays, The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, which expose the problems, challenges and injustices that Aboriginal people face.
Literary Criticism in Cogewea: Mourning Dove's Protagonist Reads The Brand
A Literary Star is Born
Literature
Presents brief biographies, plus poems by Mike Cutler and Lance Henson illustrating various writing styles.
The Literature of Indian Oklahoma: A Brief History
Markoosie's "Harpoon of the Hunter": A Story of Cultural Survival
A MELUS Interview: Joy Harjo
Métis Autobiography: The Emergence of a Genre Amid Alienation, Resistance and Healing in the Context of Maria Campbell's Halfbreed (1973)
Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography
Mourning Dove's Canadian Recovery Years, 1917-1919
Discusses the period in Christine Quintasket's life when her health improved and she regained the strength to pursue her ambitions as a writer.
Mythic Rage and Laughter: An Interview with Gerald Vizenor
N. Scott Momaday: A Man of Words
Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller
Noah Meets Old Coyote, or Singing in the Rain: Intertextuality in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water
Pauline Johnson
A Poet in the Wild
Poetry
The Politics of Representation: Some Native Canadian Women Writers
Discussion on reviving traditional storytelling techniques, in new forms, and challenging the Canadian literary tradition.