Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 2, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1990, pp. 10-15
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Presents three book reviews of The Ancient Child by Scott Momaday:
Planes of Reality: A Review by Charles G. Ballard
Alienation and Art in The Ancient Child by Marie M. Schein
The Ancient Child: A Note on Background by Helen Jaskoski
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Teaching American Literature, vol. 1, no. 4, Fall, 2007, pp. 50-61
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Overview of the English course, Contemporary Native American Literature taught at West Chester University and an analysis of Solar Storms which deals with the building of James Bay-Great Whale hydroelectric project in Quebec.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 81-84
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Book reveiw of: Tribal Theory in Native American Literature: Dakota and Haudenosaunee Writing and Indigenous Worldviews by Penelope Myrtle Kelsey.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3, Summer, 1990, pp. 277-287
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Uses postmodern discourse and theory to discuss the realities created in Indigenous narratives; focuses on the the trickster role as one that is both comic and critical in Indigenous story telling and meaning-making.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 3, Fall, 2007, pp. 45-67
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Explores the book for autobiographical sections and passages that could also be classified as myth, legend or fiction and how this influences the reader's treatment of the work as life writing.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 2, Summer, 2007, pp. 83-103
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Contends that humorist Will Rogers, who was a member of the Cherokee Nation, was appropriated and mainstreamed as a mythic American figure and consequently has been denied a prominent place in Native American literary history.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 4, Autumn, 1990, pp. 349-354
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Reviews and discusses how Blackfeet author James Welch used history, realism, and myth as themes to affirm the power of storytelling and language Fools Crow.
Mosaic : A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol. 40, no. 3, September 2007, pp. 123-137
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Argues that Thomas King draws on connections between orality, mother tongue and maternity, and between written language and paternity; also notes that King writes to encourage readers to question what they "think they know about history" and to consider whose history is being questioned.
Biographical and critical essay about Zitkala-Sa, most famous for the book, Old Indian Legends, Retold by Zitkala-Sa (nom de plume of Gertrude Bonnin) in 1901.