ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, vol. 56, no. 1, 2010, pp. 33-70
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Looks at how Lydia Maria Child’s writings about Native people use tropes of domesticity to address the “woman question” by way of the “Indian problem.”
Transmotion, vol. 1, no. 2, November 20, 2015, pp. 91-97
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In this review essay the author examines three difference sub-genres of Indigenous peoples’s Autobiographies, and then describes how My Body is a Book of Rules challenges all three of them.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 14, no. 2, 1990, pp. 93-157
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Book reviews of:
A Study of Pueblo Architecture in Tusayan and Cibola by Victor Mindeleff.
The Faithful Hunter: Abnaki Stories by Joseph Bruchac.
Navajo Coyote Tales by William Morgan.
Secrets From the Center of the World by Joy Harjo and Stephen Strom.
Kickapoo Vocabulary by Paul H. Voorhis.
An Ojibwe Text Anthology edited by John D. Nichols.
"Statement Made by the Indians": A Bilingual Petition of the Chippewas of Lake Superior, 1864 edited by John D. Nichols.
Pisiskiwak kâ-pîkiskwêcik/Talking Animals told by L. Beardy.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 2, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1990, pp. 29-32
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Books reviews of: The Summer in the Spring: Ojibway Lyric Poems and Tribal Stories edited by Gerald Vizenor
Tony Hillerman by Fred Erisman
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 2, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1990, pp. 24-49
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Book reviews of:
The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon by Arnold Krupat
The Good Red Road: Passages into Native America by Kenneth Lincoln, with Al Logan Slagle
The Singing Spirit edited by Bernd C. Peyer
The Droning Shaman by Nora Marks Dauenhauer
The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories by Robert Conley
Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake as Told to Benjamin Williams edited by Thomas S. Abler
Another View [Blacksnake] edited by Thomas S.
Video clip from the performance storytellling presentation An Evening with Richard Wagamese. In the video Richard, an Ojibway columnist / novelist / storyteller, expresses his views on language, orality and storytelling.
Video clip from An Evening with Richard Wagamese, an Ojibway columnist / novelist / storyteller. In the clip, Richard expresses his views on language, orality and storytelling.
Video clip from An Evening with Richard Wagamese an Ojibway columnist / novelist / storyteller. In the clip Richard expresses his views on language, orality and storytelling.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 27, no. 4, Winter, 2015, pp. 1-36
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Argues that rather than being an "Indian informant", Eastman tried to explain the complexity of American Indian cultural practices, while also making it clear that complete understanding was impossible.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 4, Autumn, 1990, pp. 379-386
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Author discusses some of the difficulties raised by teaching pieces of Indigenous literature that contain information considered to be sacred, ceremonial, or confidential.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 4, Autumn, 1990, pp. 367-377
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Literary criticism article in which the author considers the role that “spirit animals” play as symbols of adaptation and resistance in Leslie M. Silko’s novel Ceremony.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 4, Fall, 2015, pp. 377-389
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Review essay of:
The Native American Renaissance: Literary Imagination and Achievement edited by Alan R. Velie and A. Robert Lee.
The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature edited by James H. Cox and Daniel Heath Justice.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 2, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1990, pp. 1-9
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Presents an interview with Linda Hogan and discusses the roles of storytelling and healing traditions in novels by American Indian women writers.
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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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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.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 81.
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.
The author describes the concept of Transmotion and how it relates to Indigenous literatures, worldviews and systems of knowledge. Discusses how the concept became central to his work and scholarship.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Special Edition: 10th Anniversary of the Reconciliation: Touchstones of Hope for Indigenous Children, 2015, pp. [15]-17
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.