Prose Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, April 1997, pp. 58-76
Description
Discusses how Zitkala-Sa used her literacy and command of the English language as a weapon to fight preconceptions and racist attitudes in the wider society.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1995, pp. 71-78
Description
Looks at the development of Chicana feminist thought, focusing on the development of the Chicano Renaissance of the sixties, the upsurge of Chicana feminisms in the seventies, and continuing on into the present.
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 2, 1995, pp. 85-109
Description
Examines Vizenor's trickster myths in Summer in the Spring: Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories which was published in The Progress, the first reservation newspaper published in Minnesota.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1995, pp. 17-24
Description
Examines how new structures of human relationships are formed to replace traditional ones in Louise Erdrich's The Beet Queen.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Autumn, 1997, pp. 703-712
Description
Literary Criticism article which explores the motivations of and the stylistic choices made by Mourning Dove and her collaborator, Lucullus V. McWhorter, in the novel Co-ge-we-a, The Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Montana Cattle Range<.>
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 4, 1995, pp. 213-229
Description
Discussion of John Neihardt's religious beliefs at the time of his meeting with Black Elk and on the book Black Elk Speaks, which is based on interviews and chronicles the key events in the Oglala Sioux man's life.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Autumn, 1997, pp. 621-631
Description
Literary criticism article that emphasizes the need for a culturally informed perspective in the criticism of Indigenous literatures; stresses the roles of reciprocity, humour, and the act of positioning the self as a fiction.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 4, Autumn, 1995, pp. 519-525
Description
Examines how Blackfeet author James Welch depicts characters from two eras who improvise and appropriate Blackfeet and white cultures while facing loss of political autonomy, illness and attack while retaining hope for the future.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1997, pp. [41]-56
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Discusses the autobiography of John Joseph Mathews in terms of the discrepancy between the actual man and his depiction of himself.
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Joseph Boyden and John Ralston Saul discuss their books from the Extraordinary Canadians series.
"October 12, 2010, Toronto Reference Library."
Duration: 6:38.
Joseph Boyden and John Ralston Saul discuss their books from the Extraordinary Canadians series.
"October 12, 2010, Toronto Reference Library."
Duration: 9:57.
Joseph Boyden and John Ralston Saul discuss their books from the Extraordinary Canadians series.
"October 12, 2010, Toronto Reference Library."
Duration: 9:31.
Joseph Boyden and John Ralston Saul discuss their books from the Extraordinary Canadians series.
"October 12, 2010, Toronto Reference Library."
Duration: 4:55.
Joseph Boyden and John Ralston Saul discuss their books from the Extraordinary Canadians series.
"October 12, 2010, Toronto Reference Library."
Duration: 9:39.
Joseph Boyden and John Ralston Saul discuss their books from the Extraordinary Canadians series.
"October 12, 2010, Toronto Reference Library."
Duration: 9:57.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 155-170
Description
Literary criticism article that deals with Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel Ceremony. Author explores the relationship between the belly and the mind in Pueblo cultural and spiritual contexts and through this lens explores Tayo’s, Ceremony’s main character, expression of his PTSD.