English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2004.
Includes discussion of Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and Leslie Marmon Silko's The Garden of the Dunes.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer, 2004, pp. 65-73
Description
Discusses elements of Nora Dauenhauer's Life Woven With Song which uses a variety of genres including memoir, essay, fiction, poetry, and autobiographical to reflect the relationship between the Tlingit people and their landscape.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 26-44
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Discussion on the metacritical inquiries that Native American literary study raises; and the best methods of connecting Native American literary texts to the cultural contexts.
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Transmotion, vol. 6, no. 1, June 21, 2020, pp. 241-254
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Creative work. Poems by the late Ralph Salisbury.
“Sometimes Likely”
“With the Wind and the Sun”
“Swimming in the Morning News”
“A Coastal Temple Ruin, 1992”
“For Robert Wessels”
“Old German Woman, Some Wars”
“My Country Again Threatening Aggression (This time, for oil in Iraq)”
“An American-Indian Success Story in India”
“Medicine-Meeting, Hoopa, 1994”
“Respecting Uktena”
“My Brother's Poem: Vietnamese War, 1969”
“A Genesis”
“Awakened by Cell Phone”
“Around the Sun, the Alaskan Oil-Spill"
Transmotion, vol. 6, no. 1, Ralph Salisbury, June 21, 2020, pp. 19-38
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Literary criticism article which discusses the poet’s use of different parts of language and sentence structures to disrupt the flow of the poetry forcing the reader to attend to ethical issues discussed in the text.
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 29, no. 1, 2004, pp. 127-145
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Focuses on the effect financial/material pressures had on the work of the poet, E. Pauline Johnson, who had to rely solely on publication as a means of earning her living.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 2, 2010, pp. 42-58
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Looks at the challenges of publishing in the Sámi languages; the foundation of Sámi literature from oral tradition to written language; early Sámi authors; the Sámi Writers’ Association; and the emergence of Sámi publishing houses.
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 4, 2004, pp. 93-105
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Examines racial and gender tensions during the Vietnam War and explains how Red Earth, a novel by Phillip Red Eagle, urges readers to question antagonism based on race and or gender and move toward a healthier alternative.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 1, Winter, 2020, pp. [36]-58
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An examination of the short story written in 1925 and how the author uses the medium to shine light on sexual violence perpetrated against Cherokee women and to advocate sovereignty by challenging the U.S. allotment process.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2004.
Considers writings from Thomas King's, Green Grass, Running Water and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 45-71
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Discussses the ethical, political, and aesthetic issues surrounding the narrative exchange and the writing and editing process of Indigenous life stories.
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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.”
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 1, Winter, 2020, pp. 1-22
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Article focuses on contemporary non-Indigenous essay writers from the Great Plains who are working to shift the narrative surrounding the historical destruction of the grasslands and the coinciding violence directed towards Indigenous nations.
Transmotion, vol. 6, no. 1, Ralph Salisbury, June 21, 2020, pp. 255-262
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Literary criticism article examines the ways that Tiffany Midge uses humour to address many of the race-related issues facing Indigenous peoples in the United States.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 4, Special Issue: In Honor of Simon J. Ortiz, Winter, 2004, pp. 96-98
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Comments on how the work of the writer conveys both the tragedy of colonization and the courage and optimism of recovery.
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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. 16, no. 3, Fall, 2004, pp. 70-82
Description
Suggests the author's attempt to combine oral traditions with the written word for a Eurowestern audience with no explanation, will lead to misinterpretation of the stories being told.
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Special Issue on Teaching Leslie Marmon Silkos Ceremony, 2004, pp. 15-22
Description
The author describes how her father, Robert Leslie Evans, became the model used for the main character, Tayo, and how she is related to Leslie Marmon Silko.