Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 2, December 5, 2019, pp. 1-22
Description
Article discusses the different ways that Something Inside is Broken brings attention decolonization and how the language and music in the piece are both made to serve this purpose.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 34-53
Description
Examines the elements in novels by Native American authors James Welch and Leslie Marmon Silko that focus on past and present relationships of European and Indigenous peoples.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 34.
Examines the discriminatory policies Canadian governments have imposed on Aboriginals and Japanese Canadians, and the way the two writers respond to those practices in their novels.
English Paper (B.A)-- University of Iceland, School of Humanities, 2010.
Journal of Indigenous Voices in Social Work, vol. 1, no. 1, February 2010, pp. 1-18
Description
Summarizes lessons learnt from a project that facilitated the discussion on issues of survival in the academy and social work programs; and discusses experiences of personal and collective healing.
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 33-55
Description
Literary criticism article in which the author explores Vizenor’s use of trickster tropes and transnational narrative to explore different expressions of Indigenous identity and how it adapts to and is affected by sites solidarity and sovereignty.
Scholar, teacher and historian looks at the mystery of the vanishing Aboriginals and how colonialism affected Indigenous space in urbanizing Victoria.
Duration: 1:17:58
Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Linc Kesler
Larry Grant
Coll Thrush
Neil Safier
Shaunee Casavant
Nika Collison
Tirso Gonzaez
Sheryl Lightfoot
Description
Webcast of Global Encounters Initiative Symposium called Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame held at the University of British Columbia, March 4-6, 2010. Panel discussion begins at 36:41.
Duration: 2:24:18.
Examines the theme of historical trauma in Sherman Alexie's novels.
Table of contents and chapter from Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays edited by Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 1, 2010, pp. 126-136
Description
Outlines various responses to trauma and race-based traumatic stress suffered by Indigenous peoples as a result of government policies geared towards assimilation, and discusses how self-governed nations with connection to culture and spirituality can result in better outcomes for Indigenous peoples.
Scandinavian Studies, vol. 82, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 313-336
Description
Documents the role of Danish painter and traveler, Emilie Demant (later Demant Hatt) who encouraged Johan Turi to write the narratives and provides explanations of Sámi culture and beliefs.
'I Honored Him Until the End': Storytelling of Indigenous Female Caregivers and Care Providers Focused on Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias (ADOD)
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, Special Issue on New Directions in American Indian Autobiography, 2006, pp. 33-52
Description
Author questions whether those with positive residential school experiences should participate in the overall debate and struggle for healing, justice, and political and monetary redress for individuals and communities.
Canadian Issues, [Canada West to East: Teaching History in a Time of Change], Fall, 2006, pp. 47-51
Description
Looks at textbooks published before the mid-twentieth century, the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s and the 1990s to the present.
To access article scroll to p. 47.
Discusses works by authors: James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Leslie Marmon Silko.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.
Lists works written by Indigenous authors published between 2000 and 2018. Focuses on substantial books, articles and book chapters on original primary historical research, research methodology and historiography.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 1-35
Description
Author defines and then discusses Indigenous Futurisms as a decolonial aesthetic practice rather than a defined literary genre and explores its power as a reorienting and revisional device.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 135-157
Description
In this literary criticism article, the author deconstructs the colonial narrative practice of portraying a place or space as a wasteland and as uninhabited in order to justify extractive practices and describes Indigenous narrative strategies of resistance.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 96-106
Description
The author examines his life-work of community development and healing work in northern Aboriginal communities of Ontario in a reflective and narrative way.