Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he talks about his childhood and lack of schooling, his development of horsemanship, his membership in holy societies and his alcoholism.
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 33-55
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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.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 54-82
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Discusses the Two-Row poetry of Peter Blue cloud by comparing it to the Haudenosaunee Two-Row Wampum, and then uses “trans-systemic” analysis to map out the importance of two-row thinking for changing the relationship between Indigenous and settler-colonial legal regimes.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 1-35
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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.
Consists of an interview with George First Rider about the story of the coyote who taught the hunter how to get game, and the success which followed for the hunter and his companions.
Panelists discuss theatre as an expression of identity and cultural practice, how personal experience is interwoven in their projects, and how their work manifests their connections to their homelands and ancestral knowledges.