Age of Iron: Adaptation and the Matter of Troy in Clements's Indigenous Urban Drama
Alutiiq Ethnicity
American Indian Literature: A Tradition of Renewal
Apelles’s War: Transcending Stereotypes of American Indigenous Peoples in David Treuer’s The Translation of Dr. Apelles
As I Remember It: Teachings (ɂɘms taɂaw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder
Autumn Reading with Fun Activities: How Coyote Gave Fire to the People: A Native American Story
Traditional story about how coyote, with the help of other animals, stole fire from the Fire Protectors and gave it to humans so that they could stay warm during the winter months.
Bat Steals the Moon
Retelling of traditional story.
Source: Man in the Moon: Sky Tales from Many Lands collected by Alta Jablow and Carl Withers.
Battle of the Northern Lights
Traditional Sami story.
Source: The Storytelling Star by James Riordan.
Beaver Steals Fire
The Beginning of the Cree World
The traditional story of how Wisakedjak caused the great flood and how, with the help of Muskrat, he was able to remake the world.
Extract from Native Voices edited by Freda Ahenakew, Breanda Gardipy, and Barbara Lafond.
Behind the Scenes: The Real Story of the Quileute Wolves
Being Indigenous: Perspectives on Activism, Culture, Language and Identity
Book Guide for How Raven Got His Crooked Nose: An Alaskan Dena'ina Fable Retold by Barbara J. Atwater and Ethan J. Atwater, Illustrated by Mindy Dwyer
Recommended for Grade 3 students.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Chance and Ritual: The Gambler in the Texts of Gerald Vizenor
Claims to Native Identity in Children’s Literature
The Codical Warrior: The Codification of American Indian Warrior Experience in American Culture
Cry For Luck: Sacred Song and Speech Among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of Northwestern California
Discursive and Mediatic Battles in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water
Do You Recognize Who I Am? Decolonizing Rhetorics in Indigenous Rock Opera Something Inside is Broken
Dreaming of Double Woman: The Ambivalent Role of the Female Artist in North American Indian Myth
The Earth Made New: Plains Indian Stories of Creation
Eastern Cherokee Creation and Subsistence Narratives: A Cherokee and Religious Interpretation
An Exploration of Collaboration In Indigenous Language Revitalization In A First Nation Community
Exploring the Night Sky Indigenous Inquiry Kit
Includes annotated bibliography, book critiques, and four lessons plans appropriate for sixth grade.
From Captors to Captives: American Indian Responses to Popular American Narrative Forms
From Fish Weir to Waterfall
Gooniyandi Stories of Early Contact with Whites
The Great Flood
Traditional story suitable for use with Grade 4-7 students. Extract from the book The Mishomis Book: The Voice of the Ojibway.
Halfact
Harold of Orange: A Screenplay
He Said / She Said: Writing Oral Tradition in John Gunn's "Ko-pot Ka-nat" and Leslie Silko's
Histories of Kanatha, Seen and Told: Essays and Discourses, 1991-2008
How Coyote Created the Sun
Retelling of a traditional story. Suggested age range 6-11 years.
How Coyote Made the Stars
Retelling of a traditional story.
Indigenous Beliefs About Little People
Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography
Indigenous (Re)Memory and Resistance: Video Works By Dana Claxton
Indigenous Symbols and Practices in the Catholic Church: Visual Culture, Missionization and Appropriation
Inuit Literature: The Odyssey, Pilgrim's Progress, Inuktitut, Inuit Today, Igalaaq
Inuit Shamanism and Christianity: Transitions and Transformations in the Twentieth Century
Joseph Bruchac's "Dark" Novels: Confronting the Terror of Adolescence
Klee Wyck: The Eye of the Other
Focuses on several facets of Emily Carr's book Klee Wyck: the feminist tone; the effect of modernism on native life; examination of the sketches; the message of disintegration, loss and of hope.
Ko-pat Ka-nat
Landscape as Narrative, Narrative as Landscape
ȽÁU,WELṈEW̱
WSANEC (Saanich) great flood story. Text in a mixture of English and SENĆOŦEN.
Related material: Lesson Plan by Shauna White and Kathryn Godfrey appropriate for Grade 6 language arts/ social studies.