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Age of Iron: Adaptation and the Matter of Troy in Clements's Indigenous Urban Drama
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
Behind the Scenes: The Real Story of the Quileute Wolves
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
Claims to Native Identity in Children’s Literature
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
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
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.
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
Landscape as Narrative, Narrative as Landscape
The Legends Project [Collection]
[Legends X]: Legends of the Kwak'wala
[Legends XI]: Legends from Ahtahkakoop
A Lifetime of Native American Architecture: Building Towards the Indigenous Millennium
Lumaajuuq
Lumaajuuq: Lesson Plan
Mi'kmaq Night Sky Stories; Patterns of Interconnectiveness, Vitality and Nourishment
Mihumisang: Formosan Tribal Voices
Muskwa: Fearless Defender of Natural Law
My Old People's Stories: A Legacy for Yukon First Nations: Part I: Southern Tutchone Narrators
My Old People's Stories: A Legacy for Yukon First Nations: Part II: Tagish Narrators
My Old People's Stories: A Legacy for Yukon First Nations: Part III: Inland Tlingit Narrators
N. Scott Momaday's The Ancient Child and the American Dime Novel
Nametau Innu: Memory and Knowledge of Nitassinan
[Native Achievers Series: Donald L. Fixico]
The Native American Experience: Coyote and the Buffalo Folklore Tale Retold by Mourning Dove
Includes brief discussion of Mourning Dove, text of the traditional story and student exercises.
The Native American Experience: The World on the Turtle's Back
Student lesson to accompany the Iroquois creation story.