Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 65-76
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Examines how the theoretical post-modern concept of subversion and deconstruction works on various levels. The article also looks at how trickster discourse negotiates the boundaries of the crossblood’s world, deconstructing fixed, authoritative beliefs and definitions.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1995, pp. 79-86
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Discusses how the live interaction between the speaker and listener is a different experience than the solitary activity of reading in teaching courses with many cultural
perspectives.
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MELUS, vol. 20, no. 4, Maskers and Tricksters , Winter, 1995, pp. 75-90
Description
Argues that Chippawa author Gerald Vizenor's Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart is radical and traditional at the same time and makes extensive use of oral tradition while employing postmodern narrative strategies within a written text.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 4, Autumn, 1995, pp. 451-465
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Literary criticism article that considers Humishuma’s (Mourning Dove, aka Christine Quintasket) novel; examines the ways that the text was influenced and edited by Humishuma’s friend and mentor Lucullus V. McWhorter.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 45-63
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Discusses how the characters provide the poets with a playful, sometimes painful, way of speaking about American Indian women’s experiences and encompasses both traditional beliefs and contemporary reality.
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Correspondence between the Highway #26 Rural Development Corporation in Saskatchewan and the Town of St. Paul, Alberta, relating to the construction of the Trans Canada Trail. Also includes notes from an informational meeting and a photocopy of a newspaper article on preliminary construction plans.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 27-42
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Examines how Louis Owens’ Wolfsong makes use of different imagery and characterizations in order to challenge perceptions around the complexity of American Indian identity.
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Consists of an interview where Verna Patronella Johnston speaks of uses for traditional foods and medicines. She also gives an account of Grandma Jones, a storyteller.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 3, Series 2: Contemporary American Indian Poetry, Fall, 1995, pp. 7-16
Description
Examines two critiques of canonical or "dominant mode" poetry, one privileges poetry from the so-called language community; the second, a multicultural critique, focuses on the poetries of marginalized peoples.
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, 1995, pp. 133-151
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Examines the use in literature of the myth about the white man being a rattlesnake, arguing that opposites, male and female, Christian and Indian, are actually complements of equal value.
File contains a photocopy of Arthur O. Wheeler's daily diary from March to July, 1885. Wheeler served in the Survey (scout) Corp for the Government, and was present during some of the battles of the 1885 rebellion.