Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 4, Summer, November 9, 2018, pp. 387-406
Description
Article examines the work of Marnie Walsh, a writer from South Dakota, who was frequently anthologized as a Sioux author, in spite of her not claiming to be so; discusses the way that the mistaken identity of Walsh has led to misrepresentations of Indigenous voices and lives.
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018
Description
An experimental video/art poem and accompanying text that examines issues including land rights, resource extraction, environmentalism, the Occupy Movement and the activism of Indigenous peoples.
Matika Wilbur shares photographs and stories from Project 562, her multi-year project to document members of federally recognized tribes in the United States.
Duration: 1:42:58.
Explores topics such as locating self and practice, Indigenous worldviews and pedagogies, ethical approach and relational protocols, colonization framework in Canada, and building an Indigenous practice.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 2, Summer, 2018, pp. 34-55
Description
Article seeks to disrupt the critical discussion surrounding Silko’s novel and the narratives it contains, asserting that the text demonstrates that mainstream culture forces people with divergent traits to choose between acceptance of their own difference and membership in the majority culture.
Looks at the challenges accessing Canadian residential school records and how the decision to destroy certain survivor accounts regarding abuse in residential schools is a threat to the memory of cultural genocide in Canada.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2018, pp. 129-152
Description
Article offers artistic/literary criticism of Simpson’s video poem; discusses new possibilities for human relationships with our more-than-human relations, and calls on settlers to take up “intergenerational responsibility” for settler colonial violence.
Personal diary of Major Smith of the I.S.C. Toronto Brigade during the Brigade's march west. Observations include health of fellow soldiers, the weather, and the monotony of waiting for next orders. Brief entries after 23 April 1885, final entry on 18 May 1885. Diary has metal clasp, black cloth covers and marbleized end papers. Item found within folder 2 of file Rebellion, 1885.
Small notebook of "C" Company, Infantry School Corps, documenting daily 'officer of the day' postings, brigade orders from Lt.-Col. Otter, arrival of padres, daily lists of company orders and notification of church parades and target practice. All entries made from Battleford, NWT; most made by Lt. J.M. Sears and Lt. R.L. Wadmore. Entries made in black ink and primarily blue pencil. Item found within folder 2 of file Rebellion, 1885.
Order book of the North-West Field Force, with Winnipeg being the first entry. Entries made from (all NWT / SK) Troy (Qu'Appelle), Fort Qu'Appelle and area, Humboldt, Clark's Crossing, Fish Creek, Gabriel's Crossing, Birch Hills, Batoche, Lepine, Prince Albert, while on board the steamer "North West," Battleford, Fort Pitt, while on board the steamer "Marquis"; (all NWT / MB) Cedar Lake, while on board the steamer "Princess," ending at Selkirk, MB. Entries made by Colonel Houghton, Lord Melgund, General Middleton's Chief of Staff, and a third unidentified officer.
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018 , pp. i-vii
Description
Guest editor introduces the issue and discusses the origins and evolution of the idea for an issue that focuses on Indigenous-centered film criticism and literary criticism. Discusses the process and value of “Red Readings.”
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018 , pp. 1-10
Description
Literary criticism article which examines Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Author performs a close reading of the text to examine the ways that Gilman engages with and criticizes America’s federal Indian policy.
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, April 25, 2018 , pp. 94-103
Description
Article details how the journalist John Sedgwick solicited editorial readings of his book, Blood Moon, from the author and another scholar and how, after refusing to make the fact and tone based change the had recommended, included notes in the texts thanking the scholars for their work and making it seem as though they had endorsed the text.
English Practice, vol. 57, no. 1, Starting a Circle: Exploring Aboriginal Education, Fall, 2015, pp. 28-[36]
Description
Presents a poem which looks at the impact of colonialism and neo-liberalism on Indigenous and non-Indigenous societies.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 28.
Examines the role that the setting and the audience play in a telling of an oral history, the Nenet way of storytelling, and the differences between the Nenet oral history of participation in the Second World War and the public discourse surrounding the same.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 53, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 312-330
Description
Author uses perspectives from school teachers and Indigenous writers to argue that “Indigenous literary arts can foster relational understandings between readers and Indigenous communities.” Encourages educators to draw on Indigenous literatures for inspiration and motivation in this work.
Research Report (Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business) ; Fall, 2015
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business
Environics Research
Description
Project explored how relationships develop, how they are structured, what stages they go through, and obstacles they face. Results based on three focus groups and eight in-depth interviews conducted in Toronto, Ottawa and Sudbury, Ontario.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 2, Summer, 2018, pp. 79-105
Description
Describes the varying themes, aesthetics, and influencing factors at play in “Native” or “Indian” art and how those issues are discussed in Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water, Eddie Chuculate's Cheyenne Madonna, Gerald Vizenor's Shrouds of White Earth, and Louise Erdrich's Shadow Tag.
Looks at two novels, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Matinga: Sangre en la Selva, which speak to ideas of reparations and futurities in dynamically different ways.
Indigenous Perspectives on Repatriation: Moving Forward Together
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jordan Coble
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 23-26
Description
Discusses author's perspective and experience building an Indigenous-led and -focused museum.
Extract from author's presentation at “Indigenous Perspectives on Repatriation: Moving Forward Together” symposium, March 2017.
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 81-94
Description
Author--who is an anthropologist specializing in Coast Salish culture, a member and chair of the collections committee, and a board member of the Museum--discusses several examples of repatriating objects, and the process of developing a formal policy.
Looks at the challenges faced by Aboriginal youth who are trying to find a balance between maintaining cultural roots and living in the mainstream world.
Duration: 31:30.
Transmotion, vol. 1, no. 2, November 20, 2015, pp. 91-97
Description
In this review essay the author examines three difference sub-genres of Indigenous peoples’s Autobiographies, and then describes how My Body is a Book of Rules challenges all three of them.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 42, no. 4, 2018, pp. 43-66
Description
Article offers a critical review of the film Rhymes for Young Ghouls; asserts that the film intentionally juxtaposes the genres and conventions of the Gothic novel and the Red Power-era exploitation film and in doing so creates a new genre which the author calls the Residential School Gothic.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2015, pp. 47-68
Description
Interviewed 75 Cree and Stoney women and found a feeling of loss and geographic separation from elders, family and community as pregnancy care moved out of the community.