Canadian Theatre Review, no. 123, Summer, 2005, pp. 68-72
Description
Book review of: The West of All Possible Worlds: Six Contemporary Canadian Plays, edited by Moira Day; Beyond the Pale: Dramatic Writing From First Nations Writers & Writers of Colour, edited by Yvette Nolan; and Snappy Shorts at Tarragon Theatre, compiled by Andy McKim.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 16-41
Description
Focuses on the work of contemporary Cherokee authors Robert Conley, Glenn Twist, Wilma Mankiller, and Diane Glancy, who attempt to represent the horrors of their ancestors' forced removal from the state of Georgia to present day Oklahoma.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 16.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 3, Fall, 2005, pp. 85-114
Description
Describes the Pawnee/Otoe-Missouria writer's 1988 novel challenging academic agendas and ethics concerning display and ownership of human remains.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 85.
Early American Literature , vol. 40, no. 2, 2005, pp. 375-385
Description
Book reviews of seven books:
American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of
African-American and Native American Literatures by Joanne Brooks.
Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America by Kristina Bross.
The Eliot Tracts: With Letters from John Eliot to Thomas Thorowgood and Richard Baxter Edited by Michael Clark.
Les Sauvages Americains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature by Gordon Sayre.
The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility by Laura M.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 4, 2005, pp. 121-172
Description
Book reviews of:
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann.
American Indian Themes in Young Adult Literature by Paulette F. Molin.
Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family by Claudio Saunt.
Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society by Brian Fagan.
Cherokee Medicine Man: The Life and Work of a Modern-Day Healer by Robert J. Conley.
The Cherokee Nation: A History by Robert J.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 3, 2005, pp. 125-178
Description
Book review of:
Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations by Charles Wilkinson.
Chinnubbie and the Owl: Muscogee (Creek) Stories, Orations and Traditions by Alexander Posey.
Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast by Michelene E. Pesantubbee.
A Colonial Complex: South Carolina’s Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War 1680–1730 by Steven J.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 2, 2005, pp. 119-172
Description
Book reviews of:
The American Indian Integration of Baseball by Jeffrey Powers-Beck.
The Apache Indians: In Search of the Missing Tribe by Helge Ingstad.
Assimilation’s Agent: My Life as a Superintendent in the Indian Boarding School System by Edwin L. Chalcraft.
Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions edited by Marie Mauzé, Michael E. Harkin, and Sergei Kan.
Every Day Is a Good Day by Wilma Mankiller.
Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania edited by William A.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, 2005, pp. 97-147
Description
Book reviews of:
Alaska Native Political Leadership and Higher Education: One University, Two Universes by Michael L. Jennings.
Alaska’s Daughter: An Eskimo Memoir of the Early Twentieth Century by Elizabeth Bernhardt Pinson.
Choctaw Tales collected and annotated by Tom Mould.
De Religione: Telling the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Story in Huron to the Iroquois edited and translated by John L. Steckley.
Evil Corn by Adrian C. Louis.
Have You Thought of Leonard Peltier Lately? by Harvey Arden.
Indians in Unexpected Places by Philip J.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1993, pp. 105-118
Description
Book reviews of:
Mohawk Trail by Beth Brant
Food & Spirits by Beth Brant
Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman's Story as told through Mark St. Pierre
Mud Woman: Poems From the City by Nora Naranjo-Morse
Other Council Fires Were Here Before Ours retold by Twylah Nitsch & Jamie Sams.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1993, pp. 91-109
Description
Book reviews of:
On the Translation of Native American Literatures edited by Brian Swann
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 7.2 (Fall 1992) with guest editor, Hertha Wong
Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing and Representation
in North American Indian Texts by David Murray
Black Eagle Child: The Facepaint Narratives by Ray A. Young Bear
Another Distance: New and Selected Poems by Lance Henson
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1993, pp. 86-100
Description
Book reviews of:
Native American Literatures edited by Laura Coltelli
Alex Posey: Creek Poet, Journalist, and Humorist by Daniel F. Littlefield
Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition
and Innovation in Native American Autobiography by Hertha Dawn Wong
Choteau Creek: A Sioux Reminiscence by Joseph Iron Eye Dudley
Not First in Nobody’s Heart: The Life Story of a
Contemporary Chippewa by Ron Paquin and Robert Doherty
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 4, Winter, 2005, pp. 144-152
Description
Argues that while Elvira Pulitano's Toward a Native American Critical Theory presents a thoughtful analysis of Native American literature, her presentation is regressive and actively marginalizes and displaces tribal voices.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 144.
RCAP 152 contains a transcript of a portion of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at Vancouver, British Columbia. This portion includes presentations of individuals and groups dealing with various topics concerning health care systems and services; fishing rights; fire fighting in the Aboriginal Community; cultural advancement through writing and issues surrounding special needs citizens in the Aboriginal Community. Questions from the assembled Commissioners follow each presentation which can be viewed individually on this site.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ross Gibson
Nick Schultz
Description
RCAP 168 contains a transcript of a telephone consultation between Counsel for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People, Nick Schultz and retired RCMP officer Ross Gibson who had been a witness to the relocation of Inuit to the High Arctic. The conversation focuses on the Gibson's recollection of events and their portrayal currently.
This file contains a presentation by Marie Mumford, Sandra Laronde and Elaine Bomberry relating to Aboriginal people in Canada involved in the arts and culture. A number of Aboriginal organizations and schools involved in art, dance, theater and music exist in Canada and most could benefit from government funding. Some students who cannot afford to pay tuition are sometimes funded by their First Nations or through family and relatives, but the presenters feel that Aboriginal art and culture would thrive if more financial assistance was available for students.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rheeno Diabo
Description
The file contains a presentation by Rheeno Diabo, Shakottia Takehanes Community Services. Diabo, a Mohawk woman, discusses her experiences with post-trauma and other types of community social work, and the personal impact of working with people she knows. Roda Grey and Marlene Castalano discuss some of the issues raised with Diabo.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Karl Siegler
Greg Young-Ing
Description
This file contains a transcript of a portion of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at Vancouver, British Columbia. This portion includes a presentation of the Association of Canadian Publishers and Theytus Books by Karl Siegler and Greg Young-Ing concerning the issue of cultural advancement through writing and publication. Questions from the assembled Commissioners follow the presentation.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jake Thomas
Description
This file contains a Wampum Belt Reading by Jake Thomas. He states that the belt he uses is a replica of the original Belts located at the Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario, and at Onondaga Reservation near Syracuse, New York. Wampum belts are brought out for ceremonies and readings.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Oren Lyons
Description
This file contains a Wampum Belt Reading by Chief Oren Lyons that continues with the same topics discussed by Jake Thomas, the previous presenter who also did a Wampum Belt Reading. Lyons believes that the Commission's mandate should be focused on peace between all First Nations and non-Aboriginal people.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jake Thomas
Description
This file contains a Wampum Belt Reading by Jake Thomas. He states that the belt he uses is a replica of the original Belts located at the Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario, and at Onondaga Reservation near Syracuse, New York. Wampum belts are brought out for ceremonies and readings.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 1, 1993, pp. 7-30
Description
Discussion of shadow literature and the language of Indigenous poets and novelists could be the "new ghost dance literature," that is, literature that encourages survival.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 16, no. 3, Indigenizing Education, Spring, 2005
Description
Discusses the creation of an on-line newspaper at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, Montana and how one journalism instructor, David Spear, explained the importance of community centered storytelling.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 29, no. 1-2, Préserver la Langue et les Savoirs / Preserving Language and Knowledge, 2005, pp. 47-66
Description
Discusses Inuit interpretations of time and history and attributes contemporary differences between Canada and Greenland to different experiences since contact.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, 2005, pp. 21-36
Description
Analysis of the authors work, paying particular attention to first descriptive and then the more critical and meaningful construction and presentation.
Original autograph letter from Louis Riel, written in English, 20 days before his execution, to his befriended Regina jailer, Robert Gordon, which includes the poem "The Snow". The epigraph or introduction to the poem is titled Robert Gordon! and may be used as an alternate title. The document is entitled "[Letter and poem] [manuscript], October 27th, 1885, Regina jail [to] Robert Gordon / Louis David Riel" in the University of Saskatchewan Library catalogue.
Abstract and full text of speech given by Lee Maracle at the interdisciplinary conference TransCanada One: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship held in June 2005 at Simon Fraser University.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 9, no. 2, Autumn, 1993, pp. 37-43
Description
Argues that sovereignty is the glue that binds communities together and that the characters in James Welch's novels respond to an Indigenous specific concept of sovereignty.