Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 28, no. 1, 2003, pp. 109-131
Description
Looks at cultural dialogue using Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of language and the novel; and examines dialogism in light of Native literary theory as it is manifested in Ravensong.
Original diary and various papers of R. Lyndhurst Wadmore, Lieutenant of the Royal Canadian Regiment during the Northwest Resistance, covering from 8 April to 20 July 1885. Included in diary pocket is a requisition for short boots that was signed by Wadmore on May 1885, lyrics of the Infantry School Corps fight song, and a Victoria Daily Times article from 23 June 1944 about the remaining members of the Northwest Field Force and their experiences.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 3, Series 2: Contemporary American Indian Poetry, Fall, 1995, pp. 51-70
Description
Looks at alternative critical strategies, in contemporary Navajo poetry, which enable readers and critics in consciously interactive and intersubjective engagements with the poems.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 103-112
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Author describes the hiring process and their first year as a Professor in the English department of University of Alaska Anchorage; offers discussion of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) hiring practices and of the process of learning “how universities work.”
Demonstrates how Aboriginal women writers have developed a method of literary production termed "The Dreamed Narrative."
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
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Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
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Linda Hogan
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Author explores her lifelong love of the living world and all its inhabitants.
Chapter from Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World by Linda Hogan.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 3-4, Series 2; [Indigenous Intersections], Fall/Winter, 2003/2004, pp. 168-180
Description
Explores how Aboriginal perspectives / attitudes are made accessible to both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal audiences in the plots of two contemporary novels.
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Discusses how communication is linked to Aboriginal histories, cultures and beliefs. Uses Louise Erdrich's poem Dear John Wayne and the film Smoke Signals by Sherman Alexie as an examples.
Looks at the failure of the public school system to support the success of Aboriginal students due to funding, assessment, program design, training, curriculum and continuity of goals.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 412-415
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Author describes their personal experiences with profound ignorance towards Indigenous peoples and systemic anti-Indigenous racism at the small exclusive college at which they are a non-tenured member of the faculty.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Winter/Spring, 2003, pp. 80-90
Description
Discusses the roots of Native American anger and suggests that rather than trying to avoid it, everyone involved should explore the causes and develop a true understanding of them.
New Centennial Review, The, vol. 3, no. 3, Fall, 2003, pp. 205-233
Description
Discussion on how Indian loving and Indian hating constitute two sides of the same racialization of the Indigenous populations of the Americas; and how this duality has been significant to the process of the self development of the colonizer.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1995, pp. 71-78
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Looks at the development of Chicana feminist thought, focusing on the development of the Chicano Renaissance of the sixties, the upsurge of Chicana feminisms in the seventies, and continuing on into the present.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 1, Winter, 1995, pp. 75-89
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Article examines different telling of the Hopi origins narrative, discusses the different elements and what they might say about Hopi culture. Considers different characters in the story and explores the cultural understanding of them as heroes/villains.
Examines and reviews history of First Nations health. Written as background for 2005 Winning the Prairie Gamble exhibit at the Western Development Museum.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 97-101
Description
Forum includes:
From the ASAIL President.
ASAIL Sessions at ALA, Baltimore, 26-28 May 1995.
Book Review Editor Announced.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1995, pp. 45-72
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Forum includes:
Lonesome Duck: The Blueing of a Texas-American Myth.
Mourning Dove: Editing in All Directions to "Get Real".
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 3, Series 2: Contemporary American Indian Poetry, Fall, 1995, pp. 71-74
Description
Forum includes:
Upcoming Sessions at MLA (Chicago, December 1995).
Call for Papers.
1995 Native Writers’ Circle Awards.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1995, pp. 88-90
Description
Forum includes:
Upcoming Sessions at MLA (Chicago, December 1995).
Call for Submissions.
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Alberta Journal of Educational Research, vol. 49, no. 2, Summer, 2003, pp. 113-122
Description
Looks at Western literacy versus First Nations oral traditions, myths in oral traditions and response by First Nations to Egan's theoretical model of the use of storytelling in education.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 2, 1995, pp. 85-109
Description
Examines Vizenor's trickster myths in Summer in the Spring: Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories which was published in The Progress, the first reservation newspaper published in Minnesota.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 3-24
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Looks at how Laguna coyote stories convey the complementarity of gender roles and respect for the strength, power, and intelligence of women.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1995, pp. 17-24
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Examines how new structures of human relationships are formed to replace traditional ones in Louise Erdrich's The Beet Queen.
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