Site contains links to catalogue records and brief descriptions of publications held at the Edmonton Public Library that would be of interest to teens.
Brief history of two categories, "Inuit literature" and "Native and Métis literature" from from Routledge Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English.
Site contains links to Edmonton Public Library catalogue records and brief descriptions of publications that would be of interest to Aboriginal children.
Globalization and International Development Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2008.
Examines writings from Sharon Donna McIvor, Patricia A. Monture and Kim Anderson.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 6, June 2008, p. 24
Description
Looks at a comedy radio special that is made up of short sketches and original teleplays to be aired on Aboriginal Day.
Article located by scrolling to page 24.
Looks at the 1782 expedition of Count Jean François de la Pérouse, his leadership of the mission, encounters with Indigenous Peoples, and observations made by the crew.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 59-74
Description
Gives different perspectives on the Alcatraz story, including insider-outsider and Native-Non-Native. The author comments how the occupation is still told like a legend or a folk tale would be.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 3, Autumn, 1975, pp. 237-245
Description
To rectify the lack of interest in Indigenous literature, the author critically examines nine Indigenous autobiographies to explore their literary value. Since Indigenous narratives are usually oral autobiographies, they are an ideal bridge between the written and the spoken forms.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 189-212
Description
Discussion of "place" being incorporated into people as in Leslie Marmon Silko's and N. Scott Momaday's novels. Alcatraz, for example, became a "place of cultural emergence" though the process of reciprocal approriation.
Northwest Journal of Linguistics, vol. 2, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1-26
Description
"Lists and summarizes materials on the Tahltan language, including linguistic and anthropological research papers, dictionaries, collections of stories and teaching materials".
Interview includes two stories: the first about a boy who saves a boy and wins a wife in the process; a second about a boy who upon returning to his band with a wife becomes chief.
The English Journal , vol. 83, no. 2, February 1994, pp. 70-72
Description
Describes how author uses the story to help students gain an understanding of the Native American way of life in an introductory Native American culture class.
Biography, vol. 31, no. 3, Summer, 2008, pp. 397-428
Description
Looks at the journal by Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed recounting colonial contact between whites and Indigenous people in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908–09.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 2, Summer, 2008, pp. 128-130
Description
Book review of: Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter From the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast by Paige Raibmon.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 128.
Compares and contrasts 2 books, Visitors Who Never Left: The Origin of the People of Damelahamid by Kenneth B. Harris and The Downfall of Temlaham by Marius Barbeau.
Author describes her personal and professional reasons for participating in the Moving Research about Addressing the Impacts of Violence on Learning into Practice project. Excerpt from book of the same name produced as a result of the project.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 4, Series 2. Critical Approaches, Winter, 1994, pp. 36-50
Description
Looks at how Paula Gunn Allen has constructed a social identity that transforms the borderlands of reader, writer, and text to examine the issues of positionality and essentialism.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.