International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 41, Representations of First Nations and Métis / Les représentations des Premiéres Nations et des Métis , 2010, pp. 213-230
Description
Re-examines interpretations of the story supporting an opinion of the character Piquette as an individual.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, Inuit urbains / Urban Inuit, 2008, pp. 175-177
Description
Review of: Si Nous Nous Réveillons par Temps Calme ... Une Saga Familiale du Groenland Oriental by Jens Rosing, translated from the Danish by Catherine Enel, illustrations by the author and forward by Joëlle Robert-Lamblin.
Review in French.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 45-71
Description
Discussses the ethical, political, and aesthetic issues surrounding the narrative exchange and the writing and editing process of Indigenous life stories.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 45.
Authors covered: Paula Gunn Allen, Beth E. Brant, Diane Glancy, Anna Lee Walters, Janet Campbell Hale, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Patricia Riley, Joy Harjo, Anita Endrezze, Louise Erdrich, Kimberly M. Blaeser, Misha Nogha, Beth H. Piatote, Reid Gómez.
To Access Article, Scroll Down to Page 6-8.
Comments on the current status of Aboriginal performance and drama in Canada.
To access article scroll to p. 6.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 34, no. 6, November/December 2010, pp. 22-24
Description
Interviews with students from seven different universities revealed insight into what strategies could be implemented to make their experience at university more positive.
Folktales and Fairy Tales: Translation, Colonialism, and Cinema
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Steven Edmund Winduo
Description
Discusses how scholars use tradition to view culture, society and events.
Chapter four from Folktales and Fairy Tales: Translation, Colonialism, and Cinema a symposium held in Honolulu, September, 2010.
Question and answer period with the artist who combines Haida artist conventions with Japanese animation and Chinese brush-painting techniques to tell traditional stories.
Duration: 46:15.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3/4, Indigenous Women in Canada: The Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Metis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 213-214
Description
Author reflects on how her return to her home community has helped her and the community regain a sense of history and tradition.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3-4, Indigenous Women in Canada: The Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Metis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 179-187
Description
Author laments the loss of the "Father" image in Aboriginal fiction; usually portrayed as absent or emotionally unavailable.
ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, vol. 56, no. 1, 2010, pp. 33-70
Description
Looks at how Lydia Maria Child’s writings about Native people use tropes of domesticity to address the “woman question” by way of the “Indian problem.”
Lists books and articles in the fields of history, anthropology, geography, sociology, political science, health, literature, law, education, and the arts.
Resisting Exile in the Homeland: He Mo'oleno No La'ie
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hokulani K. Aikau
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1, Winter, 2008, pp. 70-95
Description
The author explores the contradictions in the different narratives about place—Indigenous and Mormon—surrounding the town of Lā'ie on O’ahu. Works to problematize the oppositional relationship between Indigeneity and modernity. Explores sites of resistance occupied by Kanaka Maoli members of the Church of Latter-day Saints (LDS).
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 34, no. 2, 2010, pp. 145-164
Description
Presentation of an Anishinaabe story of a woman who married a beaver and its application to treaty commitments, between the United States and Canada, with First Nations.
Theatre Research International, vol. 35, no. 3, 2010, pp. 302-303
Description
Book reviews of: Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective by Christy Stanlake and Native American Performance and Representation edited by S. E. Wilmer.
Discusses ways of revitalizing the Ngoni culture, traditions and governance through personal historical memories, sacred oral histories & documented written sources.
Video clip from the performance storytellling presentation An Evening with Richard Wagamese. In the video Richard, an Ojibway columnist / novelist / storyteller, expresses his views on language, orality and storytelling.
Video clip from An Evening with Richard Wagamese, an Ojibway columnist / novelist / storyteller. In the clip, Richard expresses his views on language, orality and storytelling.
Video clip from An Evening with Richard Wagamese an Ojibway columnist / novelist / storyteller. In the clip Richard expresses his views on language, orality and storytelling.
MELUS, vol. 5, no. 4, New Writers and New Insights , Winter, 1978, pp. 2-17
Description
Contends that the author emphasizes that strength is drawn from adaptation of traditions to modern circumstances, rather than a strict adherence to old rituals.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3-4, Indigenous Women in Canada: The Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Metis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 190-192
Description
Author describes how her family and the women of Dokis First Nation have shaped her perceptions of womanhood.