Ross Frank interviews author, poet, and screenwriter of Smoke Signals Sherman Alexis. Discusses being an Indian artist in both worlds.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 13, no. 2&3, Series 2, 2001, pp. [23]-36
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Discusses how the character Marie, in the novel Indian Killer, is the vehicle for a critique of the teaching of Native American literature in post-secondary institutions.
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 4, no. 1-2, 1980, pp. 51-95
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Looks at narrations recorded by Constenla Umaña while interviewing Doña Isolina de Gonzalez and Don Espiritu Santo Maroto. Text of stories in Spanish and Boruca.
Round table with members of organization called, Advocacy for Native Adoptees. All Native adoptees had been adopted into white families residing in Montreal.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 16, no. 2, Autumn, 2001, pp. 129-137
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Contends that author Sherman Alexie, through humour and satire, challenges stereotypes and the status quo by portraying the complex and humanizing image of contemporary Native Americans.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 9, no. 2, Autumn, 1993, pp. 37-43
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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.
Transcript of a talk given by an unknown informant, possibly sometime in the 1980's.
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Aboriginal History , vol. 25, Special Section: Genocide?: Australian Aboriginal History in International Perspective, 2001, pp. [116]-131
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Comments on testimonies from the Stolen Generation including one testimony which asks White Australians to look at their own actions that might support racism.
Book reviews of five books:
Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis by Joseph E. Taylor III.
To Fish in Common: The Ethnohistory of Lummi Indian Salmon Fishing by Daniel L. Boxberger.
Messages from Frank's Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way by Charles Wilkinson.
Fishing Places, Fishing People: Traditions and Issues in Canadian Small-Scale Fisheries edited by Dianne Newell and Rosemary E. Ommer.
Studies in American Literatures, vol. 5, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1993, pp. 6-24
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Discusses how Silko manages to employ oral traditions through a multiplicity of storytellers in her novel, Storyteller.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 13, no. 1, Series 2; Representations of American Indians in Contemporary Narrative Fiction Film , Spring, 2001, pp. 87-90
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Book review of: The Sun Unwound edited by Edward Dorn and Gordon Brotherston.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1993, pp. 36-42
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Examines the relationship between the narrator and narratee regarding White Hawk's death sentence in Gerald Vizenor's work, Thomas White Hawk.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1993, pp. 51-62
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Outlines how to teach a three-unit course in Literature of the American Indians with a focus on Leslie Silko's Storyteller.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1993, pp. 31-35
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Discusses Vizenor's use of law and literature in the sentencing of Thomas White Hawk.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 2, Series 2: Special Issue, Summer, 1993, pp. 49-56
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Examines myth and metaphor in various poems and discusses how myth is considered an artistic and religious endeavor.
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