The West and Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region
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Winona Wheeler
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Discusses the importance of Elders as storytellers and oral historians.
Chapter from The West and Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region edited Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter, and Peter Fortna.
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"This book is an expanded and edited version of Canadian Ethnology Service Paper no. 30, published by the National Museum of Man in the Mercury Series in 1975".
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, 2010, pp. 1-19
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Contends that the nineteen Native American college students interviewed in this study persist in college due to the culture of their families and communities rather than that of the educational institutions.
Western American Literature, vol. 45, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 228-251
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Looks at how role reversals and racial imitations in Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre transforms the stereotypical trappings of Indian roles by redescribing and incorporating a sense of the past into the present.
Analyzes the use of Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee references in Alexie's works.
Chapter 1 from Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays edited by Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush.
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 35, no. 2, Special Section: Indigeneity in Dialogue: Indigenous Library Expression Across Linguistic Divides, 2010, pp. [53]-75
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Comments on a play that focuses on the contemporary situation of youth in Montreal and the imaginary community of Kinogamish.
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, 2002, pp. 135-149
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Argues that there are American Indian authors, writers, and poets, often unrecognized, and that there are very few courses to take that cover their works.
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 16, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 69-92
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Looks at how Two-Spirit critiques, critiques that centralize Native peoples, nations, identities, land bases, and survival tactics, challenge and strengthen work in queer studies.
Book review of:
Dreams and Thunder by Zitkala-Sa.
Native American Women's Writing 1800-1924 edited by Karen L. Kilcup.
Sarah Winnemucca by Sally Zanjani.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 26, no. 3, 2002, pp. 113-124
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Discussion of how two novelists have brought attention to the way Caucasian people have harmed the environment. The article also suggests that Aboriginal peoples are economic and social victims of the scarred earth and its destroyed forests, a fact which has driven some insane.
American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series; vol. 35
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
James H. Cox
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 14, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 2002, pp. 51-54
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Book review of: El Indio Jesús by Gilberto Chávez Ballejos and Shirley Hill Witt.
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 34, no. 2, 2010, pp. 27-46
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Study probes the importance of kinship relations, with respect to individual and collective identity, for members of the Cowessess First Nation, Saskatchewan.