Alternate Title
"Oh How Different": Regimes of Knowledge in Aboriginal Texts for Children
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clare Bradford
The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 27, no. 2, April 2003, pp. 199-217
Description
Examines Australian children's literature including Booyooburra, a story of the Wakka Wakka people from Barambah in Queensland, Australia, the Papunya School Book of Country and History and Killing Darcy, a novel for adolescents.
The Ojibwe Who Slew the Wiindigo
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bradley Shreve
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 28, no. 3, Indigenous Peoples History, Spring, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Discusses colonization, historical trauma and historical loss symptoms.
Okwire’shon:’a, the First Storytellers: Recovering Landed Consciousness in Readings of Trees & Texts
Theses
Author/Creator
Kaitlin Sandra June Debicki
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2017. Refers to the works Power by Linda Hogan, Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson, and Truth and Bright Water by Thomas King.
Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ezekiel Gow
BC Studies, no. 195, Autumn, 2017, pp. 174-175
Description
Book review of Once They Were Hats by Frances Backhouse.
Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 174.
One Hundred Years of Old Man Sage: An Arapaho Life
Alternate Title
Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jeffrey D. Anderson
One Writer, Becoming
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy Lord
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 9-17
Description
Author is presented with letters written to a friend 40 years previously and reflects on her younger self.
Open Letter to Academic Freedom Fighters: What Part of No Don't You Understand?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fyre Jean Graveline
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 203-227
Description
Narrative poem which describes the author’s experience with their University and their faculty association in grieving an issue of Academic Freedom.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Seven: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Ten: Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Two: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Nursery/Preschool/Kindergarten. Day 1: : First Nation Creation Stories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
The Opinions of Ambulance Personnel Regarding Using a Heated Mattress for Patients Being Cared for in a Cold Climate - An Intervention Study in Ambulance Care
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jonas Aléx
Tom Uppstu
Britt-Inger Saveman
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 76, 2017, p. article no. 1379305
Description
Ambulance personnel from northern Sweden rate their experiences as being positive for patient comfort.
Opposition Play: Trans-Atlantic Trickstering in Gerald Vizenor's The Heirs of Columbus
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Iping Liang
Concentric, vol. 29, no. 1, January 2003, pp. 121-141
Description
Examines the turn of clash into comedy by using idea of trickster, turning Christopher Columbus into a crossblood Jewish Mayan trickster.
Oral Patterns of Performance: Story and Song
Alternate Title
Current Arguments in Folklore
The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Barre Toelken
Description
Chapter four from The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West.
Looks at several Navajo oral traditions.
Oral Tradition as History
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jan Vansina
Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture. Jace Weaver.
Alternate Title
American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series; vol. 39
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sidner Larson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2003, pp. 86-88
Description
Book review of: Other Words by Jace Weaver.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Our Stolen Grandmother: The Entanglement of Slavery and Colonization in Anna Lee Walters's Ghost Singer
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reid Gómez
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 70-90
Description
This literary criticism article examines the intersections and lasting consequences of settler colonialism and the chattel enslavement of African people on North American lands, cultures and identities in the context of the novel.
Our Women and Girls Are Sacred: Interim Report: The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
E-Books
Author/Creator
Marion Buller
Michèle Audette
Brian Eyolfson
Qajaq Robinson
"The Painful Task of Unifying": Fragmented Americas and "The Indian" in the Novels of William Faulkner and N. Scott Momaday
Theses
Author/Creator
Jay S. Winston
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Rochester, 2003.
Patterns in Contemporary Canadian Picture Books: Radical Change in Action
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Beverley Brenna
Shuwen Sun
Yina Liu
In Education, vol. 23, no. 2, Autumn, 2017, pp. 43-70
Description
Study examined two groups of books, 57 titles published 2005 and 120 published in 2015 in terms of authors, illustrators, characterization, genre, and audiences.
Peoplehood: A Model for the Extension of Sovereignty in American Indian Studies
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tom Holm
J. Diane Pearson and Ben Chavis
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 18, no. 1, Spring, 2003, pp. 7-24
Description
Presents and defines an applied model of peoplehood, with a functional definition that could be applied to both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
Perfect Cree
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Margery Fee
Canadian Literature, no. 176, Spring, 2003, pp. 156-157
Description
Book review of: Perfect Cree by Margery Fee.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access book review, scroll to page 156.
Permafrost
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Thaler
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 67-83
Description
Short story.
Perspectives on the Indigenous Tradition/New Technology Interface
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Greg Young-ing
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2, Indigenous Peoples and Information Technology, 2003, pp. 14-17
Description
Examines the Indigenous peoples' ability to adapt to technological change.
To access this article scroll down to page 14.
Pigeon the Outlaw: History as Texts
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephen Muecke
Alan Rumsey
Banjo Wirrunmarra
Aboriginal History, vol. 9, no. 1, 1985, pp. 81-100
Description
Presents two texts, that were recorded seven years apart, to illustrate the continuity of an Aboriginal oral tradition as held by a particular story-teller.
Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life
E-Books
Author/Creator
Pitseolak Ashoona
Dorothy Harley Eber
Description
2nd edition.
Poetries of Transformation: Joy Harjo and Li-Young Lee
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jacqueline Kolosov
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2003, pp. 39-57
Description
Author contends that despite superficial differences, the two poets' works display thematic commonalities.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vladimir Swirynsky
Delilah O'Haynes
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 2, 2003, pp. 93-102
Description
Contains the poems: "Quiet Truth of History", "Wolf Visions", "American Indians", "Navajo Country", "Winter Moon", and "Hallowed Host".
Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Landgraf
Robert Nazarene
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, 2003, pp. 119-127
Description
Contains the poems: "Prison Powwow", "Simple: On the Reservation at First Beach, La Push", "Norma Before She Moved to the Reservation", "Norma's Gift", "Two White Men on the Quinault Indian Reservation", "The Meeting", "Postmodern", "The Declaration of Indepestilence, July 4th, 2002", "We Are, After All, Americans", and "Rice & Sand".
Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, 2017, pp. 133-138
Description
Three poems: Selling Cigars on a Coral Gables Corner 1987, Into the Red Devil's Horn, and For a Good Boy We'll Break All the Rules.
Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jake Skeets
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 123-124
Description
Three poems:
Native American Poem
Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
Comma
The Poetry of Carter Revard: Stars Among the Walking
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dean Rader
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue in Honor of Carter Revard], Spring, 2003, pp. [45]-52
Description
Explores the use of celestial references in the poet's work.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Poetry: Too Much for the Average Indian
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Annette Arkeketa
Hypatia, vol. 18, no. 2, Special Issue: Indigenous Women in the Americas, May 2003, pp. 133-151
Description
A poem.
Policing the Border: Politics and Place in the Work of Miguel Mendez, Marisela Norte, and Leslie Marmon Silko
Theses
Author/Creator
Demain Lee Pritchard
Description
Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2003.
Poster for Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Chester Brown
Description
Poster entitled "Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography", featuring sample of artwork.
Practicing Sovereignty: Colonial Temporalities, Cherokee Justice, and the "Socrates" Writings of John Ridge
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kelly Wisecup
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 30-60
Description
"This article shows that Ridge's Socrates articles provided a public venue in which to define relationships among the Cherokees, the states, and the federal government".
The Praying Indians' Speeches as Texts of Massachusett Oral Culture
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Craig White
Early American Literature, vol. 38, no. 3, Special Section: The Indian Mission, 2003, pp. 437-467
Description
Comments on the ability of the Massachusett people of the Algonquian language group to adapt so that their words and ways could survive.
President's Greeting
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jose A. Kusugak
Inuktitut, no. 93, 2003, pp. 2-[?]
Description
Relates the importance of unspoken as well as spoken communication in the art of storytelling.
[Preston Singletary: Threshold]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Katie Jernnings
Description
Profile of the Tlingit glass artist and his work.
Duration: 15:03.
The Provenance of Story in Rudy Wiebe's "Where is the Voice Coming From"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Arnold E. Davidson
Studies in Short Fiction, vol. 22, no. 2, Spring , 1985, pp. 189-193
Description
Looks at two historical novels by one of Canada's most accomplished novelists, The Temptations of Big Bear and The Scorched-Wood People.
The Quest For the Historical Tekánawí-ta': Oral Tradition and the Founding of the Iroquois League
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jonathan Bernier
Totem, vol. 11, no. 1, 2003, pp. 80-84
Description
Questions the validity of the Tekánawí-ta' Myth for give biographical details of his life and role in the formation of the League.
The Quinzhee
Alternate Title
The Cantilevered Universe
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kirsten Madsen
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 121-136
Description
Excerpt from the novel Cantilevered Universe.
Radical Writing, Radical Women: An Interview with Lee Maracle by Tania Willard
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Tania Willard
Lee Maracle
Redwire, vol. 7, no. 1, [2003?], p. [?]
Description
Interview with the author of Ravensong, I am Women, Bobbi Lee-Indian Rebel, Daughters are Forever, and the poetry collection Bentbox.
Rare Intellect
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Carla Robinson
Jennifer Sinclair
Windspeaker, vol. 21, no. 6, September 2003, p. 25
Description
Brief article focusing on two books recommended by the author; Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson and Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples From Earliest Times by Olive Dickason.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.25.
Raven Tales: Traditional Quileute Stories of Bayak, the Trickster
Documents & Presentations
Description
Includes five stories: Raven and Bear; Raven and Fishduck; Raven and Mole; Raven and Skatefish; and Raven and Eagle.
(Re)claiming History and Visibility Through Rhetorical Sovereignty: The Power of Diné Rhetorics in the Works of Laura Tohe
Theses
Author/Creator
Jessica Marie Safran Hoover
Description
[English] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Illinois State University, 2017.
Re/ Marking on History, or, Playing Basketball with Godzilla: Thomas King’s Monstrous Post-colonial Gesture
Alternate Title
Connections: Non-Native Responses to Native Canadian Literature
[Creative New Literature Series ; 62]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Gerry Turcotte
Description
Argues that even though King expresses a dislike of the term "post-colonial" and what it implies about Indigenous literature, he still engages in "writing back" to European master narratives.
Chapter from Connections: Non-Native Responses to Native Canadian Literature edited by Hartmut Lutz and Coomi S. Vevaina.
Reading and Writing the Lakota Language: Yes, We Can!
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Franci Washburn
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 429-432
Description
Using an example in which she challenged a newspaper story claiming that that there was no written Lakota language the author talks about the way that Indigenous people are often not considered to be knowledgeable about their own languages and cultures in the academy.
Reading Australian Indigenous Life Narratives and Whiteness: Relationality and the Ethical Turn
Alternate Title
Culture and the State ; v. 2
Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Anne Brewster
pp. 75-80
Description
Argues that the relationality of Indigenous and non-Indigenous constituencies within the postcolonial nation in Australia has always been mediated by the discourse of race.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
Entire book on one pdf. To access paper, scroll to p. 75.
Reading for Reconciliation? Indigenous Literatures in a Post-TRC Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aubrey Jean Hanson
English Studies in Canada, vol. 43, no. 2-3, Special Issue: Transition, June/September 2017, pp. 69-90
Description
Also available Open Access here.
Article examines the ways in which Indigenous writers and scholars interrogate the framework of Reconciliation by creating a narrative of resurgence. Author additionally argues for the need to examine the pedagogy and process when including Indigenous literatures in educational settings.