American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 1, Winter, 2000, pp. 110-125
Description
Literary criticism article which deals with the translation and internationalization of the epic poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Discusses source material, misrepresentations of Indigenous peoples, and the promotion of colonial narratives.
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 25, no. 2, 2000, pp. [96]-107
Description
Explores national and personal identities, with half the English Canadians wishing they were really English and the other half wishing they were Americans; then there is the Aboriginal presence that surfaces, but then becomes invisible once again.
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 56-75
Description
Literary criticism article in which the author suggests that Welch’s use of Indigenous understandings of time as a narrative device in the novel Fools Crow works to both dismantle Western histories and to disrupt the mainstream perception of Western ontologies as universal and self-evident.
Brief news story discusses history of residential schools, the apology by the Minister of Indian Affairs and some solutions to problems on the Indian Brook Reserve in Nova Scotia. Includes synopsis.
Duration: 5:13
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter , 2019, pp. 1-35
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Literary criticism essay that uses Hogan’s novel Solar Storms and the incidents Standing Rock, ND to illustrate a connection between the violence enacted on Indigenous bodies and the social discourses surrounding extractive resource practices. Argues that conscious storytelling could help to reshape the discourse surrounding trauma, the more than human community and environmental/climate justice.
Article explores the posts and comments from three different Blogs by Indigenous women; examines how intersectional rhetoric is constructed and used in these spaces, and how it serves to defend Indigenous rhetorical sovereignty.
Book review of What We Learned by Helen Raptis with members of the Tsimshian Nation.
Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 217.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 83-114
Description
Literary criticism article that gives close readings of work from Chrystos's Not Vanishing; argues that Chrystos’s poetry work combat the rhetorical invisibility experience by two-spirit and queer Indigenous people in contemporary feminist movements.