Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 7, July 2007, p. 5
Description
Author looks at the practice and festivities involved in welcoming spring and the importance of passing these traditions on to the youth.
Article located by scrolling to page 5.
American Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 3, September 2010, pp. 639-661
Description
Looks at how Todd Downing appropriates and refigures Mexico's Indigenous history and culture to reveal evidence of the modern Indigenous people obscured by Indigenismo discourse. The article also anticipates the anticolonial discourses of the American Indian civil rights movement.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1998, pp. [53]-66
Description
Discusses the attitudes of the two European characters in the novel which allow them to appropriate some elements of Aboriginal culture while discarding those that they view as unimportant or that do not fit with their perceptions the "other". The author links this to the pitfalls associated with non-Aboriginal readers response to Aboriginal literature.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 2, Summer, 2007, pp. 22-51
Description
Contends that to understand Native American autobiographical writings, readers expectations cannot be of a generic Western autobiography and the literary and rhetorical notions of genre must be distinguished.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access issue, scroll to page 22.
American Literature, vol. 82, no. 1, March 2010, pp. 183-186
Description
Book reviews of:
Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature by Laura L. Mielke
The Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930 by Kate Flint All That Remains: Varieties of Indigenous Expression by Arnold Krupat.
Scroll down to page 183 to see reviews.
International Education, vol. 37, no. 1, Fall, 2007, pp. 114-131
Description
Looks at the place and power of stories in literacy formation whether they are picture books or oral and what that means to white teachers. Uses an example from the study.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 30, no. 1, Indigenous Approaches to Early Childhood Care and Education, 2007, pp. 54-60, 191
Description
Argues, via a personal story, that if we wish to understand traditional experiences in education this can only be done by examing oneself and one's origins relative to early childhood programs for First Nations children.
Theatre Research in Canada, vol. 31, no. 2, 2010, pp. 193-207
Description
Discusses a play centered around an orphaned First Nations girl, Forever, who runs away from residential school and finds shelter in an abandoned boat.
American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart
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Author/Creator
Marian L. Escalanti
Description
Presents a poem highlighting the author's AILDI involvement.
Chapter from American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart edited by Candace K. Galla, Stacey Oberly, G.L. Romero, Maxine Sam, Ofelia Zepeda.
American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart
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Author/Creator
Danny Lopez
Description
Author shares cultural knowledge that he learned from O'odham elders.
Chapter from American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart edited by Candace K. Galla, Stacey Oberly, G.L. Romero, Maxine Sam, Ofelia Zepeda.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, 1998, pp. 255-270
Description
Discusses the principles of sentencing circles in Dene and Métis communities and uses the Dene mythic hero Swan to illustrate the principles in relation to several recent cases.
Myth and Memory: Rethinking Stories of Indigenous-European Contact
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Author/Creator
John Lutz
Description
Introduction in book: Myth and Memory: Rethinking Stories of Indigenous-European Contact edited by John Sutton Lutz. Contact stories provide differing explanations for settlers and Indigenous people.
Website about the Innu nation containing links to information on skills and knowledge passed on by the Elders. Site split into four sections: First Steps, Innu Daily Life, Innu World, and Glossary.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 53-65
Description
Author reflects on her own personal experiences; and discusses how historic trauma has shaped Aboriginal peoples lives and the need to re-discover traditions for the future.