International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 41, Representations of First Nations and Métis / Les représentations des Premiéres Nations et des Métis , 2010, pp. 213-230
Description
Re-examines interpretations of the story supporting an opinion of the character Piquette as an individual.
English Thesis (M.A.)--Lakehead University, 2001.
Explores three novels: Silent Words by Ruby Slipperjack, Ravensong by Lee Maracle, and Slash by Jeannette Armstrong.
New Brunswick and Atlantic Studies Research and Development Centre Conference, Town and Country: Exploring Urban and Rural Issues in New Brunswick, June 22nd -23rd, 2007
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jo-Anne Elder
Description
Looks at working intercultural models by examining cultural practices, arts policies and literary and popular writing.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 4, 2007, pp. 121-143
Description
Reply to an article titled "In Defense of Black Robe: A Reply to Ward Churchill" published in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal vol. 31, no. 4, 2007 at pages 97-120. Ward Churchill responds to Kristof Haavik in a satirical format, arguing that the author missed the point of the initial article.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Tchoukotka / Chukotka, 2007, pp. 388-391
Description
Review of Peuples du Grand Nord, vol. 1: Des Mythes à la Préhistoire and vol. 2: Vers Esquimau: Du Mammouth à la Baleine by Patrick Plumet.
Review in French.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Tchoukotka / Chukotka, 2007, pp. 393-394
Description
Review of The Southernmost People of Greenland: Dialects and Memories = Qavaat – Oqalunneri Eqqaamassaallu by Maliâraq Vebæk ; edited by Birgitte Sonne and with a contribution on phonology by Birte H. Christensen.
Review in French.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 45-71
Description
Discussses the ethical, political, and aesthetic issues surrounding the narrative exchange and the writing and editing process of Indigenous life stories.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 45.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 34, no. 6, November/December 2010, pp. 22-24
Description
Interviews with students from seven different universities revealed insight into what strategies could be implemented to make their experience at university more positive.
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 39, no. 1/2, 2007, pp. 219-224
Description
Reviews 3 books:
Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr by Gerta Moray.
Tsimshian Treasures: The Remarkable Journey of the Dundas edited by Donald Ellis.
Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon Charles C.Hill, Johanne Lamoureux, Ian M. Thom, curators ; essays by Jay Steward and Peter Macnair ... [et al.]
Folktales and Fairy Tales: Translation, Colonialism, and Cinema
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Steven Edmund Winduo
Description
Discusses how scholars use tradition to view culture, society and events.
Chapter four from Folktales and Fairy Tales: Translation, Colonialism, and Cinema a symposium held in Honolulu, September, 2010.
Looks at the strengths and limits surrounding Aboriginal oral traditions used in recreating the past in relation to Lax Kw'alaams Indian Band, et al. v. A.G. of Canada and HMTQ.
Question and answer period with the artist who combines Haida artist conventions with Japanese animation and Chinese brush-painting techniques to tell traditional stories.
Duration: 46:15.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 3, Fall, 2007, pp. 68-86
Description
Explores the theme of captivity which represents the colonial domination of Native peoples both physically and culturally and the manifestation of the oppression in dysfunctions.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 68.
Myth and Memory: Stories of Indigenous-European Contact
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Keith Thor Carlson
Description
Discusses the Indigenous historical perspective of the contact era and experience.
Chapter 3 from Myth and Memory: Stories of Indigenous-European Contact
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 4, Winter, 2007, pp. 54-76
Description
Examines the interworkings of the Shawano and Roy families living in cultural conflict, while simultaneously depicting the universal issues of family life that cross cultural boundaries.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 54.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, 2007, pp. 1-24
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Discusses the author's style and how its use facilitates a fresh sense of space in Native American fiction by remapping existing images of place and subverting notions of homecoming.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 25, no. 4, 2001, pp. 1-19
Description
Argues that the American Indian Renaissance in literature, of which Sherman Alexie is an included member, encourages readers to address the persisting question of homeless tribal identities on and off the street as well as on and off the literary reservation.
ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, vol. 56, no. 1, 2010, pp. 33-70
Description
Looks at how Lydia Maria Child’s writings about Native people use tropes of domesticity to address the “woman question” by way of the “Indian problem.”
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 11, November 2007, p. 10
Description
Looks at video shown to Saskatoon high school students, at the Honouring Residential School Survivors Symposium, followed by talks with three survivors from the video.
Article located by scrolling to page 10.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 34, no. 2, 2010, pp. 145-164
Description
Presentation of an Anishinaabe story of a woman who married a beaver and its application to treaty commitments, between the United States and Canada, with First Nations.
Review Essay: A Rich Addition to the Muskogee Creek National Literary Canon
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Craig Womack
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 13, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 2001, pp. 79-90
Description
Review of: A Sacred Path: The Way of the Muskogee Creeks by Jean and Joyotpaul Chaudhury.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 13, no. 2 & 3, Series 2, Summer/Fall, 2001, pp. [67]-77
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Book review of: The Chippewa Landscape of Louise Erdrich edited by Allan Chavkin; afterword by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
College English, vol. 63, no. 5, May 2001, pp. 655-661
Description
Book reviews of: Playing Indian by Philip J. Deloria, The Social Life of Stories by Julie Cruikshank, and Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism by Craig S. Womack.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, 2007, pp. 139-193
Description
Book reviews of:
American Indian Constitutional Reform and the Rebuilding of Native Nations edited by Eric D. Lemont.
American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance: Word Medicine, Word Magic edited by Ernest Stromberg.
Bernie Whitebear: An Urban Indian’s Quest for Justice by Lawney L. Reyes.
Black Silk Handkerchief: A Hom-Astubby Mystery by D. L. Birchfield.
The Collected Speeches of Sagoyewatha, or Red Jacket edited by Granville Ganter.
Elias Cornelius Boudinot: A Life on the Cherokee Border by James W.