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 Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 335-339
Description
The author discusses the role that humour plays in recovering from loss and from tragedy; considers their own participation in the Dakota Commemorative March in the context of their own healing.
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. 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.
Pennsylvania History, vol. 71, no. 4, 2004, pp. 479-493
Description
Author, who graduated in 1894, relates his initial experiences at the school. He later became one of its most successful graduates and a vocal supporter of the principle of assimilation or extinction.
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.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 3, Fall, 2004, pp. 47-69
Description
Argues this work demonstrates, to mainstream readers, the power and presence of an alternative reality by juxtaposing technological advances to the lives of Native American living on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 47.
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.