Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 3, Fall, 2014, pp. 41-61
Description
Analysis of genre which manipulates Japanese manga and Haida art to reflect a balance in both art and life.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 41.
The West and Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region
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Author/Creator
Winona Wheeler
Description
Discusses the importance of Elders as storytellers and oral historians.
Chapter from The West and Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region edited Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter, and Peter Fortna.
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Comments on three aspects to the act of witnessing: an effective response, an intellectual engagement, and an ethical responsibility to the narrative and its narrator.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 7.
Reference and Research Book News, vol. 21, no. 3, August 2006
Description
Short review of: Cross-cultural Analysis of the Writings of Thomas King and Colin Johnson (Mudrooroo) by Clare Archer-Lean, with particular reference to oral storytelling and magic realism.
Financial Literacy, Banking and Identity Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Catherine Demosthenous
Boni Robertson
Anuja Cabraal
Supriya Singh
Description
Reports results of qualitative study conducted through face-to-face interviews and yarning circles in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Refeered paper presented at the Financial Literacy, Banking and Identity Conference 2006.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, 2010, pp. 1-19
Description
Contends that the nineteen Native American college students interviewed in this study persist in college due to the culture of their families and communities rather than that of the educational institutions.
Western American Literature, vol. 45, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 228-251
Description
Looks at how role reversals and racial imitations in Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre transforms the stereotypical trappings of Indian roles by redescribing and incorporating a sense of the past into the present.
Research Report (Correctional Service of Canada) ; no. R-319
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Janelle N. Beaudette
Amanda Nolan
Jenelle Power
David D. Varis
Mary B. Ritchie
Description
Study group consisted of nine men and four women recruited from two minimum security healing lodges, a psychiatric treatment centre, and a medium security institution, who took part in focus groups or individual interviews. All had decreased or ceased engaging in self-harming behavior.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 66, no. 1, Spring, 2014, pp. 18-19
Description
Author recounts her family’s relationship with a man named “Ou-qui-chass” or Squirrel [possibly Ankwacas, Squirrel in Cree], whom the children in her family called Nicotash, from Nut Lake [now Yellow Quill First Nation].
Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 18.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 38, no. 3, 2014, pp. 164-167
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Book review of: The Dakota Prisoner of War Letters: Dakota Kaŝkapi Okicze Wowapi by Clifford Canku and Michael Simon.
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Analyzes the use of Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee references in Alexie's works.
Chapter 1 from Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays edited by Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush.
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 35, no. 2, Special Section: Indigeneity in Dialogue: Indigenous Library Expression Across Linguistic Divides, 2010, pp. [53]-75
Description
Comments on a play that focuses on the contemporary situation of youth in Montreal and the imaginary community of Kinogamish.
Playwright discusses The Death of a Chief, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and issues related to power, betrayal and the interconnectedness between languages and politics.