Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent
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Bruce Bennett
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Chapter five from Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent edited by Katarzyna Marciniak and Imogen Tyler.
Discusses the ways in which the film Avatar dramatizes issues of Indigenous protest, political appropriation, immigration and colonization.
Discusses the Indian Helper, a newspaper published at the school, and the information it conveys in terms of the "civilizing campaign" and the children's responses.
Excerpt from: Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Education Experiences edited by Clifford Trafzer, Jean A. Keller and Lorene Sisquoc.
American Literature, vol. 82, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 837-839
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Book reviews of:
Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture by Shari M. Huhndorf
Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space by Mark Rifkin
Book reviews found by scrolling to page 837.
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 1, 2010, pp. 144-147
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Book review of: Memories, Myths, and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader by William Berens ; as told to A. Irving Hallowell ; edited by Jennifer S.H. Brown & Susan Elaine Gray.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, 2014, pp. 181-196
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Looks at impact of story line involving fictional Ojibway community. Thirty surveys were conducted with non-Aboriginals to investigate whether readers had learned anything about Ojibway culture from the comic strips and if it was considered a realistic portrayal.
Article includes listing of 100s of missing persons including: the late Amber Tara-Lynn Redman, Daleen Bosse, and the late Melanie Dawn Geddes, Shelley Napope, Calinda Waterhen, Eva Taysup, Mary Jane Serloin, Joyce Lucille Tillotson (missing since 1983) and many others.
American Literature, vol. 82, no. 1, March 2010, pp. 183-186
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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.
Theatre Survey, vol. 55, no. 2, May 2014, pp. 202--232
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Focuses on the anniversary production of The Ecstasy of Rita Joe directed by Yvette Nolan and the work of Marie Clements and Rebecca Belmore in terms of the way they challenge mainstream representations of the women as expendable victims.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 4, April 2010, p. 12
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Author reflects on his acting career and mentions, although he enjoys acting, lacking the motivation to do more work in the industry.
Article found by scrolling to page 12.
Visual Anthropology , vol. 19, no. 3-4, 2006, pp. 201-222
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Discusses director Robert Flaherty's methodology, which combined aspects of a documentary with a fictional storyline, and his portrayal of the Inuit in film.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring, 2014, pp. 125-127
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Book review of: Native Americans on Film edited by M. Elise Marubbio and Eric L. Buffalohead.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 125.
Comments on the danger of stereotypes and how difficult it is to discover and disclose them in everyday life. Suggests solutions to avoid stereotypes in teaching.
Bachelor's Thesis [English Language and Literature]--Masaryk University, 2006.
Focuses on detective narratives. Discusses Street Wolf by Mark Wayne Harris and Dennis Francis, Skinwalker by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir, and Scalped by Jason Aaron and R. M. Guéra.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 97-126
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Discusses an apology by Kevin Gover, on behalf of the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, in regards to the policies and actions that had devastating impacts on Native American peoples.
Violence Against Women, vol. 20, no. 1, January 2014, pp. 6-25
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Study surveyed coverage in one national newspaper, three regional monthly Indigenous publications, and six regional major circulation daily newspapers over a three-year period (2006-2009). Found that majority of content fell into two categories: vermin-victim or risky lifestyle.