American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring, 2000, pp. 219-246
Description
Examines how the writer, Thomas King, explores the conflicting storytelling traditions of Native Americans and European/North Americans regarding colonialism.
Discusses the poem A Dead Nation by DeWitt Clinton Duncan, the short story A War Maiden by Charles A. Eastman and My Mother a short story by E. Pauline Johnson.
MELUS, vol. 17, no. 1, Native American Fiction: Myth and Criticism , Spring, 1991-1992, pp. [21]-38
Description
Contends that despite commonalities between the two figures, many more dissimilarities exist due to differences in Aboriginal and Western cultures and worldviews.
Overview of historical writings, with particular emphasis on collections of Franz Boas and his collaborators. See also article in Arctic Anthropology, vol. 40, no. 1, 2003, p. 1-28.
Interview with the respected storyteller and singer Antoine Lonesinger. Interview includes the Legend of Cut Knife Hill and stories of BlackRock and Chokecherry Wood.
Antoine Lonesinger discusses different methods of earning a living that included making charcoal and lime. Also included is the story of a boy saved a camp from starvation with the help of the raven spirit.
Interview includes stories about a ghost priest and a non-existent camp. Also included is a story of how a lame boy's skill as a medicine man won him a chieftainship and a wife.
Interview includes a story of a woman, who when captured by enemy warriors betrays her husband and brothers to her captors and so brings about her death.
Interview includes stories about a Cree band who avenged the killing of a young boy by the Blackfoot. He tells of his grandfather who helped a Cree raiding party find food.
Interview with Mr Lonesinger who tells stories of Indian agents both good and bad. He also tells of the Battle of the Cut Knife Hill and the banning of the Sundance.
Interview includes stories of attacks on women by Blackfoot and Cree raiders. It also includes the story of the acquisition of the Sioux Dance (or Grass Dance) from the bone grass spirits.
Overview of scholarly literature about, by and for Aboriginal women of Canada focusing on five disciplines: history, law, health, education, and literature.
Interview of Charlie Chief who discusses the a Grass Dance, Round Dance and Sioux Dance (including songs). Also included are songs. The discusses the difference between old and new ways. Alphonse Littlepoplar is the intterpreter
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 12, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2000, pp. [24]-37
Description
Discusses the significance of the bear in Chippewa belief systems, Grand Medicine Society and orders of the midewin, and how the author uses these elements as plot devices.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 1, Winter, 2000, pp. 19-43
Description
Author examines the Uncle Remus children’s stories and links them to a variety of Indigenous narratives from the Saponi-Monacan Confederacy’s oral tradition.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 3, no. 1, Series 2 , Spring, 1991, pp. 19-39
Description
Looks at a collection of oral literature from the Clackamas Chinook Indians, collected my Melville Jacobs in 1929, and interprets what the myths reveal about Clackamas women.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 3, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1991, pp. 66-79
Description
Includes a glossary and bibliography for The Marriage Cow, outlining the differences between translation and interpretation of the oral story.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 3, no. 2, Series 2 , Summer, 1991, pp. 8-21
Description
Discusses the differences between Native and mainstream texts, and how teachers and scholars should place Indian literatures at the center of the canon.
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Suggests that examining the encounter between indigenous oral culture and European printed culture as a starting point for sketching a history of the book in the Yukon.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 1991, pp. 49-93
Description
Montagnais myth, The Caribou-Man, undergoes ethnoscientific analysis using Indigenous knowledge to understand mythical elements. (Abstract in French/English, article in French only)
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 3, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1991, pp. 1-13
Description
Examines how translation of Native American oral literatures into European-language texts have reflected the translators' preconceptions about Native Americans and literature.
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The interview includes stories about the animal world before humans. Flood and creation myths combine elements of Indian and Christian stories. Also included are tales of Wasakedjak.
Canadian Materials, vol. 7, no. 6, November 17, 2000
Description
Review of National Film Board video designed for Grade 10, which uses the traditional story of Siwash Rock with a contemporary application concerning teenage pregnancy.
Looks at the protagonist whose memories of her roots and traditions help her fight against adversity.
Chapter from Reading Multiculturalism: Contemporary Postcolonial Literatures edited by Ana Bringas López and Belén Martín Lucas.