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The Baffin Writer's Project
Looks at a project that encourages Inuit people to begin writing their stories and, in this way, pass on Inuit culture and language to the next generation.
Book Reviews
[California Through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History]
Claiming Legitimacy: Oral Tradition and Oral History: Draft Discussion Paper
Claiming Legitimacy: Oral Tradition and Oral History: [Draft Discussion Paper Prepared for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
“Common Disaster”?!: Three Works Revealing the Importance of Inuit Presence and Inuit Oral History [On the Writings about the Man in Charge / the Men Aboard / the Unceasing Searching for the Erebus and Terror]
The Cosmological Liveliness of Terril Calder's The Lodge: Animating Our Relations and Unsettling Our Cinematic Spaces
Cultures in Conflict: The Problem of Discourse
Discussion on the problem of discourse in the Dunne-za/Cree trial, which pitted written documents against knowledge gained from the oral tradition of First Nations peoples.
Drum Songs: Glimpses of Dene History
Earth's Mind
Enough is Enough: Aboriginal Women Speak Out/Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women
The Ethnography of Memory in East Siberia: Do Life Histories from the Arctic Coast Matter?
Following in the Footsteps of the Wolf: Connecting Scholarly Minds to Ancestors in Indigenous Language Revitalization
From Creation Stories to '49 Songs: Cultural Transactions with the White World as Portrayed in Northern Plains Indian Story and Song
[George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition]
Guest Editor's Introduction [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, Vol. 5 no.1]
Halfact
He Said / She Said: Writing Oral Tradition in John Gunn's "Ko-pot Ka-nat" and Leslie Silko's
Indi'n Humor: Bicultural Play in Native America
It Consumes What It Forgets
It Sometimes Speaks to Us: Decolonizing Education by Utilizing Our Elders' Knowledge
Klee Wyck: The Eye of the Other
Focuses on several facets of Emily Carr's book Klee Wyck: the feminist tone; the effect of modernism on native life; examination of the sketches; the message of disintegration, loss and of hope.
Micmac Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography
Mourning Dove's Canadian Recovery Years, 1917-1919
Discusses the period in Christine Quintasket's life when her health improved and she regained the strength to pursue her ambitions as a writer.
Muscogee Nation Indian Territory: From Oral History to Found Poetry
Northern Saskatchewan Native Students' Readings and Storytellings of Culturally Relevant and Culturally Non-Relevant Stories
The Ojibwe Who Slew the Wiindigo
Okwire’shon:’a, the First Storytellers: Recovering Landed Consciousness in Readings of Trees & Texts
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2017. Refers to the works Power by Linda Hogan, Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson, and Truth and Bright Water by Thomas King.
One Generation from Extinction
Discussion on the death of tribal languages.
Oral Narrative in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Parallel Voices: Indians and Others, Narratives of Cultural Struggle
Prickly Pears
Primitivism in Missinippi Cree Historical Consciousness
The Prophecy
Looks at a fictional visionary's dream about the horrors that await the First Nations of the Americas.