FNESC/FNSA English First Peoples 10, 11, and 12 Teacher Resource Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Education Steering Committee (FNESC)
First Nations Schools Association (FNSA)
Description
Includes advice for non-Indigenous teachers teaching the class, list of recommended texts, and instruction and assessment units. Course conforms to the British Columbia curriculum, but incorporates literature from across Canada and the United States.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 10, no. 2&3, Summer/Fall, 1989, pp. 27-30
Description
Rita Joe discusses her poetry and how she attempts to show Native people in a more favourable light, which is one way for her to express concern about the way Mi’kmaq were treated and the racism they suffered.
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018, pp. 121-126
Description
Literary Criticism Article which describes and compares the ways the author of each text uses their work to participate in contemporary discussions of “sovereignty and survivance, territoriality and land.”
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 10, no. 2 & 3, Summer/Fall, 1989, pp. 169-173
Description
Short story, set in a village along the banks of the St. Lawrence River, about a Mohawk girl and her struggles before and after she becomes a woman.
Attached to the short story here is a poem: A Seneca Indian Praise by Twylah Nitsch (Yey-Wen-Node).
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018 , pp. 11-24
Description
Author uses translation to Anishinaabemowin, word play, and close readings to examine a different way of making meaning in and from Gertrude Stein’s cubist poetry.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 4, Summer, November 9, 2018, pp. 387-406
Description
Article examines the work of Marnie Walsh, a writer from South Dakota, who was frequently anthologized as a Sioux author, in spite of her not claiming to be so; discusses the way that the mistaken identity of Walsh has led to misrepresentations of Indigenous voices and lives.
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018
Description
An experimental video/art poem and accompanying text that examines issues including land rights, resource extraction, environmentalism, the Occupy Movement and the activism of Indigenous peoples.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2018, pp. 129-152
Description
Article offers artistic/literary criticism of Simpson’s video poem; discusses new possibilities for human relationships with our more-than-human relations, and calls on settlers to take up “intergenerational responsibility” for settler colonial violence.
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 2, Genocide Special Issue, December 30, 2018, pp. 153-159
Description
Literary criticism article which examines the ways that contemporary queer and Two-Spirit authors are creating a cultural resurgence and decolonizing Indigenous sexualities.
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018 , pp. 25-39
Description
Literary criticism article which offers a close and critical reading of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” using an English translation if the text “Navajo Nightway” as a lens through which the author examines the aesthetics and worldview of Whitman’s work.