Various activities for grades four to twelve. Topics include First Nations people, Métis, residential schools, and rhythmic fun.Teachings and historical content based on Cree teachings.
Transmotion, vol. 1, no. 2, November 20, 2015, pp. 1-25
Description
Author uses the frameworks created in Vizenor’s two 2006 poetry collections to discuss Anishinaabe concepts of belonging and citizenship separate from colonial discourses and dichotomies.
Transmotion, vol. 1, no. 2, November 20, 2015, pp. 47-71
Description
Literary criticism article examines the work of Tlingit poet, Dauenhauer, and compares the structure and content to those of Japanese Zen poetry noting similarities.
Explores themes such as use of oral tradition, humour, dreams and visions, nature, and family.
Excerpt from the book, A Literary History of the American West..
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 27, no. 3, Fall, 2015, pp. 115-120
Description
Book reviews of Gaawiin Mawisiiwag Anishinaabeg by George Kenny, translated by Patricia M. Ningewance;
Bi- Gishkoziitwin Biidaanzhed Biidaabang by David Groulx, translated by Shirley Ida Williams;
Rising with a Distant Dawn by David Groulx, translated by Shirley Ida Williams.
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.
English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2015.
Focuses on Unearthed by Janet Marie Rogers, Missing Sarah by Maggie de Vries, and In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver by Leslie Robertson and Dara Culhane.
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).
IK: Other Ways Of Knowing, vol. 1, no. 1, 2015, pp. 21-32
Description
Examines three poems by the Sami poet for language employed as well as the geography and ecology of the Sami homeland occupying parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
English Practice, vol. 57, no. 1, Starting a Circle: Exploring Aboriginal Education, Fall, 2015, pp. 28-[36]
Description
Presents a poem which looks at the impact of colonialism and neo-liberalism on Indigenous and non-Indigenous societies.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 28.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 1, Winter, 1987, p. [?]
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Discusses how Ortiz uses the harmonious relationship between the Acoma Pueblo people and their rural environment in his literary works.
Entire issue on one pdf document. To access article, please scroll down page.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 27, no. 1, Spring, 2015, pp. 1-32
Description
Looks at recognition of life within human remains and objects through the writings of Heid Erdrich, LeAnne Howe, and Allison Adelle Hedge Coke in the context of the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Special Edition: 10th Anniversary of the Reconciliation: Touchstones of Hope for Indigenous Children, 2015, pp. [15]-17