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.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 4, Special Issue: In Honor of Simon J. Ortiz, Winter, 2004, pp. 54-56
Description
Comments on how the poetry of Acoma Pueblo writer addresses the truths about colonialism, racism and exploitation.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 54.
Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American Indian Identities ; and Smoke Screens/Smoke Signals: Looking Through Worlds: Proceedings of the Third and Fourth Native American Symposiums
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Joseph Faulds
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A poem about Kateri Tekakwitha, a Roman Catholic saint who was of Algonquin–Mohawk decent.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 103-106
Description
Author examines and compares that practice of making poetry and the and the practice of re-discovering or returning to traditional knowledge and ways of knowing.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 4, Special Issue: In Honor of Simon J. Ortiz, Winter, 2004, pp. 108-109
Description
Expresses appreciation to Acoma Pueblo writer Simon Ortiz for his poetry which shares the gift of human sight and feelings.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 108.
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).
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 16, no. 2, Tribal College Research, Winter, 2004
Description
Book review of: Night is Gone, Day is Still Coming: Stories and Poems by American Indian Teens and Young Adults edited by Annette Piña Ochoa, Betsy Franco and Traci L. Gourdine.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer, 2004, pp. 65-73
Description
Discusses elements of Nora Dauenhauer's Life Woven With Song which uses a variety of genres including memoir, essay, fiction, poetry, and autobiographical to reflect the relationship between the Tlingit people and their landscape.
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Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 29, no. 1, 2004, pp. 127-145
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Focuses on the effect financial/material pressures had on the work of the poet, E. Pauline Johnson, who had to rely solely on publication as a means of earning her living.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, 2004, pp. 137-188
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Book reviews of:
America’s Second Tongue: American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860–1900 by Ruth Spack.
Anthropologists and Indians in the New South edited by Rachel A. Bonney and J.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 349-350
Description
Poem that deals with the 1862 removal of the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota from their lands, their forced march to a concentration camp at Fort Snelling, and the execution of 38 men by the United States government following the “Sioux Uprising of 1862.”
Canadian Literature, no. 180, Spring, 2004, pp. 127-129
Description
Review of: green girl dreams Mountains by Marilyn Dumont and Rainbow Dancer by Heather Harris.
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