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 Topics include First Nations people, Métis, residential schools, and rhythmic fun.Teachings and historical content based on Cree teachings.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
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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
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Literary criticism article examines the work of Tlingit poet, Dauenhauer, and compares the structure and content to those of Japanese Zen poetry noting similarities.
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
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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.
The Lincoln Humanities Journal, vol. 1, Follow Your Passion: Representations of Passion in the Humanities, Fall, 2013, pp. 43-49
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Looks at original commissioned songs that are a mixture of European musical styles and poetry of Alex Posey.
Entire issue on one pdf. Scroll down to page 43 to read article.
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).