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American Indian Literature: A Tradition of Renewal
The Beginning of the Cree World
The traditional story of how Wisakedjak caused the great flood and how, with the help of Muskrat, he was able to remake the world.
Extract from Native Voices edited by Freda Ahenakew, Breanda Gardipy, and Barbara Lafond.
Book Reviews
Chance and Ritual: The Gambler in the Texts of Gerald Vizenor
Chipmunk Meets Old Witch (At-At-A'Tia)
Children's book retells a traditional story. Suitable for use with Grades K-2.
Related material: Lesson Plan.
The Codical Warrior: The Codification of American Indian Warrior Experience in American Culture
Cry For Luck: Sacred Song and Speech Among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of Northwestern California
Danish Greenland: Its People and Products; Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo
The Development of the Trickster in Children's Narrative
Dreaming of Double Woman: The Ambivalent Role of the Female Artist in North American Indian Myth
From Fish Weir to Waterfall
Gooniyandi Stories of Early Contact with Whites
Halfact
Harold of Orange: A Screenplay
He Said / She Said: Writing Oral Tradition in John Gunn's "Ko-pot Ka-nat" and Leslie Silko's
How Cottontail Lost His Fingers
Children's book retells traditional story. Suitable for use with elementary students.
How Daylight Came To Be
Children's book retells a Skokomish traditional story. Suitable for use with elementary students.
How Squire Coyote Brought Fire to the Cahrocs
Indian Legends: Nanabush, the Ojibbeway Saviour. Moosh-Kuh-Ung, or, The Flood
Insects Off to War
Children's storybook retells the Northern Cheyenne traditional story about insects who go to war because they have nothing to do. Suitable for use with elementary students.
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.
Ko-pat Ka-nat
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WSANEC (Saanich) great flood story. Text in a mixture of English and SENĆOŦEN.
Related material: Lesson Plan by Shauna White and Kathryn Godfrey appropriate for Grade 6 language arts/ social studies.
The Lenâpé and Their Legends; With the Complete Texts and Symbols of the Walam Olum: A New Translation, and an Inquiry into Its Authenticity
Numerology as the Base of the Myth of Creation, According to the Mayas, Aztecs, and Some Contemporary American Indians
Oceanal Man: An Aboriginal View of Himself
Places Important to Navajo People
Raven Helps the Indians
Children's story retells the Skokomish traditional story. Suitable for use with Grades K-3.
Related Material: Lesson Plan.
Reaching for the Sun: A Guide to the Early History and the Cultural Traditions of Native People in Manitoba
Reviews
Skunk
Children's book retells the Muckleshoot traditional story. Suitable for use with Grades K-3.
Related Material: Lesson Plan.
Summer in the Spring: Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories
Tales Of Coyote and Other Legends
Children's book retells five traditional stories. Suitable for use with elementary school students.
Teacher's Resource Guide: North American Indians
Topic of Transformation: Some Aspects of Myth and Metaphor
Traditional - From The Ancestral Times
Traditional - From the Ancestral Times: The Man Who Became Black: The Ship-Totem Myth
Trickster: Shaman of the Liminal
Ululijarnaat or The Entrails Snatcher
The Universe of the Warramirri: Art, Medicine and Religion in Arnhem Land
A View From Turtle Island: Chapters in Iroquois Mythology, History and Culture
The White Stone Canoe: A Legend of the Ottawas
Why Bluejay Hops
Children's book retells the Skokomish traditional story. Suitable for use with Grades K-5.
Related Material: Lesson Plan.