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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
Book Reviews
Boundary Breaking: Mestiza Writers and Innovations in Form
Chance and Ritual: The Gambler in the Texts of Gerald Vizenor
The Codical Warrior: The Codification of American Indian Warrior Experience in American Culture
Collaboration and the Complex World of Literary Rights
Cry For Luck: Sacred Song and Speech Among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of Northwestern California
Dàanì Tatsǫ̀ Weèhdà Dikǫdeèwò = How Raven Lost His Beak
Retelling of the Tłı̨chǫ traditional story. Text in Tłı̨chǫ (Dogrib) and English.
Dreaming of Double Woman: The Ambivalent Role of the Female Artist in North American Indian Myth
An Essential Personal Journey Through Iroquois Myths, Legends, Icons and History
Forging New Stories: The Intertextuality of Culture and Text
From Fish Weir to Waterfall
From the Glittering World: A Navajo Story
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 Squire Coyote Brought Fire to the Cahrocs
Indian Legends: Nanabush, the Ojibbeway Saviour. Moosh-Kuh-Ung, or, The Flood
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
ȽÁU,WELṈEW̱
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
The Lynx in Time: Haudenosaunee Women's Traditions and History
The Míkmaw Concordat
Myth, Folk Tale and Ritual in Anna Lee Walters's "The Warriors"
Narrative Forms: Modern American Short Story Cycles by Louise Erdrich and Amy Tan
Native American Indian Art
Nick Sikkuark: "I Do Love the Carvings Themselves"
Numerology as the Base of the Myth of Creation, According to the Mayas, Aztecs, and Some Contemporary American Indians
Out of the Sea: Sculpture and Graphics in the Inuit Art Collection
Paula Gunn Allen's Grandmothers: Toward a Responsive Feminist-Tribal Reading of Two Old Women
Places Important to Navajo People
Police Zones: Territory and Identity in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
Pragmatism and American Indian Thought
Prayers Shrieked to Heaven: Humor and Folklore in Contemporary American Indian Literature
Reaching for the Sun: A Guide to the Early History and the Cultural Traditions of Native People in Manitoba
Revenge of the Pebble Town People: A Raid on the Tlingit as Told by Richard of the Middle-gîtî'ns to John R. Swanton
Reviews
REVIEWS [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, Vol. 9, No. 4, Winter, 1997]
Rough Knowledge and Radical Understanding: Sacred Silence in American Indian Literatures
The Sissauch Dance
Storytelling to Stage: The Growth of Native Theatre in Canada
Discussion on how theatre is an ever-growing extension of storytelling with metaphorical, philosophical, and psychological implications.