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American Indian Literature: A Tradition of Renewal
Angels of Light: A Mi'kmaq Myth in a New Archê
The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West
The Artificial Horizon: Imagining the Blue Mountains
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
The Canoe Is the People: Indigenous Navigation in the Pacific
Accompanying Materials: Teacher's Guide; Learner's Text; Pacific Map; Navigation
Chance and Ritual: The Gambler in the Texts of Gerald Vizenor
The Codical Warrior: The Codification of American Indian Warrior Experience in American Culture
Crazy Man and the Plums
Cry For Luck: Sacred Song and Speech Among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of Northwestern California
The Cry of the Chickadee
Dreaming of Double Woman: The Ambivalent Role of the Female Artist in North American Indian Myth
First Nations Curatorial Incubator
From Fish Weir to Waterfall
The Future of Print Narratives and Comic Holotropes: A Conversation with Gerald Vizenor
Gooniyandi Stories of Early Contact with Whites
Grade 5 Social Studies: People and Stories of Canada to 1867: A Foundation for Implementation
Modules: First Peoples, Early European Colonization (1600 to 1763), Fur Trade, and From British Colony to Confederation (1763 to 1867).
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
Himwic`a: Our Legends: As Told by Our Hupačasath Elders
Retelling of seven traditional stories including: When the Eagle Went to Borrow Eyes from the Snail; The Shadow; Daughter of Sea Cucumber; The Thunderbird Has a Nest on Thunder Mountain; and When the Codfish Was Sad.
Written in English and Hupačasath.
How Squire Coyote Brought Fire to the Cahrocs
Imagining Difference: Legend, Curse and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town
Indian Legends: Nanabush, the Ojibbeway Saviour. Moosh-Kuh-Ung, or, The Flood
Iroquois Creation Story: John Arthur Gibson; and J.N.B. Hewitt's Myth of the Earth Grasper
John Wayne's Teeth: Speech, Sound and Representation in Smoke Signals and Imagining Indians
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.