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American Indian Literature: A Tradition of Renewal
As I Remember It: Teachings (ɂɘms taɂaw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder
Bat Steals the Moon
Retelling of traditional story.
Source: Man in the Moon: Sky Tales from Many Lands collected by Alta Jablow and Carl Withers.
Battle of the Northern Lights
Traditional Sami story.
Source: The Storytelling Star by James Riordan.
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 Guide for How Raven Got His Crooked Nose: An Alaskan Dena'ina Fable Retold by Barbara J. Atwater and Ethan J. Atwater, Illustrated by Mindy Dwyer
Recommended for Grade 3 students.
Book Reviews
Chance and Ritual: The Gambler in the Texts of Gerald Vizenor
Claims to Native Identity in Children’s Literature
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
Do You Recognize Who I Am? Decolonizing Rhetorics in Indigenous Rock Opera Something Inside is Broken
Dreaming of Double Woman: The Ambivalent Role of the Female Artist in North American Indian Myth
Eastern Cherokee Creation and Subsistence Narratives: A Cherokee and Religious Interpretation
An Exploration of Collaboration In Indigenous Language Revitalization In A First Nation Community
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 Coyote Created the Sun
Retelling of a traditional story. Suggested age range 6-11 years.
How Coyote Made the Stars
Retelling of a traditional story.
How Squire Coyote Brought Fire to the Cahrocs
Indian Legends: Nanabush, the Ojibbeway Saviour. Moosh-Kuh-Ung, or, The Flood
Indigenous Beliefs About Little People
Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography
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.