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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.
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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 Creation Stories to '49 Songs: Cultural Transactions with the White World as Portrayed in Northern Plains Indian Story and Song
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.
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 Legend of the Good Fella Missus
Legend of Wesakayjack and the Loon: As Told by the Norway House Elders
Written for primary students.
Related Material: Story without text.
Lone Man and First Creator Make the World
Naatsilanéi and Ko'ehdan: A Semiotic Analysis of Two Alaska Native Myths
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
"The Orders of the Dreamed": George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823
Places Important to Navajo People
Policing the Boom Town: The Mounted Police as a Social Force in the Klondike
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
Review Articles: No Writing at All Here: Review Notes on Writing Native
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The Russians are Coming, The Russians Are Dead: Myth and Historical Consciousness in Two Contact Narratives
Skunk
Children's book retells the Muckleshoot traditional story. Suitable for use with Grades K-3.
Related Material: Lesson Plan.
Special Problems in Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
The Story of the Falling Star
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.