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An Art of Saying: Joy Harjo's Poetry and the Survival of Storytelling
Authored Animals Creature Tropes in Native American Fiction
BC First Peoples 12: Teacher Resource Guide
"The Belly of This Story": Storytelling and Symbolic Birth
in Native American Fiction
Bone Court Trial Transcripts - Nanaboshoo and the Bullrushes: The Case of Being in the Reeds and the Theft of the Crime
Written as a court transcript, the author shows the use of a traditional narrative for academic discourse.
The Communicative Difficulties of Integrating Traditional Environmental Knowledge Through Wildlife and Resource Co-Management
Coyote: Polymorphous But Not always Perverse
Emu and Brolga, A Kamilaroi Myth
First Death in the Fourth World: Teaching the Emergence Myth of the Hopi Indians
From Myth to Metafiction: A Narratological Analysis of Thomas King's "The One About Coyote Going West"
"The Game Never Ends": Gerald Vizenor's Gamble with Language and Structure in Summer in the Spring
Gender at Work in Laguna Coyote Tales
The Girl and the Bear Facts: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
Grade 4: Alsumsuti Ujit T’an Teli-l’nuimk = To Be Indigenous Is to be Free = Topelomosu Wen Skicinuwit
Content focused on the Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqewiyik, and Passamaquoddy (Peskotomuhkati) peoples of New Brunswick.
Insider and Outsider: An Inari Saami Case
Interpreting Pawnee Star Lore: Science or Myth?
The Inuit Sea Goddess
Kiviuq and the Bee Woman By Noel McDermott, Illustrated by Toma Feizo Gas: Educator's Resource
Geared toward Grades 4 to 6.
Kiviuq and the Mermaids by Noel McDermott, Illustrated by Toma Feizo Gas: Educator's Resource
Pre-reading activities, discussion questions, learning activities, and extension activities for Grades 4 to 6.
Knotted Bellies and Fragile Webs: Untangling and Re-Spinning in Tayo's Healing Journey
Landscape, Story, and Time as Elements of Reality in Silko's 'Yellow Women'
The Legend of the Fog by Qaunaq Mikkigak and Joanne Schwartz, illustrated by Danny Christopher; Educator's Resource
Retelling of a traditional Inuit story. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 2 students.
Lesson Plan: Sky Wolf's Call: The Gift of Indigenous Knowledge by Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger
A MELUS Interview: N. Scott Momaday. A Slant of Light
Micmac Documented Oral Accounts as Historical Source Material
Mourning Dove's The House of Little Men
Discusses Mourning Dove's legend story,The House of Little Men, which contains elements of assimilation and illustrates the writer's storytelling skills.
My Mother's Brother: Monacan Narratives of the Wolf From the Virginia Blue Ridge
Native American Literature
The Nessus Shirt in the New World: Smallpox Blankets in History and Legend
Noah Meets Old Coyote, or Singing in the Rain: Intertextuality in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water
Northwest Saskatchewan Métis Perspectives of Miyo Pimatisiwin + Kiwetinohk Saskatchewan Otipemisiwak Kayisi Wapahtakwaw Miyo Pimatisiwin
Looks at the Métis phrase miyo-pimatisiwin (good life) and how it connects the Métis past with the present.
Ojibwe Oral Tradition
Adaptations of sixteen traditional stories, most relating to Wenebojo.
Oral Traditions of the Woodland Cree (Nihithawak) in Northern Saskatchewan: Links to Cultural Identity, Ways of Knowing, Language Revitalization, and Connections to the Land + Nehithāwi – Kiskethihtamiwin: Kayās Āchimowina Ekwa Āchithohkewina. Nihithowewin, Nihithawihtāwin Mena Mithopimāchihowin
Discuss the significance of oral history to the Woodland Cree to reinforce their cultural worldview into the modern era.
Origin of Day and Night by Paula Ikuutaq Rumbolt, illustrated by Lenny Lishchenko: Educator's Resource
Retelling of a traditional Inuit story. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.
Powerful Native-American Images Revealed in Picture Books
The Raven and the Loon by Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley; illustrated by Kim Smith: Educator's Resource
Intended for Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.
Raven Travelling: Page One: A Lost Haida Text
"Reading" Rock Art: One Sense/Many Senses
Les récits de notre terre: Les Mi'gmaq
Reviews [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, Vol. 7, No.2, Summer 1995]
Sacred Reversals: Trickster in Gerald Vizenor's "Earthdivers: Tribal Narratives on Mixed Descent"
The Seventh Fire: First Peoples and the Anglican Church
Subverting the Dominant Paradigm: Gerald Vizenor’s Trickster Discourse
Sukaq and the Raven by Roy Goose and Kerry McCluskey, Artwork by Soyeon Kim: Educator's Resource
For use with the book Suqak and the Raven (Inuktitut version).. Activities and discussion questions geared toward students in Kindergarten to Grade 3.
This Is What Happened: Historical Narratives by Aborigines
"This Woman Can Cross Any Line": Feminist Tricksters in the Works of Nora Naranjo-Morse and Joy Harjo
Traditional Voices Speak: Storytellers in Contemporary Native American Texts
The Trickster in Transition: Tomson Highway's Theatrical Adaptation of the Traditional Trickster Figure
Drama Thesis (M.A)--University of Alberta, 1995.