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Ambigere: The Euro-American Picaro and the Native American Trickster
American Indian Literature: A Tradition of Renewal
As I Remember It: Teachings (ɂɘms taɂaw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder
Awl and Her Son's Son
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.
Baxwbakwalanusiwa: Un récit Haisla=Baxwbakwalanusiwa: A Haisla Story raconté par Gordon Robertson =as told by Gordon Robertson
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.
Being Indigenous: Perspectives on Activism, Culture, Language and Identity
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
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
Discuss It!
Do You Recognize Who I Am? Decolonizing Rhetorics in Indigenous Rock Opera Something Inside is Broken
The Dog's Children: Anishinaabe Texts
Dreaming of Double Woman: The Ambivalent Role of the Female Artist in North American Indian Myth
The Earth on Turtle's Back
Traditional creation story. Extract from Native American Stories by Joseph Bruchac and Michael J. Caduto.
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
Gender Representation in Two Clackamas Myths
Gooniyandi Stories of Early Contact with Whites
Grizzly Woman Killed People
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
L'Homme-Caribou: l'Analyse Ethnoscientifique du Mythe
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.
I Invite Honest Criticism: An Introduction
In the Belly of This Story: The Role of Fantasy in Four American Women's Novels of the 1980s
In Time Immemorial
Indigenous Beliefs About Little People
Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography
Irony and Indians: A Collection of Original Fiction
Is That All There Is? Tribal Literature
Discussion on stories that make up tribal literature and the fact that all words have three levels of meaning: the surface, the fundamental, and, underlying both, the philosophical meaning.
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.