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Ambigere: The Euro-American Picaro and the Native American Trickster
American Indian Literature: A Tradition of Renewal
Awl and Her Son's Son
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.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Chance and Ritual: The Gambler in the Texts of Gerald Vizenor
Coast Salish Laws Relating to Child and Caregiver Nurturance and Safety Toolkit
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!
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.
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
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 Knowledge and Our Connection to the Land
Lesson plans which can be used with a variety of grades.
Indigenous Storytelling with Elder Hazel
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.
Lessons from the Earth and Beyond: Bringing Indigenous Knowledge Systems into the Classroom: Educator Resources
Website includes curriculum connections, lesson plans and inquiry-based activities for primary, junior and intermediate grades for three topics: lessons from the earth, lessons from the water, and lessons from beyond.
Little Bit Know Something: Stories in a Language of Anthropology
Lord of the Sky
Markoosie's "Harpoon of the Hunter": A Story of Cultural Survival
The Marriage of Crow
Masks of the Ancestors
Norway House Anthology: Stories of the Elders; Volume I
Volume II: Stories of the Elders. Volume III: Local Stories and Legends.
The Novel as Performance Communication in Louise Erdrich's Tracks
Numerology as the Base of the Myth of Creation, According to the Mayas, Aztecs, and Some Contemporary American Indians
On Domestication, Permanent and Temporary: Qoranje, Elwelu, and Akweqor
An analysis of two Yupik traditional stories and what they teach about Indigenous beliefs and connections to both tame and wild animals.
Places Important to Navajo People
Promoting Healthy Medication Use Through Indigenous Knowledge Sharing: A Coyote Story
Looks at the creation of a traditional Coyote story as a strategy to address Polypharmacy, "when multiple medications are being taken and the benefits no longer outweigh the risks", for Indigenous patients.