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An Annotated Bibliography of Tahltan Language Materials

Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Alderete
Thomas McIlwraith
Northwest Journal of Linguistics, vol. 2, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1-26
"Lists and summarizes materials on the Tahltan language, including linguistic and anthropological research papers, dictionaries, collections of stories and teaching materials".
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An Annotated Bibliography of Young People's Books on American Indians

Alternate Title
Curriculum Bulletin (United States Bureau of Indian Affairs) ; no. 12
Documents & Presentations

Lists 367 fiction and non-fiction works published between 1931 and 1972 and graded for students. Supplement to An Annotated Bibliography of Young People's Fiction on American Indians.

Note: Due to age of publication, some selections may no longer be considered appropriate.

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An Annotated Bibliography of Young People's Fiction on American Indians

Alternate Title
Curriculum Bulletin (United States Bureau of Indian Affairs) ; no. 11
Documents & Presentations

Lists over 250 works of fiction written between 1933 and 1969. Each annotation notes tribe involved in the story and the suggested grade level. An index arranged by tribe name lists works that concern each particular group.

Note: Due to age of publication, some resources may not be considered appropriate by modern standards.

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Annotated NBE 3C Resources

Alternate Title
[Aboriginal Education Resource Documents]
[English: Contemporary Aboriginal Voices, Grade 11, College Preparation]
[NBE 3C Resources]
[Secondary AE Resources]
[Secondary Resource List]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board?]
List of curriculum resources to support a Grade 11 college preparation course which emphasizes the development of literacy, critical thinking and communication skills through studying the works of Aboriginal writers.
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"Another Kind of Violence": Sherman Alexie's Poems

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ron McFarland
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 251-264
Reviews the poetry and stories of Sherman Alexie as a young polemicist whose work is often viewed as controversial.
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An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English, 3rd ed./Our Story: Aboriginal Voices on Canada's Past

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Susan Gingell
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2006, pp. 205-208
Book review of: An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English, 3rd. ed. by Daniel David Moses and Terry Goldie and Our Story: Aboriginal Voices on Canada's Past with a preface by Rudyard Griffiths and a foreward by Adrieenne Clarkson.
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Antitype

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fred White
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 121-123
Two poems: Antitype and Ha'ada Gwaii, the author is a member of the Haida Nation and is an adjunct professor of English at Azusa Pacific University.
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Antoine Lonesinger 1 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Interview with the respected storyteller and singer Antoine Lonesinger. Interview includes the Legend of Cut Knife Hill and stories of BlackRock and Chokecherry Wood.
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Antoine Lonesinger 11 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Interview includes two stories: the first about a boy who saves a boy and wins a wife in the process; a second about a boy who upon returning to his band with a wife becomes chief.
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Antoine Lonesinger 12 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Archie Baptiste
Indian History Film Project
Antoine Lonesinger discusses different methods of earning a living that included making charcoal and lime. Also included is the story of a boy saved a camp from starvation with the help of the raven spirit.
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Antoine Lonesinger 13 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Archie Baptiste
Indian History Film Project
Interview includes stories about a ghost priest and a non-existent camp. Also included is a story of how a lame boy's skill as a medicine man won him a chieftainship and a wife.
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Antoine Lonesinger 14 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Archie Baptiste
Indian History Film Project
Interview includes a story of a woman, who when captured by enemy warriors betrays her husband and brothers to her captors and so brings about her death.
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Antoine Lonesinger 15 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Alphonse Baptiste
Indian History Film Project
Interview includes stories about a Cree band who avenged the killing of a young boy by the Blackfoot. He tells of his grandfather who helped a Cree raiding party find food.
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Antoine Lonesinger 2 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Interview includes stories of a Woods Cree who turned a Plains Cree son-in-law into a bone spirit and the revenge that came from that.
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Antoine Lonesinger 3 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Interview with Antoine Lonesinger, who tells stories of escapes from Blackfoot and the use of spirits and evil powers.
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Antoine Lonesinger 6 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Indian History Film Project
Interview with Mr Lonesinger who tells stories of Indian agents both good and bad. He also tells of the Battle of the Cut Knife Hill and the banning of the Sundance.
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Antoine Lonesinger 7 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Indian History Film Project
Interview includes stories of attacks on women by Blackfoot and Cree raiders. It also includes the story of the acquisition of the Sioux Dance (or Grass Dance) from the bone grass spirits.
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Antoine Lonesinger 9 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Indian History Film Project
Interview includes the stories of a raid on the Blackfoot and the struggle for supremacy between two medicine men. (Transcribed by J. Greenwood)
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"Any Reservations? Native Communities in Recent Canadian Writing"

Alternate Title
Ninth Nordic Conference for English Studies (2004)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Markus M. Müller
Examines three Canadian works that deal with life on reserves: Keeper'n Me by Richard Wagamese , fareWel by Ian Ross, and Truth and Bright Water by Thomas King.
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An Appreciation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Helen Jaskoski
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 2, Special Issue: Honoring A. Lavonne Brown, Summer, 2005, pp. 89-95
Outlines the contributions of A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff to the literary world. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 89.
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Approaching a Sacred Song: Toward a Respectful Presentation of the Discourse We Study

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andie Diane Palmer
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 2, Summer, 2007, pp. 52-61
Explains how educators of Native American or First Nations language can successfully use recorded songs and stories in the classroom. Good examples of explicit teaching practices, modeled by Upper Skagit Elders, are also shared. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 52.
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Appropriating Guilt: Reconciliation in an Aboriginal Canadian Context

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deena Rymhs
English Studies in Canada , vol. 32, no. 1, [Guilt], March 2006, pp. 105-123
Examines recent attempts at reconciliation that reflect a current sensibility of revisiting Canadian history. The author also looks at the role guilt plays in Aboriginal writings and how public discussion appropriates and transforms that guilt.
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Aquagenesis: Drowning by Flooding is So Good for You

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph Mercredi
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1981, pp. 331-336
Satirical pseudo-report to the Board of Directors of a hydroelectric project, proposing a solution to the problem of Indigenous people displaced by flooding.
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Arctic Dreams & Nightmares

Alternate Title
Arctic Dreams and Nightmares
Book Reviews
Inuktitut, no. 77, 1995, p. 52
Book review of: Arctic Dreams & Nightmares by Alootook Ipellie.
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Arctic Myths and Magic

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Brian Bergman
Maclean's , vol. 109, no. 15, April 08, 1996, p. 75
Looks at the life and writings of Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak, the author of children's stories from an Inuit perspective.
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Arctic Solitude: Mitiarjuk's Sanaaq and the Politics of Translation in Inuit Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Keavy Martin
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 35, no. 2, Special Section: Indigeneity in Dialogue: Indigenous Library Expression Across Linguistic Divides, 2010, pp. [13]-29
Comments on the novel and the exclusionary and semi-colonial biases of processes to include Aboriginal literary works on academic reading lists.
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The Art of Storytelling in Leslie Silko's Ceremony

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy Gilderhus
The English Journal , vol. 83, no. 2, February 1994, pp. 70-72
Describes how author uses the story to help students gain an understanding of the Native American way of life in an introductory Native American culture class.
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The Art of Storytelling: Reshaping and Preserving Traditions

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Barbara Ellen Sorensen
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 24, no. 1, Communicating Yesterdays Stories Today, Fall, 2012, pp. 15-18
Looks at funding which facilitates academic programs that incorporate storytelling into their curricula.
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The Art of the Eskimo

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Nora T. Corley
Arctic, vol. 18, no. 1, March 1965, p. 65
Book review of: The Art of the Eskimo by Shirley Glubok, designed by Oscar Varus, special photography by Alfred H. Hamerin.
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[Art of the Northern Tlingit]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Marjorie M. Halpin
Art Bulletin, vol. 70, no. 3, September 1, 1988, pp. 534-535
Book review of: Art of the Northern Tlingit by Aldona Jonaitis.
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