Indigenous Peoples Literature

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Indigenous Peoples Literature
Description
Includes links to art, music, poetry and stories as well as complete listing of tribes, famous documents and quotes and great chiefs and leaders.
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Indigenous Poetics in Canada

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lia Morgan Siewert
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, 2014, pp. 254-256
Description
Book review of Indigenous Poetics in Canada edited by Neal McLeod.
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Indigenous Rememberings and Forgettings: Sixteenth-Century Nahua Letters and Petitions to the Spanish Crown

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kelly McDonough
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 69-99
Description
Argues that while historical narratives have denied the Indigenous intellectual legacies in the written sphere, examples of Indigenous writing from around the world continue to surface in private and local collections. Focuses on letters penned by Nahuas nobles in which they highlighted certain aspects of their past and suppressed others as they maneuvered through the social, political and economic circumstances of the time.
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Indigenous Voices

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture
Description
Collection includes Métis oral histories in heritage languages and a selection of children's books in Michif-Cree and English.
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Indigenous Voices Digital Study Guide

Alternate Title
Canada on Screen
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Cinematheque
Description

Focuses on Indigenous vs. non-Indigenous representations of Indigenous peoples and their stories in film.

Additional material:

Video.

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Indun Love

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Larry "Dave" Madden
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 22, no. 1, Native Activism, Fall, 2010, pp. 45-46
Description
Presents a short story titled, Indun Love, written by Larry "Dave" Madden.
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Iniskin (Buffalo Stone) Function & Significance

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
George First Rider
John Hellson
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview with George First Rider as he tells the story of the buffalo stone.
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Initiatives for the Future

Alternate Title
Is Anybody Listening?: Initiatives for the Future
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Yvette Nolan
EQ: Equity Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 1, Spring, 2008, p. 9
Description
For Access to Article, Scroll Down to Page 9. Comments on a study undertaken by Marie Clements, on behalf of the Theatre Section of the Canada Council for the Arts, which reviewed 10 years of financial support for Aboriginal theatre.
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Intercultural Identity in James Welch's Fools Crow and The Indian Lawyer

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Darin Saul
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 4, Autumn, 1995, pp. 519-525
Description
Examines how Blackfeet author James Welch depicts characters from two eras who improvise and appropriate Blackfeet and white cultures while facing loss of political autonomy, illness and attack while retaining hope for the future.
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"Interpretation is a Perilous Venture": Petroglyphs, Maps, and DNA

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reginald Dyck
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 1, Special Issue, Spring, 2007, pp. 49-65
Description
Contends that the interpretation of both cultural artifacts, such as petroglyphs and contemporary writings require an understanding of cross-cultural boundaries, a recognition of one's own beliefs, assumptions and ideologies of socially constructed systems of meaning. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 49.
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Interpreting Native American Literature: An Archetypal Approach

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mando Sevillano
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, 1986, pp. 1-12
Description
Author investigates the "ethnic approach" to literature criticism and concludes that the archetypal approach is transcultural, which improves the accessibility of Native American literature to non-Natives.
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Intersections of Memory, Ancestral Language, and Imagination; or, the Textual Production of Michif Voices as Cultural Weaponry

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pamela V. SIng
Studies in Canadian Literature = Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 31, no. 1, For the Love of Words: Aboriginal Writers of Canada, 2006, pp. 95-115
Description
Article focuses on the struggle for survival of Métis culture and language (Michif), in the face of an increasingly globalized world.
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Intervening in the Archive: Women-Water Alliances, Narrative Agency, and Reconstructing Indigenous Space in Deborah Miranda’s Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shanae Aurora Martinez
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 54-71
Description
Describes Miranda’s tribal memoir as an act of resistance which disrupts archival and mainstream narratives around Indigenous nations, dispossession, and human-land relationships. Focuses of female voices and perspectives, and on narrative sovereignty.
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An Interview with Joseph Bruchac

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kari J. Winter
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 14, no. 2 & 3, Series 2, Summer/Fall, 2002, pp. [12]-27
Description
Interview with the well-known author, interviewer and editor.
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Interview with Mrs. Cecile Many Guns (Grassy Water) and Mrs. Annie Buffalo (Bear Child)

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Cecile (Grassy Water) Many Guns
Annie (Bear Child) Buffalo
Dila Provost
Albert Sr. Yellowhorn
Indian History Film Project
Description
Discussion of several topics: taking of Treaty #7, boundaries of Peigan Reserve; permit system; traditional curing practices; obtaining paint forceremonials; significance of rocks in Blackfoot culture; how the Blackfoot learned from the rock spirit how to drivethe buffalo over a cliff.
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