Displaying 2251 - 2300 of 4013

Mrs. Marion Dillon Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Marion Dillon
Mary Mountain
Indian History Film Project
An interview that includes stories of hunting, trading and food gathering. Also included are stories about the Frog Lake massacre and Wihtiko (cannibal monster)
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Mrs. Paul Hayes (Annie) Interview #1

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Paul Hayes
Annie Hayes
Imbert Orchard
Indian History Film Project
Consists of an interview where she discusses how the Indians acquired their songs. She also tells a creation myth and a flood legend of her people.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Mrs. Shelagh Dehart Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Shelagh Dehart
Imbert Orchard
Indian History Film Project
Consists of an interview where she discusses the historical movement of the Shuswap people and the meeting of the Shuswaps with David Thompson.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Mrs. Tracie Williames Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Tracie Williames
Imbert Orchard
Indian History Film Project
Consists of an interview where she discusses the migration of the Shuswap Indians into the Kootenay Valley.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Mudjil'dya'djurali Dabuwa'Wurrata (How the White Waratah Became Red): D'harawal Storytelling and Welcome to Country "Controversies"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews
Frances Bodkin
Gavin Andrews
Alison Whittaker
AlterNative, vol. 12, no. 5, [Indigenous Peoples, Popular Pleasures and the Everyday], 2016, pp. 480-497
Focuses on non-Indigenous media and academic representations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ceremonies. Argues that they reflect non-Indigenous ideologies rather than accurate portrayals.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Multicultural Literature and Discussion as Mirror and Window?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jocelyn Glazier
Jung-A Seo
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, vol. 48, no. 8, May 2005, pp. 686-700
Documents the experiences of a group of high schools students as they read and responded to The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Multiculturalism in Select Canadian Writings

Theses
Author/Creator
K. E. Padmam
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Madurai Kamaraj University, 2015. Includes discussion of Jeanette Armstrong's Slash and Beatrice Culleton's In Search of April Raintree.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Multivocal Narration and Cultural Negotiation: Dorris's A

Yellow Raft in Blue Water and Cloud Chamber

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gordon Slethaug
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1999, pp. [18]-29
Explores the two novels in terms of being written using the viewpoints and voices of various characters to create a communal perspective and the common theme of accommodation rather than resistance. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Muting White Noise: The Subversion of Popular Culture Narratives of Conquest in Sherman Alexie's Fiction

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Cox
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 4, Series 2: Sherman Alexie, Winter, 1997, pp. 52-70
Contends that the author uses his characters to illustrate the damage stereotypes, imposed by the dominant culture, have inflicted on the Native American psyche. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

"My Brother": The Recovery of Rocky in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Troy J. Bassett
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Special Issue on Teaching Leslie Marmon Silkos Ceremony, 2004, pp. 35-40
Examines the fictional character, Rocky, who appears only in the memories of the main character, Tayo.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

My Cousin Coyote, as Told by a Dog

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Marianne Addison
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 1, Tribal College Students Today, Fall, 2007, pp. 49-50
Short story.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

My Family

E-Books
Author/Creator
Penny Condon

Story suitable for Grades K-3.

Login or Register to create bookmarks.

My Grandmother's Teaching

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eva Goulet
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 2013, p. 239
Presents a short, original creative essay written in Cree.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

My Indian Boyhood

Alternate Title
[North American Indian Thought and Culture]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Luther Standing Bear
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

My Indian, Written by Mi'sel Joe and Sheila O'Neill

Alternate Title
Breakwater Study Guides
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Breakwater Books

Historical fiction about Sylvester Joe, a Mi'kmaq guide hired by William Epps Cormack to help him find the last remaining Beothuk camps on Newfoundland. Lesson plan suitable for Grades 7 to 12.

Login or Register to create bookmarks.

My Name is Seepeetza [by] Shirley Sterling: A Novel Study

Alternate Title
Teacher Reference Sheet
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Regional Vancouver Island Aboriginal Circle

Recommended grade level 8 and up. Book is about a girl's life at residential school and her contrasting life at home before she was sent there.

Login or Register to create bookmarks.

My Name Soars Like an Eagle

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Drew Hayden Taylor
This, vol. 33, no. 2, September/October 1999, pp. 15-16
Discusses the perceptions, influence and expectations that may derive from a name.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

My Sweetest Victory

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Desirae Grignon
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 22, no. 1, Native Activism, Fall, 2010, pp. 39-40
Presents a short story titled, My Sweetest Victory, written by Desirae Grignon.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

The Mystery of Language: N. Scott Momaday, An Appreciation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jace Weaver
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 76-86
Discusses the impact of Momaday's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, House Made of Dawn, on both Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals in the forty years since its' publication. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

The Mystery of the "North of the North" in Ibsen's Works

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jon Nygaard
Nordlit, no. 34, 2015, pp. [181]-187
Discusses Ibsen's understanding of the Sami or Finns which was limited and reflective of a new interest in sagas and the pre-history of Norway.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

"A Myth to Be Alive": James Welch's Fools Crow

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nora Barry
MELUS, vol. 17, no. 1, Native American Fiction: Myth and Criticism , Spring, 1992, pp. [3]-20
Discusses the central character of the historical novel in terms of cultural hero and his relation to common myths.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Mythic Rage and Laughter: An Interview with Gerald Vizenor

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dallas Miller
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 77-96
Interview with Gerald Vizenor on the meaning of silence; the relationship of his critical writings to his fiction; tribal oral traditions and humor and the uses of humor; Summer in the Spring, a collection of stories and songs translated; The People Named the Chippewa; and examples of irony in his stories. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Mythography and Dialogue in the Study of Native American Literature

Alternate Title
[Review Essay] Mythography and Dialogue in the Study of Native American Literature
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Arnold Krupat
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 8, no. 4, 1984, pp. 47-55
Book review of: The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation by Dennis Tedlock.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

N. Scott Momaday: A Man of Words

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Howard Meredith
World Literature Today, vol. 64, no. 3, O.U. Centennial Issue, Summer, 1990, pp. 405-407
Discusses the world view of the Kiowa people in: House Made of Dawn, The Way to Rainy Mountain, The Names and The Ancient Child.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

N. Scott Momaday: Beyond Rainy Mountain

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert L. Berner
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, 1979, pp. 57-67
Analysis of the importance of language in The Way to Rainy Mountain.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

N. Scott Momaday: Towards an Indian Identity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thekla Zachrau
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, 1979, pp. 39-56
Looks at themes of alienation and loss of culture associated with the urban environment, and search for an authentic identity rooted in Indigenous culture in the novel House Made of Dawn.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Nametoo: Evidence That He/She Is/Was Present

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Celeste Pedri-Spade
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Art, Aesthetics and Decolonial Struggle, 2014, pp. 73-100
Examines the role and use of Indigenous photography in relationship to the Anishinabe way of being, seeing, listening and hearing.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Narrating History and Myth: Trickster Discourse in Thomas King's The One About Coyote Going West

Alternate Title
Place and Memory in Canada: Global Perspectives=Lieu et Mémoire au Canada: Perspectives Globales
[Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies ; 3rd]
[International Conference of Central European Canadianists ; 3rd]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Rūta Šlapkauskaitė
Conference paper from: Place and Memory in Canada: Global Perspectives: 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, April 30-May 3, 2004, Cracow, Poland edited by Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek, Anna Reczyńska, and Anna Śpiewak.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

The Narrative of Nancy, A Cherokee Woman

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tiya Miles
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 29, no. 2 & 3, 2008, pp. 59-80
Examines Nancy’s story as a case study about Cherokees, race, slavery, and property dispute.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

A Narrative on Narratives in Contemporary Greenland

Alternate Title
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Birgit Kleist Pedersen
Sums up the different functions narratives provide including acting as social 'glue'. Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.
Subscribe to Literature & Stories