Literature & Stories

"Battleford's History, 1933-1962."

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cecilia Wetton
Description
This folder contains articles written about the Battleford area by Mrs. Wetton and Mrs. Storer. Clippings from other sources are also included. There is a good section of articles that reveal popular non-Aboriginal views of the 1885 resistance.

Historical note:

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Be of Good Mind: Essays on the Coast Salish

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
John Lutz
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 92, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 201-203
Description
Book review of: Be of Good Mind: Essays on the Coast Salish by Bruce Granville Miller.
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The Bear-Walker & Other Stories

Alternate Title
The Bear-Walker and Other Stories
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Adrienne Kertzer
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 28, no. 2, p. 190
Description
Book review of: The Bear-Walker and Other Stories by Basil Johnston, a collection of translated Ojibwa stories from Sam Ozawamik, Frank Shawbedees and Basil Johnston.
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Beasts of Burden: How Literary Animals Remap the Aesthetics of Removal

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joshua D. Miner
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 2, 2014, pp. 60-82
Description
Explores how differing genres of Native storytelling process the contemporary literatures of removal within the Trail of Tears, a forced relocation, following passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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The Beautiful Way

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Norla Chee
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1992, pp. 31-36
Description
Short story titled The Beautiful Way by Norla Chee. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Beaver Bundle Origin Myth of the Blood Indians

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 on the origin of the Beaver Bundle and its transferal.
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The Beaver Indians

Alternate Title
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; v.10, pt. 4
E-Books
Author/Creator
Pliny Earle Goddard
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
Description

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v.10 (p. 201-293).

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Beaver Struggle

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Indian History Film Project
Description
A storyteller gives an account of the origins of the Sarcee Indians.
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Beaver Texts; Beaver Dialects

Alternate Title
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; v.10, pts. 5 and 6
Dunneza Texts: Dunneza Dialects
E-Books
Author/Creator
Pliny Earle Goddard
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
Description
Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v.10 (p. 295-397, 399-517). Text in both English and Danezaa.
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"Becoming Minor": Reading The Woman Who Owned the Shadows

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Renae Bredin
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 4, Series 2. Critical Approaches, Winter, 1994, pp. 36-50
Description
Looks at how Paula Gunn Allen has constructed a social identity that transforms the borderlands of reader, writer, and text to examine the issues of positionality and essentialism. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Before Tomorrow

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sonia Gunderson
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 45-46
Description
Review of film produced by the women's film collective Arnait Video Productions. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 45.
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Behind the Shadows of Wounded Knee: The Slippage of Imagination in Wynema: A Child of the Forest

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa Tatonetti
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 1-31
Description
Contends that the depiction of the 1890 Lakota Ghost Dance and the Wounded Knee massacre in Sophia Alice Callahan's novel, the first known novel by an Native American woman, provides a Native American perspective on self-identity in the late nineteenth century. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
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"The Belly of This Story": Storytelling and Symbolic Birth

in Native American Fiction

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Chapman
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1995, pp. 3-16
Description
Looks at how the traditional myths of creation takes place through language and song rather than sexual reproduction. The article also discusses how gender is less important than language. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Benang: From the Heart

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Gordon Briscoe
Aboriginal History, vol. 21, 1997, pp. 238-240
Description
Book review of: Benang by Kim Scott. Review located by scrolling to page 238.
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Beothuk and Micmac

Alternate Title
Indian Notes and Monographs: A Series of Publications Relating to the American Aborigines
E-Books
Author/Creator
Frank G. Speck
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Bereav'd of Light

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Anne Nothof
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2006, pp. 210-211
Description
Book review of: Bereav'd of Light by Ian Ross.
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Bernie Whitebear: An Urban Indian's Quest for Justice

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Carrie Louise Sheffield
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 3, Fall, 2008, pp. 105-108
Description
Book review of: Bernie Whitebear: An Urban Indian's Quest for Justice by Lawney L. Reyes. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 105.
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Best of Aboriginal Literature Celebrated

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shirley Collingridge
Windspeaker, vol. 23, no. 8, November 2005, p. 19
Description

Description of the Anskohk Aboriginal Literature Festival which was created to bring together and celebrate Indigenous authors and their works.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.23.

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The Best of Both Worlds: Otherness, Appropriation, and Identity in Thunderheart

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sam Pack
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 16, no. 2, Fall, 2001, pp. 97-114
Description
Analyzes the 1992 Tri-Star Pictures release which breaks new ground on two fronts, an all Native American cast except the lead role, and use of a contemporary setting. Screenplay by John Fusco, directed by Michael Apted and produced by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and John Fusco.
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The Best of the Best in Native Arts: Part 2

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Drew Hayden Taylor
Windspeaker, vol. 14, no. 11, March, 1997, p. 10
Description

Examines plays both published and unpublished.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.10.

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The Best of the Best in Native Arts [Part I]

Articles » General
Windspeaker, vol. 14, no. 10, February 1997, pp. 9-10
Description

Choices in the categories of art, literature, poetry, political works, and music.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.9.

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Betwixt and Between: The Trickster and Multiculturalism

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lori Landay
American Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 3, September, 1996, pp. 542-549
Description
Book review of: Tricksterism in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature: A Multicultural Perspective edited by Elizabeth Ammons and Annette White-Parks.
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"Beyond All Age": Indigenous Water Rights in Linda Hogan's Fiction

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lindsey Claire Smith
Trever Lee Holland
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 2, Summer, 2016, pp. 56-79
Description
Discusses the connection between the Chickasaw people's relationship with water and efforts at resource management and themes in the novels Mean Spirit, Power, Solar Storms, and People of the Whale.
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