On Critical Frameworks for Analyzing Indigenous Literature: The Case of Monkey Beach

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michèle Lacombe
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 41, Representations of First Nations and Métis / Les représentations des Premiéres nations et des Métis, 2010, pp. 253-276
Description
Focuses on ways to examine author Eden Robinson’s novel using approaches based on creation stories and urban "post-Indian" perspectives.
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On Reading Grace's Potiki

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eva Rask Knudsen
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 13, no. 2, Thematic Issue: About Indigenous Literatures, June 2011, pp. 1-10
Description
Discusses how indigenous knowledge is overlooked by non-Indigenous scholars when it comes to the subject of marginalizing and resistance in the 1986 novel, Potiki by Māori writer Patricia Grace.
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On the Haida Indians of the Queen Charlotte Islands

Alternate Title
Report on the Queen Charlotte Islands
Vocabulary of the Haida Indians of the Queen Charlotte Islands
E-Books
Author/Creator
George M. Dawson
Description
Appendix A and B from Report on the Queen Charlotte Islands published as part of the Geologic Survey of Canada.
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On the Old Saskatchewan Trail

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bruce Peel
Saskatchewan History, vol. 1, no. 2, Spring, 1948, pp. 1-9
Description
Author uses historical information to create a narrative describing the journey from Winnipeg to Edmonton on the Saskatchewan Trail circa 1880. Entire Issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 1.
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On The Politics of Indigeneity: North American and Pacific Histories

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Doug Kiel
Journal of Social History, vol. 44, no. 1, Fall, 2010, pp. 239-245
Description
Book reviews of: Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom by Tiya Miles. Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century North-west Coast by Paige Raibmon. Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity by J. Kēhaulani Kauanui.
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On the Translation of Native American Literatures

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
J. V. (Jay) Powell
BC Studies, no. 108, Winter, 1995, pp. 106-107
Description
Book review of: On the Translation of Native American Literatures edited by Brian Swann. To read review, scroll to page 106.
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On the Warpath

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Donna Coates
Canadian Literature, no. 195, Winter, 2007, pp. 122-123
Description
Book review of: Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 122.
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[One Good Story, That One]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Anne Mai Yee Jansen
The American Indian Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 1, Winter, 2016, pp. 74-76
Description
Book review of: One Good Story, That One by Thomas King.
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One Little Indian

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Grant Munro
Description
Puppet story of a young First Nations boy who is taught some important traffic rules by helpful city dwellers. Duration: 15:39.
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The Only Real Indian is a Dead Indian: The Desire for Authenticity in James Welch’s The Death of Jim Loney

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ernest Stromberg
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1998, pp. 32-52
Description
Contends that although the novel is not overtly about the conflict the main character experiences between the outwardly imposed concept of "Indianess" and his search for his own personal identity, it does involve the parallel debates over the issue of authenticity in the greater community. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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"Open Containers": Sherman Alexie's Drunken Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephen F. Evans
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1, Winter, 2001, pp. 46-72
Description
Illustrates that works by Sherman Alexie, both poems and stories, use stereotypical and conventional character types to construct a realistic literary document.
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Opening Address

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Emma LaRocque
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 31, no. 1, For the Love of Words: Aboriginal Writers of Canada, 2006, pp. 11-18
Description
Introductory remarks to delegates attending 'For the Love of Words': Aboriginal Writers of Canada conference held in Winnipeg in 2004.
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Opichi

Alternate Title
Maajii-Ojibwemowag = They Begin to Speak Ojibwe
Stories of the Flyers: A Giiwedinong Book
[Maajii-Ojibwemowag = They Begin to Speak Ojibwe: ANA Language Project Teacher/Caregiver Supplemental Document]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Niiyogiizhig (Wesley Ballinger)
Saagijiwegaabowiik (Jennifer Ballinger)
Description

Children's book retells a traditional story about the robin; in Ojibwe and English.

Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.

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Oral Narrative in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karl Kroeber
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 2, Series 2: Special Issue, Summer, 1993, pp. 72-90
Description
Discusses the recording and translation of an oral narrative titled, The Golden Women Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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"Orality in Literacy": Listening to Indigenous Writing

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter Dickinson
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 1994, pp. 319-340
Description
Examines oral features found in the works of Patricia Grace (New Zealand), Sally Morgan (Australia) and Marie Annharte Baker (Canada).
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Orality & Literacy: Reflections Across Disciplines

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Peter Cole
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, 2012, pp. 213-214
Description
Book review of: Orality & Literacy edited by Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, Natalia Khanenko-Friesen.
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The Orenda

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kirsten Madsen
Northern Review, no. 37, Fall, 2013, pp. 215-218
Description
Book review of The Orenda by Joseph Boyden.
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[The Orenda]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Richard Weyhing
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 27, no. 2, Summer, 2015, pp. 102-105
Description
Book review of: The Orenda by Joseph Boyden.
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The Orenda

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kathryn Magee Labelle
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 96, no. 3, September 2015, pp. 426-429
Description
Book review of the Orenda by Joseph Boyden.
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The Other Proletarians: Native American Literature and Class Struggle

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tim Libretti
MFS Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 47, no. 1, Spring, 2001, pp. 164-189
Description
Argues that the literature presents an anticapitalist perspective and looks at issues of work and alienation in the larger context of genocide by colonization.
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Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture. Jace Weaver.

Alternate Title
American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series; vol. 39
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sidner Larson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2003, pp. 86-88
Description
Book review of: Other Words by Jace Weaver. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Our Bit of Truth

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Marie Anneharbe Baker
Canadian Dimension, vol. 25, no. 5, July 1991, p. 33
Description
Book review of: Our Bit of Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Native Writing edited by Agnes Grant.
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Our Indians in a New Light: A Lecture on the Indians, April-May, 1890

E-Books
Author/Creator
E. F. Wilson
Description
Non-Indigenous perspective on history, conditions in late 19th century North America and biographical notes about four young pupils. Also contains part of the constitution of the Canadian Indian Research and Aid Society. The author is a clergyman of the Church of England (Anglican).
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