Poem and Tale as Double Helix in Joy Harjo's A Map to the Next World
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Angelique V. Nixon
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 1-21
Description
Explores the social, political, and cultural insights found in the poetry of Joy Harjo, which examines the history, culture, beliefs, and sufferings of Native Americans and other marginalized and oppressed peoples.
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Poem Tells of Hurt Felt by Residential School Survivors
Alternate Title
The Bell
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Alvin Fiddler
Brian Tuesday
Wawatay News Online, vol. 35, no. 4, November 27, 2008, p. [?]
Description
Discusses how stories and poems by residential school survivors, who have suffered in silence, must be told in order for wounds to heal. The article includes a poem The Bell by Brian Tuesday.
Poems from Of Hawks and Horses
Alternate Title
Native American Leadership: Past, Present and Future
Native American Symposium; 11th, 2015
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Ron Wallace
Description
Four poems: Death of a Leftfielder, Between the Moon and Mexico, October Rising, and Lawton, Oklahoma (February 17th 1909).
Poetry Can Be All This: All of You, All of Me, All of Us
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joy Harjo
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 4, Special Issue: In Honor of Simon J. Ortiz, Winter, 2004, pp. 47-50
Description
Joy Harjo explains how Simon Ortiz inspired her poetic writings.
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Poetry, Remnants and Ruins: Aboriginal Theatre in Canada
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Floyd Favel
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 139, Summer, 2009, pp. 31-35
Description
Author reflects on the defining characteristics and current status of Aboriginal theatre, as well elements needed to ensure it flourishes in the future.
The Politics and Erotics of Food in Louise Erdrich
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kari J. Winter
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 12, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 2000, pp. [44]-64
Description
Explores how the author uses attitudes toward food as a metaphor to juxtapose the Aboriginal and European belief systems.
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The Politics of Children
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Drew Hayden Taylor
Windspeaker, vol. 18, no. 10, February 2001, p. 5
Description
Humorous look at the pitfalls involved when writing for children's educational television programming and explains how it differs from writing plays for the same audience.
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The Politics of Make-Believe: Dissimulation and Reciprocity in David Treuer's The Translation of Dr. Apelles
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Colleen G. Eils
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 4, Indigenous Performance 2, Winter, 2014, pp. 39-58
Description
Looks at the assigned role of translator.
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The Politics of Metafiction in Louise Erdrich's Four Souls
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Summer Harrison
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring, 2011, pp. [38]-69
Description
Discusses how the author uses the perspectives of several narrators to show how stories, both historical and fictional, structure perceptions of "reality" and Native Americans.
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The Politics of Place in Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Blair
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 3, Series 2: Linda Hogan: Calling Us Home, Fall, 1994, pp. 15-21
Description
Looks at the exploitation against Native American Indians as they struggle against the greed that threatens their lives and the survival of their culture.
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The Politics of Point of View: Representing History in Mourning Dove’s Cogewea and D’Arcy McNickle’s The Surrounded
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Holton
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1997, pp. [69]-80
Description
Compares and contrasts the two authors' approaches to the representation of history and the interaction of Native American and European culture.
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The Politics of Representation: Some Native Canadian Women Writers
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Author/Creator
Barbara Godard
Canadian Literature, no. 124-125 , Native Writers & Canadian Writing, Spring/Summer , 1990, pp. 183 - 225
Description
Discussion on reviving traditional storytelling techniques, in new forms, and challenging the Canadian literary tradition.
The Politics of the Border in Linda Hogan’s
Mean Spirit
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Yonka Kroumova Krasteva
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 4, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Linda Hogan, Winter, 1999, pp. [46]-60
Description
Discusses Hogan's novel that deals with interactions that take place when the dominant and the dominated cultures meet ,and the consequences of such a meeting.
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The Politics of the Camera: Visual Storytelling and Sovereignty in Victor Masayesva's Itam Hakim, Hopiit
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Channette Romero
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 49-75
Description
Looks at the connection between images and stories in the documentary and exposes the politics associated with American Indian filmmaking.
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Pomo Basketweaving, Poison, and the Politics of Restoration in Greg Sarris’s Grand Avenue
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle Burnham
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 14, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 2002, pp. [18]-36
Description
Examines the eleven short stories in the book Grand Avenue, written by Greg Sarris, stories that all have a reference to family, extended family, or community.
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A Popoloc Riddle
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Annette Veerman-Leichsenring
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 8, no. 4, Series 2; European Writings on Native American Literatures, Winter, 1996, pp. [1]-12
Description
Author discusses, and includes transcription of a tribal story, a version of the tale of Oepedius, related to her by a Popoloc storyteller. The tale is a metaphor: a human's life lasts only a day, and they start life as animals.
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Post-Colonial Literature and Hawaii: Teaching Ethnic American Literature in a Colony
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Author/Creator
Ann Rayson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 1, Series 2: Feminist and Post-Colonial Approaches, Spring, 1994, pp. 1-10
Description
Discusses the political and historical issues surrounding the teaching of ethnic American literature amid the Hawaiian activist movement and racial tensions in a multicultural state.
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A Post-Colonial Perspective on James Welch's "The Heartsong of Charging Elk"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Franci Washburn
Indigenous Nations Studies Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, Fall, 2002, pp. 21-31
Description
Uses post-colonial literary theories of Edward W. Said, Homi Bhabha and Franz Fanon to examine James Welch's novel.
Postcolonial Imagination and Postcolonial Theory: Indigenous Canadian and Australian Literature Fighting for (Postcolonial) Space
Alternate Title
Theory and Practice in English Studies 4 (2005): Proceedings from the Eighth Conference of British, American and Canadian Studies
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Iva Polak
Description
Discusses the term "postcolonial literature" when applied to Indigenous writing in Canada and Australia.
Postmodernism, Native American Literature and the Real: The Silko-Erdrich Controversy
Alternate Title
Nothing But the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Susan Pérez Castillo
Description
Presents analysis of Silko's review of The Beet Queen by Erdrich.
Chapter in book: Nothing But the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature edited by John L. Purdy and James Ruppert.
The Power of Borders in Native American Literature: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bernie Harder
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, 2000, pp. 95-106
Description
Suggests Silko's novel is not as tragic as one might initially conclude because it prophecies that a renewed era of active spiritual and social community will prevail.
"Pray Sir, Consider a LIttle": Rituals of Subordination and Strategies of Resistance in the Letters of Hezekiah Calvin and David Fowler to Eleazar Wheelock, 1764-1768
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Murray
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 2/3, Series 2 , Summer/Fall, 1992, pp. 48-74
Description
Looks at letters from two of Wheelock's students that give insight into the nature of his relationships with his students and the role of writing within those relationships.
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The Predicament of Identity
Alternate Title
Review Essay: The Predicament of Identity
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Liza Black
Ethnohistory, vol. 48, no. 1/2, Winter/Spring, 2001, pp. 337-350
Description
Review essay of:
Weaving Ourselves into the Land: Charles Godfrey Leland, "Indians" and the Study of Native American Religions by Thomas C. Parkhill.
Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated by Mike Gidley.
Imagining Indians in the Southwest: Persistent Visions of a Primitive Past by Leah Dilworth.
Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883-1933. by L. G. Moses.
Preface [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, Vol. 10, No.2, Summer, 1998]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chris LaLonde
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 2, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Louis Owens, Summer, 1998, pp. 1-5
Description
Introduction to the special issue on Louis Owens.
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