Reptile Lore of the Northern Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frank G. Speck
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 36, no. 141, July-September 1923, pp. 273-280
Description
Author discusses his understanding of the attitudes toward, relationships held, and some stories told about snakes and amphibians.
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Republican Mothers and Indian Wives: Lydia Maria Child's Indian Stories

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melissa Ryan
ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, vol. 56, no. 1, 2010, pp. 33-70
Description
Looks at how Lydia Maria Child’s writings about Native people use tropes of domesticity to address the “woman question” by way of the “Indian problem.”
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Repugnant Aboriginality: LeAnne Howe’s Shell Shaker and Indigenous Representation in the Age of Multiculturalism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Monika Barbara Siebert
American Literature, vol. 83, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 93-119
Description
Discusses how the author, like other Indigenous writers, faces the difficulty of representing societies which share commonalities with contemporary mainstream society, yet are fundamentally different from it as well.
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Reservation Home Movies: Sherman Alexie's Poetry

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Gillan
American Literature, vol. 68, no. 1, Write Now: American Literature in the 1980s and1990s, March 1996, pp. 91-110
Description
Discusses the poet's struggle to position himself between the modern day culture of United States and the traditional culture of his people, and illustrates how this is manifested in his work.
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Reset and Redefine: Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) and the Rise of Indigenous Games

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Maize Longboat
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 170-179
Description
Author critically engages the format and storytelling devices within the videogame Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) and discusses how this and other digital platforms can be used to build understanding and counter stereotypes and misinformation about Indigenous peoples.
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Residential Schools: Have We Forgotten Our Responsibility?

Alternate Title
Big Thinking [Lecture Series]
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences ; 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
James Bartleman
Description
Video of speech given at the 2011 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Ontario's first Aboriginal Lieutenant Governor discusses the epidemic of youth-suicide in First Nations communities. Duration: 1:11:17.
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Resistance and Transformation: Negotiating Political Rhetorics in First Nations Literatures

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah Henzi
Australasian Canadian Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Globalizing Indigeneity: New Research Directions, 2009, pp. 117-127
Description
"This article explores the reappropriation of the English and French languages within First Nations contemporary literatures, specifically how literary texts enable the retelling and reclaiming of Indigenous People's histories and rights for sovereign governance". Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 117.
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Resource Database

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Community Based Aboriginal Curriculum Initiatives
Description
Lists over 2300 resources covering a broad spectrum subject areas. Can be sorted by title or author.
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Respectful Actions in Research: Aboriginal Adolescents Speaking Their Future

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Laurie Carlson Berg
Sarah Longman
Daryl Hepting
Edward Doolittle
Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin, vol. 72, no. 3, Spring, 2006, pp. 23-29
Description
Describes one part of an innovative Canadian research project in which Aboriginal high school students engaged with an interdisciplinary team of researchers from First Nations University of Canada and the University of Regina.
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"Resting in Peace, Not in Pieces": The Concerns of the Living Dead in Anna Lee Walter's Ghost Singer

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rebecca Tillett
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 3, Fall, 2005, pp. 85-114
Description
Describes the Pawnee/Otoe-Missouria writer's 1988 novel challenging academic agendas and ethics concerning display and ownership of human remains. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 85.
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Restoring the Balance: First Nations Women, Community and Culture

Alternate Title
Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, Madeleine Dion Stout and Eric Guimond (eds), Restoring the Balance: First Nations Women, Community and Culture
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jacky Moore
British Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, Fall, 2010, pp. 292-93
Description
Book Review of: Restoring the Balance edited by Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, Madeleine Dion Stout and Eric Guimond.
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A Retro-Prospective on Audience, Oral Literatures, and Ignorance

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kenneth M. Roemer
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 3, Series 2; Twentieth-Anniversary Issue on the Flagstaff Conference on Native American Literatures, Fall, 1997, pp. 17-24
Description
Author reflects on developments, since the Flagstaff Conference held in 1977, in the field of American Indian literature. Three areas of interest are discussed including, the importance of audience, the value of studying oral literatures, and the vast ignorance about Indians and Indian literatures. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Retrospective and Prospective

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gretchen M. Bataille
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 3, Series 2; Twentieth-Anniversary Issue on the Flagstaff Conference on Native American Literatures, Fall, 1997, pp. 25-30
Description
Author discusses changes in the teaching and research of Native American literatures with regard to issues surrounding scope, context, translation and continuity since the Flagstaff Conference of 1977, and also speculates on future developments. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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The Return of the Native: Recent Scholarship in the Literature of Christianization and Contact

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Phillip H. Round
Early American Literature , vol. 40, no. 2, 2005, pp. 375-385
Description
Book reviews of seven books: American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures by Joanne Brooks. Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America by Kristina Bross. The Eliot Tracts: With Letters from John Eliot to Thomas Thorowgood and Richard Baxter Edited by Michael Clark. Les Sauvages Americains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature by Gordon Sayre. The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility by Laura M.
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A Return to Reciprocity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lorraine F. Mayer
Hypatia , vol. 22, no. 3, Summer , 2007, pp. 22-42
Description
Journey to understand why Indigenous women might identify with feminists and why Indigenousl feminists have an agenda of decolonization.
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The Reunion

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Brandon LaMere
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 23, no. 1, Beyond Racism, Fall, 2011, pp. 52-53
Description
Presents a short story titled, The Reunion, written by Brandon LaMere.
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Revealing the Storyteller: The Ethical Publication of Inuit Stories

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jefferson Faye
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, [Aboriginal Peoples: Special Issue], Spring/Summer, 2001, pp. 159-170
Description
Comments on two Inuit-centered children's books that are exploitative and offensive and two that are entirely the opposite.
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Review Articles: No Writing at All Here: Review Notes on Writing Native

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Laurie Ricou
Canadian Literature, no. 124-125, Native Writers & Canadian Literature, Spring/Summer, 1990, pp. 294-301
Description
Author reviews, in essay format, numerous books dealing with Aboriginal subject matter. Entire review section on one pdf. To access review, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Review Essay: Narratives of Blood

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Susan Castillo
Early American Literature, vol. 41, no. 2, June 2006, pp. 339-345
Description
Book review of 2 books: Mixed Blood and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars by Betsy Erkkila. Injun Joe's Ghost: The Indian Mixed-Blood in American Writing by Harry J. Brown.
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Review Essay [Studies in American Indian Literature, Series 2, Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer, 1998]

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carrie A. Smith
Andrew Leonard
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 2, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Louis Owens, Summer, 1998, pp. 112-120
Description
Features student essays which discuss the works of Hager (The Redbird's Cry; Hillerman (Thief of Time and Dancehall of the Dead; Querry (Death of Bernadette Lefthand; and Owens (The Sharpest Sight). Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Review Essay: The Chippewa Landscape of Louise Erdrich edited by Allan Chavkin

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Vanessa Hall
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 13, no. 2 & 3, Series 2, Summer/Fall, 2001, pp. [67]-77
Description
Book review of: The Chippewa Landscape of Louise Erdrich edited by Allan Chavkin; afterword by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Review Essays [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, Vol. 11, No. 3 , Fall, 1999]

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Betty Booth Donohue
Brewster E. Fitz
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1999, pp. [66]-87
Description
Reviews essays on: Observations of Another Trotline Runner: A Critical Discussion of D. L. Birchfield’s Oklahoma Basic Intelligence Test. Philomela on the Plains: Remarks on Mixedblood Intertextual Metaphor in Diane Glancy’s Flutie. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Review: Indian Lives: The Defining, the Telling

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kenneth M. Roemer
American Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 1, March 1994, pp. 81-91
Description
Reviews two books: Sending My Heart Back Across the Years; Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography by Hertha Dawn Wong. Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts by Greg Sarris.
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