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The Sámi in Growth of the Soil: Depictions, Desire, Denial

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kikki Jernsletten
Nordlit, no. 15, Special Issue on Northern Minorities, 2004, pp. 73-89
Discusses the negative depictions of the Sámi people in the novel Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.
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The Sami People in Old Norse Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hermann Pálsson
Nordlit, no. 5, 1999, pp. 29-53
Discusses three types of saga: Kings' Sagas, Sagas of Icelanders, and Legendary Sagas. Includes glossary of ethnic terms.
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Samson Occom’s Diary and D’Arcy McNickle’s “Train

Time”: The Real Imperative of “Native” Education in

American Indian Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jim Ottery
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 13, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 2001, pp. [24]-50
Looks at one work of nonfiction and one of fiction in a discussion about attempted assimilation through education and language, and what constitutes a truly a "native" education. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Samuel Buffalo 3

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Samuel Buffalo
Indian History Film Project
He gives a description of raising and educating children; tells a story of a spirit helping two children; and tells another story used in the teaching of children.
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Sarah Winnemucca: [Post]Indian Princess and Voice of the Paiutes

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrew S. McClure
MELUS, vol. 24, no. 2, Summer, 1999, pp. 29-51
Contends Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844?-1891) first Native American autobiographer, is often regarded as an assimilationist, which contradicts her championing Paiute and tribal survival.
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The Sarcee Story of Creation

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Indian History Film Project
Consists of a story of a Sarcee creation myth.
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Sask Book Awards Have Métis Flavour

Alternate Title
Saskatchewan Book Awards Have Métis Flavour
Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Lagimodiere
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 11, November 2008, p. 21
Looks at four books published by the Gabriel Dumont Insitute that have been nominated for a Saskatchewan Book Award. Article located by scrolling to page 21.
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The Savage Heart

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Patrick Austin Freeland
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 21, no. 1, Celebrating Tribal College Journals 20th Anniversary, Fall, 2009, p. 48
Presents a short story titled, The Savage Heart, written by a student of Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, KS.
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[Savages]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Travey Lindberg
Native Studies Review, vol. 13, no. 1, 2000, pp. 115-117
Book review of: Savages by Joe Kane
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Seasons of Recovery and the Road to Prevention

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kelly Hazel
Gerald Mohatt
Lester Keller
Northern Review, no. 20, Winter, 1999, pp. 81-104
Fictionalized narrative is based on authors' experiences working in rural communities, knowledge of substance abuse prevention programs, and discussions with residents about their needs and visions. Presents dilemmas, challenges and innovations specific to Alaska.
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Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-'81

E-Books
Author/Creator
J. W. Powell
Report includes the following papers: Report of the Director by J. W. Powell Zuñi Fetiches by Frank Hamilton Cushing Myths of the Iroquois by Erminnie A. Smith Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley by Henry W. Henshaw Navajo Weavers by Dr. Washington Matthews Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans by William H.
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A "Second Look" at Charles Alexander Eastman

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Angela Calcaterra
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 27, no. 4, Winter, 2015, pp. 1-36
Argues that rather than being an "Indian informant", Eastman tried to explain the complexity of American Indian cultural practices, while also making it clear that complete understanding was impossible.
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The Secret of the Twig: Salish Adaptation, Jesuit Inculturation, and Spirit-Matter Relation in D’Arcy McNickle’s The Surrounded

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
April Middeljans
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 84-115
Author disagrees with the prior critical readings of the text and argues that the novel presents a more nuanced depiction of the Salish – Jesuit relationship than the invader – invaded dichotomy that critics tend to read.
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Secret Path: Lesson Planning Templates

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Edmonton Public Schools, First Nations, Métis, & Inuit Education

Includes links to series of brief lesson plans highlighting themes of awareness, acknowledgement, atonement, action and understanding and accompanying power points, student workbook and residential schools project.

Designed for use with the graphic novel and movie about Charlie Wenjack, a twelve-year-old who died while running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ontario in 1966.

For use with junior high school students.

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The Seed Runner

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jenny L. Davis
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 2, Genocide Special Issue, December 30, 2018, pp. 136-141
Short speculative fiction piece.
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A Selection, of Some of the Most Interesting Narratives, of Outrages, Committed by the Indians, in Their Wars, With the White People ... [vol. 1]

E-Books
Author/Creator
Archibald Loudon
" Also, An Account of their Manners, Customs, Traditions, Religious Sentiments, Mode of Warfare, Military Tactics, Discipline and Emcampments, Treatment of Prisoners, &c. which are better Explained, and more Minutely Related, than has been heretofore done, by any other Author on that subject. Many Articles have never before appeared in printed. The whole Complied from the best Authorities."
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A Selection of Some of the Most Interesting Narratives of Outrages Committed by the Indians in Their Wars With the White People ... [vol. 2]

E-Books
Author/Creator
Archibald Loudon (editor)
" Also, An Account of their Manners, Customs, Traditions, Religious Sentiments, Mode of Warfare, Military Tactics, Discipline and Emcampments, Treatment of Prisoners, &c. which are better Explained, and more Minutely Related, than has been heretofore done, by any other Author on that subject. Many Articles have never before appeared in printed. The whole Complied from the best Authorities."
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Selections from Asylum in the Grasslands

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Diane Glancy
World Literature Today, vol. 66, no. 2, From This World: Contemporary American Indian Literature, Spring, 1992, pp. 297-298
Presents three of the author's works.
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A Selective Bibliography of the Mohawk People

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Larry Garrow
Richard Jock
Ray Cooke

Approximately 343 sources, dated from 1762 through 1972, focusing on the St. Regis Reservation in New York, but equally applicable to Mohawks of Akwesasne in Ontario and Quebec. Citations are arranged by subject and subdivided by author.

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Sequoyah National Research Center

Web Sites » Organizations

Website is one of the largest repositories of Native American publications including newspaper & periodical collections, manuscripts & special collections. Also includes Dr. J. W. Wiggins Native American Art Collection, SNRC newsletters, links and other research collections.

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A Sermon Preached by Samson Occom, Minister of the Gospel, and Missionary to the Indians; at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian: Who was executed at New-Haven, September 2, 1772, for the murder of Moses Cook, late of Waterbury, on the seventh of December 1771; preached at the desire of said Paul

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Samson Occom
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 2/3, Series 2, Summer/Fall, 1992, pp. 82-105
Looks at Occom's sermon, published in the late eighteenth century, which discusses how alcohol devastated Indian families. It is an example of how an Indian author adapted Western European theology and a literary genre for his own purposes. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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