Storytelling: The Heart of American Indian Scholarship

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frances Washburn
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, 2007, pp. 109-119
Description
Explores the controversy surrounding overemphasis on Native American fictional literature in American Indian Studies and the dire need for understanding and solutions for social issues and challenges currently faced by Native Americans.
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Storytelling: Tradition and Preservation in Louise Erdrich's Tracks

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Sergi
World Literature Today, vol. 66, no. 2, From This World: Contemporary American Indian Literature, Spring, 1992, pp. 279-282
Description
Comments on the author's third novel which tells the story of the Chippewas' struggle to preserve their land and culture.
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Straight Talk: Two Spirit Erasure as the Price of Sovereignty in James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lydia R. Cooper
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 96-120
Description
Discusses the absence of positive representations of gay men in contemporary Indigenous novels generally, and Welch’s novel specifically. Speculates that the editing out of non-heteronormative or queer identities is a result of colonial social structures in which the price of personhood is the performance of straight masculinity.
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“Stranded in the Wasteland:” Literary Allusion in The Sharpest Sight

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carolyn Holbert
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 14, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 2002, pp. [1]-25
Description
Contends that the writer uses Western sources from Shakespeare through to Edward Lear, Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot and blends them with Native American literary traditions to create a truly mixedblood novel. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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The Strength of Native Women in James Welch's Winter in the Blood

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patrice Hollrah
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 3, Fall, 2006, pp. 58-66
Description
Highlights the importance and strength of female characters as an integral part of their context in the novels of Blackfeet author James Welch. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 58.
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The Strength of Women: Âhkamêyimowak

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Arden Ogg
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, 2012, p. 221
Description
Book review of: The Strength of Women: Âhkamêyimowak by Priscilla Settee.
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The Strongest Blood

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard Van Camp
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 3, Indigenous Land-Based Education, 2014, pp. [174]-179
Description
Short story.
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Styles of the Wild

Theses
Author/Creator
Stuart Cochran
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 2000.
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Subject Consolidation, The Hierarchic Motive, and Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear

Alternate Title
Culture and the State ; v. 2
Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jon Gordon
Description
Analyzes the difference between Theresa Delaney and Theresa Bowanlock's verbal account of their time in the camp and the published "captivity narrative". Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies edited by James Gifford and Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux To view material, close pop-up box and scroll down p. 92.
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Subverting the Dominant Paradigm: Gerald Vizenor’s Trickster Discourse

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kerstin Schmidt
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 65-76
Description
Examines how the theoretical post-modern concept of subversion and deconstruction works on various levels. The article also looks at how trickster discourse negotiates the boundaries of the crossblood’s world, deconstructing fixed, authoritative beliefs and definitions. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Sucking Kumaras

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Gary Boire
Canadian Literature, no. 124-125, Native Writers & Canadian Literature, Spring/Summer, 1990, pp. 301-306
Description
Book review of: Fear and Temptation by Terry Goldie. Entire review section on one pdf. To access review, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Sugar Cane and Sugar Beets: Two Tales of Burning Love

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dennis Cutchins
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 12, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2000, pp. [1]-12
Description
Compares the novels Their Eyes are Watching God by Nora Neale Hurston and The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich as well as the critics responses to them. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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The Summer Lake Club

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laurel Parry
The Northern Review, no. 31, Northern Literature, Fall, 2009, pp. 108-111
Description
A young girl's memories of summertime in the Yukon.
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Summer of the Hungry Pup

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ahab Spence
Prairie Forum , vol. 7, no. 1, Spring, 1982, pp. 147-149
Description
Book review of: Summer of the Hungry Pup by Byrna Barclay.
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Sun Dance: Why & How They Have the Sacrifice Altars

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
George First Rider
Dave Melting Tallow
Joanne Greenwood
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he tells the story of the origin of the first Holy Lodge. (A continuation from AA.027) He also tells of the modifications to the Holy Lodge ceremony, the origins of the Group Smoking ceremony and gives the story of Po-Po who foresaw the death of a young man at a Holy Lodge.Note: Dave Melting Tallow, interpreter. Joanne Greenwood, transcriber.
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The Sun Unwound: Original Texts From Occupied America

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Edward W. Huffstetler
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 13, no. 1, Series 2; Representations of American Indians in Contemporary Narrative Fiction Film , Spring, 2001, pp. 87-90
Description
Book review of: The Sun Unwound edited by Edward Dorn and Gordon Brotherston. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Sundogs

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
George W. Lyon
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 27, no. 1, 1995, pp. 174-175
Description
Book review of: Sundogs by Lee Maracle.
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Supernatural Beings of the Huron and Wyandot

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
C. M. Barbeau
American Anthropologist, vol. 16, no. 2, New Series, April-June 1914, pp. 288-313
Description
Turn of the century anthropologist's description of two classes of deities and spirits.
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Suppressive Narrator and Multiple Narratees in Gerald Vizenor's "Thomas White Hawk"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Winona Stevenson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1993, pp. 36-42
Description
Examines the relationship between the narrator and narratee regarding White Hawk's death sentence in Gerald Vizenor's work, Thomas White Hawk. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Survey Courses, Indian Literature, and The Way to Rainy Mountain

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kenneth M. Roemer
College English, vol. 37, no. 6, February 1976, pp. 619-624
Description
Suggests that Momaday's work, despite the fact that it deals with only one tribe, is a useful starting point for the study of Native American literature when there are time constraints on a more in-depth examination of the canon.
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Survey of Native American Literature

E-Books
Author/Creator
Josh Dickinson
Description

"This survey textbook overviews Native American literature from its origins in poems and creation myths of the continent's hundreds of Native cultures. Texts are organized with major sections on creation myths, fiction, poetry, and nonfiction/memoir."

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Survival's Song: Beth Brant and the Power of the Word

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Linda Cullum
MELUS, vol. 24, no. 3, Fall, 1999, pp. 129-140
Description
Comments on textual criticism on the works of Native American writers, emphasizing the interconnectedness of life, language and survival.
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Survivance and Fluidity: George Conway's The Life, History, and Travels of Kah-Ge-ga-gah-bowh

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cathy Rex
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 1-33
Description
Contends that the autobiographical work demonstrates a self-determined identity that defies nineteenth century national, social, racial and intellectual categories and successfully integrates his Ojibwe, American and British cultures. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
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Survivance in Indigenous Science Fictions: Vizenor, Silko, Glancy, and the Rejection of Imperial Victimry

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David M. Higgins
Extrapolation, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 51-72
Description
Critical essay examines the ways that mainstream speculative fictions (SF) preference colonial narratives by placing white men in a victim role, thereby absolving them of guilt and granting them the moral authority of retributive agency. Uses Vizenor’s survivance paradigms to illustrate Indigenous SF’s rejection of the victim position, and resistance to colonial discourse rooted in oppositional duality.
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[Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Chadwick Allen
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 4, Winter, 2011, pp. 120-124
Description
Book review of: Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence edited by Gerald Vizenor. Scroll to page 120 for article.
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