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Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story: Teaching American Indian Rhetorics

Book Reviews

Author/Creator

Michelle Nicole Boyer-Kelly

American Indian Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 2, Spring, 2017, pp. 190-192

Book review of Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story edited by Lisa King, Rose Gubele, and Joyce Rain.

Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story: Teaching American Indian Rhetorics

E-Books

Author/Creator

Janice Gould

Resa Crane Bizzaro

Lisa King

Rose Gubele

Joyce Rain Anderson ... [et al.]

Surviving Childhood Trauma: First Nations Novels and the Indian Residential School

Theses

Author/Creator

Jay Lewyn

English Literature Thesis (M.A.)--University of Northern British Columbia, 2017. Focuses on Porcupines and China Dolls by Robert Arthur Alexie, Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway, and Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese.

Surviving in the City: A Comparable Study of Qiu Huadong's The City Chariot [Cheng Shi Zhan Che] and Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen

Theses

Author/Creator

Ran Xiang

Comparative Literature Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2010.

Surviving Through the Days: Translations of Native California Stories and Songs: A California Indian Reader

E-Books

Surviving Through the Days: Translations of Native California Stories and Songs. Edited by Herbert W. Luthin.

Book Reviews

Author/Creator

Margaret Dubin

Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2003, pp. 93-96

Book review of: Surviving Through the Days edited by Herbert W. Luthin. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Swampy-Cree and Inuvialuit Embroidery

Articles » General

Author/Creator

Mary Carpenter-Frost

Inuktitut, no. 93, 2003, pp. 30-[?]

Short story of a relationship between two Inuit women whose lives have intertwined.

Sweet Grass Visions: The Combination of Trickster and Theatre for the Transmission of Culture

Theses

Author/Creator

Amethyst First Rider

Drama Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Calgary, 1994.

Sweet Medicine

Book Reviews

Author/Creator

Lisa A. Mitten

Library Journal, vol. 117, no. 16, October 1, 1992, p. 120

Book reviews of: Sweet Medicine by David Seals; and Touching the Fire: Buffalo Dancers, the Sky Bundle, and Other Tales by Roger Welsch.

Sweet Medicine: Sites of Indian Massacre, Battlefields, and Treaties

Book Reviews

Author/Creator

Neila C. Seshachari

[Weber Studies], vol. 12, no. 3, Native American Special Issue, Fall, 1995, p. [?]

Book review of: Sweet Medicine by Drex Brooks, Patricia Nelson Limerick, and James Welch.

Swimming in the Mainstream: Australian Aboriginal and Canadian Indian Drama

Alternate Title

Working Papers in Australian Studies ; no. 60

E-Books

Author/Creator

Adam Shoemaker

Working Papers in Australian Studies

Examines the plays The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway and The Dreamers by Jack Davis.

Sydney and the Bear: Based on a Childhood Experience of Sydney Osborne Jr.

Alternate Title

[Frontier School Division Native Studies Publications]

Documents & Presentations

Author/Creator

Byron Apetagon

Children's storybook.

The Syncretic Impulse: Louis Owens’ Use of Autobiography, Ethnology, and Blended Mythologies

in The Sharpest Sight

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Margaret Dwyer

Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 2, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Louis Owens, Summer, 1998, pp. 41-58

Generally discusses the novel's elements and specifically looks at the use of both Choctaw and European mythology. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

T.C. Power Papers - Robe and Fur Book. - 5 August 1876-3 June 1884.

E-Books

Author/Creator

T.C. Power

A Robe & Fur Book from the T.C. Power store in Fort Walsh, which lists robes and furs collected from 5 August 1876 to 3 June 1884. Animals used were buffalo, fox, wolf, coyote, badger, skunk and antelope.

Historical note:

Tai-Me to Rainy Mountain: The Makings of American Indian Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Kenneth Lincoln

American Indian Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 2, Spring, 1986, pp. 101-117

Looks into the title change of N. Scott Momaday's novel from The Journey of Tai-Me to The Way to Rainy Mountain.

Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing

Book Reviews

Author/Creator

Sam McKegney

The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, 2010, pp. 166-168

Book review of: Taking Back Our Spirits by Jo-Ann Episkenew.

Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing

E-Books

Author/Creator

Jo-Ann Episkenew

Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing

Book Reviews

Author/Creator

Keavy Martin

Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter, 2011, p. 63

Review of: Taking Back Our Spirits by Jo-Ann Episkenew.

Taking Soundings

Book Reviews

Author/Creator

Eve D'Aeth

Canadian Literature, no. 167, First Nations Writing, Winter, 2000, pp. 147-149

Book reviews of: Fearless Warriors by Drew Hayden Taylor and Echoing Silence: Essays on Ar[c]tic Narrative edited by John Moss.

Taku River Tlingit Place Names

Web Sites » Organizations

Author/Creator

[Taku River Tlingit First Nation

Andrew Williams

Bryan Jack

Louise Gordon

Susan Carlick ... ]

Website mapping application used to showcase Tlingit Place names and the stories associated with those places; also to convey Tlingit ideologies of stewardship and relationship with the land.

Tālanga: Theorizing a Tongan Mode of Interpretation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Nasili Vaka'uta

AlterNative, vol. 5, no. 1, 2009, pp. 126-139

Discusses an approach to reading the Bible based on local cultural perspectives.

A Tale of Two Creek Brothers: Playwright Tomson Highway Casts a Spell With His First Novel [Final Edition]

Book Reviews

Author/Creator

Richard Wagamese

The Ottawa Citizen, September 20, 1998, p. E3

Reviews book: Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway.

Tales of a Nation: Interpretive Legal Battles in Rudy Wiebe's The Scorched-Wood People

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Marie Therese Blanc

Canadian Literature, no. 177, Summer, 2003, pp. 34-54

Argues that literary narratives provide readers with a sense of nation, unlike legal documents, citing Wiebe's book as providing such identity Métis peoples of the prairies. Entire issue on one pdf. Scroll down to page 34 to access article.

Tales of the Indians: Being Prominent Passages of the History of the North American Natives Taken from Authentic Sources

E-Books

Author/Creator

Benjamin Bussey Thatcher

Tales of the Mississaguas

Alternate Title

Tales of the Mississaugas

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

[Alexander Francis Chamberlain]

Journal of American Folklore, vol. 2, no. 5, [April-June] 1889, pp. 141-154

Collection of stories, most from Mississagua, Mrs. Bolin (Nawigishkoke) of Scugog Island, Ontario.

Tales of the Old Indian Territory and Essays on the Indian Condition

Alternate Title

American Indian Lives

E-Books

Author/Creator

John Milton Oskison

Talk Story: Sharing Stories, Sharing Culture

Web Sites » Organizations

Author/Creator

Family Literacy Focus Initiative

American Library Association

Presents a website that highlights a literacy program for children and their families. The program celebrates and explores stories through books, oral traditions and art.

The 'Talking Paper' Interpreting the Birch-Bark Scrolls of the Ojibwa Midéwiwin

Theses

Author/Creator

Christopher Barry-Arredondo

American Studies Thesis (M.A.)--State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY), 2006.

Talking to the Animals and Taking Out the Trash: The Functions of American Indian Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Kathryn W. Shanley

Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 14, no. 2, Autumn, 1999, pp. 32-45

Argues that Native American literature, whether oral or written, serves all the functions any literature can or does serve, including spiritual inspiration and political insight.

Talking Tribalography: LeAnne Howe Models Emerging Worldliness in “The Story of America” and Miko Kings

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Carter Meland

Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 2, Tribalography, Summer, 2014, pp. 26-39

Discusses Howe's work as a tool to facilitate decolonial thinking and connect time, space, and place. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 26.

Tangled, Lost and Bitter? Current Directions in Writing of Native History in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Kerry Abel

Acadiensis, vol. 26, no. 1, Autumn, 1996, pp. 92-101

Review essay of: Bitter Feast: Amerindians and Europeans in Northeaster North America, 1600-64 by Denis Delage. Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy by Sarah Carter. The Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada's Pacific Coast Fisheries by Diane Newell. Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schoolsby J.R. Miller.

A Tapestry of History and Reimagination: Women's Place in James Welch's Fools Crow

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Barbara Cook

American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 3, Summer, 2000, pp. 441-453

Describes how author James Welch presented the continuing strength and importance of women for survival of the Blackfeet tribal community.

"A Taste of Paradise": Sacajawea and the Romanticizing of Americanization"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Laura Knowlton-Le Roux

Cercles, vol. 19, 2009, pp. 55-66

Examines the legend of Sacajawea, her importance in the assimilation of Native Americans and argues the impossibility of updating the legend due to American's expectation of popular history.

Tate and the Flyers

Documents & Presentations

Author/Creator

Government of Saskatchewan

Primary reading level storybook.

Taylor to Direct Native Theatre Company

Articles » General

Windspeaker, vol. 12, no. 1, 1994, p. 8

Announcement of Drew Hayden Taylor as the new Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts Company.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 8.

Teacher Guide for A Gial Called ECHO: Learning about the History and Culture of the Métis Nation in Grades 6–8

E-Books » Chapters

Author/Creator

Rueben Boulette

Excerpt contains overview about teaching Indigenous topics, and lesson one on Métis culture.

The Teacher of Modern American Indian Writing as Ethnographer and Critic

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Jarold Ramsey

College English, vol. 41, no. 2, October 1979, pp. 163-169

Looks at the results of a disruption of the balance between scholarly and critical perspective.

Teacher Resource Guide: English 10 and 11 First Peoples

Documents & Presentations

Author/Creator

Karmen Brillon

Anne Hill

Carol Arnold

Starleigh Grass

Joyce Johnston ... [et al.]

Topics include planning for instruction, instruction and assessments units, and text recommendations.

Teacher Resource Guide: English 12 First Peoples

Documents & Presentations

Author/Creator

Starla Anderson

Jo-Anne Chrona

David Ellison

Nora Greenway

Stephen Naylor ... [et al.]

Excellent source for books, audio, articles, etc. relating to all genres of Aboriginal literature.

Teacher's Guide for 7 Generations Series

Alternate Title

Teacher's Guide for Seven Generations Series

Documents & Presentations

Author/Creator

Niigonwedom James Sinclair

For use with Stone, Scars, The Pact, and Ends/Begins written by David Alexander Robertson and illustrated by Scott Henderson.

Teacher's Guide for In Search of April Raintree 25th Anniversary Edition and April Raintree by Beatrice Mosionier

Documents & Presentations

Author/Creator

Pat Adamson

Lauree Kopetsky

In Search of April Raintree is the unabridged version of the story and is recommended for Grade 10 and above. The abridged version, April Raintree, can be used with younger students.

A Teacher's Guide for Indian Shoes: A Novel by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Alternate Title

Reading with Relevance: Building Independent Readers and Thinkers

Documents & Presentations

Sample lesson focuses on one chapter in book which follows the adventures of grandfather and his grandson. Recommended grades 2-3.

Teacher's Guide for Pīsim Finds Her Miskanow by William Dumas, Illustrated by Leonard Paul

E-Books

Author/Creator

Margaret Dumas

Deborah Schnitzer

[Teacher's Guide]: No Time to Say Goodbye by Sylvia Olsen

Documents & Presentations

Stories in book are based on accounts from Indigenous people who attended Kuper Island Residential School. Lesson plan is intended for use with Grades 9 and 10.

Teacher's Guide: Pīsim Finds Her Miskanaw by William Dumas; illustrated by Leonard Paul

E-Books

Author/Creator

Margaret Dumas

Deborah Schnitzer

For use with picture-book which provides historical information about the pre-contact culture and language of the Rocky Cree people from around South Indian Lake in Northern Manitoba.

English text with some Cree vocabulary and phrases, and glossary and pronunciation guide.

Teacher's Guide to Firekeepers Daughter

Documents & Presentations

Author/Creator

[Kit Magee]

Young adult story about a teenager who collaborates with the FBI to investigate murders related to the appearance of methamphetamine in her community.

A Teacher's Guide to Student Inquiry for the Graphic Novel Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story by David Alexander Robertson and Scott B. Henderson

E-Books

Author/Creator

Connie Wyatt Anderson

Novel tells the story of the nineteen-year-old Cree girl from Norway House Cree Nation who was murdered near The Pas, Manitoba on November 13, 1971. Recommended for use with students Grade 10 or above.