Literature & Stories
Teaching Aboriginal Literature Through the Lenses of Contemporary Literacy Theory
Alternate Title
McDowell Foundation Research Project ; no. 105
Teaching and Learning Research Exchange
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Geraldine Balzer
McDowell Foundation Research Project
Description
Looks at the introduction of Aboriginal literature and contemporary critical theory to Grade 12 students.
Teaching "Multicultural" Perspectives: All Not Present and
Accounted For
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce McKenna
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1995, pp. 79-86
Description
Discusses how the live interaction between the speaker and listener is a different experience than the solitary activity of reading in teaching courses with many cultural
perspectives.
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Teaching Native American Literature: Inviting Students to See the World through Indigenous Lenses
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carol Zitzer-Comfort
Pedagogy, vol. 8, no. 1, Winter, 2008, pp. 160-170
Description
Discusses how providing background and context contributes to understanding Indigenous literature, e.g., using specific tribal and historical information.
Teaching Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ron McFarland
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 16, no. 2, Autumn, 2001, pp. 139-147
Description
Explains how to approach teaching contemporary Native American literature by authors such as Sherman Alexie as opposed to mainstream literature.
Teaching Smoke Signals : Fatherhood, Forgiveness, and "Freedom"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring, 2008, pp. 123-146
Description
A synopsis of the movie Smoke Signals," examines the relationship between fatherhood and forgiveness. Also included are discussion questions on topics of addiction, Native American genocide, and family relationships.
Telling about Bear in N. Scott Monaday's The Ancient Child
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alec Rekow
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring, 1997, pp. 149-164
Description
Examines use of the bear as a literary device with possibilities for human animal relations, transformations, and the bear's connections to the beginnings of literature.
Telling and Retelling in the ‘Ink of Light’: Documentary Cinema, Oral Narratives, and Indigenous Identities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joanna Hearne
Screen, vol. 47, no. 3, 2006, pp. 307-326
Description
Examines early Native American cinematic representation in photography and film and discusses how Native filmmakers are reclaiming their stories and retelling them in their own voices.
The Terrestrial and Aquatic Intelligence of Linda Hogan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donelle N. Dreese
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 4, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Linda Hogan, Winter, 1999, pp. [6]-23
Description
Discusses the work Dwellings: A Spiritual History of The Living World., which is inspired by oral traditions and spirituality surrounding the environment, rather than Western attitudes which have led to its destruction.
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Text as Trickster: Postmodern Language Games in Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Blair
MELUS, vol. 20, no. 4, Maskers and Tricksters , Winter, 1995, pp. 75-90
Description
Argues that Chippawa author Gerald Vizenor's Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart is radical and traditional at the same time and makes extensive use of oral tradition while employing postmodern narrative strategies within a written text.
Textual Fantasies and Culturality in Native American Fiction: A Review Article of New Books by Treuer and Justice
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Angeline O'Neill
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 13, no. 2, Thematic Issue: About Indigenous Literatures, June 2011, pp. 1-6
Description
Book reviews of: Native American Fiction: A User's Manual by David Treuer.
Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History by Daniel Heath Justice.
Textual Stimulation: Gerald Vizenor's Use of Law in Advocacy Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Irene Gonzales
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1993, pp. 31-35
Description
Discusses Vizenor's use of law and literature in the sentencing of Thomas White Hawk.
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That Also Is You: Some Classics of Native Canadian Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Bringhurst
Canadian Literature, no. 124-125 , Native Writers & Canadian Writing, Spring/Summer , 1990, pp. 32-47
Description
Essays examining the conventional portrayals of Native people in literature, exposing prejudices and misconceptions entrenched since colonial days regarding Native societies, including their moral, spiritual, and political values.
Entire journal in one pdf. Scroll down to page 32 to read article.
[That Dream Shall Have a Name: Native Americans Rewriting America]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kenneth Roemer
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 4, Indigenous Performance 2, Winter, 2014, pp. 78-83
Description
Book review of: That Dream Shall Have a Name by David L. Moore.
Scroll down to page 78 to read review.
"That the People Might Live": Loss and Renewal in Native American Elegy; The Red Land to the South: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico; Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations; Winning the West With Words: Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes
Book Reviews
American Literature, vol. 87, no. 1, March 2015, pp. 187-197
Description
Book reviews of:
"That the People Might Live" by Arnold Krupat.
The Red Land to the South by James H. Cox.
Mark My Words by Mishuana Goeman.
Winning the West With Words by James Joseph Buss.
Scroll to page 194 to read reviews.
Theatre Co. Labour of Love: SNTC Does Much More Than Produce Plays
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Ned Powers
StarPhoenix, November 14, 2006, p. B1
Description
Explains the need for a theatre where youth could tell their stories and develop their skills and how this became a reality with the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company.
The Theme of the Helping Hand in Winter in the Blood
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charles G. Ballard
MELUS, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring, 1991, pp. 63-74
Description
Explores the work of Blackfeet author James Welch who presents Native American and Western humanistic cultures in equally forceful ways in order to have a meeting of the two worlds.
"Then One Day We Create Something Unexpected": Tribalography's Decolonizing Strategies in LeAnne Howe's Evidence of Red
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Horan
Seonghoon Kim
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 1, Spring, 2013, pp. 27-52
Description
Discusses how the author uses storytelling as a method of decolonization and for preserving culture.
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Theorizing the Earth: Feminist Approaches to Nature and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa Orr
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, 1994, pp. 145-157
Description
Argues that ecofeminism, or those who found a connection between technological exploitation of land and oppression of women, could benefit from a careful reading of Ceremony.
"There is a Right Way"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Phillip H. Round
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 3, Fall, 2006, pp. 82-89
Description
Discusses the poetry within Blackfeet author James Welch's work Riding the Earthboy 40 as an influential American Indian literary work more than three decades after its publication.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 82.