Literature & Stories

Presents an interview with Wendy Rose reflecting on her most influential works. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 71.

Discusses a story of survival from degrading, traumatic experiences related to ethnic identity.

Short story.

Book review of: On the Rez by Ian Frazier.

Book review of: Blind Moses: Moses Tjalkabota Uraiakuraia, Aranda Man of High Degree and Christian Evangelist by Peter Latz. Scroll down to page 181 to read review.

A short fictional story.

Discusses the debate about what constitutes American Indian identity by contrasting U.S. government's standard of blood quantum with N. Scott Momaday's trope of "memory in the blood" as a sign of racial authenticity.

Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1997.

Looks at Native American stories about tribal culture and the survival of Indigenous memories.

A performance piece recreates the author's experiences growing up as he attempted to reclaim his Native American heritage.

Book review of: Blood Sports by Eden Robinson and Dream Wheels by Richard Wagamese.

"Uses the genre of young adult vampire novel to explore the ways in which different practices and understandings of history shape both national and personal identities".

Book review of: Blue Jay's Dance by Louise Erdrich. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book review of Blue Ravens by Gerald Vizenor.

Discusses the parallels between Chinese and Native American culture as revealed in Griever: An American Monkey King in China. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Recounts some of the lighter stories involving initial contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples.

Discusses characters which exhibit traits of the opposite sex and cross the borders of expected behaviour. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Excerpt from Native American Classics: Graphic Classics, volume 24 edited by Joseph Bruchac, John Smelcer and Tom Pomplun. American Indian writers often reference boarding school experiences in their poems, short stories, essays, novels and plays. Provides a list of suggested readings on American Indian boarding schools in Canada and the United States.

Consists of an interview where he gives the legends behind various geographical features.

Book review of: Body, Mind and Spirit by Beverly Cox, photographs by Martn [Martin] Jacobs. Scroll down to read review.

Explores the dual and linked themes of stories and community as expressed through the main character, who finds himself isolated from both. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Discusses novel about the Lone Eaters band living near the border between the Canadian rocky mountains and America in the 1870s.

The book contains the histories, traditions and beliefs of Chipewyan, Dogrib, Slavey, and Loucheux peoples. The Dene told these histories and beliefs to Emile Petitot who wrote the words down in the Dene Language. The stories were compiled by Petitot between 1862 and 1875.

Historical note:

Discusses a play, The Book of Jessica, that illustrates the struggle women have in understanding what being "a woman" means, including across the barriers of race, culture, privilege and age. Entire journal on one pdf. Scroll down to page 10 to read article.

Author was founder of the Woodcraft Indians, a youth movement which appropriated Aboriginal culture.

Book review of: (Ad)dressing Our Words edited by Armand Garnet Ruffo.

Book review of: Studying Native America: Problems and Prospects edited by Russell Thornton.

Book review of: The Roads of My Relations by Devon A. Mihesuah.

Book review of: The Northern Copper Inuit: A History by Richard G. Condon, Julia Ogina and Holman Elders.

Book review of: Grey Owl: The Mystery of Archie Belaney by Armand Garnet Ruffo.

Book review of: Traplines by Eden Robinson.

Book review of: An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English (2nd Edition) edited by Daniel David Moses and Terry Goldie.

Book review of: Wynema: A Child of the Forest by S. Alice Callahan.

Book review of: Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today by Leslie Marmon Silko.

Book review of: The Bear-Walker and Other Stories by Basil H. Johnston.

Book review of: Aboriginal and Visible Minority Librarians edited by Deborah Lee and Mahalakshmi Kumaran.

Review of Learning to Write "Indian" by Amelia V. Katanski.

Book review of: Seventh Generation An Anthology of Native American Plays edited by Mimi Gisolfi D'Aponte.

Book review of 2 books: Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature by James D. Hartman. Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century New England Writing by Jim Egan.

Book reviews of 20 books: American Indians and State Law: Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790-1880 by Deborah A. Rosen. Architectural Variability in the Southeast edited by Cameron H. Lacquement. Art from Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection by Joyce M.

Book reviews of 20 books: Being and Place Among the Tlingit by Thomas F. Thornton. The Cultivation of Resentment: Treaty Rights and the New Right by Jeffery R. Dudas. Diabetes Among the Pima: Stories of Survival by Carolyn Smith-Morris. Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music by Lynn Whidden. First Families: A Photographic History of California Indians by L. Frank and Kim Hogeland. Households and Hegemony: Early Creek Prestige Goods, Symbolic Capital and Social Power by Cameron B.

Book reviews of 4 books: Public Native America: Tribal Self-Representation in Museums, Powwows, and Casinos by Mary Lawlor. Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction by Annette Trefzer. Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief by David Murray. Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country edited by Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland.

Book reviews of: Windigo: An Anthology of Fact and Fantastic Fiction edited by John Robert Columbo. The Inuit: Life As It Was by Richard Harrington. Dance Me Outside by W. P. Kinsella.

Book reviews of 18 books: Before the Country: Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology by Stephanie McKenzie. Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism Since 1900 edited by Daniel M. Cobb and Loretta Fowler. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians by Michale Leroy Oberg. How Choctaws Invented Civilization and Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World by D. L. Birchfield. I Swallow Turquoise For Courage: Poems by Hershman R. John. Long Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians edited by James W.

Book reviews of: The Myth of the Savage: And the Beginnings of French Colonialism in the Americas by Olive Patricia Dickason and First People, First Voices by Penny Petrone.

Review of 6 books: Mud Woman: Poems from the Clay by Nora Naranjo-Morse. Red Clay: Poems and Stories by Linda Hogan. Night Perimeter: New and Selected Poems: 1958-1990 by Carroll Arnett (Gogisgi). Fire Water World: Poems by Adrain C. Louis. Another Distance: New and Selected Poems by Lance Henson. Drawings of the Song Animals: New and Selected Poems by Duane Niatum.

Book review of: Winter of the Holy Iron by Joseph Marshall.

Book reviews of: Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place by Louis Owens. Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border Crossing, and Loose Canons by Paula Gunn Allen. To Access Reviews, scroll to Page 84-89

Book reviews of: Legends of our Times: Native Cowboy Life by Morgan Baillargeon and Leslie Tepper. The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America by Conlin Callway (Editor). Women in Trouble: Connecting Women's Law Violations to Their Histories of Abuse by Elizabeth Cormack. Leonard Bloomfield's Fox Lexicon: Critical Edition by Ives Goddard (Editor). White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence by Sidney L. Harring.