Literature & Stories

There Is No Limit to this Dust: The Refusal of Sacrifice in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia Riley
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 12, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2000, pp. [13]-23
Description
Discusses the author's refusal to portray mixbloods as victims. Instead her characters display a wide range of personality traits and defy the stereotypes often found in literature. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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There is No Respectful Way to Kill an Animal

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Craig Womack
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 4, Animal Studies, Winter, 2013, pp. [11]-27
Description
Examines the significance of hunting scenes in D'arcy McNickle's The Surrounded and Gerald Vizenor's Interior Landscapes. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 11.
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"There isn't a Mr. Heavyman" Will's Negatives in Medicine River

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Francis Zichy
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 2, Summer, 2009, pp. 25-49
Description
Comments on Thomas King's novel and explores stereotypical images. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 25.
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"There's Still More Digging To Do": A Story in Honor of A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Malea Powell
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 2, Special Issue: Honoring A. Lavonne Brown, Summer, 2005, pp. 5-9
Description
Reviews the life and accomplishments of Lavonne Brown Ruoff, Dean of Native American Literary Studies, who has worked to make American Indian literature an established and respected academic field. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 5.
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“They Found and Left Her an Indian”: Gender, Race, and the Whitening of Young Bear

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jim J. Buss
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 29, no. 2-3, 2008, pp. 1-35
Description
Examines Frances Slocum’s cultural conversion from a white girl to an Indian woman; explores the dissemination of her story; and investigates the ways in which white writers later stressed the story of Frances Slocum as the story of a white woman.
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They Killed the Word

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reid Gómez
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 3-4, Series 2; [Indigenous Intersections], Fall-Winter, 2003-2004, pp. 64-95
Description
Discusses how words are used to label and fit ideas neatly into boxes. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1914-1915

Alternate Title
36th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1914-1915
E-Books
Author/Creator
F. W. Hodge
Francis La Flesche
Description
Report includes the following papers: Report of the Ethnologist-in-Charge by F. W. Hodge The Osage Tribe: Rite of the Chiefs; Sayings of the Ancient Men by Francis La Flesche
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Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1911-1912

E-Books
Author/Creator
F. W. Hodge
Description
Report includes the following papers: Report of the Ethnologist-in-Charge by F. W. Hodge Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region by Melvin Randolph Gilmore Preliminary Account of the Antiquities of the Region between the Mancos and La Plata Rivers in Southwestern Colorado by Earl H. Morris Designs on Prehistoric Hopi Pottery by Jesse Walter Fewkes The Hawaiian Romance of Laieikawai by Martha Warren Beckwith
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“This Story Needs a Witness”: The Imbrication of Witnessing, Storytelling, and Resilience in Lee Maracle’s Celia’s Song

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura J. Beard
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 151-178
Description
Examines themes of testimony, trauma, storytelling, and witnessing in Maracle’s novel; discusses the role that narrating and observing can play as a means of collaborating in the decolonization of settler systems and violence.
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"This Woman Can Cross Any Line": Feminist Tricksters in the Works of Nora Naranjo-Morse and Joy Harjo

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristine Holmes
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 45-63
Description
Discusses how the characters provide the poets with a playful, sometimes painful, way of speaking about American Indian women’s experiences and encompasses both traditional beliefs and contemporary reality. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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[Thomas King: The Inconvenient Indian]

Alternate Title
The Next Chapter ; February 4, 2013
The Next Chapter Special Extented Interview
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Shelagh Rogers
Thomas King
Description
Author of Green Grass, Running Water, and A Coyote Columbus Story, discusses his non-fiction book An Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, government policies and movements like Idle No More. Duration: 48:17.
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Those Treasured Purple-Inked Pages

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Martha Viehmann
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 2, Summer, 2005, p. 109
Description
Tribute to the author A. Lavonne Ruoff Brown in appreciation of her contributions to literature. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 109.
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Those Who Run in the Sky

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Aviaq Johnston
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 1, Food (In)security in the Northern Canada, April 2017, pp. 13-16
Description
Excerpt from a young adult novel.
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Three Day Road

Alternate Title
Boyden, Joseph. Three Day Road
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
John Hiett
Library Journal, vol. 131, no. 6, April 1, 2006, p. 128
Description
Book review of: Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden.
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Three-Day Road

Alternate Title
Boyden, Joseph. Three-Day Road
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David Keymer
Library Journal, vol. 130, no. 9, May 15, 2005, p. 104
Description
Book review of: Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden.
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Three Day Road

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Holly Ristau
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 17, no. 3, Heroes of Today, Spring, 2006
Description
Book review of: Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden.
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Three Day Road

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Roland Bohr
Manitoba History, no. 59, October 2008, p. 52
Description
Book review of: Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden.
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Three Day Road Earns Award

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joseph Boyden
Ontario Birchbark, vol. 5, no. 6, June 2006, p. 1
Description
Announces that writer Joseph Boyden won the Canadian Author Association MOSAID Technologies Inc. Award for Fiction for his novel, Three Day Road.
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Three Student Guides to Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter G. Beidler
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 4, 1992, pp. 167-173
Description
Provides three classroom discussion areas which are further broken down into specific themed topics by subject and character.
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Three Views of The Ancient Child

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Charles G. Ballard
Marie M. Schein
Helen Jaskoski
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 2, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1990, pp. 10-15
Description
Presents three book reviews of The Ancient Child by Scott Momaday: Planes of Reality: A Review by Charles G. Ballard Alienation and Art in The Ancient Child by Marie M. Schein The Ancient Child: A Note on Background by Helen Jaskoski Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Through Black Spruce

Book Reviews
Publishers Weekly, vol. 255, no. 49, December 8, 2008, p. 40
Description
Book review of: Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden.
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Through Black Spruce

Alternate Title
Boyden, Joseph. Through Black Spruce
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Donna Bettencourt
Library Journal, vol. 134, no. 1, January 1, 2009, pp. 76-77
Description
Book review of: Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden.
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Through Black Spruce

Book Reviews
Kirkus Reviews, vol. 77, no. 3, February 1, 2009, p. 19
Description
Book review of: Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden.
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Through Black Spruce

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Margaret Flanagan
Booklist, vol. 105, no. 11, February 1, 2009, p. 29
Description
Book review of: Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden.
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Throwing the Baby Eagle Out of the Nest

Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Borrows
Justice as Healing, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring, 1996, p. [?]
Description
Relates a story for use in discussion and teaching of the justice as a healing concept. Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
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Thunder

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
George First Rider
John Hellson
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he tells the story about the origin of thunder.
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Time-Out: (Slam)Dunking Photographic Realism in Thomas King’s Medicine River

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stuart Christie
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1999, pp. [51]-65
Description
Examines the ways in which photography, both past and present, by Western photographers and the Aboriginal character of Will, is used as a plot device in the novel. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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A Timely Fable

Articles » General
Inuktitut, no. 97, Summer, 2005, p. 9
Description
Brief item announcing that Borrowed Black, by Ellen Bryan Obed has been published for the first time in Inuktitut.
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