Literature & Stories
"To Feel the Drumming Earth Come Upward": Indigenizing the American Studies Discipline, Field, Movement
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark
Norman R. Yetman
American Studies, vol. 46, no. 3-4, Indigeneity at the Crossroads of American Studies, Fall/Winter, 2005, pp. 7-21
Description
Looks at Indigenous academics and scholars and their responsibilities.
Joint issue with: Indigenous Studies Today Issue 1, Spring 2006.
"To Kyngdoms Strange ..." An Examination of North American Indian Ethnographic Evidence in Richard Hakluyt's Principall (sic) Navigations of the English Nation [1589]
Alternate Title
"To Kyngdoms Strange ..." An Examination of North American Indian Ethnographic Evidence in Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations of the English Nation [1589]
Theses
Author/Creator
Ari David Berk
Description
American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1994.
To Lavonne-With Good Thoughts
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Geary Hobson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 2, Special Issue: Honoring A. Lavonne Brown, Summer, 2005, pp. 85-86
Description
Discusses A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff's contributions to the field of Native American literary studies.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 85.
Tom Smith Sr. Interview #1
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Tom Sr. Smith
David Stevenson
Indian History Film Project
Description
The person being interviewed is apparently telling traditional stories. However, a great deal of the dialogue is inaudible and the stories are thus virtually incomprehensible.
Tomson Highway: Freeing Myth & Language
Alternate Title
Tomson Highway: Freeing Myth and Language
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Maire Mendenhall
Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada, vol. 33, no. 2, Autumn, 2000, p. 12
Description
Highlights of talks given by the author at the University of Regina.
Tongue-Tied: Rhetoric and Relation in Louise Erdrich's Tracks
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sheila Hassell Hughes
MELUS, vol. 25, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2000, pp. 87-116
Description
Discusses the connection between oppressor and oppressed and suggests reading to understand both perspectives leads to evaluating one's own response and eithics.
Tortured Skins and Other Fictions Maurice Kenny
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Penelope Myrtle Kelsey
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 13, no. 2 & 3, Series 2, Summer/Fall, 2001, pp. 103-106
Description
Book review of: Tortured Skins and Other Fictions by Maurice Kenny.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Toward a New Flagstaff
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Ruppert
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 3, Series 2; Twentieth-Anniversary Issue on the Flagstaff Conference on Native American Literatures, Fall , 1997, pp. 37-40
Description
Author reflects on the implications of the Flagstaff Conference of 1977, a pivotal moment in the study of
American Indian literature.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Towards a National Indian Literature: Cultural Authenticity in Nationalism
Alternate Title
Part I: The Historical Matrix
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Simon J. Ortiz
MELUS, vol. 8, no. 2, Ethnic Literature and Cultural Nationalism , Summer, 1981, pp. 7-12
Description
Looks at the history and themes in Indigenous literatures, and the culturally authentic voice found in those themes.
Towards Transnational Native American Literary Studies
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hsinya Huang
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and culture, vol. 13, no. 2, Thematic Issue: About Indigenous Literatures, June 2011, pp. 1-9
Description
Discusses how Native American scholarship can be adapted, translated and interpreted into a transnational context.
A Toxic Legacy: Stories of Jackpile Mine
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Connie A. Jacobs
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Special Issue on Teaching Leslie Marmon Silkos Ceremony, 2004, pp. 41-52
Description
Looks at Silko's novel Ceremony and the climax of the novel, a witches’ ceremony—at Cañoncito, southeast of the Jackpile Uranium Mine. The article also discusses how Tayo, the main character, must restore harmony between the land and his people.
Traditional Mothers and Contemporary Daughters in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carla Lee Verderame
Teaching American Literature, vol. 1, no. 4, Fall, 2007, pp. 50-61
Description
Overview of the English course, Contemporary Native American Literature taught at West Chester University and an analysis of Solar Storms which deals with the building of James Bay-Great Whale hydroelectric project in Quebec.
Traditional Sources and New Techniques of Narration: A Contrastive Study Of Mythic Rituals in Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Punyashree Panda
Indian Review of World Literature in English, vol. 2, no. 1, January 2006, p. [?]
Description
Focuses on the trepidations of Native Women writers and their appreciation of the cultures and traditions of their People, including the role of mother earth, hunting and fishing traditions, the peoples and the wars, and the waters and fires.
Traditional Voices Speak: Storytellers in Contemporary Native American Texts
Alternate Title
Essay - Traditional Voices Speak: Storytellers in Contemporary Native American Texts
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jami Huntsinger Hacker
[Weber Studies], vol. 12, no. 3, Native American Special Issue, Fall, 1995, p. [?]
Description
Looks at the inspirations of Native American fiction writers.
Traditions of the Lillooet Indians of British Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Teit
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 25, no. 98, October-December 1912, pp. 287-371
Description
Includes a diverse variety of tales of transformation, floods, the origin of copper and many other stories.
The Trans/Historicity of Trauma in Jeannette Armstrong's Slash and Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy Van Styvendale
Studies in the Novel, vol. 40, no. 1/2, Spring/Summer, 2008, pp. 203-223
Description
Discusses, by way of two novels, the idea of an historic traumatic "event" that has negatively impacted First Nations peoples and argues that not all events are singular, easily recognizable or chronologically-bounded.