Literature & Stories
The Voice of Power and the Power of Voices: Teaching with Native American Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marlinda White-Kaulaity
ALAN Review, vol. 34, no. 1, Fall, 2006, pp. 8-16
Description
Argues for a curriculum of inclusion rather than exclusion as demonstrated by incorporating Native American literature into the mainstream Language Arts programs.
Voices in Australia's Aboriginal and Canada's First Nations Literatures
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kim Scott
Eden Robinson
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 13, no. 2, Thematic Issue: About Indigenous Literatures, June 2011, pp. 1-7
Description
Discusses Kim Scott's I Come From Here and Eden Robinson's "99.9% True and Authentic Tales".
Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard. Siobhan Senier
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Edward Huffstetler
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 14, no. 2 & 3, Series 2, Summer/Fall, 2002, pp. 35-38
Description
Book review of: Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance by Siobhan Senier.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
The Voices of Gerald Vizenor: Survival Through Transformation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia Haseltine
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 1, Winter, 1985, pp. 31-47
Description
Looks at French and Anishinaabe author Gerald Vizenor's recent work, Earthdivers, which attempts to create a "new consciousness of coexistence" by using the trickster to stimulate dialogue on contemporary Native American issues.
Voyage Out of the Interior: Amateur Historian's Films From ' 60s Stir Imagination at LCO
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Thelma Nayquonabe
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 2, Our Story, Our Way, Winter, 2007
Description
Discussion of the tapes and films collected by Tony Wise and donated to the Lac Courte Oreilles; sparked the "Audio Visual Production Project" at the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College to digitize and edit the material.
Waabii
Alternate Title
Stories of the Four-legged: A Waabanong Book
Maajii-Ojibwemowag = They Begin to Speak Ojibwe
[Maajii-Ojibwemowag: They Begin to Speak Ojibwe – ANA Language Project Teacher/Caregiver Supplemental Document]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Niibaagaabaaw (David Aubid)
Description
Preschool children's storybook about how the snowshoe came to look as it does. Text in Ojibwe and English.
Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Material.
Waasechibiiwaabikoonsing Nd’anami’aami, “Praying through a Wired Window”: Using Technology to Teach Anishinaabemowin
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Noori
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 2, Digital Technologies and Native Literature, Summer, 2011, pp. 3-23
Description
Focuses on the internet site Noongwa e-Anishinaabemjig: People Who Speak Anishinaabemowin Today hosted by the University of Michigan.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 3.
Waiting for Ishi: Gerald Vizenor’s Ishi and the Wood Ducks and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elvira Pulitano
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Gerald Vizenor, Spring, 1997, pp. [73]-92
Description
Discusses the play, based on a true occurrence, the central themes of which are the importance of stories and names, and the issue of what constitutes tribal identity.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
"Waiting Halfway in Each Other's Bodies": Kinship and Corporeality in Louise Erdrich's Father's Milk
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Maureen Riche
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 4, Animal Studies, Winter, 2013, pp. 48-68
Description
Examines the story's theme of intimate human-animal relationships.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 48.
The Walam Olum: An Indigenous Apocrypha and Its Readers
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrew Newman
American Literary History, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 26-56
Description
Discussion on the origin and authenticity of The Walam Olum which claims to be a pictographic record of the Lenni Lenápe or Delaware Indians.
A Walk on the Tundra: Book Study
Alternate Title
A Walk on the Tundra: Senior Book Study
Uqalimaarummaq Reader
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nunavut Arctic College
Description
Teacher's resource for unit which strengthens students' literacy and communication skills while they learn about local plants, the environment, and their community.
A Walk on the Tundra: Junior Book Study
Alternate Title
A Walk on the Tundra Book Study
Uqalimaarummaq Reader
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nunavut Arctic College
Description
Teacher's resource for use with Grades 3, 4, and 5 primary students. Unit designed to strengthen students' literacy and communication skills while learning about local plants, the environment, and their community.
Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and Their Representations
Alternate Title
A Story Untold: A Community-Based Oral Narrative of Mohawk Women's Voices from Point Anne, Ontario
Aboriginal Studies Series (Wilfred Laurier University Press)
Goodbye, Wild Indian
Kwakwaka-wakw on Film
Permission and Possession: The Identity Tightrope
Seeing Red: The Stoic Whiteman and Non-Native Humour
The Whirlwind of History: Parallel Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on “Are They Savage?”
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Drew Hayden Taylor
Philip Bellfry
Dawn T. Maracle
Karl Hele
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse
Lenore Keeshig-Tobias
Aboriginal Studies Series
Description
Chapters one, two, four, seven, and twelve.
[Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Amy Gore
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 4, Animal Studies, Winter, 2013, pp. 100-103
Description
Book review of Walking the Clouds by Grace L. Dillon.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 100.
Wampum, Bibles, Treaties, and American Letters: Native American and Anglo-American Communications in Early America
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Rebecca M. Lush
Early American Literature, vol. 49, no. 3, 2014, pp. 771-785
Description
Review essay of: Pen and Ink Witchcraft: Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History by Colin G. Calloway.
Bradford's Indian Book: Being the True Roote and Rise of American Letters as Revealed by the Native Text Embedded in "Of Plimoth Plantation" by Betty Booth Donohue.
John Eliot and the Praying Indians of Massachusetts Bay by Kathryn N. Gray.
Waņna Dakota uņkiapi kate!
Alternate Title
Now We're Going to Speak Dakota!
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Peacock
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 57-72
Description
Discusses the reasons why the author had difficulty attempting to learn his Dakota language.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 57.
Wapos Bay: The World According to Devon
Alternate Title
Wapos Bay: episode 29
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Dennis Jackson
Melanie Jackson
Description
Student conquers fear of public speaking through oral storytelling in front of classmates in episode 29 of a stop-motion animation series.
Duration: 21:59
The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Erin Griffin
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 4, Winter, 2009, pp. 90-93
Description
Book review of: The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature by Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 90.
War of the Eagles [by] Eric Walters: A Novel Study
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Regional Vancouver Island Aboriginal Circle
Description
Recommended for Grades 6 to 9. Story about two friends, one of Tsimshian/Caucasian descent, the other of Japanese descent, and how they react to the Japanese internment in Canada during World War II.
Wascana Creek and the “Pile o’ Bones”
Articles » General
Author/Creator
[J. Hillyer
J. W. Powers
G. W. Brown
A. E. Porter
Mata-Win]
Saskatchewan History, vol. 19, no. 3, Autumn, 1966, pp. 111-118
Description
Discusses the significance of and stories surrounding the Wascana Creek and the origins of its name.
Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 111.
Waseteg
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Phyllis Grant
Kent Martin
Sam Decoste
Randall Finnerty
Wenqi Hou ... [et al.]
Description
Animated short about motherless Mi’gmaq girl. Duration: 6:29.
Accompanied by a study guide.
Washo Texts
Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.22, no.3
E-Books
Author/Creator
Grace Dangberg
Description
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology , vol. 22, (pp391-443).
Waste-full Crossings in Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water
Alternate Title
Parallel Encounters: Culture and the Canada-U.S. Border
Waste-full Crossings: Thomas King's Rubbishy Border
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Catherine Bates
Description
Comments on the Canadian-American border which King calls "this line of someone else's imagination" and the river that separates the town of Truth from the First Nation, Bright Water.
Chapter from Parallel Encounters: Culture and the Canada-U.S. Border [edited by Gillian Roberts and David Stirrup]
Water Is Life: Ecologies of Writing and Indigeneity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christina Boyles
Hilary E. Wyss
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 1-9
Description
Discusses some of the sociopolitical issues and topics addressed in special issue including #NoDAPL, the cuts to the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), water sovereignty, regulation and distribution, and extractive practices.
Water-Monsters of American Aborigines
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Albert S. Gatschet
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 12, no. 47, October-December 1899, pp. 255-260
Description
Discussion of the large snakes, horned snakes, water monster serpents in Lake Manitou, and horned alligators of extraordinary size.