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The Water Walker Written and Illustrated by Joanne Robertson: Teacher Guide

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Laura Horton

To accompany book about Josephine-ba Mandamim, an Ojibwe Grandmother, and her love for water; she has  walked around the Great Lakes to raise awareness of the importance of protecting it for future generations.

Appropriate for use with students aged 6-9 (Grades 1-3). English text with some Ojibwe vocabulary.

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[The Way of Thorn and Thunder: The Kynship Chronicles]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David D. Oberhelman
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 3, Fall, 2013, pp. 118-120
Book review of: The Way of Thorn and Thunder by Daniel Heath Justice. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 118.
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A Way Through: The Life of Rick Farley

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kevin Keefe Bisbane
Aboriginal History, vol. 37, 2013, pp. 125-127
Book review of: A Way Through by Nicholas Brown and Susan Boden. Scroll down to page 125 to read review.
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We All Look Alike

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jamie Figueroa
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 24, no. 1, Communicating Yesterdays Stories Today, Fall, 2012, p. 46
Short story.
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We Are All Related: Using Augmented Reality as a Learning Resource for Indigenous-Settler Relations

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Amanda Almond
Rob McMahon
Diane P. Janes
Greg Whistance-Smith
Diana Steinhauer
Stewart Steinhauer
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 6, no. Special Issue 2, Connectivity in Northern and Indigenous Communities, October 2018, pp. 38-41
Discusses the potential for improving knowledge and empathy based relationships through the use of augmented reality (AR) technology as a storytelling platform; details an ongoing partnership between the University of Alberta and the Saddle Lake Cree Nation that uses the Wikiup app.
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We Are All Treaty People

Alternate Title
Kayak ; no. 65, 2018
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Canada's History
Kayak, no. 65, September 2018

Special themed issue of Canada's History's children's magazine Kayak (September 2018). Suitable for ages 7-12.

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“We Need New Stories”: Trauma, Storytelling, and the Mapping of Environmental Injustice in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms and Standing Rock

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Summer Harrison
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter , 2019, pp. 1-35
Literary criticism essay that uses Hogan’s novel Solar Storms and the incidents Standing Rock, ND to illustrate a connection between the violence enacted on Indigenous bodies and the social discourses surrounding extractive resource practices. Argues that conscious storytelling could help to reshape the discourse surrounding trauma, the more than human community and environmental/climate justice.
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Weesageechak Begins to Dance: Native Earth Performing Arts Inc.

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jennifer Preston
The Drama Review, vol. 36, no. 1, 1992, pp. 135-159
Discusses the history of Native Theatre in Canada, the founding of Native Earth Performing Arts Inc., and various productions including The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway.
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Weesageechak Meets the Weetigo: Storytelling, Humour, and Trauma in the Fiction of Richard Van Camp, Tomson Highway, and Eden Robinson

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristina Fagan
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 34, no. 1, 2009, pp. [204]-226
Looks at the use of storytelling and humour to explore connections between the traumatic experience of Aboriginals' past and their problems in the present.
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Wennebojo Meets the Mascot: A Trickster's View of the Central Michigan University Mascot/ Logo

Alternate Title
Team Spirits: The Native American Mascots Controversy
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Richard Clark Eckert

Short story involves the Trickster traveling to Mount Pleasant, Michigan to speak to the former mascot about the university's persistence in using "Chippewa" as their mascot's name.

Chapter from Team Spirits: The Native American Mascot Controversy edited by C. Richard King and Charles Freuhling Springwood; foreword by Vine Deloria Jr.

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Western Literary Canon Revisited in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water

Alternate Title
National Literatures in a Globalized World
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Pavla Buchtová
Describes how King rewrites Euro-American literary classics and biblical stories using Aboriginal worldviews and narrative traditions. Excerpt from National Literatures in a Globalized World edited by Anton Pokrivčák, Simona Hevešiová and Lucia Horňáková . Entire volume on one pdf. To access chapter scroll down to p. 81.
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What Can We Learn from the Stanley Trial?

Alternate Title
Can Canadian Literature Help Us Explain the Boushie Tragedy?
How Property and Place Were Key Issues in the Stanley Trial
Indigenous Law Can Help Confront Intergenerational Injustice
Jury Reform Will Contentious and Limited after the Stanley Trial
Legal and Systemic Issues Left Unexamined in Stanley Trial
Policy Options ; September 24, 2018
Safeguarding Trials from Racial Bias
The Forensic Failures of the Stanley Trial
Transparency around Jurors, Verdicts Would Help Trail Fairness
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Hadley Friedland
Kate Sutherland
David M. Tanovich
Robin McKechney
Emma Cunliffe
Estair Van Wagner
Alexandra Flynn ... [et al.]
Contains links to articles by members of a legal think tank called the Project Fact(A), who were examining the trial in which Gerald Stanley, a Saskatchewan farmer, was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a 22-year-old Cree man, Colton Boushie, and was subsequently acquitted.
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What Is It About Us That You Don't Like?

Alternate Title
The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative. Pt. 5
[2003 CBC Massey Lectures]
[Ideas with Paul Kennedy]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Thomas King
In speech, noted author uses a coyote story as a springboard for a discussion on European-Aboriginal relations throughout the history of Canada and United States. To listen to this audio, scroll down to Part 5. Duration: 54:22.
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What is Native American Literature?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janette K. Murray
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 1985, pp. 151-166
Reviews trends in literature, examines oral traditions, and looks at Euro-American authors in comparison with Indigenous authors.
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What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know about Horses?

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Christine Leland
Jerome Harste
Anne Ociepka
Mitzi Lewison
Vivian Vasquez
Language Arts, vol. 77, no. 1, September 1999, p. 77
Book review of: What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know about Horses? by Richard Van Camp and illustrated by George Littlechild.
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What We Talk about When We Talk about Indian

Alternate Title
Recasting Commodity and Spectacle in the Indigenous Americas
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Yvette Nolan
Playwright discusses her experience developing and mounting Death of a Chief, Native Earth Performing Arts' adaptation of Julius Caesar. Chapter 12 in: Recasting Commodity and Spectacle in the Indigenous Americas edited by Helen Gilbert and Charlotte Gleghorn.
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What Writer Would Not Be an Indian for a While?: Charles Alexander Eastman, Critical Memory, and Audience

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gale P. Coskan-Johnson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 105-131
Contends that the work of Sioux writer Alexander Eastman reflects not only an assimilationist perspective but also examines Native Americans within the oppressive socio-cultural context of 19th and 20th century. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 105.
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What You Pawn I Will Redeem

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sherman Alexie
The New Yorker, April 21, 2003, p. [?]
Short story follows narrator as he tries to raise money to retrieve his grandmother's powwow regalia from a pawn shop. Questions what it means to give and receive, and what obligations we have to those we give to and/or serve.
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When Buffalo Bill Crossed the Ocean: Native American Scenes in Early Twentieth Century European Culture

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Irene Lottini
European Journal of American Culture, vol. 31, no. 3, Native Americans In Europe in the Twentieth Century, October 18, 2012, pp. 187-203
Looks at Buffalo Bills "Wild West" show which travelled across England, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Holland and Belgium between 1886 and 1906.
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When Critical Approaches Converge: Team-Teaching Welch’s Winter in the Blood

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jim Charles
Richard Predmore
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 8, no. 2, Series 2; Teaching American Indian Literatures, Summer, 1996, pp. [47]-58
Discusses a class in which each lecturer took a different approach to the novel; one from the perspective of Native American literature as unique, the other from the perspective of similarities to any work of great literature. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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