Literature & Stories

Essay arguing for a way of reading responsibly that takes into account socioeconomic realities. The essay further argues that the roles of reader and critic must also become that of active teacher and citizen to become agents for change.

Book review of:When the North Was Red by Dennis A. Bartels and Alice L. Bartels.

Book review of: When the Other Is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1850-1990 by Emma Laroque.

Book review of: When the Other is Me by Emma LaRocque.

Looks at Sámi yoik poetry.

Argues work is an example of cultural appropriation and discusses the pitfalls of a non-Aboriginal writing about Aboriginal literature. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 24.

Project proved that youth can play active roles in influencing policy, programming and education.

Presents the short story, Where Are We Going by Brian Sloan, that discusses the viewpoint that each generation seems to be moving further away from nature.

Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2012

Children's Literature Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2009.

Book review of: Where the Pavement Ends by William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book review of: Where the Rivers Meet by Carly A. Dokis. Scroll down page to read review.

Book review of: Where the Tall Grass Grows by Bobby Bridger.

Discusses a separate genre called Native newcomer history.

Brief book review of: Whispering in Shadows by Jeanette Armstrong.

Comments on Daniel Coleman's book White Civility which questions the assumption that Western ways of knowing are superior to others.

Book review of: The White Earth Nation by Gerald Vizenor and Jill Doerfler. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 121.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 1994.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northern Illinois University, 2006. Discusses works by S. Alice Callahan, Mourning Dove (Christal Quintasket), D'Arcy McNickle, Anna Lee Walters, Thomas King and Sherman Alexie.

Explores the concept "playing Indian" as exemplified by Grey Owl and society's reaction to his deception.

Book review of: White Man Got No Dreaming by W. E. H. Stanner. To access review, scroll down to page 199.

Looks at an experimental section of a composition course with a reading list composed almost entirely of American Indian and Alaska Native authors. The article also discusses how the controversies about the readings were attributed to fundamentalist views, lack of experience in reading literature, sensitivity about ethnic issues, and feminism. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book review of: The White Path; The Way South; and The Long Way Home by Robert J. Conley. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book review of: The White Possessive by Aileen Moreton-Robinson.

Discusses critical reception and competing interpretations of the film, and puts forth an alternate theory by examining the character of Chingachgook. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Explores the author's use of Indian characters, shadowed by non-Indian doubles, to illuminate the differences in the mores of the two cultures. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Analyzes the relationship between Fenimore Cooper's novel, The Last of the Mochicans and Vanderlyn's painting.

Creative Writing and Cultural Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Queensland University of Technology, 2006.

Arts and Social Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Technology, Sydney, 2010.

Book review of: Who Are These People Anyway? by Chief Irving Powless, Jr., of the Onondaga Nation, edited by Lesley Forrester.

Comments on aspects of literary ethnic/cultural shape-shifting in Canadian and American literature since the Millennium. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 187.

Critical analysis of The Surrounded, by D'Arcy McNickle, with emphasis on cultural and racial identity.

Suggests stories collected by missionaries about the Mi'kmaq should be repatriated back to the communities to decide how and if they should be published.

Looks at a young adult historical novel which depicts a family's history in relation to the Vermont eugenics movement of the 1920s and 1930s.

Reviews the large scale northern tour of an award winning First Nations play, fareWel by Ian Ross, which looks at issues such as identity, poverty, substance abuse, and racism.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, 2009.

Related Material: Educator's Guide by Nastassia Subban.

Explores the roots of the author's racism, which is illustrated in Tom Sawyer, and the reasons why it has been largely ignored by critics.

Argues that while Indigenous authors are determined to express their unique perspectives while doing so in a hostile environment..

Author describes that Native Americans write to set the record straight and change their stereotypical image.

A Sarcee legend.

Discusses a joint project, which utilized online interactive discourse, between students of Western Washington University and Choctaw-Cherokee-Irish writer Louis Owens regarding his novel Wolfsong. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 27.

Argues that the author uses the theme of cannibalism to critique tribal and state nationalism. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 34.

Title and document are in Kitksan (Gitksan), from the New Testiment (Bible) chapter,Luke, translated by A. E. Price, a 19th century Anglican missionary on the Skeena River.

Contains autobiographical information about the storyteller from the Lower Similkameen Indian band in British Columbia and his collaborations with Wendy Wickwire that produced three volumes of stories: Write It on Your Heart, Nature Power, and Living by Stories.

Discussion of the novel's theme tracing the environmental and spiritual devastation caused by the concepts of manifest destiny and nation building as used by EuroAmericans. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.