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Words, Worlds in Our Heads: Reclaiming La Llorona’s Aztecan Antecedents in Gloria Anzaldúa’s My Black Angelos

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Domino Renee Perez
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 3-4, Series 2; [Indigenous Intersections], Fall-Winter, 2003-2004, pp. 51-63
Explores Gloria Anzaldúa's use of the folkloric figure to demonstrate that completely embracing a culture may in fact be oppressive to women. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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The Work That Must Be Done

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel Heath Justice
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 4, Special Issue: In Honor of Simon J. Ortiz, Winter, 2004, pp. 93-95
Reflects on the influence of Acoma Pueblo author Simon Ortiz on the Native American literary world. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 93.
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Working (In) the In-Between: Poetry, Criticism, Interrogation, and Interruption

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeannie Ludlow
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 1, Series 2: Feminist and Post-Colonial Approaches, Spring, 1994, pp. 24-42
Examanation of the in-between, as a symbolic location, and the interrelationship among writing, interpreting, and identity. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Workshop 12 Transcription Notes

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Smith Atimoyoo
Harry Broba
Choco Lachance
Ernest Tootoosis
Alex Bonaise
Indian History Film Project
Elders present songs and prayers with discussion about the loss of traditions and values, evils of alcohol, role of elders, etc. Also stories of adventures in intertribal warfare ; a story of a man who married a thunderwoman.
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"A World Away from His People": James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk and the Indian Historical Novel

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James J. Donahue
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 54-82
Contends that the work of author broadens the possibilities of historical fiction by challenging traditional definitions and exploring construction of cultural identity. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 54.
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Writing a Friendship Dance: Orality in Mourning Dove’s Cogewea

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Wilson
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 1, 1996, pp. 27-41
Examines two spheres of discourse, the written and the oral tradition and argues the novel affirms the oral tradition in written form, in terms of identity, community, continuity and change.
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Writing and Publishing as Empowerment in Baker Lake, Nunavut

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Diane Driedger
Études/Inuit/Studies, vol. 35, no. 1-2, Propiété Intellectuelle et Éthique / Intellectual Property and Ethics, 2011, pp. 275-286
Investigates the creative process that empowered Inuit adult learners.
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Writing Between Cultures

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Barbara Godard
TTR: Traduction, Terminologie, Redaction: Etudes sur le Texte et Ses Transformations, vol. 10, no. 1, 1997, pp. 53-99
Examines the systematic interferences between languages in Canada at two different moments in the wake of imperialism.
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Writing Deeper Maps: Mapmaking, Local Indigenous Knowledges, and Literary Nationalism in Native Women's Writing

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kelli Lyon Johnson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 103-120
Argues that there is a turning away from Western theories that have often been used to determine the social, psychological or cultural meanings of Indigenous literature from the outside. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 103.
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Writing for Connection: Cross-Cultural Understanding in James Welch's Historical Fiction

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph L. Coulombe
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 2008, pp. 1-28
Discusses how Welch's fiction examines links between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals, and how the two cultures intersect in both positive and negative ways. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Writing (For) Survival: Continuity and Change in Four Contemporary Native American Women's Autobiographies

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. Browdy de Hernandez
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Autumn, 1994, pp. 40-62
Discusses The Ways of My Grandmothers by Beverly Wolf, Talking Indian: Reflections on Survival and Writing by Anna Lee Walters, Sáanii Dahataal/The Women Are Singing by Luci Tapahonso, and Storyteller by Leslie Marmon Silko.
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Writing in Love: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical Responses to the Poetry and Novels of Louise Erdirch and Michael Dorris

Alternate Title
Annotated Bibliography: Writing in Love: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical Responses to the Poetry and Novels of Louise Erdirch and Michael Dorris
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lillian Brewington
Normie Bullard
R. W. Reising (Compilers)
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, 1986, pp. 81-86
Bibliography of reviews of the work of Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris.
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Writing Indian, Native Conversations by John Lloyd Purdy

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kenneth M. Roemer
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 3, Fall, 2011, pp. 132-136
Book review of Writing Indian, Native Conversations by John Lloyd Purdy. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 132.
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Writing Whiteness: The Personal Turn

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Brewster
Australian Humanities Review, no. 35, June 2005
Essay looks at the current autobiographical approach taken in whiteness studies.
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Written Orality in Thomas King's Short Fiction

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Teresa Gibert
Journal of the Short Story in English, no. 47, Autumn, 2006, pp. 2-10
Discusses how the oral and the written are successfully merged in the literary works of Thomas King.
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Wylie Tales: An Interview with James Welch

Articles » General
Author/Creator
William Bevis
James Welch
[Weber Studies], vol. 12, no. 3, Native American Special Issue, Fall, 1995, p. [?]
Interview with author about his thoughts on Aboriginal life, films and literature. Discusses Welch's books Fools Crow and Killing Custer.
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Yellow Buffalo Tipi Design

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
George First Rider
John Hellson
Indian History Film Project
Consists of an interview that tells how the Blood got tipis.
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Yellow Women and Leslie Marmon Silko's Feminism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Louise Barnett
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 2, Special Issue: Honoring A. Lavonne Brown, Summer, 2005, pp. 18-31
Silko confirms the importance Pueblo Nations' women and gender equity in their way of life as illustrated in her essay Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 18.
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