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Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jean Friesen
K. Wilson
Scott Clark
Ken Hanly
George F. G. Stanley
et al.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1981, pp. 217-257
Description
Book reviews of 23 books: The Forces Which Shaped Them: A History of the Education of Minority Group Children in British Columbia by Mary Ashworth. Forty Years a Chief by George Barker. A History of Native Claims Processes in Canada, 1867-1979 by Richard C. Daniel. The Metaphysics of Modern Existence by Vine Deloria The Covenant Chain: Indian Ceremonial and Indian Trade Silver by N.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Philip F. Gura
Journal of American History, vol. 87, no. 2, September 2000, pp. 641-643
Description
Book review of 2 books: Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature by James D. Hartman. Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century New England Writing by Jim Egan.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Various authors
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1981, pp. 363-375
Description
Book reviews of 6 books: Urban Indians: The Strangers in Canada's Cities by Larry Krotz. Report of the Indian Child Welfare Sub-Committee Manitoba. Inuit Songs from Eskimo Point [edited] by Ramon Pellinski, Luk Suluk and Lucy Amarook. Song of Sedna by Robert D. San Souci. Gathering What the Great Nature Provided: Food Traditions of the Gitksan by the People of 'Ksan. Pitseolak, A Canadian Tragedy by David F. Raine.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Keith A. Winsell
Lilianne E. Krosenbrink-Gelissen
David J. Norton
Michael P. J. Kennedy
Jonathan R. Dean
et al.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 1994, pp. 1-31
Description
Book review of 10 books: Indians Are Us: Culture and Genocide in Native North America by Ward Churchill. Thresholds of Differences: Feminist Critique, Native Women's Writings, Postcolonial Theory by Julia Emberly. Nation to Nation: Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Future of Canada edited by Diane Englestad and John Bird. Arctic Dreams and Nightmares by Alootook Ipellie. The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories: The Original Tsimshian Texts of Henry Tate by Ralph Maud. Ethnophilosophical and Ethnolinguistic Perspectives on the Huron Soul by Michael Pomedli.
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Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Naomi McIlwraith
Troy Johnson
Stephen Warren
Sandra Faiman-Silva
Stephanie Fitzgerald
Marshall Joseph Becker
Andrew Wiget
Leslie D. Hannah
Jay Hansford C. Vest
Steven R. Evans
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 3, 2008, pp. 177-231
Description
Book reviews of 18 books: Before the Country: Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology by Stephanie McKenzie. Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism Since 1900 edited by Daniel M. Cobb and Loretta Fowler. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians by Michale Leroy Oberg. How Choctaws Invented Civilization and Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World by D. L. Birchfield. I Swallow Turquoise For Courage: Poems by Hershman R. John. Long Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians edited by James W.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 1983, pp. 237-242
Description
Book reviews of: Windigo: An Anthology of Fact and Fantastic Fiction edited by John Robert Columbo. The Inuit: Life As It Was by Richard Harrington. Dance Me Outside by W. P. Kinsella.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Various authors
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, 1993, pp. 327-371
Description
Book reviews of 14 books: Proceedings: First National Conference on Cancer in Native Americans. "Proceedings" reviewed by Rene R. Gadacz. Gabriel Dumont Speaks translated by Michael Barnholden. The Early Years of Native American Art History: The Politics of Scholarship and Collecting edited by Janet Catherine Berlo. Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization by Alfred W.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Furniss
Barry McGrory
Jeremy Hull
E. Paul Morrissy
Rosanne Gasse
et al.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, 1990, pp. 307-341
Description
Book reviews of 15 books: Metaphors of Interpretation: Essays in Honour of W.E.H. Stanner edited by Diane E. Barwick, Jeremy Beckett and Marie Reay. Convertir Les Fils de Cain, Jesuites et Amerindiens Nomades en Nouvelle-France by Alain Beaulieu. The Alaska Highway: Papers of the 40th Anniversary Symposium edited by Kenneth Coates. Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage by Brain W.
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Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sarah Carter
Prairie Forum, vol. 11, no. 1, Spring, 1986, pp. 115-120
Description
Book reviews of: The Myth of the Savage: And the Beginnings of French Colonialism in the Americas by Olive Patricia Dickason and First People, First Voices by Penny Petrone.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Various authors
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, 1990, pp. 151-166
Description
Book reviews of 7 books: Self-Determination in Native Education in the Circumpolar North, Proceedings of the Seminar: Inuit Control of Inuit Education edited by Malcolm Farrow & David Wilman. Out of the Background: Readings in Canadian Native History edited by Robin Fisher and Kenneth Coates. Indian School Days by Basil H.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Various authors
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, 1989, pp. 151-155
Description

Book reviews of 2 books: The Story of the Falling Star by Elsie Jones. I Am Woman by Lee Maracle.

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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Michael A. Elliott
American Literature, vol. 80, no. 2, June 2008, pp. 416-419
Description
Book reviews of 4 books: Public Native America: Tribal Self-Representation in Museums, Powwows, and Casinos by Mary Lawlor. Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction by Annette Trefzer. Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief by David Murray. Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country edited by Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
William J. Stilwell
E. Peers
Agnes Grant
Lynn Whidden
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 1985, pp. 277-282
Description
Book reviews of 4 books: Treaties on Trial by Fay G. Cohen. The Canadian Prairies: A History by Gerald Friesen. New Native American Drama: Three Plays by Hanay Geiogamah. The three plays are entitled Foghorn, 49, and Body Indian. A Homeland for the Cree by Richard F. Salisbury.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Bethany R. Berger
Ted Jojola
William C. Meadows
Joshua Piker
Margaret Noori
Brad Montgomery-Anderson
John K. Donaldson
Edward W. Huffstetler
Carla Mulford
Elizabeth Archuleta
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, 2009, pp. 143-192
Description
Book reviews of 20 books: American Indians and State Law: Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790-1880 by Deborah A. Rosen. Architectural Variability in the Southeast edited by Cameron H. Lacquement. Art from Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection by Joyce M.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sally M. Weaver
R. W. Brockway
John Charlot
Arthur W. Blue
D. N. Sprague
et al.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 1982, pp. 395-414
Description
Reviews of 10 books: Handbook for Aboriginal and Islander History edited by Diane Barwick, Michael Mace and Tom Stannage. The Ballad of Alice of Alice Moonchild...and Others by Aleata E. Blythe. My Spirit Soars by Chief Dan George and Helmut Hirnschall. Indian Healing: Shamanic Ceremonialism in the Pacific Northwest Today by Wolfgang G. Jilek. Métis Land Rights in Alberta: A Political History by Joe Sawchuk, Pat Sawchuk and Theresa Ferguson. Long Lance, The True Story of an Impostor by Donald B.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Damir Mirkovic
Douglas Leighton
Agnes Grant
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 1984, pp. 373-382
Description
Book reviews of 4 books: The Quest for Justice: Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Rights by Menno Boldt and J. Anthony Long. Gunboat Frontier: British Maritime Authority and Northwest Coast Indians, 1846-1890 by Barry M. Gough. Where the Chill Came From by Howard Norman. First People, First Voices edited by Penny Petrone.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Anthony K. Webster
Raymond I. Orr
David Kozak
T. Chris Aplin
Natchee Blu Barnd
Joyotpaul Chaudhuri
Victoria Bomberry
Carol Zitzer-Comfort
Michelene Pesantubbee
Ervan G. Garrison
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 4, 2008, pp. 145-200
Description
Book reviews of 20 books: Being and Place Among the Tlingit by Thomas F. Thornton. The Cultivation of Resentment: Treaty Rights and the New Right by Jeffery R. Dudas. Diabetes Among the Pima: Stories of Survival by Carolyn Smith-Morris. Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music by Lynn Whidden. First Families: A Photographic History of California Indians by L. Frank and Kim Hogeland. Households and Hegemony: Early Creek Prestige Goods, Symbolic Capital and Social Power by Cameron B.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Various authors
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 1985, pp. 141-144
Description
Book reviews of 3 books: When Freedom is Lost: The Dark Side of the Relationship Between Government and the Fort Hope Band by Paul Driben and Robert S. Trudeau. Bibliography of Canadian Indian Mythology compiled by Kim Echlin. Mni Wakan and The Sioux: Respite, Release and Recreation edited by Rodger Hornby and Richard H. Dana
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Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Patricia Monture-Angus
Native Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 2, 1996, pp. 169-173
Description
Review of: Stories of the Road Allowance People by Maria Campbell.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Vilma Santiago-Irizarry
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, vol. 11, no. 1, June 2001, pp. 15-161
Description
Book review of: Theorizing the Americanist Tradition edited by Lisa Phillips Valentine and Regna Darnell.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kristin Herzog
Ron Welburn
Gretchen Ronnow
Helen Jaskoski
Robert M. Nelson
Hertha Wong
Roger Dunsmore
Robley Evans
Marie Annharte Baker
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 2, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1990, pp. 23-49
Description
Books review of: Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women edited by Paula Gunn Allen. Blood Salt by Doris Seale. Coyote's Journal edited by James Koller, Carroll Arnett, Steve Nemirow, and Peter Blue Cloud. American Indian Autobiography by H. David Brumble.
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Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lesley Belleau
Native Studies Review, vol. 20, no. 2, 2011, pp. 202-205
Description
Review of first volume of the serial: Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought edited by Guadalupe Solis and Judy Wilson.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 3, Fall, 2011, pp. [128]-132
Description
Book review of Reckonings: Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women edited by Hertha D. Sweet Wong, Lauren Stuart Muller, and Jana Sequoya Magdaleno. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 128.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Margaret Noori
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 2, Digital Technologies and Native Literature, Summer, 2011, pp. [91]-96
Description
Book reviews of First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 91.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Mark Rifkin
American Literature, vol. 84, no. 3, September 2012, pp. 657-659
Description
Books reviews of Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880 by Phillip H. Round. Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America by Christina Snyder.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Mark Rifkin
American Literature, vol. 85, no. 2, June 2013, pp. 399-401
Description
Book reviews of: Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature by Birgit Brander Rasmussen. Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause by Melanie Benson Taylor. English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830 by Hilary E. Wyss.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Hester Blum
American Literature, vol. 85, no. 3, September 2013, pp. 591-593
Description
Book reviews of: On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sovereignty in the New World by Jonathan Elmer and Dislocating Race. Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism by Robert S. Levine.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Frank Kelderman
American Literature, vol. 86, no. 3, September 2014, pp. 611-614
Description
Book reviews of: Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period by Drew Lopenzina. The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism by Jodi A. Byrd. On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory Andrew Newman. Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies by Chadwick Allen.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kate McCullough
American Literature, vol. 86, no. 2, June 2014, pp. 391-393
Description
Book reviews of: The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination by Mark Rifkin. Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization by Scott Morgensen. Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading by Martin Joseph Ponce.
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Book Reviews/Recensions

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Carolyn Redl
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, 1991, pp. 157-159
Description
Book review of:Writing the Circle: Native Women of Western Canada: An Anthology edited by Jeanne Perreault and Sylvia Vance with preface by Emma LaRocque.
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Books for Adolescents: Native Americans: Listening for a Voice

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Susan Murphy
Journal of Reading, vol. 35, no. 1, September 1991, pp. 66-69
Description
Book reviews of: The American Indians in America (volume 2) by Jayne Clark Jones. America's Fascinating Indian Heritage. Canyons by Gary Paulsen. Girl in Buckskin by Dorothy Gilman. The Night the White Deer Died by Gary Paulsen. The Owl's Song by Janet Campbell Hale. The Shadow Brothers by A.E. Cannon. Review of the filmstrip: A Look at Native Americans
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Books in Review

Book Reviews
Canadian Literature, no. 124-125, Native Writers & Canadian Literature, Spring/Summer, 1990, pp. 307-316
Description
Entire review section on one pdf. To access specific review scroll down to appropriate page. Imaging Native by Coral Ann Howells. (p. 307-308) Book reviewed: The Native in Literature: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives edited by Thomas King,Cheryl Calver & Helen Hoy. Anishoni Play by Robin McGrath. (p. 308-310) Books reviewed: Renewal: Teoni's Giveaway by Barbara Smith. Renewal: The Prophecy of Manu by Barbara Smith. Tripartite by Patricia Keeney. (p.
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Books in Review

Book Reviews
Canadian Literature, no. 124-125, Native Writers & Canadian Literature, Spring/Summer, 1990, pp. 330-335
Description
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review scroll down to appropriate page. Twofold Heritage by Neil B. Bishop. (p. 330 - 331) Book reviewed: Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin, translated by Sheila Fischman. La Différence by Janet M. Paterson. (p. 333-335) Book reviewed: L'Amour de la Carte Postale by Madeleine Ouellette-Mitchalska.
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Books in Review

Book Reviews
Canadian Literature, no. 124-125, Native Writers & Canadian Literature, Spring/Summer, 1990, pp. 316-330
Description
Entire review section on one pdf. To access individual reviews, scroll down to appropriate page. Native Ground by Beverley Rasporich. (p. 316 - 318) Books reviewed: Shaman's Ground by Don Gutteridge. The Victory of Géraldine Gull by Joan Clark. Stereotypes by Max Dorsinville. (p. 319 - 320) Book reviewed: Les Figures de l'Indien edited by Gilles Thérien. Spirit Landscape by Kristjana Gunnars. (p. 320 - 323) Book reviewed: Playing Dead, a Contemplation Concerning the Arctic by Rudy Wiebe. Halfway Tales by Penny Van Toorn. (p.
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Books to Avoid

Alternate Title
How to Tell the Difference - A Guide
Oyate Criteria for Evaluating Books
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Oyate
Description
List compiled by an organization named Oyate, which provides 'critical evaluation of books and curricula with Indian themes.' Includes explanation of why particular material is considered inappropriate.
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Border Crossings: Thomas King's Cultural Inversions

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Cynthia Sugars
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, Spring, 2004, pp. 179-183
Description
Book review of: Border Crossings: Thomas King's Cultural Inversions by Arnold E. Davidson, Priscilla L. Walton and Jennifer Andrews.
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Border Crossings: Thomas King's Cultural Inversions

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Bernard Alan Hirsch
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring, 2008, pp. 85-89
Description
Book review of: Border Crossings by Arnold E. Davidson, Priscilla L. Walton and Jennifer Andrews. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 85.
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Border Trickery and Dog Bones: A Conversation with Thomas King

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Andrews
Thomas King
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 24, no. 2, 1999, pp. 161-185
Description
Interview discusses the King's work in general and in particular the book Truth and Bright Water.
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The Both/And of American Indian Literary Studies

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa Tatonetti
Western American Literature, vol. 44, no. 3, Fall, 2009, pp. 276-288
Description
Examines both the range and the limitations of the study of contemporary American Indian literature in works that discuss the genre.
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