Literature & Stories

Discusses the connection between the Chickasaw people's relationship with water and efforts at resource management and themes in the novels Mean Spirit, Power, Solar Storms, and People of the Whale.

Book review of: Beyond Conquest: Native Peoples and the Struggle for History in New England, by Amy E. Den Ouden.

Looks at the reaction of teacher education students to a course in Aboriginal Children's Literature. Discusses issues surrounding stereotyping and learning in a multicultural environment.

Looks at creative ways of expressing human experience, along with creative critical approaches that tear down artificial boundaries. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Includes analysis of Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach. English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2007.

Comments on Rowlandson's use of enumeration as a means of coping while being held captive.

Social Sciences Thesis (M.A.)--San Jose State University, 1997.

English Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 2006.

Argues that King's works, Medicine River and Green Grass, Running Water represent a process of challenging views held by the dominant culture and constructing a new identity which is not based on the premise of superiority/inferiority as in previous cross-cultural relationships. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Discussion on the nature of Native American fiction and its portrayal of Native Americans, paying particular attention to identity. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book review of Beyond the Indian Act by Tom Flanagan, Christopher Alcantara and Andre Le Dressay.

Examines The Life and Studies of Benjamin West by John Galt to determine whether or not West likened the statue, Apollo Belvidere to a warrior.

Curriculum Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2016.

A critical look at the works of Vizenor's writings, the genre and an Anishinabe world view.

Examines how the author's work explores the difficulties that prevent the victim of trauma from engaging in it.

Looks at how novel has been interpreted as a statement about the fate of Native cultures, but has also been viewed as an understanding of how stories speak of the relationship between landscape and people. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Over 1,100 annotated citations covering all aspects Arctic life. Current as of 2007.

Third edition, updated.

Lists bibliographies, anthologies, books and articles written in English. Focuses on Australian, Canadian and American content.

Extensive list (169 p.) features a wide array of "grey literature" sources from Alaska state and federal agencies, tribal groups, and privately produced publications.

Latest revision June 2004.

Author speaks about book: Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water, an anthology of Aboriginal stories, poetry, nonfiction, and speeches. Duration: 44:40.

Discusses some of the issues involved in using Alexie's works in university-level literature classes, focusing on the short stories Do Not Go Gentle, Can I Get a Witness? and What You Pawn I Will Redeem from the collection Ten Little Indians.

Short story.

Leadership, Higher and Adult Education (PhD.)--Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2013.

Sociology and Equity Studies in Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

Looks at the parallels between two plays in terms of the subject matter and the dramatic techniques used. For example, bingo, is used as a symbol and illustration of women's consumerism and of the spiritual emptiness in their lives. Entire journal on one pdf. Scroll down to page 126 article.

Short story about the search for a species of short tailed rat.

Booklet on the life of Rev. James Evans, a Wesleyan / Methodist missionary who initially translated Bible passages and psalms into Ojibway, and later created writing systems for several Aboriginal languages, including Ojibwe, Cree, and indirectly Inuktitut.

Book review of: The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich.

Comments on a novel that is both comedy and tragedy aimed at Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal readers which presents a call to acknowledge brutal history and struggles of the characters.

Presents a short story titled, The Biscuit Brothers Go Fishing, written by Larry D. Madden.

Book review of: Bitin' Back by Vivienne Cleven. Review located by scrolling to page 262.

Discussion of Black Elk, the man, and John Neihardt, the author and the different agendas each one had for the book. Ultimately, it is argued, the book is a novel and not an autobiography.

Comments on Black Elk's story of the Lakota people as told to John Neihardt in 1931.

Comments on a movement that has influenced mainstream attitudes towards the body, fashion, and personal aesthetics.

Presents a short story titled, Black Jack and Coal Dust, written by Kenneth M. Taylor.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2008.

Book review of: Black Reality edited by M. Heppell. To access review, scroll down to page 215.

Book review of: Black Silk Handkerchief: A Hom-Astubby Mystery by D. L. Birchfield. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 90.

Discusses Brian Moore's fiction Blackrobe, and the use of obscene language, stereotyping and racial discrimination. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book review of: Blackfeet Tales from Apikuni's World by James Willard Schultz ; edited by David C. Andrews.

Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta. Designed for Grade 2 language arts, but can be adapted to other levels.

Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta. Designed for high school students.

Includes stories of how the spirits intervene to help kidnapped persons escape.