Literature & Stories

Presents an interview with Wendy Rose reflecting on her most influential works. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 71.

Discusses a story of survival from degrading, traumatic experiences related to ethnic identity.

Short story.

Book review of: On the Rez by Ian Frazier.

Book review of: Blind Moses: Moses Tjalkabota Uraiakuraia, Aranda Man of High Degree and Christian Evangelist by Peter Latz. Scroll down to page 181 to read review.

A short fictional story.

Discusses the debate about what constitutes American Indian identity by contrasting U.S. government's standard of blood quantum with N. Scott Momaday's trope of "memory in the blood" as a sign of racial authenticity.

Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1997.

Looks at Native American stories about tribal culture and the survival of Indigenous memories.

A performance piece recreates the author's experiences growing up as he attempted to reclaim his Native American heritage.

Book review of: Blood Sports by Eden Robinson and Dream Wheels by Richard Wagamese.

"Uses the genre of young adult vampire novel to explore the ways in which different practices and understandings of history shape both national and personal identities".

Book review of: Blue Jay's Dance by Louise Erdrich. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book review of Blue Ravens by Gerald Vizenor.

Discusses the parallels between Chinese and Native American culture as revealed in Griever: An American Monkey King in China. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Recounts some of the lighter stories involving initial contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples.

Discusses characters which exhibit traits of the opposite sex and cross the borders of expected behaviour. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Excerpt from Native American Classics: Graphic Classics, volume 24 edited by Joseph Bruchac, John Smelcer and Tom Pomplun. American Indian writers often reference boarding school experiences in their poems, short stories, essays, novels and plays. Provides a list of suggested readings on American Indian boarding schools in Canada and the United States.

Consists of an interview where he gives the legends behind various geographical features.

Book review of: Body, Mind and Spirit by Beverly Cox, photographs by Martn [Martin] Jacobs. Scroll down to read review.

Explores the dual and linked themes of stories and community as expressed through the main character, who finds himself isolated from both. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Discusses novel about the Lone Eaters band living near the border between the Canadian rocky mountains and America in the 1870s.

The book contains the histories, traditions and beliefs of Chipewyan, Dogrib, Slavey, and Loucheux peoples. The Dene told these histories and beliefs to Emile Petitot who wrote the words down in the Dene Language. The stories were compiled by Petitot between 1862 and 1875.

Historical note:

Discusses a play, The Book of Jessica, that illustrates the struggle women have in understanding what being "a woman" means, including across the barriers of race, culture, privilege and age. Entire journal on one pdf. Scroll down to page 10 to read article.

Author was founder of the Woodcraft Indians, a youth movement which appropriated Aboriginal culture.

Book review of: An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English (2nd Edition) edited by Daniel David Moses and Terry Goldie.

Book review of: The Bear-Walker and Other Stories by Basil H. Johnston.

Book review of: The Northern Copper Inuit: A History by Richard G. Condon, Julia Ogina and Holman Elders.

Book review of: Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today by Leslie Marmon Silko.

Book review of: The Roads of My Relations by Devon A. Mihesuah.

Book review of: Wynema: A Child of the Forest by S. Alice Callahan.

Book review of: Grey Owl: The Mystery of Archie Belaney by Armand Garnet Ruffo.

Book review of: Traplines by Eden Robinson.

Book review of: (Ad)dressing Our Words edited by Armand Garnet Ruffo.

Book review of: Studying Native America: Problems and Prospects edited by Russell Thornton.

Book review of: Aboriginal and Visible Minority Librarians edited by Deborah Lee and Mahalakshmi Kumaran.

Review of Learning to Write "Indian" by Amelia V. Katanski.

Book review of: Seventh Generation An Anthology of Native American Plays edited by Mimi Gisolfi D'Aponte.

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

Book review of: Winter of the Holy Iron by Joseph Marshall.

Book reviews of: Legends of our Times: Native Cowboy Life by Morgan Baillargeon and Leslie Tepper. The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America by Conlin Callway (Editor). Women in Trouble: Connecting Women's Law Violations to Their Histories of Abuse by Elizabeth Cormack. Leonard Bloomfield's Fox Lexicon: Critical Edition by Ives Goddard (Editor). White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence by Sidney L. Harring.

Book review of: Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains by Theodore Binnema. Out of the Background: Readings on Canadian Native History by Ken Coates and Robin Fisher (Editors). Gay Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Myths from Arapaho to the Zuni: An Anthology by Kim Elledge (Editor). E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake: Collected Poems and Selected Prose by Carole Gerso and Veronica Strong-Boag.

Book reviews of 4 books: A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood by Kim Anderson. Firewater: The Impact of the Whisky Trade on the Blackfoot Nation by Hugh A. Dempsey. Tales of Ghosts: First Nations Art in British Columbia by Ronald Hawker. Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal by Patty Loew.

Book review of 6 books: Our Son, A Stranger by Marie Adams. Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900 by Sarah Carter. Trusteeship in Change: Toward Tribal Autonomy in Research Management by R. Clow and I. Sutton (Editors). In the Shadow of Evil by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump by Gordon Reid. Blessing For a Long Time: The Sacred Pole of the Omaha Tribe by Robin Ridington.

Book reviews of 7 books: A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood by Kim Anderson. Harvest of Souls: The Jesuit Missions and Colonialism in North America by Carol Blackbum. Aboriginal Education: Fulfilling the Promise edited by Marlene Brant Castellano, Lynne Davis, and Louise Lahache. In the Words of Elders: Aboriginal Cultures in Transition edited by Peter Kulchyski, Don McCaskill, and David Newhouse. Suicide in Canada edited by Antoon A. Leenaars, Susanne Wenckstern, Isaac Sakinofsky, Ronald J. Dyck, Michael J. Kral, and Roger C.

Book review of: kwayask-ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik: Their Example Showed Me the Way translated and edited by Freda Ahenakew and H. C. Wolfart. A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas: 1492 to the Present by Ward Churchill. Incorporating the Familiar: An Investigation into Legal Sensibilities in Nunavik by Susan G. Drummond. The Indian History of British Columbia: The Impact of the Whiteman by Wilson Duff.

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.

Book review of: Shaping Survival: Essays by Four American Indian Tribal Women by Lanniko L. Lee, Florestine Kiyukanpi Renville, Karen Lone Hill and Lydia Whirlwind Soldier; edited by Jack W. Marken and Charles L. Woodard. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 74.

Book reviews of: Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place by Louis Owens. Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border Crossing, and Loose Canons by Paula Gunn Allen. To Access Reviews, scroll to Page 84-89