American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 46-62
Description
The author uses Out of the Depths, Isabel Knockwood’s autobiography about her time in Indian Residential School, to discuss English alphabet writing as a colonizing tool and as consider different ways that Indigenous peoples have appropriated English writing as a form of cultural survivance.
Video includes a compilation of conversations on the strength and resilience of Métis peoples in the context of the residential school experience and its after-effects.
Duration: 9:54.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 2, Summer, 2008, pp. 22-46
Description
Examines The Surrounded, a novel by one of America's best known Native American authors.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 22.