Authors

Discusses the collective identity shared by American Indian women writers.

In the interview, the acclaimed author of House Made of Dawn, discusses, among other things, oral traditions as compared to the written word. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Author explores the different meanings and uses of the word “empowerment,” and how it is embraced by and/or applied to Indigenous peoples.

Humanities Thesis (M.A.)--California State University Dominguez Hills, 1998.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 1998.

Interview with the author of the two poetry volumes, A Really Good Brown Girl and green girl dreams Mountains.

English Language and Literature Thesis (M.A.)--Masaryk University, 2010.

Author argues that this novel aligns contemporary literature with ancient traditions, taking on the additional burden of working these concerns into the context of two intersecting cultural fields.

Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University, 1998.

Interview with the acclaimed poet, scholar, and author of such works as Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat and The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Argues that Wolf's autobiography is unusual in that it looks at an extended family group rather than on an individual.

Argues that it is necessary to look at Tomson Highway's play from a perspective that draws on Cree understandings of the Spirit World.

Critiques Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water and states the novel employs counter-narratives that deploy androgynous figures to parody popular literature texts.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000.

Looks at the role animals play in Leslie Silko's story and its reflections on Indigenous people needing to learn what to accept and what to resist in order to survive.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2013.

Looks at recent American Indian poets who anchor their poems in family and personal survival and cultural continuity. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 75.

Article includes two video clips and a written transcript of the interview.

Reviews the poetry and stories of Sherman Alexie as a young polemicist whose work is often viewed as controversial.

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English Thesis (M.A.)--East Carolina University, 2015.

Two poems: Antitype and Ha'ada Gwaii, the author is a member of the Haida Nation and is an adjunct professor of English at Azusa Pacific University.

Discusses the variety of styles used in two stories and how they are intertwined to achieve self-realization, not by adopting the styles but by transcending them. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 59.

Book review of: Apostate Englishman by Albert Braz.

Author draws on Vine Deloria Jr.’s work on the role that a difference in worldviews plays in communication to examine the distance between what Indigenous peoples mean by self-determination and what policy makers mean by it.

Outlines the contributions of A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff to the literary world. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 89.

Foreign Languages Thesis (M.A.)--University of Bergen, 2018 Abstract in Norwegian, thesis in English.

English Language and Literature Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University, 2017.

Discusses using Pale as Real Ladies: Poems for Pauline Johnsonas a teaching tool.

Analyzes Alexie's work and asserts that his humour is central to a constructive social and moral purpose, particularly in his short stories.

Paper examines why the novel is assigned to the category of fiction and provides some character analysis.

Tribute to A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff, Dean of Native American Literary Studies, for her writing contributions. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 98.

Looks at Ruth Beebe Hill's novel Hanta Yo: An American Saga and how her research for the book presents valuable ethnographic details that are lost in a text that does not accurately portray Dakota culture to mainstream audiences.

Article explores the history of the book The Savage Hits Back or the White Man Through Native Eyes and contextualizes it within the global social and political events contemporary to its writing.

Literary criticism piece that explores the narrative style of poet Joy Harjo; argues that the embedded cultural narratives along with the storytelling format makes Harjo’s poetry a form of both literary resistance and cultural resurgence.

Features the life and works of the author, a supporter of Native American arts who taught at the Carlisle (Pennsylvania) Indian School from 1906 to 1915.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oklahoma, 2001.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northern Illinois University, 1996.

Survey of sixteen artists judged to be innovators in the areas of photography, pottery, sculpture, weaving, and writing.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 1992.

This article examines the autobiography,The Seven Visions of Bull Lodge, as Told by His Daughter, Garter Snake. In the book, Bull Lodge narrates his life story about his youth who becomes a warrior.

Explores the problems associated with authorship, the representation of Native Americans in literature, and argues that Native American people need to author their own stories to ensure that the thought, philosophy, experience and wisdom of authentic Native American voices will ensure cultural survival.

Article discusses the Vietnam veteran's experiences and calls for scholars to make practical suggestions for relieving the suffering of American Indian veterans.

[History] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Oklahoma State University, 2000.

Author uses a transnational framework for engaging with Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel; argues that this approach allows the reader to see similarities between Indigenous people in North America and other colonized nations, and to compare settler-colonial and colonial contexts.

Author discusses his writing. Duration: 39: 26.

Interview with a writer who writes with honestly, humor, and realism.

Review essay of: Dhuuluu-Yala (To Talk Straight): Publishing Indigenous Literature by Anita Heiss.