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Mourning Dove's Textual Frontier

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura G. Godfrey
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, vol. 62, no. 1, 2006, pp. 65-83
Description
Discussion of how the narrative by Mounring Dove (or Hum-ishu-ma) is a complex read due to intrusion of the collaborating author, nevertheless reveals her perspectives, which places Metis women in roles equal to men.
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Mourning Dove's Voice in Cogewea

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Alanna Kathleen Brown
Wicazo Sa Review , vol. 4, no. 2, Autumn, 1988, pp. 2-15
Description
Book review of: Cogewea, The Half Blood by Mourning Dove.
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Mourning, Melancholia, and Rhetorical Sovereignty in William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eric A. Wolfe
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 1-23
Description
Discusses the Pequot activist and writer's attempts to subvert the myth of the "Vanishing American", and his unique position as an Indian intellectual in the early 1800s. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
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“Movement Must Be Emulated by the People”: Rootedness, Migration, and Indigenous Internationalism in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Miriam Schacht
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 4, Winter, 2009, pp. 53-70
Description
Examines an apocalyptic vision of North America in which Native Americans reclaim their ancestral lands after whites, lacking the spiritual and moral force of the Indian world, succumb to crime, perversion, drug addiction, and environmental degradation. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 53.
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The Multi-Missionary Eleanor Roosevelt of American Indian Literatures

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kenneth M. Roemer
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 2, Special Issue: Honoring A. Lavonne Brown, Summer, 2005, pp. 101-105
Description
Examines how A. LaVonne Ruoff Brown's bibliographies have contributed to Native American Studies. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 101.
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Multiculturalism in Select Canadian Writings

Theses
Author/Creator
K. E. Padmam
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Madurai Kamaraj University, 2015. Includes discussion of Jeanette Armstrong's Slash and Beatrice Culleton's In Search of April Raintree.
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Myth Launchings and Moon Landings: Parallel Realities in Susan Power's The Grass Dancer

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lee Schweninger
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 3, Fall, 2004, pp. 47-69
Description
Argues this work demonstrates, to mainstream readers, the power and presence of an alternative reality by juxtaposing technological advances to the lives of Native American living on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 47.
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Mythic Rage and Laughter: An Interview with Gerald Vizenor

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dallas Miller
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 77-96
Description
Interview with Gerald Vizenor on the meaning of silence; the relationship of his critical writings to his fiction; tribal oral traditions and humor and the uses of humor; Summer in the Spring, a collection of stories and songs translated; The People Named the Chippewa; and examples of irony in his stories. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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N. Scott Momaday: Towards an Indian Identity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thekla Zachrau
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, 1979, pp. 39-56
Description
Looks at themes of alienation and loss of culture associated with the urban environment, and search for an authentic identity rooted in Indigenous culture in the novel House Made of Dawn.
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Narrating History and Myth: Trickster Discourse in Thomas King's The One About Coyote Going West

Alternate Title
Place and Memory in Canada: Global Perspectives=Lieu et Mémoire au Canada: Perspectives Globales
[Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies ; 3rd]
[International Conference of Central European Canadianists ; 3rd]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Rūta Šlapkauskaitė
Description
Conference paper from: Place and Memory in Canada: Global Perspectives: 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, April 30-May 3, 2004, Cracow, Poland edited by Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek, Anna Reczyńska, and Anna Śpiewak.
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Narrating the American West: New Forms of Historical Memory

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Gregory Wright
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 132-134
Description
Book review of: Narrating the American West by Jordana Finnegan. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 132.
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The Narrative and Poetical Role of a Polynesian Literary Myth: Canoes of the Origins in Contemporary Texts from French Polynesia, New Zealand, and Samoa

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Chloé Angué [Chloe Angue]
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 1, 2018, pp. 97-109
Description
Article examines the way that contemporary Polynesian writers are reimagining the Polynesian migration in their works and how the rewriting of the migration narrative is a form of post-colonial resistance, and an active imagining of more equitable futures.
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Native American Authors and Their Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jace Weaver
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring, 1997, pp. 47-87
Description
Examination of literary forms, as some non-Native scholars believe that oral myths are the only genuine Aboriginal literature. The author questions if something Aboriginal remains, despite the form?
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Native American Languages in Print: A Student Research Project

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bette S. Weidman
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1/2, Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Literature, Winter - Spring, 2006, pp. 166-263
Description
Article describes an undergraduate research project that investigates the representation of Indigenous languages in print media intended for an English-speaking audience. Includes an annotated bibliography.
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Native American Literature: Expanding the Canon

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mona Kratzert
Debora Richey
Collection Building, vol. 17, no. 1, 1998, pp. 4-15
Description
Discusses younger and up-and-coming writers, ways of tracking down information on writers, as well as a list of individuals with brief biographies.
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Native Americans in Sherman Alexie's Work

Theses
Author/Creator
Michaela Jirsová
Description
Studies Indian Killer and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Arts and Philosophy Thesis [(M.A.)]--University of Pardubice, 2012.
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Native Canadian Gothic Refigured: Reading Robinson's Monkey Beach

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jennifer Andrews
Essays on Canadian Writing, no. 73, Spring, 2001, pp. 1-24
Description
Examines the book Monkey Beach and its rendition of the Gothic novel through the character of Lisamarie Hill, a Haisla woman whose world is populated by supernatural characters.
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Native Narratives, Mystery Writing, and the Osage Oil Murders: Examining Mean Spirit and The Osage Rose

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Stoecklein
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 3, Native Narratives of Indigenous History and Culture, 2018, pp. 137-154
Description
Literary criticism piece which argues that Indigenous authors Linda Hogan and Tom Holm make use of the mystery fiction genre to present Indigenous narratives about the historic Osage oil murders, thereby allowing them a wide breadth of exposure.
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Native Playwright: Tomson Highway

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gitta Honegger
Theater, vol. 23, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 88-92
Description
Discussion of the play Dry Lips Oughtta Move to Kapuskasing.
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Native Poetics

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kenneth Lincoln
Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 45, no. 1, Native American Literature, Spring, 1999, pp. 146-184
Description
Looks at the cross-reference of Anglo-American and American Indian literatures as they have evolved over a century.
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