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Native Tales and Traditions in Books for Children

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jon C. Stott
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 3, Summer, 1992, pp. 373-380
Description
Literary criticism article: non-Indigenous author reviews several children’s books and through the reviews proposes an approach for the evaluation of books by both non-Indigenous and Indigenous authors.
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Native Theatre's Curtain Call?

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Drew Hayden Taylor
This, vol. 40, no. 4, January/February 2007, pp. 29-31
Description
Looks at two decades of Native theatre and argues that theatre is the next step in traditional storytelling.
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"native to the question": William Apess, Black Hawk, and the Sentimental Context of Early Native American Autobiography

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura L. Mielke
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 2, Spring, 2002, pp. 246-270
Description
Author discusses the effects of Euro-American cultural content control in early Native American autobiographies to give the appearance that personal narratives and colonial policy were not in conflict.
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Native Women Writing: Tracing the Patterns

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Beverly Rasporich
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, 1996, pp. 37-50
Description
Examines the style of women writings: the projection of intimate, first person, voice and the confessional, all displaying a common thread of orality.
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Native Writer Profile: Ralph Salisbury

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Arnold Krupat
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 69-77
Description
Presents a brief essay that will become the introduction to Ralph Salisbury's latest book of poetry. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 69.
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NDNs

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard Van Camp
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 29, no. 1/2, 2009, pp. 229-235
Description
A narrative essay that describes a sequence of chance encounters between a Dogrib and a Chippewa.
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The Need for Textbook Reform: An American Indian Example

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James P. Charles
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 28, no. 3, May 1989, pp. [1-13]
Description
Findings, consistent with earlier studies, indicate stereotypes being reinforced by unbalanced and under-represented Indigenous writers in literature textbooks.
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Nemuel Island

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Tommy Orange
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018, pp. 110-113
Description
Creative prose piece which contemplates the perception of reality by describing the thoughts and deed of a man named Nemuel Island.
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Neoliberal Biopolitics in Michel Noël's Nipishish: Market Logic and Indigenous Resistance

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Boucher
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 2, Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways, 2018, pp. 77-96
Description
Literary criticism article explores the intersections of history, fiction and biopolitics in a variety of specific confrontations between the Canadian state and the Anishnaabeg in Michel Noël's teen novel Nipishish (2004).
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A New Road and a Dead End in Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Scott Andrews
Arizona Quarterly, vol. 63, no. 2, Summer, 2007, pp. 137-152
Description
Discusses similarities in the socio-economic realities faced, with a focus on the lack of power faced by Native Americans and African Americans and and their need to find artistic outlets of exchange.
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[The Next Chapter Special: Tomson Highway]

Alternate Title
The Postmistress: the Musical
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Shelagh Rogers
Tomson Highway
Description
Author of Kiss of the Fur Queen and The Rez Sisters talks about his new musical The (Post) Mistress. Duration: 32:08.
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The Night Wanderer: A Native Gothic Novel: Novel Study

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Gold Trail School District #74
Description
Studies novel by Drew Hayden Taylor and includes activities designed for whole class study, literature circles, or independent study. Also includes a teacher's guide.
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The Nineteenth-Century Garden: Imperialism, Subsistence, and Subversion in Leslie Marmon Silko's: Gardens in the Dunes

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Terre Ryan
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 3, Fall, 2007, pp. 115-132
Description
Explores how Laguna Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko uses the image of the garden to illustrate imperialism on international, national, local, and domestic levels. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 115.
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"No One Ever Did This to Me before": Contemporary American Indian Texts in the Classroom -

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Purdy
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 53-61
Description
Author works to articulate a strategy for the introduction and study of Indigenous text in the post-secondary classroom. Focuses on identifying a text as an “Indigenous text,” diversity of authors, cultural elements of the texts.
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No Takebacks

Alternate Title
No take backs
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stephen Graham Jones
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 139-169
Description
Short fiction piece. When two friends develop an app for mobile devices the results are much different than they expect.
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Noah Meets Old Coyote, or Singing in the Rain: Intertextuality in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura E. Donaldson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1995, pp. 27-43
Description
Looks at what is real and what is magical in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water by weaving the traditional world of oral Indigenous story telling with the individualised western written text. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Nora Marks Dauenhauer's Life Woven With Song

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gladys Cardiff
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer, 2004, pp. 65-73
Description
Discusses elements of Nora Dauenhauer's Life Woven With Song which uses a variety of genres including memoir, essay, fiction, poetry, and autobiographical to reflect the relationship between the Tlingit people and their landscape. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 65.
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North America as Contact Zone: Native American Literary Nationalism and the Cross-Cultural Dilemma

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher Taylor
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 26-44
Description
Discussion on the metacritical inquiries that Native American literary study raises; and the best methods of connecting Native American literary texts to the cultural contexts. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 26.
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Not for Citation: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft's Synchronic Strategies

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bethany Schneider
ESQ, vol. 54, no. 1-4, (Nos. 210-213 O.S.), 2008, pp. 111-144
Description
Examines how a new translation of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft's poem "Ain Dah Nuk Ke Yaun, prepared by Dennis Jones, Heidi Stark, and James Vukelich, differ from her husband Henry Schoolcraft's translation.
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Notes on Contributors

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 31, no. 1, 2006, pp. 161-163
Description
Contains short biographies on the authors featured in this issue of "Studies in Canadian Literature", including: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Jeannette Armstrong, Marie Annharte Baker, Warren Cariou, Jennifer Delisle, Marilyn Dumont, Renate Eigenbrod, Marvin Francis, Lally Grauer, Jane Haladay, Emma LaRocque, Duncan Mercredi, Deanna Reder, Jack Robinson, Pamela Sing, Louise Bernice Halfe Skydancer, and June Scudeler.
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The Novels of Louise Erdrich: Stories of Her People. Connie A. Jacobs

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lori Burlingame
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 13, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 2001, pp. 105-110
Description
Book review of: The Novels of Louise Erdrich: Stories of Her People by Connie A. Jacobs. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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"Now ... Didn't Our People Laugh?" Female Misbehavior and Algonquian Culture in Mary Rowlandson's Captivity and Restauration

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Arnold
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 4, 1997, pp. 1-28
Description
Argues that a closer look at humour, in the work of Rowlandson, provides readers with a greater understanding of the Algonquian side of early cross-cultural relations and reveals the ways in which cultural discomfort and disharmony are not rare, but rather integral concepts for early American identity.
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Off Native Ground: Europe in Contemporary American Indian Poetry

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Mackay
European Journal of American Culture, vol. 31, no. 3, Native Americans in Europe in the Twentieth Century, October 18, 2012, pp. 249-263
Description
Examines poetry by Native American poets: Simon Ortiz, Jim Barnes, Drucilla Wall, Luci Tapahonso, Joy Harjo, Ralph Salisbury and James Thomas.
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Offering, In Return

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cari M. Carpenter
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 2, Special Issue: Honoring A. Lavonne Brown, Summer, 2005, pp. 81-82
Description
Recollections of meeting Dr. A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff, and recall of her generosity, collegiality and collective spirit. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 81.
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