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On the St. Paul Trail in the Sixties

Articles » General
Author/Creator
William G. Fonseca
Transactions of Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, no. 56, Series 1, January 25, 1900, p. [?]
Description
General description of travel by Red River carts and in particular events which occurred while author was a driver transporting the goods of William McDougall the incoming Governor was nearly turned away at the border by the Métis.
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One Native Life

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Donna Beyer
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 1, 2010, pp. 169-172
Description
Book review of: One Native Life by Richard Wagamese.
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One Writer, Becoming

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy Lord
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 9-17
Description
Author is presented with letters written to a friend 40 years previously and reflects on her younger self.
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"Open Containers": Sherman Alexie's Drunken Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephen F. Evans
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1, Winter, 2001, pp. 46-72
Description
Illustrates that works by Sherman Alexie, both poems and stories, use stereotypical and conventional character types to construct a realistic literary document.
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Opening Address

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Emma LaRocque
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 31, no. 1, For the Love of Words: Aboriginal Writers of Canada, 2006, pp. 11-18
Description
Introductory remarks to delegates attending 'For the Love of Words': Aboriginal Writers of Canada conference held in Winnipeg in 2004.
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The Oppositional Paradigm of Purity versus Pollution in Charles Hudson's: "The Southeastern Indians"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary C. Churchill
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3/4, To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality (Parts 1 & 2), Summer-Autumn, 1996, pp. 563-593
Description
Author examines the work of the anthropologist Charles Hudson, discussed his writings about the spiritual practices of the Southeastern Indigenous peoples in the United States generally, and about those of the Cherokee people specifically.
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"Orality in Literacy": Listening to Indigenous Writing

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter Dickinson
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 1994, pp. 319-340
Description
Examines oral features found in the works of Patricia Grace (New Zealand), Sally Morgan (Australia) and Marie Annharte Baker (Canada).
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Order Up! The Decolonizing Politics of Howard Adams and Maria Campbell with a Side of Imagining Otherwise

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel Voth
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 2, Fall, 2018, pp. 16-36
Description
Discusses the texts Halfbreed (Campbell, 1973) and Prison of Grass (Adams, 1975), contrasting their treatments of gender in the discussion of colonial violence; calls on contemporary scholars to consider in their works “the way gender is animated in a decolonizing political movement.”
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The Outsider in James Welch's The Indian Lawyer

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sidner J. Larson
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, Autumn, 1994, pp. 495-506
Description
Literary criticism article that examines the ways that themes of isolation, disconnection from community, and individual/cultural identity are explored in Welch’s novel.
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Outsourcing Reconciliation: The Government of Canada's #IndigenousReads Campaign and the Appropriation of Indigenous Intellectual Labor

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pauline Wakeham
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 1-30
Description
Author examines the #IndigenousReads campaign, considering it as a case study of reconciliatory gestures made by the Canadian Government; points out that reconciliation projects rely too heavily on the work of Indigenous writers and scholars, and fail to build cross-cultural relationships.
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The Owens Valley Epics

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donald Bahr
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, 2007, pp. 41-68
Description
Examination of Native American text that was presented orally to Alfred Kroeber by a Mojave person in 1902.
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Paddled by Pauline

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Glenn Willmott
Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews, vol. 46, Spring-Summer, 2000, pp. 43-[?]
Description
Reviews the body of work by the noted Canadian poet.
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The Paradox of Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues

Alternate Title
ISSA Proceedings ; 2010
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
International Society for the Study of Argumentation
Description
Comments on a novel which features an American Indian blues band named Coyote Springs.
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The Past, Present and Possible Futures of American Indian Literary Studies

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James A. Cox
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 2, Summer, 2008, pp. 102-112
Description
Discussion of the book, Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective, which contains essays by Aboriginal literary critics. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 102.
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Paul Simon Money

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Terese Mailhot
Transmotion, vol. 2, no. 1 - 2, November 28, 2016, pp. 131-135
Description
Creative prose piece in which the author describes her mother’s role in the creation of Paul Simon’s play The Capeman.
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Paula Gunn Allen: An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Sources

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cynthia McDaniel
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1999, pp. 29-50
Description
Bibliography contains references principal texts and criticisms of Allen's work. To Access Article, Scroll Down to Page 29-50.
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Paula Gunn Allen’s Grandmothers of the Light:

Falling through the Void

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle Campbell Toohey
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 12, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 2000, pp. [35]-51
Description
Advocates for a more participatory approach to the reading Gunn's work, rather than the standard objective approach. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Paula Gunn Allen's Grandmothers: Toward a Responsive Feminist-Tribal Reading of Two Old Women

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Genie Babb
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 299-320
Description
Author examines both the text and its reception to offer a critical analysis of factors that affect the interaction between dominant and marginalized cultures including acts of appropriation on the part of reviewers, and the devaluing of oral literatures.
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Pauline Johnson

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gale Group
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Canadian Writers 1890-1920, vol. 92, 1990, pp. 162-164
Description
Pauline Johnson (March 10, 1861-March 7, 1913) as performer and poet.
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"Philip, King of the Pequots": The History of an Error

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roumaina Velikova
Early American Literature, vol. 37, no. 2, June 2002, pp. 311-335
Description
Describes William Apess' misunderstanding of the relationship between his grandmother and Philip of the Pequots and his later discovery of his Wampanoag heritage.
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