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Looks at writings of Louise Erdlich and Maurice Kenny and the colonial "saints vs. savages" construction of colonial history.

Shows how Boyden uses forces of patriarchy and colonialism to show complexity and resilience of women in his work.

English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2016.

A discussion on Leslie Silko's storytelling creating a sense of belonging and her ability to engage both Indigenous and non-Indigenous readers alike.

Response to the article The Struggle for Grace: An Appreciation of Kevin John Gilbert by Gordon Briscoe. Response is divided into lists of agreements and disagreements.

Comments on Sam McKegney's criticism of non-Aboriginal scholars critiquing Aboriginal literature. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 58.

Describes the Pawnee/Otoe-Missouria writer's 1988 novel challenging academic agendas and ethics concerning display and ownership of human remains. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 85.

Article focuses on contemporary non-Indigenous essay writers from the Great Plains who are working to shift the narrative surrounding the historical destruction of the grasslands and the coinciding violence directed towards Indigenous nations.

Presents Thomas King`s view of the effect of the Canada-US border on stories of Nations whose way of life and territories were not bounded by the contemporary borders.

Discusses the text and its critical framework—title page, introduction, and other framing elements. Considers the roles of Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Chief Joe and his wife Mary Capilano as co-authors, and the decolonization of the text by reconnecting it to unceded Coast Salish lands using platform called ArcGIS Story-Map Journals,

Author reflects on developments, since the Flagstaff Conference held in 1977, in the field of American Indian literature. Three areas of interest are discussed including, the importance of audience, the value of studying oral literatures, and the vast ignorance about Indians and Indian literatures. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Author discusses changes in the teaching and research of Native American literatures with regard to issues surrounding scope, context, translation and continuity since the Flagstaff Conference of 1977, and also speculates on future developments. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Literary criticism article examines the ways that Tiffany Midge uses humour to address many of the race-related issues facing Indigenous peoples in the United States.

Book review of: The Chippewa Landscape of Louise Erdrich edited by Allan Chavkin; afterword by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book review of Tom Porter's And Grandma Said...: Iroquois Teachings as Passed down through the Oral Tradition.

Examines Lee Maracle's autobiography as a narrative of Native resistance to settler authority in Canada.

Books reviews of: The Summer in the Spring: Ojibway Lyric Poems and Tribal Stories edited by Gerald Vizenor Tony Hillerman by Fred Erisman Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book reviews of: Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 by Brenda J. Child. Visit Teepee Town edited by Diane Glancy and Mark Nowak. Dark River by Louis Owens. Family Matters, Tribal Affairs by Carter Revard. Some Things Are Not Forgotten: A Pawnee Family Remembers by Martha Royce Blaine. Indian Cartography by Deborah A.

Book reviews of: An Ethnohistoric Study of Easter James Bay Cree Social Organizations, 1700-1859 by Toby Morantz. Partners in Furs: A History of the Fur Trade in Eastern James Bay, 1600-1870 by Daniel Francis and Toby Morantz.. The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos by Richard White. Ethnic Identity and the Boarding School Experience of West-Central Oklahoma American Indians by Sally J.

Book reviews of: The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon by Arnold Krupat The Good Red Road: Passages into Native America by Kenneth Lincoln, with Al Logan Slagle The Singing Spirit edited by Bernd C. Peyer The Droning Shaman by Nora Marks Dauenhauer The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories by Robert Conley Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake as Told to Benjamin Williams edited by Thomas S. Abler Another View [Blacksnake] edited by Thomas S.

Book reviews of: Raven Tells Stories: An Anthology of Alaskan Native Writing edited by Joseph Bruchac Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children by Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac The Lightning Within: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction edited by Alan R. Velie Our Bit of Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature edited by Agnes Grant The Heirs of Columbus by Gerald Vizenor Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book reviews of: The View From the Top of the Temple: Ancient Maya Civilization and Modern Maya Culture by Kenneth Pearce. Earth Power Coming edited by Simon Ortiz. Bibliography of Algonquian Linguistics by David H. Pentland. License for Empire: Colonialism by Treaty in Early America by Dorothy V. Jones. Indian Traders on the Middle Border: The House of Ewing, 1827-54 by Robert A.

Book reviews of: Mat Hekid O Ju/When It Rains edited by Ofelia Zepeda. The Navajo Nation by Peter Iverson. Historic Hope Ceramics: The Thomas V. Keam Collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology, Harvard University by Edwin L. Wade and Lea S. McChesney. The George Rogers Clark Adventure in the Illinois, and Selected Documents of the American Revolution at the Frontier Posts by Katherine Wagner Seineke. Life Is With People: Household Organization of the Contemporary Southern Paiute Indians by Martha C.

Book reviews of: A Study of Pueblo Architecture in Tusayan and Cibola by Victor Mindeleff. The Faithful Hunter: Abnaki Stories by Joseph Bruchac. Navajo Coyote Tales by William Morgan. Secrets From the Center of the World by Joy Harjo and Stephen Strom. Kickapoo Vocabulary by Paul H. Voorhis. An Ojibwe Text Anthology edited by John D. Nichols. "Statement Made by the Indians": A Bilingual Petition of the Chippewas of Lake Superior, 1864 edited by John D. Nichols. Pisiskiwak kâ-pîkiskwêcik/Talking Animals told by L. Beardy.

Book reviews of: Lakota Society by James R. Walker. Lakota Myth by James R. Walker. Living the Sky: The Cosmos of the American Indian by Ray A. Williamson. The Sons of the Wind edited by D. M. Dooling. Cev'armiut Qanemciit Qulirait-llu compiled by Anthony C. Woodbury. The Hidden Half: Studies of Plains Indian Women by Patricia Albers and Beatrice Medicine. The Imperial Osages: Spanish-Indian Diplomacy in the Mississippi Valley by Gilbert C. Din and Abraham P.

Book reviews of: Indian Water Policy In a Changing Environment: A Symposium on Indian Water Policy edited by Patricia Zell. Languages and Their Roles in Educating Native Children by Barbara Burnaby. Changing Economic Roles for Micmac Men and Women by Ellice B. Gonzalez. Native American Art at Philbrook by N. P. Paper. The Upward Moving and Emergence Way by Father Berard Haile. People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879; with an epilogue, 1964-1974 by Father Peter John Powell.

Book reviews of: The Original Vermonters: Native Inhabitants, Past and Present by William A. Haviland and Marjory W. Power. John Eliot's Indian Dialogues: A Study in Cultural Interaction edited by Henry W. Bowden and James P. Ronda. The Political Outsiders: Blacks and Indians in Rural Oklahoma County by Brian F. Rader. "In Vain I Tried to Tell You:" Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics by Dell Hymes. Yuwipi: Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual by William K. Powers. User's Handbook for the Siouan Languages Archive by David S.

Book reviews of: The Crown of Columbus by Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich A Second View: The Crown of Columbus by Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich Baptism of Desire: Poems by Louise Erdrich Interior Landscapes: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors by Gerald Vizenor Griever: An American Monkey King in China by Gerald Vizenor Native Writers and Canadian Writing edited by W.H.

Book reviews of: Multicultural Voices: Literature from the United States foreword by Rita Dove. Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris edited by Allan Chavkin and Nancy Feyl Chavkin. The Sioux by Peter Hicks. Dirt Road Home by Cheryl Savageau ; introduction by Joseph Bruchac. Crazywater: Native Voices on Addiction and Recovery by Brian Maracle. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book reviews of: Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact by Vine Deloria, Jr. The Legacy of D’Arcy McNickle: Writer, Historian, Activist edited by John Lloyd Purdy. The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives edited by T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker. Completing the Circle by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve. Bone Game by Louis Owens. Entire issue on one pdf. To access reviews, scroll down to appropriate page.

Examines how Native American authors Winona LaDuke, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn and Linda Hogan share the goal of decolonization through their writings with the objective of producing an educated reader/activist. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 62.

Comments on how the work of the writer conveys both the tragedy of colonization and the courage and optimism of recovery. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 96.

Looks at how the teachings of her Cheechum help Maria Campbell have the strength to get through her difficulties.

[Literature?] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Emory University, Institute of Liberal Arts, 1999.

Questions the relationship between the Catholocism and traditional Ojibwe beliefs providing some insights into the interaction of personal ethics and decisions about social problems.

Book review of: The Rez Road Follies: Canoes, Casinos, Computers, and Birch Bark Baskets by Jim Northrup. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Argues that while Elvira Pulitano's Toward a Native American Critical Theory presents a thoughtful analysis of Native American literature, her presentation is regressive and actively marginalizes and displaces tribal voices. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 144.

Focuses on the written responses to colonization produced by two American Indian intellectuals, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins and Charles Alexander Eastman.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)-- University of Waterloo, 2006.

Contains information about the author who grew up in Fort Smith and why he is happy he bypassed Canadian publishers and went straight to the US.

Video clip from the performance storytellling presentation An Evening with Richard Wagamese. In the video Richard, an Ojibway columnist / novelist / storyteller, expresses his views on language, orality and storytelling.

Video clip from An Evening with Richard Wagamese, an Ojibway columnist / novelist / storyteller. In the clip, Richard expresses his views on language, orality and storytelling.

Video clip from An Evening with Richard Wagamese an Ojibway columnist / novelist / storyteller. In the clip Richard expresses his views on language, orality and storytelling.

Follows the writer's career, first as a columnist with Windspeaker, then with the Calgary Herald and finally as a novelist. Discusses The Terrible Summer, Keeper 'n Me, A Quality of Light and for Joshua in relation to other Aboriginal authors' works. Chapter from the book Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature edited by Donna Coates and George Melnyk.

Interview with the author of a book about racism, residential schools, hockey and broken spirits. Duration: 33:18.

Profile of the Ojibway columnist, storyteller and novelist.

Suggests the author's attempt to combine oral traditions with the written word for a Eurowestern audience with no explanation, will lead to misinterpretation of the stories being told. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 70.

The author describes how her father, Robert Leslie Evans, became the model used for the main character, Tayo, and how she is related to Leslie Marmon Silko.

Author argues that Zitkala-Ša used romance to present tradition in response to sustained criticism.

Chapter from the book, The Native in Literature: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives. Examines the image of Native people in contemporary critical writing.