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The Indianness of Louise Erdrich's The Beet Queen: Latency as Presence

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dennis M. Walsh
Ann Braley
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 1-17
Explains how Louise Erdrich uses "survival humor" to compare a white world that is spirituality bankrupt, with no meaningful tradition and ceremony, to that of the Ojibway culture that tends to have coherent meaning.
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Indians in Indian Fiction: The Shadow of the Trickster

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alan R. Velie
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn, 1984, pp. 315-329
Examines the protagonists and use of the trickster archetype in Indigenous author's fictional stories. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn and James Welch's Winter in the Blood and The Death of Jim Loney are the novels examined.
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Indians, Incorporated

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael A. Elliott
American Literary History, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring, 2007, pp. 141-159
Chronicles the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the American state through a discussion of five books and concludes increased Indigenous presence requires critical historical awareness of the state.
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Indians on Vacation: A Novel: Book Club Kit

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
St. Albert Public Library

To be used in conjunction with book by Thomas King. Compilation includes information about the author, interviews, book reviews and discussion questions, as well as general article on Understanding and Navigating Privilege While Travelling.

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Indians Playing Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kenneth Lincoln
MELUS, vol. 16, no. 3, Ethnic Theater, Autumn, 1989/1990, pp. 91-98
Discusses themes in the play Body Indian by Hanay Beiogamah.
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Indigeneity and Diversity in Eden Robinson's Work

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kit Dobson
Canadian Literature, no. 201, Disappearance and Mobility, Summer , 2009, pp. 54-67
Discusses the ambivalent forms of recognition that face Indigenous writers.
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Indigenizing the Future: Why We Must Think Spatially in the Twenty-First Century

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel R. Wildcat
American Studies, vol. 46, no. 3-4, Indigeneity at the Crossroads of American Studies, Fall/Winter, 2005, pp. 417-440

Looks a the life of Vine Deloria, Jr. and his contributions as an Indigenous thinker and intellectual. 

Joint issue with: Indigenous Studies Today Issue 1, Spring 2006.

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Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901: A Conversation between Professor Tim Rowse and Dr Miranda Johnson

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Miranda Johnson
Tim Rowse
Aboriginal History, vol. 42, December 2018, pp. 125-139
In this interview Dr. Johnson and Professor Rowse discusse Rowse’s recent book, the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, the structure of the Australian state and its evolution over the 20th century, and the ongoing tension between kin-based and state-based sovereignties.
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The Indigenous Imposition: Settling Expectation, Unsettling Revision, and the Politics of Playing with Familiarity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Darren Edward Lone Fight
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 1-35
Author defines and then discusses Indigenous Futurisms as a decolonial aesthetic practice rather than a defined literary genre and explores its power as a reorienting and revisional device.
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Indigenous Paradigms, Rankean Conventions and the Quest for a Post-colonial Saskatchewan History. A Brief Review of Selected Local Indigenous Written Scholarship

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Cottrell
Saskatchewan History, vol. 61, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 22-25
Uses Shawn Wilson’s book Research is Ceremony as a framework to consider the research and writings of Indigenous history scholars which privileges oral communication, personal relationships, intuition and subjectivity; challenges the objectivity of the researcher, the data being studied and the research process. Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 22.
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(Indigenous) Place and Time as Formal Strategy Healing Immanent Crisis in the Dystopias of Eden Robinson and Richard Van Camp

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Conrad Scott
Extrapolation, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 73-93
Critical essay examines Haisla/Heiltsuk writer Eden Robinson’s short story “Terminal Avenue” (1996) and Dogrib (Tłįchǫ) writer Richard Van Camp’s short story “On the Wings of this Prayer” (2013) as narratives of dislocation and argues that stories call for a return to territory and tradition as a means of healing.
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Indigenous Poetics in Canada

Alternate Title
Indigenous Studies Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Neal McLeod
Duncan Mercredi
Armand Garnet Ruffo
Warren Cariou ...
Tasha Beeds
David Newhouse
Marilyn Dumont
Leanne Simpson
Daniel David Moses
Alyce Johnson
Michèle Lacombe
Waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy
Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair
Rosanna Deerchild
Marvin Francis
Shayla Elizabeth
Janet Rogers
Lindsay “Eekwol” Knight
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Rhiannon Johnson
Susan Gingell ...
Lee Maracle
Gregory Scofield
Joanne Arnott
Lesley Belleau
Gail MacKay
Indigenous Studies Series
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Indigenous Posthumans: Cyberpunk Surgeries and Biotech Boarding Schools in File under Miscellaneous and SyFy’s Helix

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stina Attebery
Extrapolation, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 95-116
Uses Jeff Barnaby’s film, File Under Miscellaneous, and SyFy’s series, Helix, to discuss the subtleties inherent in Gerald Vizenor’s concept of “survivance” and Archille Mbembe’s competing logics of “martyrdom and survial.” Considers these as elements of resistance to colonial biopolitics.
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Indigenous Radical Resurgence and Multispecies Landscapes: Leslie Marmon Silko’s The Turquoise Ledge

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nathaniel Otjen
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 135-157
In this literary criticism article, the author deconstructs the colonial narrative practice of portraying a place or space as a wasteland and as uninhabited in order to justify extractive practices and describes Indigenous narrative strategies of resistance.
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Indigenous Saskatchewan Encyclopedia

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Indigenous Voices
Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning
University of Saskatchewan
Over two hundred entries which were extracted from the Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan.
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Indigenous Writing and the Residential School Legacy: A Public Interview with Basil Johnston

Alternate Title
Interview: Indigenous Writing and the Residential School Legacy: A Public Interview with Basil Johnston
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Basil Johnston
Sam McKegney
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 34, no. 2, 2009, pp. 264-274
Transcript of an interview, conducted in 2007, in which Johnston discusses his personal experiences as well as what he sees as the wider impact of the residential school system.
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The Influence of Shakespeare on Aboriginal Theatre: An Interview with Daniel David Moses on Brébeuf's Ghost

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Daniel Moses
Marissa McHugh
Interview with Daniel David Moses to discuss the historical drama that recounts the survival of an Ojibway community that fled across the Canadian Shield, in 1649, in order to escape the Iroquois. Some critics call the play a Shakespearean adaptation, but the author prefers to classify it as being "influenced by Shakespeare".
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Inhabiting Indianness: Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer and the Phenomenology of White Sincerity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Zachary S. Laminack
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 4, Winter, 2017, pp. 29-57
Author discusses novel’s criticism of white masculinity and the way in which its nature allows white men to feel that they are offering solidarity Indigenous people while effectively controlling the narrative and undermining sovereignty.
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The Intelligentsia in Dissent: Palestine, Settler-Colonialism and Academic Unfreedom in the Work of Steven Salaita

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Omar Zahzah
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 211-224
Review essay which seeks to examine the key themes that appear repeatedly throughout the work of Steven Salaita, and to consider the narratives they might form when considered together.
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Intercultural Identity in James Welch's Fools Crow and The Indian Lawyer

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Darin Saul
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 4, Autumn, 1995, pp. 519-525
Examines how Blackfeet author James Welch depicts characters from two eras who improvise and appropriate Blackfeet and white cultures while facing loss of political autonomy, illness and attack while retaining hope for the future.
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“Interior Dancers”: Transformations of Vizenor’s Poetic Vision

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kimberly M. Blaeser
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Gerald Vizenor, Spring, 1997, pp. [3]-15
Overview of themes and influences in Vizenor's poetry. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Intervening in the Archive: Women-Water Alliances, Narrative Agency, and Reconstructing Indigenous Space in Deborah Miranda’s Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shanae Aurora Martinez
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 54-71
Describes Miranda’s tribal memoir as an act of resistance which disrupts archival and mainstream narratives around Indigenous nations, dispossession, and human-land relationships. Focuses of female voices and perspectives, and on narrative sovereignty.
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Interview: Sandy Osawa

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lawrence Abbott and Sandy Osawa
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 104-115
Abbott interviews film producer and director Sandra Sunrising Osawa about her work and how it relates to her family's history, her identity and her sense of place, and the larger cultural survivance and resurgence movements.
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An Interview with Carter Revard

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janet McAdams
Carter Revard
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue in Honor of Carter Revard], Spring, 2003, pp. [22]-25
Interview with renowned poet Carter Revard, conducted at the Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 28, 1995. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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An Interview With Gerald Vizenor

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Neal Bowers
Charles L. P. Silet
MELUS, vol. 8, no. 1, Spring, 1981, pp. 41-49
Interview with Native American Chippewa author Gerald Vizenor.
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Interview With James Welch (1940-2003): November 17, 2001

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Welch
Mary Jane Lupton (interviewer)
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 1-2, Winter/Spring, 2005, pp. 198-211
Interview transcript with the noted Blackfeet novelist and poet who died on August 4, 2003.
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