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Klee Wyck: The Eye of the Other

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hilda L. Thomas
Canadian Literature, no. 136, Nature, Politics, Poetics, Spring, 1993, pp. 5-20

Focuses on several facets of Emily Carr's book Klee Wyck: the feminist tone; the effect of modernism on native life; examination of the sketches; the message of disintegration, loss and of hope. 

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Knotted Bellies and Fragile Webs: Untangling and Re-Spinning in Tayo's Healing Journey

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jude Todd
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 155-170
Literary criticism article that deals with Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel Ceremony. Author explores the relationship between the belly and the mind in Pueblo cultural and spiritual contexts and through this lens explores Tayo’s, Ceremony’s main character, expression of his PTSD.
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Laguna Symbolic Geography and Silko's "Ceremony"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Edith Swan
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 3, Summer, 1988, pp. 229-249
Looks at the journey spiritual of Leslie Silko's protagonist Tayo through a Laguna symbolic world created by the Spider Women character. Laguna Pueblo is located in northwestern New Mexico.
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Laguna Woman: An Annotated Leslie Silko Bibliography

Alternate Title
Annotated Bibliography: Laguna Woman: An Annotated Leslie Silko Bibliography
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William Dinome
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 1, 1997, pp. 207-280
A review of the life and work of the author.
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Lakota Culture

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Aktá Lakota Museum & Cultural Center

Includes links to beliefs and traditions, Seven Council Fires, legends, historical American Indian leaders and South Dakota tribal lands.

Related: Artists and Authors; Spirit Animals.

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The Last of the Black Snakes and the Last of the Mohicans

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marek Paryz
European Journal of American Culture, vol. 31, no. 3, Native Americans in Europe in the Twentieth Century, October 18, 2012, pp. 219-230
Focuses on the specific influences James Fenimore Cooper had on Polish writers. Uses writings by Henryk Sienkiewicz and adaptations of Leatherstocking Tales as examples.
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"The Laying Aside of a Shield": Ethnographic Power Struggles in Oliver La Farge's Indian Fiction

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Erik Trump
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 326-342
Literary criticism piece in which the author considers the fictional writings and autobiography of Oliver La Farge, who was both a novelist and an anthropologist; argues that La Farge’s work engages in a process of critique of the anthropology and ethnography disciplines.
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Learning "The Language the Presidents Speak": Images and Issues of Literacy in American Indian Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kimberly M. Blaeser
World Literature Today, vol. 66, no. 2, From This World: Contemporary American Indian Literature, Spring, 1992, pp. 230-235
Looks at selections from the work of Leslie Marmon Silko, Diane Glancy, N. Scott Momaday, Linda Hogan, and Gerald Vizenor that illustrate the historical struggle with literacy.
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Learning to Relate: Stories from a Father and Son

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. J. Baker
L. M. M. H. Baker
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010
Discussion on stories shared by Jeff Baker and his father, Lee Baker on physical and cultural disconnection, and the benefits of listening to and learning from each another.
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Leslie Marmon Silko

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Ellen L. Arnold
Includes biographical and critical essay, list of writings and further writings about the author of Laguna Woman: Poems and Ceremony.
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Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony: The Recovery of Tradition

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Leah Sneider
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 4, Winter, 2009, pp. 97-99
Book review of: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony: The Recovery of Tradition by Robert M. Nelson. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 97.
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Leslie Silko

Articles » General
Brief biography and overview of writings of author raised on Laguna Peublo Reservation.
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Letter to a Just-Starting-Out Indian Writer—and Maybe to Myself

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stephen Graham Jones
Transmotion, vol. 2, no. 1 - 2, November 28, 2016, pp. 124-130
A playful creative non-fiction piece that uses humour as a means to articulate the roles that Indigenous writers can and do play in contemporary culture, in resistance and resurgence.
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Letter to Carter Revard

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Norma Wilson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue in Honor of Carter Revard], Spring, 2003, pp. [60]-66
Author reminisces about her long and varied correspondence with Revard, which took place over the course of 26 years. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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"Like Melody or Witchcraft": Empowerment through Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah A. Miranda
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 103-106
Author examines and compares that practice of making poetry and the and the practice of re-discovering or returning to traditional knowledge and ways of knowing.
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Lines and Circles: The "Rez" Plays of Tomson Highway

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Denis W. Johnston
Canadian Literature, no. 124-125 , Native Writers & Canadian Writing, Spring/Summer, 1990, pp. 254 - 264

Discussion of two plays, The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, which expose the problems, challenges and injustices that Aboriginal people face.

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Listening to Silences in Ruby Slipperjack's Silent Words

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dee Horne
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 23, no. 2, 1998, pp. [122]-137
Examines a novel of abuse, silencing and the enduring effects of colonization.
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