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Silko’s Vévé and the Web of Differing Versions

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Silko’s Veve and the Web of Differing Versions
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reid Gómez
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 2, [Rethinking Blackness and Indigeneity in the Light of Settler Colonial Theory], 2019, pp. 89-112
Description
The author investigates the novel Almanac of the Dead and how it's content and structure focus attention on the central question "who had spiritual possession of the Americas?".
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Simon Ortiz: The Poet and His Landscape

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William Oandasan
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 1, Winter, 1987, p. [?]
Description
Discusses how Ortiz uses the harmonious relationship between the Acoma Pueblo people and their rural environment in his literary works. Entire issue on one pdf document. To access article, please scroll down page.
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Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Audrey Redman
Atlantis, vol. 29, no. 2, [Indigenous Women: The State of Our Nations], 2005, pp. 152-153
Description
Book review of: Skins compiled and edited by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Josie Douglas.
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Smartberries: Interpreting Erdrich's Love Medicine

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Treuer
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, 2005, pp. 21-36
Description
Analysis of the authors work, paying particular attention to first descriptive and then the more critical and meaningful construction and presentation.
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Social Issues in the Work of Sherman Alexie

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Karolína Trtílková
Description
Introduces Native American literature and history and looks at the influences and accuracy of Alexie's work. Philology Thesis (B.A.)--University of West Bohemia, 2013.
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Some Notes on Native American Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carter Revard
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue in Honor of Carter Revard], Spring, 2003, pp. [1]-15
Description
Speech delivered by Carter Revard at the Mystic Lake Symposium on Native American Literature, Prior Lake, Minnesota, April 11, 2002. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Some Words on Study as a Process of Discovery

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lee Maracle
Description
Abstract and full text of speech given by Lee Maracle at the interdisciplinary conference TransCanada One: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship held in June 2005 at Simon Fraser University.
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Song Buried in the Muscle of Urgency

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kimberly M. Blaeser
Transmotion, vol. 2, no. 1 - 2, November 28, 2016, pp. 144-154
Description
Literary criticism essay engages the poetry of five different Indigenous women: Joy Harjo. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings Casandra Lopez. Where Bullet Breaks Kimberly L. Becker. Words Facing East Kim Shuck. Clouds Running In Allison Adele Hedge Coke, Effigies II: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing
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"The Song I am Singing": Gregory Scofield's Interweavings of Métis, Gay and Jewish Selfhoods

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jane Scudeler
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 31, no. 1, For the Love of Words: Aboriginal Writers of Canada, 2006, pp. 129-145
Description
Examines how Scofield employs different identities in his work, rejecting being placed in any particular category. Argues that his identities overlap and are braided together much like a Métis sash.
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Speaking Across the Divide

Alternate Title
E-mail interview with Simon J. Ortiz
E-mail Interview: Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Inés Hernández-Avila
Domino Perez
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Simon J. Ortiz
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 3-4, Series 2, Fall-Winter, 2003-2004, pp. 7-22
Description
Interviews with Gloria E. Anzaldúa, author of the seminal work Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza and Simon J. Ortiz. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Speaking of Ralph: An Interview with Ingrid Wendt

Articles » General
Author/Creator
A Robert Lee
Transmotion, vol. 6, no. 1, Ralph Salisbury, June 21, 2020, pp. 170-240
Description
Author interviews Ingrid Wendt, widow of the late Ralph Salisbury, about his writing, his teaching, his identity and legacy, and their life together as writers.
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Speaking with Philip Deloria: Interview

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Richard Mace
Philip Deloria
St. Johns University Humanities Review, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring, 2007, pp. 1-5
Description
The noted author speaks about his writing and his role as director of the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan.
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Special Problems in Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paula Gunn Allen
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 4, Autumn, 1990, pp. 379-386
Description
Author discusses some of the difficulties raised by teaching pieces of Indigenous literature that contain information considered to be sacred, ceremonial, or confidential.
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Spectacles and Specters of Indigenous Peoples in How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katherine D. Johnston
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 1, 2019, pp. 99-112
Description
Author discusses the devices used and the layers of meaning contained within the 1971 film, How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman. Stresses a reading of the film as an allegory resistance to colonial and imperialist influence.
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Speculative States: Citizenship Criteria, Human Rights, and Decolonial Legal Norms in Gerald Vizenor’s The Heirs of Columbus

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrew Uzendoski
Extrapolation, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 21-50
Description
Critical paper which uses international Human Rights Law to examine the legal arguments made by Vizenor in his 1991 novel; discusses the relationship between Indigenous speculative fictions (SF) and international law at the end of the twentieth century.
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Spokane Words: An Interview with Sherman Alexie

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Author/Creator
Tomson Highway
Sherman Alexie
Description
Interview conducted by Tomson Highway which took place at the 17th Annual International Festival of Authors in Toronto on October 28, 1996.
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Spork

Articles » General
Author/Creator
David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Transmotion, vol. 2, no. 1 - 2, November 28, 2016, pp. 136-144
Description
Short Story
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"A Spring Wind Rising ... Listen. You Can Hear It"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 4, Special Issue: In Honor of Simon J. Ortiz, Winter, 2004, pp. 3-8
Description
Introduction to a special issue featuring the works of Acoma Pueblo author Simon J. Ortiz. Includes select bibliography. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 3.
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State(s) and Statements: Reflections on Native American Literary Criticism

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Chris Nelson
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 4, Fall, 2015, pp. 377-389
Description
Review essay of: The Native American Renaissance: Literary Imagination and Achievement edited by Alan R. Velie and A. Robert Lee. The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature edited by James H. Cox and Daniel Heath Justice.
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The Stories He Lives By

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Evelina Zuni Lucero
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 4, Special Issue: In Honor of Simon J. Ortiz, Winter, 2004, pp. 51-53
Description
Reflects on the significant contributions Acoma Pueblo author Simon Ortiz has made to Native American literature. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 51.
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