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Contends that the Tlingit author's poetry, with its traditional themes and world concepts, successfully translates into a non-traditional form of English poetry. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 29.

Publication of a short paper that was delivered on a panel, Honoring Gerald Vizenor, Post-Indian Poses, at the 2016 MLA conference in Austin, Texas. Author articulates their own relationship Vizenor’s work and the inspiration they draw from it.

Explores the theme of technological and governmental effects on Native American land in the work of writer Simon Ortiz. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 68.

Book review of non-fiction: Toward a Native American Critical Theory by Elvira Pulitano.

Literature, Area Studies and European Languages Thesis (M.A.)--University of Oslo, 2010.

Literature Thesis (M.A.)--University of Montana, 2006.

Overview of the English course, Contemporary Native American Literature taught at West Chester University and an analysis of Solar Storms which deals with the building of James Bay-Great Whale hydroelectric project in Quebec.

Focuses on the trepidations of Native Women writers and their appreciation of the cultures and traditions of their People, including the role of mother earth, hunting and fishing traditions, the peoples and the wars, and the waters and fires.

English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2011.

Book review of: Transatlantic Voices: Interpretations of Native North American Literatures edited by Elvira Pulitano.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 1979.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska, 1998.

Looks at texts translated from Lakota, the relationship to George Sword's writing, the history and comparison to transitional texts from other cultures.

Author explains difficulties in translating poems from English to Spanish, recounts correspondence between herself and the poet, and gives four examples of her translations of his poems. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Article engages in a postmodernist cultural critique of the process of “inverted appropriation” in which an oppressed or marginalized culture makes use of the technological or cultural pieces of the dominant cultures as a way of resisting assimilation and erasure.

Looks at the defamiliarisation of Standard Canadian English in the story.

Literary criticism article which examines Momaday’s novel The Ancient Child, and discuss themes of return and of homing in relation to the text.

Argues that James Welch's novel The Death of Jim Loney presents a way to understand how genocide is represented as a catastrophic event and a recurrent condition and denial as a culturally specific response to trauma. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 67.

This literary criticism article considers Vizenor’s body of work as a whole and discusses his attention to historical moments and his use of fiction to overturn colonial knowledge of those moments and to disrupt contemporary understandings of transnationalism.

English Thesis, (Ph. D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005.

Discusses tensions between African Americans and Native Americans inside and outside of Toni Morrison’s work. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 20.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1996.

Book review of: Tribal Theory in Native American Literature by Penelope Myrtle Kelsey.

Book reveiw of: Tribal Theory in Native American Literature: Dakota and Haudenosaunee Writing and Indigenous Worldviews by Penelope Myrtle Kelsey. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 81.

Looks at the life, travels and works of a Native American historian and writer. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 39.

Accolades for Blackfeet author James Welch (1940-2003) and a statement about his influence on the author. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 43.

Reprint of the poem There is No Word for Goodbye. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Discusses Allen's many contributions as a scholar, poet, novelist, theorist, political activist, and professor. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Author's thanks to the Acoma Pueblo writer for his power to move the reader to new insights. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 99.

English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2008.

Examines the novels of Louise Erdrich through the lens of the Anishinaabe point of view, which generates empowerment as opposed to alienation by merging mainstream adaptations with personal interests. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 48.

English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alaska Anchorage, 1998.

Looks at Native American novelists in literature and the histories and identities that dictate their writing styles.

Uses postmodern discourse and theory to discuss the realities created in Indigenous narratives; focuses on the the trickster role as one that is both comic and critical in Indigenous story telling and meaning-making.

Author reflects on Vizenor’s concept of the “compassionate trickster,” and how that understanding of irony and humour in Indigenous art has affected the author’s own research and career in academia.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2003.

English Language and Literature Thesis (B.A.)--Masaryk University, 2006.

Illustrates the postmodern uses, including political, of the Native American character, trickster.

Drama Thesis (M.A)--University of Alberta, 1995.

Humourous commentary as "mistaken identity and trickery" in honour of Blackfeet author James Welch (1940-2003). Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 46.

Recounts a meeting between the author, Tomson Highway and Lenore Keeshig-Tobias to organize a group for First Nations writers.

Examines how Louis Owens’ Wolfsong makes use of different imagery and characterizations in order to challenge perceptions around the complexity of American Indian identity. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Illustrates the lineage of the trickster role in Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart by examining two earlier texts and the links that place them in the framework of textual or rhetorical tricksterism.

Discusses tropes or traditions, the organizing devices societies cohere to, by comparing a book and a movie. As key elements of belief systems, tropes act as powerful mediators between the world and how we experience the world’s meaning . By structuring a shared reality cultures are created, however, sometimes tropes can structure incompatible realities across cultures and distort our ability to understand cultures different from our own.

Book review of: The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative by Thomas King.

Comments on the changing views of Canadian history due to the writings of indigenous authors. Article found by scrolling to page 6.