Authors

Book review of: The White Earth Nation by Gerald Vizenor and Jill Doerfler. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 121.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 1999.

Interview with an author about her book White Man Water and research on the Northern Cheyenne First Nation. Duration: 29:32.

Poems by Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake).

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2002.

Literary criticism article which offers a close and critical reading of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” using an English translation if the text “Navajo Nightway” as a lens through which the author examines the aesthetics and worldview of Whitman’s work.

The author recounts how he has become a writer and shares his experience in discovering who he is and what he does.

Explores the difficulties in cross-cultural collaboration, and asserts that the creative relationship between Maria Campbell and Linda Griffiths was neither equal nor like-minded due to their Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal backgrounds.

Examines Stead's critical examination of Hulme's The Bone People, and suggests his ideas about race and equality should not be dismissed.

Explores the roots of the author's racism, which is illustrated in Tom Sawyer, and the reasons why it has been largely ignored by critics.

Argues that while Indigenous authors are determined to express their unique perspectives while doing so in a hostile environment..

Examines the fragmentary nature of Native American literature and argues that the literature represents but a tiny fraction of Indigenous diversity and life.

Poem.

Discusses a joint project, which utilized online interactive discourse, between students of Western Washington University and Choctaw-Cherokee-Irish writer Louis Owens regarding his novel Wolfsong. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 27.

English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2010.

Contains autobiographical information about the storyteller from the Lower Similkameen Indian band in British Columbia and his collaborations with Wendy Wickwire that produced three volumes of stories: Write It on Your Heart, Nature Power, and Living by Stories.

English Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Long Beach, 1997

Contends that humorist Will Rogers, who was a member of the Cherokee Nation, was appropriated and mainstreamed as a mythic American figure and consequently has been denied a prominent place in Native American literary history. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 83.

Includes biographical and critical essay about William Apess, most famous for his autobiography, A Son of the Forest: The Experience of William Apess, A Native of the Forest, Comprising a Notice of the Pequot Tribe of Indians and a list of his writings.

An investigation of how the author's fictional works use Native American characters to accentuate the relationships between races in the American South.

Bibliography and critical look at the many books by Smith (1918- )

The author explores the windigo tales and how they relate to modern U.S. culture.

A discussion about death used in James Welch's Winter in the Blood through the main character's lamenting the loss of his loved ones.

Discussion of the Blackfeet poet-novelist, James Welch, and the change of passage in Indigenous literature - that of returning home.

Immigration and Settlement Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Ryerson University, 2011.

Examines how Laguna Pueblo author Leslie Silko encourages looking at tradition and ceremony in relation to the global community, with the belief change must begin person by person, and be vigilantly maintained so as to ultimately revolutionalize cities, energy sources, foreign policy and interethnic interactions. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 114.

Discusses Lewis’ novel Mantrap in the context of the research trip he took into Northern Saskatchewan, accompanying Indian Agents as they toured reserves to deliver annual “treaty money” payments. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 47.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 2000. Examines works by Rudolfo Anaya, Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, Ana Castillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Paula Gunn Allen and Sandra Cisneros.

Movie based on a story from the collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.

English Thesis (M.A.)--University of New Brunswick, 1994.

Poem and subsequent interview with the Muscogee Creek writer.

Author examines oral storytelling and the ways that meaning is made in and by the act. Discusses issues of context, timing, cross-cultural engagement, and resistance to colonialism and neocolonialism.

Examines the writings of Lydia Campbell, Margaret Baikie and Elizabeth Goudie, all women with a mixed Innu and European background

English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alaska Anchorage, 1997.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2003. Examines the works of Ana Castillo, Helena Maria Viramontes, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Linda Hogan.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northern Illinois University, 1999.

Discussion of poems, nonfiction and fiction works by Gerald Vizenor

English and Film Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2011.

Author summarizes, reviews, and compares several children’s literature books with Indigenous content, highlighting the elements of each book that contribute to a faithful or an inaccurate portrayal of the Indigenous peoples and cultures.

Reviews and discusses how Blackfeet author James Welch used history, realism, and myth as themes to affirm the power of storytelling and language Fools Crow.

Reflects on the influence of Acoma Pueblo author Simon Ortiz on the Native American literary world. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 93.

Examines how the works of Blackfeet author James Welch can be used to overcome Native American stereotypes and be used to explore themes of identity, family and love.

[English] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2017. Refers to the works of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Simon Pokagan, E. Pauline Johnson, and Alex Posey.

Book review of: Write it on Your Heart by Harry Robinson.

Examines two spheres of discourse, the written and the oral tradition and argues the novel affirms the oral tradition in written form, in terms of identity, community, continuity and change.

Looks at a few of the problems that writers have created, surveys some of the ways Native Americans have been portrayed and comments on some modern and postmodern fiction.

English and Film Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2006.

Discusses The Ways of My Grandmothers by Beverly Wolf, Talking Indian: Reflections on Survival and Writing by Anna Lee Walters, Sáanii Dahataal/The Women Are Singing by Luci Tapahonso, and Storyteller by Leslie Marmon Silko.