Authors

René Dietrich’s interview with poet and author Deborah Miranda.

Explores the authors personal evolution as an indigenous feminist and the scholars that helped shape her journey.

English and Comparative Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--Madurai Kamaraj University, 2012. Focuses on works by Maria Campbell, Beatrice Culleton, Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro.

Discusses the process of theorizing life experience through storytelling. Asserts that the stories told by Indigenous women about their lives should be considered as theories for the purposes of research, writing, and living.

English Thesis (Ph. D)--Illinois State University, 2006.

Looks at the development of Chicana feminist thought, focusing on the development of the Chicano Renaissance of the sixties, the upsurge of Chicana feminisms in the seventies, and continuing on into the present. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Comments on the Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Basil Johnston, honoured at the 2007 Anskohk Aboriginal Literature Festival held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Article located on page 1.

Comments on the poetry and prose of Sherman Alexie.

Demonstrates how this Chickasaw writer uses ecofeminist heuristics to demonstrate the interconnectedness between tribal cultures and the natural landscape. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 67.

Article "examines the role of writer David Cusick as one of the first Iroquois to record the oral literature of his nation in the alphabetic writing of Western civilization," particularly his allusions to the Bible.

Book Review of: Finding a Way to the Heart edited by Robin Jarvis Brownlie and Valerie J. Korinek. Scroll down to page 85 to read review.

Excerpt from correspondence of Simon Ortiz to Kate Shanley, editor, regarding Blackfoot author James Welch. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 39.

Editor of the AIQ presents his thoughts on repetitive, uninformative literature submissions, and the lack of important messages such as hope, empowerment, and tribal unity.

Explains James Welch used strategic omissions as a way to imply the spirituality as a rationale for some character's disconnection with other characters.

English Thesis (Ph,.D.)--University of Oregon, 1992.

Conference for First Nations authors held in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Highlights writers who emerged during the 1930s, such as John Joseph Mathews, James Paytiamo, John Milton Oskison, and D'Arcy McNickles.

Comments on the ability of A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff to understand American Indian literatures despite being non-native. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 87.

Review essay in which the author examines the reoccurring elements and themes in several plays written by Indigenous playwrights and published in Canada by Playwrights Canada Press.

Examines the impact of Aboriginal thinkers on the mid-nineteenth century colonial approach to historical thought and writings.

Educational Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 1997.

Book review of: First Person Plural by Sophie McCall. Book review located by scrolling to page 190.

Interview with the prominent actor, director, playwright and former Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts.

Describes the writing and painting contributions of four Western Canadian folk artists.

[English?] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 1998.

Examines use of references to food, from expressions of actual physical hunger to the use of the terms to express deprivation and longing. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.

Depicts the life of Dr. Dale Auger, winner of the Aboriginal Children's Book of the Year award in 2006 and the 2007 R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.26.

Critical essay which uses Gerald Vizenor’s framework of “Indigenous Survivance” to describe Kwaymullina’s novels The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf (2012), The Disappearance of Ember Crow (2013), and The Foretelling of Georgie Spider (2015) as “a “teaching story” whose strength resides in its use of the apocalypse and the centralizing of Country as collective tactics of survivance and cultural brokering relevant to the experiences of living in a (post)colonial world."

Book review of: Traplines by Eden Robinson and three other books.

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

Demonstates how the novel incorporates Natives, soldiers, civilians, and the press into the political process of suppressing the culture and will of Native American people.

Discussion of Tracks and the central image of earth, loss of earth, and family, community and place.

Looks at a song which was erroneously thought to be documented in an unpublished manuscript.

Professional commentary in which the author describes how psychiatrists working with Indigenous people in Canada can draw on Fanon’s work on the intersections of colonialism, racism, and psychiatry in order to provide higher quality mental health care services.

Book review of: Friendly Mission edited by NJB Plomley. Review located by scrolling to page 265.

Author examines the Uncle Remus children’s stories and links them to a variety of Indigenous narratives from the Saponi-Monacan Confederacy’s oral tradition.

Interview conducted in 2000 with the author/poet/artist. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Explains the use of symbolism, shamanism, medicine plants, and animals and how these relate to ceremonies in the novel, which move the main character, Tayo, toward healing.

Looks at Gladys A. Reichard's book Dezba: Woman of the Desert, a fictional novel based upon her work among the Navajo, which discusses the struggles of a "traditional" mother.

Critical analysis of what was long considered the first novel by a Native American woman.

Looks at the power of spirituality and the way that it seems to transcend the limits that conventional worldviews would place upon it. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Excerpt from the book-length poem Swift Cinder which examines memory and the act of memory making through the metaphor of collision.

Editors' introduction to various articles found in this issue. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page vii.

Editors' introduction to various articles found in this issue. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page vii.

Editors' introduction to various articles found in this issue. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page vii.

Response to the article The Struggle for Grace: An Appreciation of Kevin John Gilbert by Gordon Briscoe found on Page 13 of Volume 18.

Examines the capacity of the Cree writer's narrative to assist in individual and community closure of residential school trauma and to present evidence of the historical role of government. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 79.