Jimmy and Charlie Chief Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Jimmy Chief
Charlie Chief
Alphonse LittlePopular
Indian History Film Project
Description
Interview of the grandsons of Little Bear who discuss lifestyle. They tell stories about Cree raids on Blackfoot;the hanging of Little Bear and murder of a storekeeper's son by a medicine man. Interpreter by Alphonse Littlepoplar.
Laughing Without Reservation: Indian Standup Comedians
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Darby Li Po Price
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, Special Issue on American Indians and the Urban Experience, 1998, pp. 225-271
Description
Explores Native American humor, comedians and the background of Charles Hill, the most famous Native American comic in the USA..
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
Description
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.
Living Sideways: Social Themes and Social Relationships in Native American Trickster Tales
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Franchot Ballinger
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 1, Winter, 1989, pp. 15-30
Description
Investigates the trickster character in traditional Indigenous storytelling and its reflections on Indigenous social life.
Lizette Ahenakew Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Lizette Ahenakew
Christine Welsh
Indian History Film Project
Description
She was born on the Little Pine Reserve, the first girl from that reserve to attend high school. She tells of some childhood memories; naming ceremonies; significance of Indian names; the training of children, especially girls; menarche seclusion; women: influence of, in religion and ceremonialism, pregnancy; her education: traditional; experiences in Anglican boarding school (integrated) in Saskatoon; training for roles as wife and mother.
"Making All the Crooked Ways Straight": The Satirical Portrait of Whites in Coast Salish Folklore
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Madronna Holden
The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 89, no. 353, July-Sept. 1976, pp. 271-293
Description
Jokes played on the first whites by Native American Indians living in southwestern Washington State became known as a folkloristic reception and were used by Aboriginal storytellers to translate historical fact into record.
Making Metaphor Happen: Space, Time and Trickster Sign
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steven Hawley
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, vol. 64, no. 2, Summer, 2008, pp. 95-122
Description
Sums up the tricksters' abilities to adapt and change with the times.
Mavis J. Adams Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Mavis J. Adams
Mick Burrs
Indian History Film Project
Description
Mrs. Adams is a retired white schoolteacher and was 69 years old at the time of the interview. She tells of her induction as an honorary chief of the Blackfoot reserve and shares her experiences among the Blackfoot.
Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sean Carleton
BC Studies, no. 162, The British Columbia Court of Appeal, 1910-2010, Summer, 2009, pp. 207-208
Description
Book review of: Me Sexy edited by Drew Hayden Taylor.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review, scroll to p. 207.
Mending Bodies, Mending Hearts
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa Elbert
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 335-339
Description
The author discusses the role that humour plays in recovering from loss and from tragedy; considers their own participation in the Dakota Commemorative March in the context of their own healing.
The Museum of the Plains White Person
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rayna Green
Description
Satirical essay which parallels discussion about the creation of the National Museum of the American Indian.
Designed to accompany the film A Seat at the Drum from the Public Broadcasting Service series Indian Country Diaries.
Mythic Rage and Laughter: An Interview with Gerald Vizenor
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dallas Miller
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 77-96
Description
Interview with Gerald Vizenor on the meaning of silence; the relationship of his critical writings to his fiction; tribal oral traditions and humor and the uses of humor; Summer in the Spring, a collection of stories and songs translated; The People Named the Chippewa; and examples of irony in his stories.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Native American Humor as Resistance: Breaking Identity Moulds in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water
Alternate Title
Native American Humour as Resistance
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz
Miscelànea, vol. 42, Literature, Film and Cultural Studies, 2010, pp. 67-90
Description
Discusses techniques used in the novel to critique Western colonizers' worldview and their perceptions and treatment of Aboriginals.
Not Exactly: Intertextual Identities and Risky Laughter in Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adrienne Kertzer
Children's Literature, vol. 40, 2012, pp. 49-77
Description
Focuses on various critical analysis and interpretations of the work, with special reference to the perspective of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.
"Now ... Didn't Our People Laugh?" Female Misbehavior and Algonquian Culture in Mary Rowlandson's Captivity and Restauration
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Arnold
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 4, 1997, pp. 1-28
Description
Argues that a closer look at humour, in the work of Rowlandson, provides readers with a greater understanding of the Algonquian side of early cross-cultural relations and reveals the ways in which cultural discomfort and disharmony are not rare, but rather integral concepts for early American identity.
Pedagogy, Pleasure and the Art of Poking Fun: Anti-colonial Humour in Australian Indigenous Studies
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Garry Jones
Colleen McGloin
AlterNative, vol. 12, no. 5, [Indigenous Peoples, Popular Pleasures and the Everyday], 2016, pp. 527-540
Description
Author discusses his experience with incorporating humour into an undergraduate class where the majority of students were not Indigenous.
Peyote Jokes
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James H. Howard
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 76, no. 295, January-March 1962, pp. 10-14
Description
Brief background and sample of humorous stories illustrating the type of story often told following an all night peyote ceremony.
Playboy Blacks vs. Playboy Indians: Differential Minority Stereotyping in Magazine Cartoons
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John R. White
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, 1979, pp. 39-55
Description
Analysis of the nature and varieties of stereotypes which occurred between 1954 and 1973 in Playboy magazine to determine whether there were changes in content and frequency during that time.
Playing with Culture: The Serious Side of Humor
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
William K. Powers
American Anthropologist, vol. 96, no. 3, September 1994, pp. 705-710
Description
Book reviews of 2 books:
Indi'n Humor: Bicultural Play in Native American by Kenneth Lincoln.
Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts by Greg Sarris.
The Politics of Children
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Drew Hayden Taylor
Windspeaker, vol. 18, no. 10, February 2001, p. 5
Description
Humorous look at the pitfalls involved when writing for children's educational television programming and explains how it differs from writing plays for the same audience.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.5.
Re-Constructing the Colonizer: Self-representation by First Nations Artists
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shandra Spears
Atlantis, vol. 29, no. 2, [Indigenous Women: The State of Our Nations], 2005, pp. 1-18
Description
Examines how women artists resist the colonial perspective to produce social change in educational ways.
Reading for Reconciliation? Indigenous Literatures in a Post-TRC Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aubrey Jean Hanson
English Studies in Canada, vol. 43, no. 2-3, Special Issue: Transition, June/September 2017, pp. 69-90
Description
Also available Open Access here.
Article examines the ways in which Indigenous writers and scholars interrogate the framework of Reconciliation by creating a narrative of resurgence. Author additionally argues for the need to examine the pedagogy and process when including Indigenous literatures in educational settings.