Oral Traditions

Book reviews of: Playing Indian by Philip J. Deloria, The Social Life of Stories by Julie Cruikshank, and Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism by Craig S. Womack.

Book reviews of: American Indians in U.S. History by Roger L. Nichols. Blanket Weaving in the Southwest by Joe Ben Wheat. Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield by Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney. “The Cherokee Night” and Other Plays by Lynn Riggs. Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World by Robbie Ethridge. Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties and Contemporary Controversies edited by Bruce E. Johansen. Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption by Enrique R.

Book reviews of: Mohawk Trail by Beth Brant Food & Spirits by Beth Brant Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman's Story as told through Mark St. Pierre Mud Woman: Poems From the City by Nora Naranjo-Morse Other Council Fires Were Here Before Ours retold by Twylah Nitsch & Jamie Sams. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book reviews of: Alaska Native Political Leadership and Higher Education: One University, Two Universes by Michael L. Jennings. Alaska’s Daughter: An Eskimo Memoir of the Early Twentieth Century by Elizabeth Bernhardt Pinson. Choctaw Tales collected and annotated by Tom Mould. De Religione: Telling the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Story in Huron to the Iroquois edited and translated by John L. Steckley. Evil Corn by Adrian C. Louis. Have You Thought of Leonard Peltier Lately? by Harvey Arden. Indians in Unexpected Places by Philip J.

Book reviews of: The American Indian Integration of Baseball by Jeffrey Powers-Beck. The Apache Indians: In Search of the Missing Tribe by Helge Ingstad. Assimilation’s Agent: My Life as a Superintendent in the Indian Boarding School System by Edwin L. Chalcraft. Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions edited by Marie Mauzé, Michael E. Harkin, and Sergei Kan. Every Day Is a Good Day by Wilma Mankiller. Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania edited by William A.

Book reviews of: Annikadel: The History of the Universe as Told by the Achumawi Indians of California by Istet Woiche Portage Lake: Memories of an Ojibwe Childhood by Maude Kegg Deer Hunting and Other Poems by Geary Hobson Last Mornings in Brooklyn by Maurice Kenny Engine by Gogisgi/Carroll Arnett Another Song for America by Lance Henson Makers edited by Edgar Heap of Birds Another view of Deer Hunting and Other Poems by Geary Hobson The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems by Sherman Alexie Night Perimeter: New and Sele

Book reviews of: The Crown of Columbus by Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich A Second View: The Crown of Columbus by Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich Baptism of Desire: Poems by Louise Erdrich Interior Landscapes: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors by Gerald Vizenor Griever: An American Monkey King in China by Gerald Vizenor Native Writers and Canadian Writing edited by W.H.

Book reviews of: American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk edited by Troy Johnson, Joane Nagel, and Duane Champagne. As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity edited by William S. Penn. Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World edited by Timothy R. Pauketat and Thomas E.

Book reviews of: American Indian Literatures: An Introduction, Bibliographic Review, and Selected Bibliography by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff Wolverine Myths and Visions: Dene Traditions from Northern Alberta by Dene Wodih Society California Indian Nights by Edward W. Gifford and Gwendoline Harris Block Bighorse the Warrior by Tiana Bighorse and edited by Noël Bennett Wigwam Evenings: Sioux Folk Tales Retold by Charles A.

Book reviews of: Books Without Bias: Through Indian Eyes edited by Beverly Slapin and Doris Seale Teaching the Native American edited by Hap Gilliland, Jon Reyhner, and Rachel Schafer Indian School Days by Basil H. Johnston Ojibway Heritage by Basil H. Johnston Ojibway Ceremonies by Basil H.

Book reviews of: An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians by Fray Ramon Pané, José Juan Arrom et al. American Indians in the Marketplace: Persistence and Innovation among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870-1920 by Brian C.

Book reviews of: Word and Image in Maya Culture edited by William F. Hanks and Don S. Rice Ugiuvangmiut Quliapyuit / King Island Tales: Eskimo History and Legends from Bering Strait edited by Laurence D. Kaplan Seneca Myths and Folk Tales by Arthur C. Parker Wintu Texts edited by Alice Shepard Mirror and Pattern: George Laird’s World of Chemehuevi Mythology by Carobeth Laird Entire issue on one PDF. To acess article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book reviews of: Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 by Brenda J. Child. Visit Teepee Town edited by Diane Glancy and Mark Nowak. Dark River by Louis Owens. Family Matters, Tribal Affairs by Carter Revard. Some Things Are Not Forgotten: A Pawnee Family Remembers by Martha Royce Blaine. Indian Cartography by Deborah A.

Book reviews of: The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage by Gerald Vizenor. Nairne's Muskhogean Journals: The 1708 Expedition to the Mississippi River edited by Alexander Moore. The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, Captive of Maquinna annotated and illustrated by Hilary Stewart. A Creek Warrior for the Confederacy: The Autobiography of Chief G. W. Grayson edited by W. David Baird. Native American Baskertry: An Annotated Bibliography complied by Frank W.

Books reviews of: The Summer in the Spring: Ojibway Lyric Poems and Tribal Stories edited by Gerald Vizenor Tony Hillerman by Fred Erisman Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book reviews of: Blue Horses Rush In by Luci Tapahonso. The Oklahoma Basic Intelligence Test: New and Collected Elementary, Epistolary, Autobiographical and Oratorical Choctologies by D. L. Birchfield. Entire issue on one pdf. To access reviews, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book review of: Drum Songs: Glimpses of Dene History by Kerry Abel.

Book reviews of: Grandmother, Grandfather, and Old Wolf: Tamánwit Ku Súkat and Traditional Native American Narratives from the Columbia Plateau edited with introduction by Clifford E. Trafzer. Native American Identities: From Stereotype to Archetype in Art and Literature by Scott B. Vickers. The Meade Solution by Robert J. Conley. The “Real People” Novels by Robert J. Conley. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book reviews of: Earth’s Mind: Essays in Native Literature by Roger Dunsmore. Artistry in Native American Myths by Karl Kroeber. Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place by Louis Owens. Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border-Crossing, and Loose Canons by Paula Gunn Allen. Animating the Ordinary, Empowering the In-Between: The Cold-and-Hunger Dance by Diane Glancy. I Remember the Fallen Trees: New and Selected Poems by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. Gardens in the Dunes by Leslie Marmon Silko. Entire issue on one pdf.

Book review of: Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood by Delphine Red Shirt. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book reviews of: From the Glittering World: A Navajo Story by Irvin Morris. The Blue Jay’s Dance: A Birth Year by Louise Erdrich. Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition by Kimberly M. Blaeser. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Looks at the gaming experience of a culturally appropriate system that provides a convenient mode for preserving and promoting cultural heritage.

Looks at how the teachings of her Cheechum help Maria Campbell have the strength to get through her difficulties.

Discusses Language Keepers project which includes the development and production of a new dictionary, audio recordings, and a video archive of natural group conversations.

Examines witiko case studies not previously scrutinized.

Sámi Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Umeå University, 2008.

[Literature?] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Emory University, Institute of Liberal Arts, 1999.

Linguistics Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 1999.

Educational Foundations Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2015.

Video clip from the performance storytellling presentation An Evening with Richard Wagamese. In the video Richard, an Ojibway columnist / novelist / storyteller, expresses his views on language, orality and storytelling.

Video clip from An Evening with Richard Wagamese, an Ojibway columnist / novelist / storyteller. In the clip, Richard expresses his views on language, orality and storytelling.

Video clip from An Evening with Richard Wagamese an Ojibway columnist / novelist / storyteller. In the clip Richard expresses his views on language, orality and storytelling.

Three copies of bulletin; article subjects include then-recent discoveries of Riel manuscripts, and the proposed continuing development of Batoche National Historic Park.

Historical note:

The purpose of the "Riel Project" was to publish a critical edition of all the writings of Louis Riel. The edition was to present a printed version faithful to what Riel himself wrote, being "critical" in the sense that errors will be noted, variants recorded, and annotations furnished. In English / French.

Discusses two autobiographies: Wilma Mankiller's Mankiller: A Chief and Her People and Russell Mean's Where White Men Fear To Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means.

Suggests the author's attempt to combine oral traditions with the written word for a Eurowestern audience with no explanation, will lead to misinterpretation of the stories being told. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 70.

Debates who can tell Indigenous stories and explores power relations in research using case studies.

Arts and Philosophy Thesis--University of Pardubice, 2009.

Analysis of poems of Rauni Magga Lukkari and interviews with individuals who remember when the "hunger road", which brought the two cultures into contact, was built.

Robert Goodvoice tells a story of the Sioux Indians' first contact with Europeans and prophecies regarding the Europeans. He gives accounts of the 1851 Treaty made at Fort Laramie between the Sioux and the American Government and of the 1862 Minnesota Massacre. He also tells of the establishment of the Wahpaton (Round Plain) Reserve in Saskatchewan, and its chiefs.

Robert Goodvoice tells a story about the journey of a group of Sioux from the United States to Canada, through Portage la Prairie, Manitoba to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He tells of a settlement of the Wahpaton (Round Plain) Reserve in Saskatchewan and the division of the Sioux tribe. He also talks about Indian medicine and curing practices and reflects on the loss of knowledge of the old ways.

He gives an account of the Sioux participation in the War of 1812 on the side of the British, and the Sioux interpretation of the reward promised them by the British Crown; tells the history and whereabouts of the King George III medals given to the Sioux for their loyalty to the British Crown during the War of 1812; tells the story of two Sioux chiefs who were kidnapped in Manitoba and returned to the United States, presumably for their part in the 1862 Sioux uprising (Minnesota Massacre); tells of the dispersal of the Sioux in their flight from the U.S.

He tells a number of stories of people and objects which were lost, and how they were found with the help of "people with the power to find things" (prophets).

He tells a story about the origins of the Dakota (Sioux) guardian spirit and his powers; and how Iktomi differs from the equivalent Cree spirit power (Wisakedjak).

He tells a story of a woman who was taken prisoner and carried off to live in an enemy camp; her treachery against her brothers and husband when they came to rescue her; how she was killed by her own mother because of her treachery; her mother's atonement after the killing.

Looks at the key teachings from Elders: respect, kindness, love, forgiveness, integrity and patience. Also discusses the Circle of Life Duration: 15:07.

Defines the Taino Indigenous people in two rural communities in southern Jamaica.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Lethbridge, 2002.

Literary criticism article in which the author explores the different ways that knowledge is made, transferred, and protected in Indigenous literatures. Stresses the relational understandings of oral traditions and the resistance to colonial commodification by Indigenous writers.