Poetry

Poem, the prayer song by Gregory Scofield.

An experimental video/art poem and accompanying text that examines issues including land rights, resource extraction, environmentalism, the Occupy Movement and the activism of Indigenous peoples.

Introduces special issue written, compiled and edited by Aboriginal peoples from British Columbia.

Poem. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 79.

Presents a poem.

Comments on author's use of poetry to respond to personal experience of racism.

A poem.

Poem by Louis Oakes of the Nikaneet Band.

Focuses on the effect financial/material pressures had on the work of the poet, E. Pauline Johnson, who had to rely solely on publication as a means of earning her living.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Connecticut, 2006.

Discusses examples of intellectual and aesthetic practices in Hawaiian literature that layer cultural and historic ideologies within deeper meanings and themes important to Hawaiian culture.

Author reads from the works of Joy Harjo from both a queering and a post-colonial perspective.

Book review of: Quilt Culture edited by Cheryl B. Torsney and Judy Elsley. Click on link to read review.

Reviews two books The Rabbits Could Sing by Amber Flora Thomas and The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife by Joan Kane.

Criticism of the poems Seaconck Plain Engagement and To Lord Bellamont When Entering Governour of the Massachusetts by Benjamin Tompson.

Book review of: A Radiant Curve by Luci Tapahonso. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 125.

Book review of: A Radiant Curve: Poems and Stories by Lee Shenandoah Vasquez.

Poem. Entire issue on one pdf. To access, scroll to page 92.

Presents a poem titled, The Raid, written by a student at Haskell Indian Nations University.

Two poems.

Book review of: Rainbows of Stone, a collection of poetry by Ralph Salisbury. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

A poem.

Previously-lost creation story transcribed in October 1900. Includes English translation. Entire journal one pdf. Scroll down to page 98 to read article.

Looks at how Ray Young Bear transformed oral traditions into poetry. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Looks at the protagonists in a short story and two poems.

Article offers artistic/literary criticism of Simpson’s video poem; discusses new possibilities for human relationships with our more-than-human relations, and calls on settlers to take up “intergenerational responsibility” for settler colonial violence.

Poem. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Discusses the use of photography in conjunction with poetry in Marilyn Dumont's A Really Good Brown Girl and Louis Halfe's Blue Marrow.

Introduction to special issue.

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.

Author illustrates her poetic journey as an educator and a lifelong learner.

Poem titled The Real Thing: For Bernice by Marilou Awiakta.

Book review of: A Really Good Brown Girl by Marilyn Dumont.

Sam Kenoi’s “Coyote and the Whitemen”: Contact in and out of a Chiricahua Narrative by Anthony K. Webster examines specific narration by placing it within the context of received standards for a Coyote narrative. Language in Mari Sandoz’s Crazy Horse: Strange Man of the Oglalas by Kimberli Lee discusses the Indian perspectives used in Mari Sandoz’s work.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2011.

Poem.

Book review of Red Indian Road West edited by Kurt Schweigman and Lucille Lang Day.

Book reviews of: Red Land, Red Power by Sean Kicummah Teuton and Seeing Red by Cari M. Carpenter. Scroll down to page 439 to see reviews.

Poem "Red Trails" by Jeannette Armstrong.

Describes how Native American authors Paula Gunn Allen, Sherman Alexie, Elizabeth Woody, Teresa lyall-Santos, James Luna, Marie Annharte Baker, and Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie create oppositional models, which challenge current paradigms and understandings of Native American identity. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.

Presents a poem which looks at the impact of colonialism and neo-liberalism on Indigenous and non-Indigenous societies. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 28.

Presents a performance of a spoken word piece, done with music.

Poem by Gail Tremblay. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Discusses the poet's work in terms of the balancing act she performed between her Aboriginal heritage and the Caucasian environment in which she was raised. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Appreciative essay for poetry created by Blackfeet author James Welch. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 49.

Poem.

Comments on three poems that claim nomadism as an expression of culture and reconstitution.