Poetry

Presents a poem titled, Wakarusa written by a student at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, KS.

Chapters one, two, four, seven, and twelve.

Discusses the works of the author and poet, including Walking the Rez Road, War Talk, Culture Clash and Wewibitaan. Many of the authors works center on the Vietnam War experience.

Presents a poem.

Looks at the representation of war and self discovery.

Poem.

Poem about the strength of First Nations peoples.

Poem by Dorys Crow Grover. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Interview with creator of a documentary about Native American participation in World I and II, Korea and Vietnam, produced for Wisconsin Public Television.

Examines two critiques of canonical or "dominant mode" poetry, one privileges poetry from the so-called language community; the second, a multicultural critique, focuses on the poetries of marginalized peoples. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Looks at the meanings of home, land, and community, which have traditionally been the source of identity and sense of belonging, as well as sources of knowledge and creativity.

A poem about Inuit lifestyles and values.

Two visual arts activities for ages 12 and up.

Presents a joint paper done, by the author, with Marie Annharte Baker, the noted Chippewa/Cree/French author of three books of poetry: Being on the Moon, Coyote Columbus Cafe and Exercises in Lip Pointing.

Examines the link between environmental injustice, racism and cultural genocide; and discusses the importance of creating a nature based culture that is both environmentally sustainable and socially just.

Literary criticism article which examines the ways that contemporary queer and Two-Spirit authors are creating a cultural resurgence and decolonizing Indigenous sexualities.

Canadian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1993.

Presents Kathie Bird's paintings, stained glass, photography, and poetry.

Presents a poem.

Poem which recalls the authors experience of their childhood home and community.

Literary criticism article that gives close readings of work from Chrystos's Not Vanishing; argues that Chrystos’s poetry work combat the rhetorical invisibility experience by two-spirit and queer Indigenous people in contemporary feminist movements.

Short poem about how a boomerang can symbolize the loss of Aboriginal culture in Australia.

Poem.

Discusses how Maria Clara Sharupi Jua incorporates the customs and beliefs of her homeland in her poetry to defend the the Shuar culture.

This file contains two posters with poems about Batoche. Both poems romanticize the Metis and their customs and their battles with government forces.

Looks at Sámi yoik poetry.

Book review of: Where Clouds Are Formed by Ofelia Zepeda.

Poem. Originally published in Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother's Wisdom 1993.

Book review of: Whiskey Bullets by Garry Gottfriedson. The book has a stereotypical cover, but is intended as a tribute to First Nation and Metis cowboys who herd, observe council politics, lecture on alternate histories, speak of love and write poetry. To access this review, scroll to page 157.

Brief book review of: Whispering in Shadows by Jeanette Armstrong.

Poem by Orlando White.

Poem.

Poems by Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake).

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.

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

Poem.

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

Poem.

Lyrics from a song.

Book review of: Winning the Dust Bowl by Carter Revard. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

An eight line poem in English.

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

A poem.

Book review of: Wo(men) and Bears: The Gifts of Nature, Culture, and Gender Revisited edited by Kaarina Kailo.

Poem and subsequent interview with the Muscogee Creek writer.

Book review of: The Women's Warrior Society by Lois Beardslee.