"It is always darkest just before first dawn's light": The Social Project of Recent Native Canadian Prose
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Angnieszka Rzepa
TransCanadiana, no. 6, The Peaceable kingdom? Cultural and Language Communities in Canada and the Rule of Law, 2013, pp. [249]-262
Description
Looks at texts by Canadian Aboriginal writers Stewart Steinhauer, Jeanette Armstrong, Duncan Mercredi, and Thomas King.
“It Needs Not the Display of Language”: Aesthetics and Politics in Early Native American Writing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Angela Calcaterra
Early American Literature, vol. 49, no. 2, 2014, pp. 499-516
Description
Book review essays of:
The American Indian Intellectual Tradition: An Anthology of Writings from 1772 to 1972 edited by David Martinez.
Changing Is Not Vanishing: A Collection of American Indian Poetry to 1930 edited by Robert Dale Parker.
American Literature's Aesthetic Dimensions edited by Cindy Weinstein and Christopher Looby.
It's Not a Poem. It's My Life: Navajo Singing Identities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kenneth M. Roemer
Studies in American Indian Literature, vol. 24, no. 2, Summer, 2012, pp. 84-103
Description
Discusses poetry, autobiography, oral literatures and traditional songs.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 84.
"It Was That Indian": Simon Ortiz, Activist Poet
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Tohe
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 4, Special Issue: In Honor of Simon J. Ortiz, Winter, 2004, pp. 54-56
Description
Comments on how the poetry of Acoma Pueblo writer addresses the truths about colonialism, racism and exploitation.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 54.
The Kateri Chanting
Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 3rd, 1999
Native American Symposium ; 4th, 2001
Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American Indian Identities ; and Smoke Screens/Smoke Signals: Looking Through Worlds: Proceedings of the Third and Fourth Native American Symposiums
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Joseph Faulds
Description
A poem about Kateri Tekakwitha, a Roman Catholic saint who was of Algonquin–Mohawk decent.
Kisiskâciwan: Indigenous Voices from Where the River Flows Swiftly
E-Books
Author/Creator
Saukamappee (Young Man)
James Settee
Charles Pratt
kā-kišīwē (Loud Voice)
atakawinin (The Gambler)
kamooses
mistawāsis (Big Child)
atāhkakohp (Star Blanket)
payipwāt
wīhkasko-kisēyin (Sweet Grass)
mistahi-maskwa (Big Bear)
kā-miyēstawēsit (Beardy)
wāwikanihk kā-otāmahoht (Strikes Him on the Back)
tatanka iyotake (Sitting Bull)
peopeo kiskiok hihih (White Bird)
Gabriel Dumont
pīhtikwahānapiwiyin (Poundmaker)
Louis Riel
kā-papāmahcahkwēw (Wandering Spirit)
piyēsiw-awāsis (Thunderchild)
nāh-namiskwākāpaw (Louis Moosomin)
kā-kīsikāw-pīhtukāw (Coming-Day)
kā-wīhkaskusahk (Maggie Achenam)
Abel Watetch
Edward Ahenakew
Michel Benjamin
Charlie Janvier
Charles Ryder
Peter Vandall
Marie Merasty
Eleanor Brass
nêhiyaw (Glecia Bear)
John F. Cote
Alice Ahenakew
Berta O'Watch
Arsene Fontaine
Howard Adams
Annie Benonie
George Klyne
Alexander Wolfe
Jim Kâ-Nîpitêhtêw
Augie Merasty
Helen Francis
Herbert Walker
Freda Ahenakew
Hubert Gunn
Vicki Wilson
Bernelda Wheeler
Maria Campbell ...
Gloria Mehlmann
Doug Cuthand
Margaret Reynolds
Tom Jackson
Priscilla Settee
Beth Cuthand
Blair Stonechild
Rita Bouvier
SkyBlue Mary Morin
Jo-Ann Episkenew
Erroll Kinistino
Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe
John Cuthand
Solomon Ratt
Janice Acoose
Joseph Naytowhow
Kim Soo Goodtrack
Harold Johnson
Bevann Fox
Paul Seesequasis
Winona Wheeler
Connie Fife
Yvette Nolan
Ernie Louttit
James Tyman
Carol Daniels
Floyd Flavel Starr
Gregory Scofield
Warren Cariou
Randy Lundy
Joely BigEagle-Kequahtooway
Andrea Menard
Jessie Archibald-Barber
Lisa Bird-Wilson
Merelda Fiddler
Kevin Wesaquate
Brad Bellegarde
Thomas Roussin
Mika Lafond
Tenille Campbell
Shannon McNabb
Kwasinaboo Puha (Snake Medicine)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Juanita Pahdopony
IK: Other Ways Of Knowing, vol. 1, no. 1, 2015, pp. 1-8
Description
Describes the Comanche tribal history of traditional medicine (kwasinaboo puha) as well as personal recollections of coming of age.
The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation and The Poetics of Land and Identity Among British Columbia Indigenous Peoples
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Chris Arnett
BC Studies, no. 190, Histories of Settler Colonialism, Summer, 2016, pp. 142-144
Description
Book reviews of:
The Land We Are edited by Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill and Sophie McCall.
The Poetics of Land and Identity Among British Columbia Indigenous Peoples by Christine Elsey.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 142.
Language Reflection and Lamentation in Native American Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frederick H. White
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 83-98
Description
Explores the dominance of English as the language of communication particularly in poetry and novels.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 83.
Leaves in October
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gerri L. Williams
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 21, no. 1, Celebrating Tribal College Journals 20th Anniversary, Fall, 2009, p. 45
Description
Presents a poem titled, Leaves in October, written by a student at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
[Leaving Holes & Selected New Writings]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lynette Wise Leidner
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 3, Fall, 2013, pp. 115-118
Description
Book review of Leaving Holes & Selected New Writings by Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 115.
Legends of Vancouver: 100th Anniversary Edition; Pauline Johnson: Selected Poetry and Prose
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Carole Gerson
BC Studies, no. 183, Autumn, 2014, pp. 158-160
Description
Book reviews of:
Legends of Vancouver by E. Pauline Johnson, introduction by Sheila Johnston.
Pauline Johnson edited by Michael Gnarowski.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access these reviews scroll to p. 158.
“Let Paler Nations Vaunt Themselves”: John Rollin Ridge's “Official Verse” and Racial Citizenship in Gold Rush California
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alanna Hickey
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 27, no. 4, Winter, 2015, pp. 66-100
Description
Focuses on the Cherokee poet's writings in relation to violence directed at the "Digger" Indians in the state of California
"Like Melody or Witchcraft": Empowerment through Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah A. Miranda
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 103-106
Description
Author examines and compares that practice of making poetry and the and the practice of re-discovering or returning to traditional knowledge and ways of knowing.
Like the Sun in Storm
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
James Mackay
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 4, Animal Studies, Winter, 2013, pp. 115-118
Description
Book review of Like the Sun in Storm by Ralph Salisbury.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 115.
("listen to the women)": Rethinking Representations of Violence against Indigenous Women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Theses
Author/Creator
Sylvie Lorraine Vigneux
Description
English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2015.
Focuses on Unearthed by Janet Marie Rogers, Missing Sarah by Maggie de Vries, and In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver by Leslie Robertson and Dara Culhane.
Listening to Bones That Sing: Orality, Spirituality, and Female Kinship in Louise Halfe’s Blue Marrow
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Azalea Barrieses
Susan Gingell
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 3, Fall, 2011, pp. [69]-93
Description
Analyzes book-length poem in terms of "ancestral memory" and "hauntological" theory.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 69
Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katrina Gonzales
Cheyenne Stoneheart
Erika T. Wurth
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 3, 2000, pp. 161-167
Description
Includes the poems : "Abhoo Song" (Abhoo is the Lakota word for sleep), "Brocken Wing", "Buffalo Hunt in Four Directions", "Splinters", "Furrows", "Siren Song", "Pastels Swimming Together" and "Raven Gets a Kick Out of You".
Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kim TallBear
Venaya J. Yazzie
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 3, 2003, pp. 87-94
Description
Contains the poems: "Topography of the Family Plot", "Great-grandmother in the Second World", and "15 Minutes till Grand Entry".
Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Scott Andrews
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, 2004, pp. 131-136
Description
Contains the poems: "NAMes", "NAMes II" (about discrimination and forced relocation), and "Water Spider's Gift".
Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Woodrow Presley
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, 1996, pp. 177-180
Description
Includes the poems, "Three Bulls Views the Portrait of Columbus", "Three Bulls at the Ethnobotany Lecture", and "Coyote Dreams".
Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Silvester J. Brito
Clara Clem Caufield
J. C. Ellefson
Todd Fuller
Romy Shinn
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, 2000, pp. 143-158
Description
Short stories and poems. The short stories, include: "Charlie Coyote and the Wedding Ceremony" and "Charlie Coyote and the Ski Bunnies". The poems, include: "The Feather", "How Nalungiac Welcomed the Summer Solstice", "Nalungiac Remembers His Grandfather's Face", "Wild West Shows and Other Histories", "Picking Momemts", "Memorizing Oklahoma: A Chant (in 1992) That Includes the Word First", "Crossing the Bridge", and "Red Sky: Age 7".