Traditional Stories

Documentary looks at Aboriginal comedy across Canada featuring comedians Don Kelly, Sharon Shorty and Jack Bear. Duration: 54:30.

The author shares her experiences and insights on how reincarnation has shaped her life.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 8, (pp69-186).

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 8, (pp271-358).

Argues that the character of Nanabush is not identical to the figure found in traditional stories, and discusses his role in underlying temporal theme of the play.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2001.

English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2016.

The author explores the contradictions in the different narratives about place—Indigenous and Mormon—surrounding the town of Lā'ie on O’ahu. Works to problematize the oppositional relationship between Indigeneity and modernity. Explores sites of resistance occupied by Kanaka Maoli members of the Church of Latter-day Saints (LDS).

Looks at the Aboriginal concept of respect by comparing the epistemological meaning of respect, storytelling, terminology, reciprocity and ritual.

Presentation of an Anishinaabe story of a woman who married a beaver and its application to treaty commitments, between the United States and Canada, with First Nations.

A discussion on Leslie Silko's storytelling creating a sense of belonging and her ability to engage both Indigenous and non-Indigenous readers alike.

Discusses the use of story telling as part of the education system of the Sámi people.

Discusses the text and its critical framework—title page, introduction, and other framing elements. Considers the roles of Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Chief Joe and his wife Mary Capilano as co-authors, and the decolonization of the text by reconnecting it to unceded Coast Salish lands using platform called ArcGIS Story-Map Journals,

Discusses the reconstruction of a Haida myth within the history of the Northwest Coast.

Author reviews, in essay format, numerous books dealing with Aboriginal subject matter. Entire review section on one pdf. To access review, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book reviews of: Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian edited by Barry T. Klein. Atlas of Ancient America by Michael Coe, Dean Snow and Elizabeth Benson. American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1925-1970 edited by Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. and James W. Parins. American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodical, 1971-1985 edited by Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. and James W.

Book review of: The Navajo and the Animal People: Native American Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ethnozoology by Steve Pavlik.

Book reviews of : American Indian Education, a History by Jon Allan Reyhner and Jeanne Eder. The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West by Barre Toelken. Battle for the BIA: G.E.E. Lindquist and the Missionary Crusade against John Collier by David W.

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: 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 on: Coast Salish Essays by Wayne Suttles. Phoenix Indian School by Robert Trennert. The Good Red Road: Passages into Native America by Kenneth Lincoln with Al Logan Slagle. The Indians of Texas: An Annotated Research Bibliography by Michael L. Tate. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains by John C. Fremont. Among the Sioux of Dakota: Eighteen Months' Experience as an Indian Agent, 1869-70 by D. C. Poole. Sovereignty and Symbol: Indian-White Conflict at Ganeinkeh by Gail H.

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: Lakota Society by James R. Walker. Lakota Myth by James R. Walker. Living the Sky: The Cosmos of the American Indian by Ray A. Williamson. The Sons of the Wind edited by D. M. Dooling. Cev'armiut Qanemciit Qulirait-llu compiled by Anthony C. Woodbury. The Hidden Half: Studies of Plains Indian Women by Patricia Albers and Beatrice Medicine. The Imperial Osages: Spanish-Indian Diplomacy in the Mississippi Valley by Gilbert C. Din and Abraham P.

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: Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast edited by Peter Wood. Navajo Textiles: The William Randolph Hearst Collection by Nancy J. Blomberg. Utmost Good Faith: Patterns of Apache-Mexican Hostilities in Northern Chihuahua Border Warfare, 1821-1848 by William B. Griffen. The Confederate Cherokees: John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles by W.

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: Beyond the Lodge of the Sun: Inner Mysteries of the Native American Way by Chokecherry Gall Eagle. Chippewa Families: A Social Study of White Earth Reservation, 1938 by. M. Inez Hilger. David Zeisberger: A Life Among the Indians by Earl P.

Book reviews of: Raven Tells Stories: An Anthology of Alaskan Native Writing edited by Joseph Bruchac Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children by Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac The Lightning Within: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction edited by Alan R. Velie Our Bit of Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature edited by Agnes Grant The Heirs of Columbus by Gerald Vizenor Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book reviews of: American Indians in World War I: At War and At Home by Thomas A. Britten. Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 by Brenda J. Child. Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700 by Patricia Galloway. Daily Life on the Nineteenth-Century American Frontier by Mary Ellen Jones. Dancing the Dream: The Seven Sacred Paths of Human Transformation by Jamie Sams. The Great Peace: The Gathering of Good Minds (CD-ROM) by Raymond Skye et.

Book reviews of: A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians by Joan Mark. Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots and Affixes by D. G. Frantz and N. J. Russell. The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors From European Contact Through the Era of Removal by James H. Merrell. American Women Writing Fiction edited by Mickey Pearlman. New Voices From the Longhouse: An Anthology of Contemporary Iroquois Writing edited by Joseph Bruchac. Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore, 1620-1984 by William S.

Book review of: Agayuliyararput: Kegginaqut, Kangiit-llu/Our Way of Making Prayer: Yup’ik Masks and the Stories They Tell by Marie Meade. American Indians in World War I, at War and at Home by Thomas A. Britten. Blue Dawn, Red Earth: New Native American Storytellers edited and with an introduction by Clifford E. Trafzer. The Caddos, the Wichitas, and the United States, 1846-1901 by F. Todd Smith. Dahcotah: Life and Legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling by Mary Henderson Eastman.

Book reviews of: The Alabama-Coushatta Indians by Jonathan B. Hook. American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice by David E. Wilkins. The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich. Apocalypse of Chiokoyhikoy: Chief of the Iroquois by Robert Griffin and Donald A. Grinde. Dissonant Worlds, Roger Vandersteene Among the Cree by Earle H. Waugh. Early Native American Writing edited by Helen Jaskoski. Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Inc. by Mick Gidley. A Grammar of Bella Coola by Philip W.

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: All My Sins Are Relatives by William S. Penn. Aniyunwiya/Real Human Beings: An Anthology of Contemporary Cherokee Prose edited by Joseph Bruchac. Becoming and Remaining a People: Native American Religions on the Northern Plains by Howard L.

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: An Aleutian Ethnography by Lucien M. Turner ; edited by Raymond L. Hudson. The Arapaho Language by Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss Sr. Broken Treaties: United States and Canadian Relations with the Lakotas and Plains Cree, 1868–1885 by Jill St. Germain. Canada’s Indigenous Constitution by John Borrows. Cave Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands: Essays in Honor of Patty Jo Watson edited by David H. Dye. Cherokee Thoughts: Honest and Uncensored by Robert J.

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 reviews of: Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman’s Sourcebook by Paula Gunn Allen. The Lightning Within: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction edited by Alan Velie. The Things That Were Said of Them as told by Asatchaq; translated from the Inupiaq by Tukummiq and Tom Lowenstein. wanisinwak iskwêsisak awasisasinahikanis: A Cree Story for Children as told by Nêhiyaw/Glecia Bear. The Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich. The Business of Fancydancing by Sherman Alexie. Full Moon on the Reservation by Gloria Bird. Entire issue on

Book reviews of: Looking Glass edited and introduction by Clifford E. Trafzer. Ethnocriticism: Ethnography, History, Literature by Arnold Krupat. Ponca War Dancers by Carter Revard. Language, History, and Identity: Ethnolinguistic Studies of the Arizona Tewa by Paul V.

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.

Examines witiko case studies not previously scrutinized.

Follows the writer's career, first as a columnist with Windspeaker, then with the Calgary Herald and finally as a novelist. Discusses The Terrible Summer, Keeper 'n Me, A Quality of Light and for Joshua in relation to other Aboriginal authors' works. Chapter from the book Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature edited by Donna Coates and George Melnyk.

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

Book review for two books: The Road Back to Sweetgrass and The Dance Boots both by Linda LeGarde. Scroll down page 34 to read book review.