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From:College Literature (Vol. 19, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe problems involved in the teaching of American Indian materials to non-Indian Americans is discussed. This involves the utilization of 'Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder.' An anlysis of the context of...
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 21, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed"Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival," recounts the story of two older women who were abandoned by their tribe during an especially harsh winter in the Arctic. The women successfully fought...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSouthwestern authors showed an affinity with the land in their works. This connection to the land gave them 'shared memory' of the ethnic communities that are created out of living on the land. Their ethnicity is a...
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From: Cheeky Fictions: Laughter and the Postcolonial[(essay date 2005) In this essay, Bowers examines the role of humor in undermining colonialism in texts by Native American writers, including Green Grass, Running Water, Gerald Vizenor's The Heirs of Columbus, and...
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From: MELUSHistorians such as William Cronon (Changes in the Land, 1983) and Wilbur R. Jacobs (“Indians as Ecologists,” 1980); ecologists such as Stewart L. Udall (The Quiet Crisis, 1963); and religion scholars such as Christopher...
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 31, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAmerican Indian studies should have a theoretical and methodological focus sufficient to organize an academic discipline. American Indian nations, or more generally indigenous nations, form distinct political and...
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 27, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedJANUARY 2001 Class ends; I talk with a small group of students. In this one seminar, the group after class consists mainly of Navajo students. I return to my office, close the door; I'm done for the day. Knock,...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 84, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn a nation whose capital sports a team called the Redskins and whose attraction to enduring colonialist fantasy--coated in blue skin-recently made Avatar a blockbuster, it should hardly prove surprising that most...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)In Louise Erdrich's third novel, certain members of the Pillager Kashpaw families are behind in paying the government their annual fees on the reserve land that has always been theirs but that is now under government...
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From: Western American Literature[Owens is an American educator and critic of mixed Choctaw, Cherokee, and Irish descent. In the excerpt that follows, he examines the theme of misunderstanding between whites and Native Americans in Wind from an Enemy...
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From:College Literature (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedChanges to the literary canon have led to increased scrutiny of pedagogical practices as well as the instructors who utilize them, but we remain at the crossroads of old and new, familiar and unfamiliar territories. We...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAlex Posey used his Euro-American education and his Indian heritage to invent a writing identity in his poetry. Posey was a Creek Indian who lived approximately fifty years after Henry David Thoreau and intentionally...
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From: World Literature Today[Ruoff is an American educator and critic who specializes in Native American literatures. In the following excerpt, she examines the portrayal of injustices against Indians and women in Johnson's short stories “Red...
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From: Studies in American Indian Literatures[(essay date summer 2006) In the following essay, Ferguson contends that the European setting of Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk reflect hope for rapprochement and healing between...
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From: SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures[(interview date fall 1997) In the following interview, Allen discusses her work and the progress of Native American studies.] The following conversation took place at Chateau de la Bretesche in Brittany on June 25,...
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 33, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn Gerald Vizenor's screenplay and in the film Harold of Orange (1984) Harold, the trickster word-warrior, stands on a glass display case in the anthropology department museum (presumably at the University of Minnesota)...
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From:Twentieth-Century Children's Writers (4th ed.)The publication of Harpoon of the Hunter was significant in the history of Canadian publishing since it marked the first appearance of an Eskimo fiction story published in English. After the tale was serialized in the...
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From:The Mississippi Quarterly (Vol. 66, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the winter 2008 issue of AMERICAN INDIAN QUARTERLY, EDITORS D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark and Malea Powell introduce the phrase "Indigenous groundwork at colonial intersections" (5) as a way to invigorate scholarly studies...
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From:Contemporary Poets (6th ed.)The poetry of Simon J. Ortiz is a powerful and moving record of a Native American who is an alien in his own land. In "A Designated National Park," he writes, "This morning,/I have to buy a permit to get back home." The...
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From:Contemporary Poets (6th ed.)At midcareer Joy Harjo continues to develop as a writer, having moved from the competent, though occasionally predictable, language of the early poems ("I give you, my beautiful and terrible/fear") to work that resembles...