Stories Through Theories/Theories Through Stories: North American Indian Writing, Storytelling, and Critique

Stories Through Theories/Theories Through Stories: North American Indian Writing, Storytelling, and CritiqueStories Through Theories Theories Through Stories explores the uneasy relations often contentious, sometimes complicit between American Indian Literature and literary theory. Some of the essays in this book open American Indian narratives to theoretical critique based on western depth models. Others work from a very different direction, finding critique in storytelling and processes of narrative production, thereby exposing dimensions of literary

demonstrate that the Ghost Dance's message resonated with Lakotas across artificial "progressive" and "nonprogressive" lines

They deserve the truth

Zitkala-A a recorded this Yankton Sioux story more than 100 years ago

The phrase book covers events such as powwows

In Mamaskatch

Dating to Pre-Columbian times

an Anishinaabe medicine woman from the Leelanau Peninsula in Michigan and a scholar

Featuring an expanded array of tempting recipes of indigenous ingredients and practical advice about health

With the help of the old Métis and her peculiar Johnny-Cash-loving

Although nationally specific

Noodin introduces a series of seasonal poems that invoke Anishinaabe science and philosophy

This sense of place and home is both tangible and spiritual