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Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice
Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today.
Indigenizing the Academy by Devon A. Mihesuah; Angela Cavender Wilson
Continuing the thought-provoking dialogue launched in the acclaimed anthology Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians, leading Native scholars from diverse disciplines and communities offer uncompromising assessments of current scholarship on and by Indigenous peoples and the opportunities awaiting them in the Ivory Tower.
Learn, Teach, Challenge by Deanna Reder (Editor); Linda M. Morra (Editor)
This is a collection of classic and newly commissioned essays about the study of Indigenous literatures in North America.
Guided by the Spirits by Seth Allard
Guided by the Spirits is a case study of youth suicide in the Sault Sainte Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.
Centering Anishinaabeg Studies by Jill Doerfler (Editor); Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair (Editor); Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark (Editor)
For the Anishinaabeg people, who span a vast geographic region from the Great Lakes to the Plains and beyond, stories are vessels of knowledge. They are bagijiganan, offerings of the possibilities within Anishinaabeg life.
Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River by Jennifer S. H. Brown (Editor)
With an introduction and rich annotations by Brown, a renowned authority on the Upper Berens Anishinaabeg and Hallowell's ethnography, Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River is an outstanding primary source for both First Nations history and the oral literature of Canada's Ojibwe peoples.

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