Table of
Contents for Learn, Teach, Challenge:
Approaching Indigenous Literatures, edited by Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra
Acknowledgements
Introduction
| Deanna
Reder and Linda Morra
I • Position
1
Introduction | Deanna
Reder
2
Iskwewak Kah’ Ki Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak: Re-membering Being to Signifying Female
Relations | Janice
Acoose
3
“Introduction” from How Should I Read These? Native Women
Writers in Canada | Helen Hoy
4
Teaching Aboriginal Literature: The Discourse of Margins and Mainstreams | Emma LaRocque
5
“Preface” from Travelling Knowledges: Positioning the
Im/Migrant Reader of Aboriginal Literatures in Canada | Renate Eigenbrod
6
Strategies for Ethical Engagement: An Open Letter Concerning Non-Native
Scholars of Native Literatures | Sam McKegney
7
A Response to Sam McKegney’s “Strategies for Ethical Engagement: An Open Letter
Concerning Non-Native Scholars of Native Literatures” | Robert Appleford
8
Situating Self, Culture, and Purpose in Indigenous Inquiry | Margaret Kovach
9
Final Section Response: “The lake is the people and life that come to it”:
Location as Critical Practice | Allison Hargreaves
II • Imagining Beyond Images
and Myths
10
Introduction | Linda
M. Morra
11.
A Strong Race Opinion: On the Indian Girl in Modern Fiction | E. Pauline Johnson
12
Indian Love Call | Drew Hayden Taylor
13
“Introduction” and “Marketing the Imaginary Indian” from The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture | Daniel Francis
14
Postindian Warriors | Gerald Vizenor
15
Postcolonial Ghost Dancing: Diagnosing European Colonialism | James (Sákéj) Youngblood
Henderson
16
The Trickster Moment, Cultural Appropriation, and the Liberal Imagination | Margery Fee
17
Myth, Policy, and Health | Jo-Ann Episkenew
18
Final Section Response: Imagining beyond Images and Myths | Renae Watchman
III • Deliberating Indigenous
Literary Approaches
19
Introduction | Natalie
Knight
20
“Editor’s Note” from Looking at the Words of Our People:
First Nations Analysis of Literature | Jeannette C. Armstrong
21
Native Literature: Seeking a Critical Centre | Kimberly M. Blaeser
22
Introduction. American Indian Literary Self-Determination | Craig S. Womack
23
“Introduction” from Towards a Native American Critical
Theory | Elvira
Pulitano
24
Afterword: At the Gathering Place | Lisa Brooks
25
Gdi-nweninaa: Our Sound, Our Voice | Leanne Simpson
26
Responsible and Ethical Criticisms of Indigenous Literatures | Niigaanwewidam James
Sinclair
27
Final Section Response: Many Communities and the Full Humanity of Indigenous
People: A Dialogue | Kristina Fagan Bidwell and Sam McKegney
IV • Contemporary Concerns
28 Introduction | Daniel Morley Johnson
29 Appropriating Guilt:
Reconciliation in an Indigenous Canadian Context | Deena Rymhs
30 Moving beyond “Stock
Narratives” of Murdered or Missing Indigenous | Women: Reading the Poetry and
Life Writing of Sarah de Vries | Amber Dean
31 “Go Away, Water!” Kinship
Criticism and the Decolonization Imperative | Daniel Heath Justice
32 Indigenous Storytelling,
Truth-Telling, and Community Approaches to Reconciliation | Jeff Corntassel,
Chaw-win-is, and T’lakwadzi
33 Erotica, Indigenous Style
| Kateri
Akiwenzie-Damm
34 Doubleweaving Two-Spirit
Critiques: Building Alliances Between Native and Queer Studies | Qwo-Li Driskill
35 Finding Your Voice:
Cultural Resurgence and Power in Political Movement Katsisorokwas Curran
Jacobs
36 Final Section Response:
From haa-huu-pah to the Decolonization Imperative:
Responding to Contemporary Issues Through the TRC | Laura Moss
V • Classroom Considerations
37 Introduction | Deanna Reder and Linda M.
Morra
38 The Hunting and
Harvesting of Inuit Literature | Keavy Martin
39 “Ought We to Teach
These?”: Ethical, Responsible, and Aboriginal Cultural Protocols in the
Classroom | Marc
André Fortin
40 Who Is the Text in This
Class? Story, Archive, and Pedagogy in Indigenous Contexts | Warren Cariou
41 Teaching Indigenous
Literature as Testimony: Porcupines and
China Dolls and the Testimonial
Imaginary | Michelle
Coupal
42 “Betwixt and Between”:
Alternative Genres, Languages, and Indigeneity | Sarah Henzi
43 A Landless Territory?:
Augmented Reality, Land, and Indigenous Storytelling in Cyberspace | David Gaertner
44 Final Section Response:
Positioning Knowledges, Building Relationships, Practising Self-Reflection, Collaborating
across Differences | Sophie McCall
Works Cited
About the Contributors
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