Recently added articles from Studies in American Indian Literatures:
FROM THE EDITORS
Jul 01, 2009; ... One of the challenges-and pleasures-of editing SAIL is deciding how each issue participates in the larger conversations of our field. Once manuscripts have been accepted for publication, we look at the queue and try to see how various submissions connect with one another. Balance, ...
"I am not a fairy tale": Contextualizing Sioux Spirituality and Story Traditions in Susan Power's The Grass Dancer
Jul 01, 2009; ... Yuwipi is one of our oldest, and also strangest, ceremonies. . . . It is an unexplainable experience. How can you explain the supernatural for which there is no rational explanation? Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman Standing Rock Sioux writer Susan Power's best-selling novel The Grass ...
"There isn't a Mr. Heavyman": Will's Negatives in Medicine River
Jul 01, 2009; ... The narrator-protagonist of Thomas King's Medicine River is, of course, a photographer, and a photographer works with negatives ("I'll shoot a negative" [197]), developing them into pictures or "positives" ("the pictures turned out good" [215]). Although a number of readers have commented on ...
The News of the Day
Jul 01, 2009; ... The mirror fell off the wall, and Marcel knew that his father was dead in another country. Marcel reached his hand to his breast pocket and withdrew his watch from its place near his still-beating heart. The face told him the time, and the minute hand obethently ticked forward. Marcel sat down ....
Feasting on Famine in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms
Jul 01, 2009; ... In 1899 H. B. Cushman observed that when a Chickasaw died, tribal lamentations would last for several days and would conclude with a feast (410). Nearly one hundred years later in 1997, in the prologue to her novel Solar Storms, Chickasaw Linda Hogan recounts a "mourning feast."1 But in her ...