Stories Through Theories/Theories Through Stories: North American Indian Writing, Storytelling, and Critique language materials revitalize and persist

revitalize and persist

This is a principle enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) and borne out both by the successes of Indigenous-language immersion schools and by the failures of past assimilationist practices and the recent English-only policies of the No Child Left Behind Act in the United States

and tells a powerful story of loss that reverberates in the present

and experience many of the difficulties Indigenous kids often face in the city

With a keen sense of the environment

Stories Through Theories/Theories Through Stories: North American Indian Writing, Storytelling, and Critique language materials revitalize and persistStories 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