Articles

Features/Columns/Guest Posts

• “Why I Write About Difficult Topics,” Open Book, June 1, 2023
• “Editing Indigenous Writing: A Nuanced Partnership,” The Editors’ Weekly, March 16, 2023
• “A Trauma-Informed Approach to Teaching the Colonization of the Americas,” Edutopia, January 4, 2021
• “On Intergenerational Trauma and National Indigenous Peoples Day,” All Lit Up, June 20, 2019
• “A Relationship in Balance,” We Are the Land, Scholastic Canada, 2018
• “Family and Community,” Community Ties, Scholastic Canada, 2018
• “Who Are the First Nations?,” Community Ties, Scholastic Canada, 2018
• “Elders Speak,” Community Ties, Scholastic Canada, 2017
• “Indigenous Views on Animals,” Animal Relations, Scholastic Canada, 2017
• “A Relationship in Balance,” Earth Action, Scholastic Canada, 2016
• “Building on Community Values,” Are You Hungry?, Scholastic Canada, 2016
• “It’s Time to End Hunger in the North,” Are You Hungry?, Scholastic Canada, 2016
• “A Tribe Called Red,” Activist Art, Scholastic Canada, 2016
• “Community for All,” Community Cares, Scholastic Canada, 2016
• “Reclamation Project,” Canadian Geographic, July/August 2013
• “Starr’s Tough Talk Hides the Nerd in her Heart,” Windspeaker, October 2004
• “Traditional Tattoo Designs Appropriated,” Windspeaker, September 2004
• “Mohawk Roots, Classical Style,” Windspeaker, April 2004
• “Farm-Fresh Flavours In the Concrete City,” Toronto Star, September 28, 2003
• “Writers Speak up for Strong Women,” Ontario Birchbark, July 2003
• “The Big Smoke, Strong and Free,” Toronto Star, June 29, 2003
• “Author Pens an Explanation,” Windspeaker, December 2002
• “Controversial Author Nabs Donner Prize,” Windspeaker, July 2001
• “Notes of a Native Daughter,” Quill & Quire, February 2001
• “Elaine Dewar Has a Bone To Pick,” Quill & Quire, December 2000
• “Is Community Art a Political Tool?”, No Frame Around It: A Space Community Art Biennale, A Space, 2000
• “Publishing’s Brave New Frontier,” Toronto /Vancouver/Ottawa Computes, April 2000
• “Spirits in the Material World,” Quill & Quire, January 2000
• “Racism Exposed,” Windspeaker, December 1999
• “With Y2K comes the seventh fire,” The Globe and Mail, November 22, 1999 (reprinted in The Drum, December 1999)
• “The Iceman in Canada’s Closet,” The Globe and Mail, November 1, 1999
• “Belaney Baloney Sends All the Wrong Signals,” The Globe and Mail, October 18, 1999
• “Lives of Girls and Women,” Quill & Quire, September 1999
• “Keeping a Language Alive: The Alberta Elders’ Cree Dictionary,” Quill & Quire, June 1999
• “She’s a Wanderer,” Quill & Quire, April 1999
• “The Universe of Tomson Highway,” Quill & Quire, November 1998
• “The Healing Art: George Littlechild’s Journey of Transformation and Reclamation,” Aboriginal Voices, March/April 1998
• “Spirit of Collaboration,” Aboriginal Voices, March/April 1998
• “‘It Is a Strict Law That Bids Us Dance’,” Toronto Powwow, November 1997
• “Santee Smith Featured at Powwow,” Toronto Powwow, November 1997

Reviews

• “Non-Fiction Account Reads Like Novel,” Windspeaker, January 2006
• “King Provides Big Payoff to Devoted Fans,” Windspeaker, November 2005
• “Pelican Narrows’ Circle of Abuse,” Canadian Geographic, July/August 2005
• “Historian Digs Up Roots of Native Unrest,” Canadian Geographic, July/August 2004
• “A Study of Indian-ness,” Windspeaker, May 2004
• “Chee Chee: A Study of Aboriginal Suicide,” in Quill & Quire, April 2004
• “Naughty but Nice,” Windspeaker, January 2004
• “True Fiction,” Quill & Quire, December 2003
• “New Book Fails Where Others Flourish,” Windspeaker, December 2003
• “Stronger for the Questions,” Windspeaker, September 2003
• “Variety of Voices in this Book,” Ontario Birchbark, August 2003
• “Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival,” Quill & Quire, August 2003
• “Alexie’s Ordinary Indians,” Windspeaker, July 2003
• “We All Sing Together,” Windspeaker, May 2003
• “Rogue Diamonds: The Rush for Northern Riches on Dene Land,” Quill & Quire, April 2003
• “Tracking Doctor Lonecloud: Showman to Legend Keeper,” Quill & Quire, November 2002
• “A Poet Divided,” Canadian Geographic, September/October 2002
• “For Joshua: An Ojibway Father Teaches His Son,” Quill & Quire, September 2002
• “Alexie Takes Off the Rose-Coloured Glasses,” Windspeaker, July 2002
• “Handy Information in Book About Prison Life,” Windspeaker, June 2002
• “Author Struggles with his Place in the World,” Windspeaker, May 2002
• “DreadfulWater Shows Up,” Quill & Quire, March 2002
• “One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police, and the Ipperwash Crisis,” Quill & Quire, October 2001
• “Odjig: The Art of Daphne Odjig 1966–2000,” Quill & Quire, September 2001
• “A Map to the Door of No Return,” Quill & Quire, August 2001
• “New Chapter for Embattled Writer,” Windspeaker, July 2001
• “A Sto:lo–Coast Salish Historical Atlas,” Quill & Quire, May 2001
• “Just Another Indian: A Serial Killer and Canada’s Indifference,” Quill & Quire, March 2001
• “Spirit Dance at Mezidian: Joseph Gosnell and the Nisga’a Treaty,” Quill & Quire, February 2001
• “Bones: Discovering the First Americans,” Quill & Quire, January 2001
• “Ahtahkakoop: The Epic Account of a Plains Cree Head Chief, His People, and Their Struggle for Survival 1816–1896,” Quill and Quire, December 2000
• “Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America,” Quill & Quire, November 2000
• “Richly Textured and as Good as Books Get,” Windspeaker, October 2000
• “Walking on the Land,” Quill & Quire, October 2000
• “Birchbark Chronicle Offers Rare Insight,” Canadian Geographic, September/October 2000
• “The Beothuk Saga,” Quill & Quire, September 2000
• “Whispering in Shadows,” Quill & Quire, July 2000
• “First Nations? Second Thoughts,” Quill & Quire, March 2000
• “Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State,” Quill & Quire, February 2000
• “A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood,” Quill & Quire, February 2000
• “How the West was Really ‘Won’,” Canadian Geographic, January/February 2000
• “Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women,” Quill & Quire, January 2000
• “New Books Come Highly Recommended,” Windspeaker, December 1999
• “Sojourners and Sundogs,” Quill & Quire, December 1999
• “Crazy Dave,” Quill & Quire, October 1999
• “Truth and Bright Water,” Quill & Quire, September 1999
• “Doctor Attempts to Combine Old and New,” Windspeaker, September 1999
• “A High-Tech Window on Iroquois Cultures,” Canadian Geographic, September/October 1999
• “A Journey to Revisit Canada’s History,” Canadian Geographic, June/July 1999
• “The War At Home: An Intimate Portrait of Canada’s Poor,” Quill & Quire, June 1999
• “I Knew Two Métis Women,” Quill & Quire, June 1999
• “Shattering the Myth of Cowboys and Indians,” Canadian Geographic, Annual Photography Issue 1999
• “Native North America: Critical and Cultural Perspectives,” Quill & Quire, May 1999
• “Red Blood: One (Mostly) White Guy’s Encounters With the Native World,” Quill & Quire, April 1999
• “Reservation X: The Power of Place in Aboriginal Contemporary Art,” Quill & Quire, December 1998
• “Fireworks and Folly: How We Killed Minnie Sutherland,” Quill & Quire, November 1998
• “Kiss of the Fur Queen,” Quill & Quire, September 1998
• “Down From the Shimmering Sky: Masks of the Northwest Coast,” Quill & Quire, July 1998
• “Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman,” Quill & Quire, June 1998
• “The Antelope Wife,” Windspeaker, June 1998
• “I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada’s Native People,” New Internationalist, June 1998
• “The Only-Good Heart,” Quill & Quire, April 1998
• “Martensville: Truth or Justice? The Story of the Martensville Daycare Trials,” Quill & Quire, February 1998
• “Stolen From Our Embrace: The Abduction of First Nations Children and the Restoration of Aboriginal Communities,” Quill & Quire, January 1998
• “Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Women’s Writings of North America,” Quill & Quire, September 1997
• “Heaven Help the Whistle-Blower in Canada’s Military,” Windspeaker, July 1997
• “A Quality of Light,” Quill & Quire, April 1997
• “Four Ex-Wives and a Funeral-Home Owner,” Windspeaker, July 1996
• “Ancient Stories for a New Age,” Windspeaker, February 1996
• “HerStory Revisited in New Book,” Windspeaker, January 1996
• “The Telling of our Stories,” Fuse Magazine, Summer 1995
• “Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851–1909,” Resources for Feminist Research, Spring/Summer 1995