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“Adapting an Adult Book Into a Book for Young Readers,” Open Book, June 30, 2023
“The Benefits of Being an Imposter,” Open Book, June 28, 2023
“The Rule of Three,” Open Book, June 25, 2023
“Your Global Indigenous Playlist: Summer Solstice 2023,” Open Book, June 21, 2023
“Writing Family and Community Stories,” Open Book, June 16, 2023
“Research, Research, Research,” Open Book, June 12, 2023
“Recommended Reading on Indigenous Healing,” Rakuten Kobo, June 9, 2023
“Indigenous Peoples in Canada: Foundational Books,” 49th Shelf, June 8, 2023
“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