In:Storytelling, Identity Formation, and Resistance in Indigenous Cultures in Canada and the United States
Edited by Kamelia Talebian Sedehi
[Studies in Narrative 28] 2025
► pp. vii–viii
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
ix
List of contributors
xi
Introduction: Storytelling, identity formation, and resistance in Indigenous cultures in Canada and the United States
1
Kamelia Talebian Sedehi
Part 1.Movies and television
11Chapter 1.“We are human and we are whole”: Visual sovereignty and aesthetic virtuosity in The Body Remembers When the World Broke
Open
12
Jordan Z. Adler
Chapter 2.“It knows how to hunt. But I know how to survive”: Storymaking, identity, and resisting aliens in the film Prey (2022)
28
Bryan Banker
Chapter 3.Healing narratives: Indigenous storytelling, wisdom, and spirit guides in the TV series Reservation Dogs
50
Ergün Baylan
Part 2.Literary works
73Chapter 4.Louise Erdrich’s The plague of Doves: Stories that hurt, stories that heal
74
Oumeima Bousrih
Chapter 5.Storytelling through trauma: Stories of violence and moral injury in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves (2017) and
Hunting by Stars (2021)
92
Andrea Burgos-Mascarell
Chapter 6.Cultural memory, testimony and witnessing in A Pipe for February
109
Kamelia Talebian Sedehi
Chapter 7.Poetry as a praxis of resistance: Subverting colonial imposition through poetic resistance in Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe poetry
125
Raphaela Pavlakos
Part 3.Activism
149Chapter 8.Indigenous living traditions as institutionalized practices
in urban Native organizations 150
in urban Native organizations 150
María Cristina Manzano-Munguía
April Prosper
Chapter 9.Indigenous digital storytelling and resistance: Analyzing the discourses of Shayla Oulette Stonechild and her influencer-activism on Instagram
170
Anna Mongibello
Valentina De Brasi
Part 4.Stories as history, performance, and oral tradition
195Chapter 10.Haudenosaunee storytelling as a philosophy of being
in the world 196
in the world 196
Jennifer Komorowski
Chapter 11.Plurality, synthesis, and collaboration in Haudenosaunee histories of reading, writing, and publishing
210
Nyssa Komorowski
Chapter 12.The common plot: Transient characters in Indigenous storytelling in Canada
229
Andrew J. Weiler
Name index
