Library American Studies 358 / English 458

Cox, James H., and Daniel Heath Justice. The Oxford handbook of indigenous American literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Frost Reference PS153.I52 O84 2014
Leeming, David Adams. Creation myths of the world : an encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2010. Frost Reference BL325.C7 L44 2010
Leeming, David Adams. The Oxford companion to world mythology. [electronic resource]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Whitson, Kathy J. Native American literatures : an encyclopedia of works, characters, authors, and themes. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1999. Frost Reference PS153.I52 W47 1999

• MLA International Bibliography with Full Text (1926 to present)
  Covers critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
• Ethnic NewsWatch (1959 to present)
  News and analysis from ethnic popular and scholarly publications.
• Arts & Humanities Database
  Full-text publications that focus on art, architecture, design, history, philosophy, music, literature, theatre and cultural studies.
• North American Indian Thought and Culture
  Provides access to autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files that were previously unpublished. It includes fifty-four volumes from the 18th and 19th centuries with many prominent writers and nations covered in depth, in addition to photographs from Edward Curtis.
• Younghee Kim-Wait (Class of 1982)/Pablo Eisenberg Collection of Native American Literature
  Includes works by Native American authors dating from 1772 to the present day. The collection encompasses a wide range of subjects, from fiction and poetry to philosophy and tribal histories.

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Twine
An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories

Twine examples (academic):

• Cassandra’s thesis on Indigenous Gaming
• Lauren’s thesis on Adichie’s Americanah
• Would You Get Into Amherst in 1842?

Twine examples (games):

• Cat Simulator 3000
• Birdland

WordPress
The ubiquitous blogging platform.

• Native Appropriations
  Dr. Adrienne Keene writes about representations of Native peoples.
• Africa in Words
  A blog about cultural production and Africa. 
• Christin Washington’s thesis on memory and silence of black existence in Brooklyn.

Fold
An open publishing platform that lets writers link media cards to their text.

• Misrepresentations of Indigenous Peoples in the Media
• Hip Hop: A Hip Story

Tumblr
Well-known blogging and social networking site that has been increasingly used to publish creative academic projects. 

• ICC Witness Project
  Poetry project to give voice to witnesses lost in violence during the 2008 Kenyan elections.
• Koroga Blog
  Collaborative poetry and photography project created to offer multiple African stories and perspectives.

ArcGIS (online platform)
Online mapping tool that offers interactive features, like scrolling story maps. Can be used with ArcGIS for desktop which is installed on some computers on campus.

• Maps featured in Christin Washington’s thesis were made with ArcGIS.

Carto
Online mapping tool that helps to visualize location data.

Omeka & Neatline
Omeka.net is web-publishing platform that allows anyone to create or collaborate on a website to display collections and build digital exhibitions. Neatline is Omeka's timeline/mapping plugin available in omeka.org installations only.

Scalar
Great tool for non-linear narratives. Options and support available for the novice and more advanced users.

Digital Scholarship Summer Internship
with information on the program and links to each cohort's projects

Never Alone

https://novelalliances.com/2016/05/21/how-should-i-play-these-media-and-remediation-in-never-alone/

https://pinnguaq.com/posts/the-true-cost-of-never-alone-for-nunavummiut/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnOFDx3HVNo

Anderson, Wanni Wibulswasdi. The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest: Iñupiaq Narratives of Northwest Alaska. University of Alaska Press, 2005.

Cleveland, Robert. “Kunuuksaayuka.” In Unipchaanich Imagluktugmiut = Stories of the Black River People, 1st edition., 101–4. National Bilingual Materials Development Center, 1980.

Martin, Keavy. Stories in a New Skin: Approaches to Inuit Literature. Univ. of Manitoba Press, 2012.

Nagy, Murielle. “Time, Space, and Memory.” In Critical Inuit Studies: An Anthology of Contemporary Arctic Ethnography, edited by Pamela R. Stern and Lisa Stevenson, 71–88. U of Nebraska Press, 2006.

An incomplete list of indigenous game/VR/digital media developers

• Elizabeth LaPensée: http://www.elizabethlapensee.com/
• Jason Edward Lewis: http://www.obxlabs.net/
• Renee Nejo: http://www.reneenejo.com/
• John Romero: http://rome.ro/
• Meagan Byrne: https://meaganbyrne.carbonmade.com/
• Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: http://lawrencepaulyuxweluptun.com/index.html
• Lisa Jackson: http://lisajackson.ca/
• Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace: http://www.abtec.org/
• Postcommodity: postcommodity.com

Other Indigenous DH resources

https://www.sovereigngames.org/

http://www.abtec.org/blog/?p=40

http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/decolonizing-science-fiction-and-imagining-futures-an-indigenous-futurisms-roundtable/

http://www.emilymlegg.com/portfolio/?page_id=105

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/06/the-post-apocalyptic-dimensional-space-of-native-video-game-design/

http://www.reneenejo.com/blog/2014/8/19/blood-quantum

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/arts/indigenous-artists-create-virtual-reality-vision-of-canada-in-the-future/article35436268/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayLNW179OvA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f4Jm0y_iLk

Cassandra’s thesis at http://indigenousimaginary.org

LaPensée, Elizabeth. “Transformations and Remembrances in the Digital Game We Sing for Healing.” Transmotion (in Press), n.d.

LaPensée, Elizabeth. “Survivance Among Social Impact Games.” Loading... The Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association 8, no. 13 (2014): 43–60.

Lewis, Jason Edward. “Preparations for a Haunting: Notes toward an Indigenous Future Imaginary.” In The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age, edited by Darin (ed. and introd.) Barney, Gabriella (ed. and introd.) Coleman, Christine (ed. and introd.) Ross, Jonathan (ed. and introd.) Sterne, and Tamar (ed. and introd.) Tembeck, 229–49. Electronic Mediations (Electronic Mediations): 51. Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota P, 2016.

Townsend, Melanie A., Dana Claxton, and Steve Loft. Transference, Tradition, Technology: Native New Media Exploring Visual & Digital Culture. Banff, Alta. : Walter Phillips Gallery Editions, 2005.