On Wonderworks and Indigenous World-Building: A Travel Guidebook Assignment for Darcy Little Badger’s Elatsoe

This in-class exercise is based on Darcy Little Badger’s novel Elatsoe and chapter four of Daniel Heath Justice’s Why Indigenous Literatures Matter Indigenous wonderworks are neither strictly “fantasy” nor “realism,” but maybe both at once, or something else entirely, although... Read more

Strategic Plans for the Apocalypse: Teaching the Marrow Thieves

This is a creative group assignment for teaching Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves. Students collaborate to write and format a "strategic plan" for the university proposed at the end of the novel. Read more