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Primary Sources

King, Thomas, Calver, Cheryl, Hoy, Helen, eds. The Native in Literature: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives. Toronto : ECW Press, 1987.
King, Thomas. “Introduction: an anthology of Canadian native fiction.” Canadian Fiction Magazine. (Jun 1987): 4.
King, Thomas. Medicine River. Markham, Ont. : Viking, 1990, 1989. King, Thomas. Introduction. All my relations : an anthology of contemporary Canadian Native Fiction. King ed. Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 1990.
King, Thomas. “Coyote learns to whistle” / “Coyote sees the prime minister” / “Coyote goes to Toronto.” Canadian Literature (Spring 1990): 250.
King, Thomas. “The city on the hill.” Canadian Literature (Spring 1990): 265.
King, Thomas.” Borders.” Saturday Night 106.10 (1991): 58.
King, Thomas. Pictures by William Kent Monkman. A Coyote Columbus story. Toronto : Douglas & McIntyre, 1992.
King, Thomas. “Green Grass Running Water” [Excerpt].
Saturday Night 108.2 (1993): 56.
King, Thomas. “What to do with martial-arts addict?” Quill & Quire 59.5 (1993): 14.
King, Thomas. Green Grass, Running Water. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
King, Thomas. "Noah's ark." Descant 24.3 (1993): 36.
King, Thomas. One good story, that one. Toronto : HarperCollins, 1993.
King, Thomas. “Looking for Home - chapter one.” Windspeaker May 22, 1994: R3.
King, Thomas, Staats, Greg. “Native writers of Canada: a photographic portrait of 12 contemporary authors.” Books in Canada 23.5 (1994): 12.
King, Thomas. “Music (Impressions of the Inuit art section of the Art Gallery of Ontario).” Descant 27.1/2 (1996): 45.
King, Thomas. “Imaginary landscape.” Canadian Geographic Jul/Aug 1996: 74.
King, Thomas. "Changing woman, old woman" (Excerpt from Green Grass, Running Water).” Vice Versa (Fall 1996): 33.
King, Thomas. "A short history of indians in Canada." Toronto Life 31.11 (1997): 68.
King, Thomas. Illustrated by Johnny Wales. Coyote sings to the moon. Toronto: Key Porter Kids, 1998.
King, Thomas. Truth & Bright Water. Toronto : HarperFlamingo Canada, 1999.
King, Thomas. Green Grass, Running Water. Toronto : HarperPerennialCanada, 1999.
King, Thomas. "A Short History of Indians in Canada." Canadian Literature (Summer/Fall 1999): 62. King, Thomas (text), Mattes, Catherine (images). "First voices, first words / guest editors." Prairie Fire (Special Issue) 2001.
King, Thomas. "Dead Dogs Café Comedy Hour" (Audio Cassette). Toronto: CBC Audio, March 2001.
King, Thomas. "Dead Dogs Café Comedy Hour" (Audio Cassette). Toronto: CBC Audio, October 2001.
King, Thomas. "Dead Dog Cafe comedy hour" [5 episodes]. Canadian Theatre Review (Winter 2001): 40.
King, Thomas. "The Garden Court Motor Motel." Prairie Fire 22.3 (2001): 207.
King, Thomas. The Truth About Stories : a native narrative. Toronto : House of Anansi Press, 2003.
King, Thomas. Coyote’s New Suit. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2004.
King, Thomas. “Not enough horses.” The Walrus 1.6 (2004): 63.
King, Thomas. “The Truth about Stories [From the Massey Lecture, Nov 12/03].” Alberta Views 7.1 (2004): 24.
King, Thomas. A short history of Indians in Canada. Toronto : HarperCollins, 2005.
Goodweather, Hartley (Pen name). Dreadfulwater Shows Up. New York: Harperfestival, 2002.

Secondary Sources

Alia, Valerie. Rev. of Border Crossings: Thomas King's Cultural Inversions. British Journal of Canadian Studies 17.2 (2004): 254.
Andrews, Jennifer. “Border trickery and dog bones: a conversation with Thomas King.” Studies in Canadian Literature 24.2 (1999): 161.
Jennifer Andrews. “Humouring the border at the end of the millennium: Constructing an English Canadian humour tradition for the twentieth century and beyond.” Essays on Canadian Writing (Fall 2000): 140-151.
Andrews, Jennifer. Rev. of Truth and Bright Water. Canadian Literature (Spring 2001): 151.
Jennifer Andrews. “Making associations.” Canadian Literature (Spring 2001): 151-153.
Anonymous. “Alberta Writers Reading at Wordfest [Banff-Calgary International Writers Festival].” Alberta Views 8.7 (2005): 10.
Amundson, Butch. “Thinking about cultural resource management: essays from the edge.” Canadian Journal of Archaeology 28.1 (2004): 151.
Atwood, Margaret. “A double-bladed knife: Subversive laughter in two stories by Thomas King.” Canadian Literature (Spring 1990): 243.
Bailey, Sharon M. "The Arbitrary Nature of the Story: Poking Fun at Oral and Written Authority in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water." World Literature Today 73.1 (1999): 43-52.
Bemrose, John. Rev. of Truth & Bright Water. Maclean's Nov 8, 1999: 92.
Blanca, Chester. “Green Grass, Running Water: Theorizing the world of the novel.” Canadian Literature (Summer 1999): 44-63.
Bruce, Barbara S. "Figures of Collection and (Post)Colonial Processes in Major John Richardson's Wacousta and Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water." Is Canada Postcolonial? Unsettling Canadian Literature. Ed. Laura Moss. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2003. viii, 368.
Bridenstine, Evan Mark. "Thomas King at Sadler's Wells and Drury Lane: Proprietorship and Management in Late Eighteenth-Century English Theatre, 1772-1788." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 58.10 (1998): 3777. Ohio State U.
Canton, Jeffrey. "Coyote Lives: Thomas King." The Power to Bend Spoons: Interviews with Canadian Novelists. Ed. Beverly Daurio. Toronto, ON: Mercury, 1998: 90-97.
Christie, Stuart. "Time Out: (Slam)Dunking Photographic Realism in Thomas King's Medicine River." Studies in American Indian Literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures 11.2 (1999): 51-65.
Coates, Corey. “The Trouble with True Stories.” Rev. of The Truth About Stories. Canadian Ethnic Studies 36.1 (2004): 111.
Coates, Corey. “Peace Walker: The legend of Hiawatha and Tekanawita [Coyote's new suit] [Orphans in the sky].” Canadian Ethnic Studies 37.2 (2005): 135.
Canton, Jeffrey. Interview with Thomas King. Paragraph 16.1 (1994): 2.
Cariou, Warren. Rev. of Truth & Bright Water. Canadian Forum 78.884 (1999): 38.
Cariou, Warren. ‘Two good stories, these ones: the challenge is to let contradictory stories exist without cancelling each other out.’ Rev. of The truth about stories: a native narrative and If this is your land, where are your stories? Finding common ground by J Edward Chamberlain.” Literary Review of Canada 12.4 (2004): 23.
Chadwick, David. Rev. of The Native in Literature. CM : Canadian Materials for Schools and Libraries. 16.5 (1988): 177.
Chester, Blanca Schorcht. "Storied Voices in Native American Texts: Harry Robinson, Thomas King, James Welch and Leslie Marmon Silko." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 61.5 (2000): 1826. U of British Columbia.
Compton, Valerie. Rev. of Green Grass, Running Water. Quill & Quire 59.3 (1993): 46.
Cote, Abby. “Aboriginal community loses a friend.” Windspeaker 19.10 (2002): 11. Includes notes on Thomas King.
Cote, Abby. “Peter Gzowksi started his Spirit Journey on January 24th and one of Canada's greatest voices fell silent for ever.” Kahtou News 11.2 (Feb 2002): 17. Includes notes on Thomas King.
Davis, Marie C. “Parable, parody or ‘blip in the Canadian literary landscape’: Tom King on A Coyote Columbus Story.Canadian Children's Literature (Winter 1996): 47.
Davis, Marie C. "It's time for something different": Kent Monkman on illustrative dissent.” Canadian Children's Literature. (Winter 1996): 65.
Daxell, Joanna. "A Space for Healing the Native Spirit: Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water." Etudes Canadiennes/Canadian Studies: Revue Interdisciplinaire des Etudes Canadiennes en France 55 (2003): 99-111. (French summary.).
Donaldson, Laura E. "Noah Meets Old Coyote; Or, Singing in the Rain: Intertextuality in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water." Studies in American Indian Literatures 7.2 (1995): 27-43.
Dowling, David. Rev. of The Native In Literature. University of Toronto Quarterly 60.1 (1990): 142.
Dowling, David. “Humanities: The Native in Literature / Fear and Temptation.University of Toronto Quarterly 60.1 (1990): 142.
Dvorak, Marta. "Thomas King's Fusion and Confusion: Or, What Happened to My Earth without Form?" Commonwealth Essays and Studies 19.1 (1996): 86-95.
Dvorak, Marta. "The World According to Thomas King" Anglophonia: French Journal of English Studies 1 (1997): 67-76.
Dvorak, Marta. “Thomas King's Christopher Cartier and Jacques Columbus.” Arachne 5.1 (1998): 120.
Dvorak, Marta. “The Discursive Strategies of Native Literature: Thomas King's Shift from Adversarial to Interfusional.” Ariel 33.3/4 (2002): 213.
Espejo, Lalo. “Coyote jokes.” Rev. of A Short History of Indians in Canada. The Vancouver Review (Fall 2005) 26.
Fee, Margery (introd.): “On Thomas King." Canadian Literature. (Summer-Autumn 1999): 161-162 (Special issue.).
Fee, Margery, Flick, Jane. “Coyote pedagogy: knowing where the borders are in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water.Canadian Literature (Summer/Fall 1999): 131.
Flick, Jane. “Reading notes for Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water.” Canadian Literature (Summer 1999): 140-174.
Findon, Joanne. Rev. of Coyote Sings to the Moon. Quill & Quire 65.2 (1999): 45.
Florence Stratton. “Cartographic lessons: Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush and Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water.Canadian Literature (Summer 1999): 82-104.
Marlene Goldman. “Mapping and dreaming: Native resistance in Green Grass, Running Water.Canadian Literature (Summer 1999): 18-42.
Gibert, Teresa. "Narrative Strategies in Thomas King's Short Stories." Telling Stories: Postcolonial Short Fiction in English. Ed. Jacquelin Bardolph. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2001: 67.76.
Thomas, Giddens. Rev. of Medicine River. Quill & Quire 56.4 (1990): 26.
Gillies, Mary A. Rev. of Medicine River. Canadian Literature (Winter 1991): 212.
Goldman, Albert. "Thomas King Forcade: Living and Dying the Great Adventure." Conjunctions 17 (1991): 371-93. Goldman, Marlene. “The Trickster Discourse of Thomas King”. Canadian Literature (Winter 2004) 117-119.
Gómez-Vega, Ibis. "Subverting the 'Mainstream' Paradigm through Magical Realism in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water." Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 33:1 (2000): 1-19.
Peter Gzowski. “Peter Gzowski interviews Thomas King on Green Grass, Running Water.Canadian Literature (Summer 1999): 65-77.
Helms, Gabriele. Challenging Canada: Dialogism and Narrative Techniques in Canadian Novels. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 2003. x, 212.
Hirsch, Bud. "'Stay Calm, Be Brave, Wait for the Signs': Sign-Offs and Send-Ups in the Fiction of Thomas King." Western American Literature 39:2 (2004):145-75.
Horne, Dee. “To know the difference: Mimicry, satire, and Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water.Essays on Canadian Writing (Fall 1995): 255.
Johnson, Brian. “Plastic shaman in the global village: understanding media in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water.” Studies in Canadian Literature 25.2 (2000): 24.
Jolly, Grace. Rev. All My Relations: An Anthology Of Contemporary Canadian Native Fiction. The Newest Review 17.1 (1991): 32.
Jones, Miriam. Rev. of All My Relations. Paragraph 13.1 (1991): 31.
Korkka, Janne. "Resisting Cultural Domination: Thomas King's Canadian Mosaic" Atlantic Literary Review 3.2 (2002): 143-54.
La Bossiere, Camille R. "Coyote Agape: Thomas King's Working for Love." River Review/La Revue Rivière: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Arts and Ideas/Revue Multidisciplinaire d'Arts et d'Idées 1 (1995): 47-57.
Latham, David. “From Richardson to Robinson to King: Colonial Assimilation and Communal Origination.” British Journal of Canadian Studies 8.2 (1993): 180.
Lawlor, Patty. Rev. of Coyote's New Suit. Quill & Quire 70.9 (2004): 48.
Linda Lamont-Stewart. “Androgyny as resistance to authoritarianism in two postmodern Canadian novels.” Mosaic 30.3 (1997): 115-136.
Lee, A. Robert. "'I Am Your Worst Nightmare: I Am an Indian with a Pen': Native Identity and the Novels of Thomas King, Linda Hogan, Louis Owens and Betty Louise Bell." Beyond Pug's Tour: National and Ethnic Stereotyping in Theory and Literary Practice. Ed C.C. Barfoot. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 1997: 445-67.
Linton, Patricia. "'And Here's How It Happened': Trickster Discourse in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 45.1 (1999): 212-34.
Lottridge, Celia. Rev. of A Coyote Columbus Story. Quill & Quire 58.7 (1992): 44.
Lousley, Cheryl. "’Hosanna da, our home on Natives' land’": Environmental justice and democracy in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water.Essays on Canadian Writing (Winter 2004) 17.
Mackie, Mary M. "Status, Mixedbloods, and Community in Thomas King's Medicine River." Journal of American Studies of Turkey 8 (1998): 65-71.
Mackie, Mary Margaret. "The Art That Will Not Die: The Story-Telling of Greg Sarris and Thomas King" Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 61:11 (2001): 4388-89. U of Oklahoma.
Matchie, Thomas; Larson, Brett. "Coyote Fixes the World: The Power of Myth in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water." North Dakota Quarterly 63.2 (1996) 153-68.
McCall, Sophie. “The forty-ninth parallel and other borders: recent directions in native North American literary criticism” Revs. of Border crossings: Thomas King's cultural inversions, How should I read these? Native women's writing in Canada by Helen Hoy (Ad)dressing our words: aboriginal perspectives on aboriginal literatures by Armand Garnet Ruffo. Canadian Review of Literature 34.2 (2004): 205/
McNamara, Linda. “Fictional truths.” [Testament. By Nino Ricci] [Crow Lake by Mary Lawson] [River Thieves ] [DreadfulWater Shows Up: a novel by Hartley Goodweather by Thomas King] United Church Observer 66.1 (2002): 36.
McCormack, Eric. Rev. of Green Grass Running Water. Books in Canada 22.3 (1993): 40.
Methot, Suzanne. “‘True fiction.” [The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative]” Quill & Quire 69.12 (2003): 21.
Methot, Suzanne. Rev. of DreadfulWater Shows Up. Quill & Quire 68.3 (2002): 51.
Florence Stratton. “There is no Bentham Street in Calgary: Panoptic Discourses and Thomas King's Medicine RiverCanadian Literature (Summer 2005): 11-18.
Methot, Suzanne. Rev. of Truth & Bright Water. Quill & Quire 65.9 (1999): 60.
Methot, Suzanne. “King provides big payoff to devoted fans [A Short History of Indians in Canada].” Windspeaker 23.8 (2005): 20.
New, WH. Rev. of All My Relations. Books in Canada 19.8 (1990): 29.
Parker, Robert Dale. The Invention of Native American Literature. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2003: 244.
Pascual Soler, Nieves: "Thomas King: A Trickster Healing through Humour." Actas III Congreso de la Sociedad Española para el Estudio dos Estados Unidos/Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS): Fin de Siglo: Crisis y nuevos principios/Century Ends, Crises and New Beginnings. Eds. María José Alvarez Maurín, María José, Manuel Broncano Rodrígues, Camino Fernández Rabadán, Cristina Garrigós González. León, Spain: Universidad de León, 1999. 299-305.
Petzold, Dieter: "Thomas King's Green Grass Running Water: A Postmodern Postcolonial Puzzle; or, Coyote Conquers the Campus." Lineages of the Novel. Eds. Bernhard Reitz, Eckart Voigts-Virchow. Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher, 2000. 243-54.
Potter, Jack. Rev. of All My Relations: An Anthology Of Contemporary Canadian Native Fiction. The Atlantic Provinces Book Review 18.1 (1991): 16.
Querengesser, Neil. Rev. of Truth & Bright Water. Canadian Ethnic Studies 33.1 (2001): 152.
Ridington, Robin. "Theorizing Coyote's Cannon: Sharing Stories with Thomas King." Theorizing the Americanist Tradition. Eds. Lisa Philips Valentine, Regna Darnell. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1999: 19-37.
Ridington, Robin. “Happy trails to you: Contexted discourse and Indian removals in Thomas King's Truth & Bright Water.Canadian Literature (Winter 2000): 89-108.
Ruffo, Armand G. “From myth to metafiction, a narratological analysis of Thomas King's ‘The One About Coyote Going West.’” International Journal of Canadian Studies (Fall 1995): 135.
Shackleton, Mark. "Monique Mojica's Princess Pocohontas and the Blue Spots and Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water: Countering Misrepresentations of 'Indianness' in Recent Native North American Writing" Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Human Rights in a "Post"-Colonial World. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2004: xvi, 331.
Smith, Bob. Rev. of Green Grass, Running Water. New Directions 7.5 (1993): 33.
Sugars, Cynthia. Rev. of Border Crossings: Thomas King's Cultural Inversions. Journal of Canadian Studies 38.2 (2004): 179-184.
Swail, Brian Ralph. "Absolutely Fabulous: Fabulation in the Works of David Arnason, Robert Kroetsch, Tomson Highway and Thomas King." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 65:2 (2004): 525.
Taillon, Joan. “Publishing prospects good for native writers.” Windspeaker 18.10 (2001): 17.
Tefs, Wayne. Rev. of Truth & Bright Water. Border Crossings 18.4 (1999): 85.
Tefs, Wayne. Rev. of Medicine River. Border Crossings 11.4 (1992): 4.
Thorpe, Michael. Rev. of All My Relations. University of Toronto Quarterly 61.1 (1991): 40.
Turner, Lillian M. Rev. of All My Relations. CM : Canadian Materials for Schools and Libraries 18.6 (1990): 290.
Vahia, Aditi H. “Purana narratology and Thomas King: rewriting of colonial history in Medicine River and “Joe the Painter” and “The Deer Island Massacre.” The Canadian Journal of Native Studies 22.1 (2002): 65.
Walton, Priscilla. "Border Crossings: Alterna(rra)tives in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water." Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 31:1 (1998): 73-85.
Walton, Percy. "'Tell Our Own Stories': Politics and the Fiction of Thomas King." World Literature Written in English 30.2 (1990): 77-84.
Wegmann-Sanchez, Jessica. "Canadian versus American State Discourse on Racial Categorization in Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart and Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water." Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies. Ed. James Gifford. Edmonton, AB: CRC Humanities Studio, 2003: 49-59.
Wikström, Tina. "The Trickster Shift. What Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Gerald McMaster, and Jane Ash Poitras Have in Common with Thomas King." Indian Stories, Indian Histories. Turin, Italy: Otto, 2004. 233.
Wilke, Gundula: "Re-Writing the Bible: Thomas King's Green Grass, Running WaterAcross the Lines: Intertextuality and Transcultural Communication in the New Literatures in English. Ed. Wolfgang Klooss. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 1998: 83-90.
Wiersema, Robert J. Rev of A Short History of Indians in Canada. Quill & Quire 71.10 (2005): 31.
Williams, Kenneth. “Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour returns.” Windspeaker 15.8 (1997): 12
Herb Wyile. “‘Trust Tonto’": Thomas King's subversive fictions and the politics of cultural literacy.” Canadian Literature (Summer 1999): 105-125.
Wylie, Herb. Rev of Border crossings: Thomas King's cultural inversions. The American Review of Canadian Studies 34.1 (2004): 158.
Rev. of One good story, that one. Books in Canada 22.7 (1993): 36
Rev. of Green Grass, Running Water. Canadian Literature (Fall 1993): 155.
Rev. of Green grass Running Water. Paragraph 15.2 (1993): 31.
Rev. of One Good Story That One. Quill & Quire 59.9. (1993): 61.
Rev. of Medicine River. Canadian Woman Studies 14.4 (1994): 115.
Rev. of One good story, that one. Canadian Literature (Summer 1996): 170.
Rev. of A Coyote Columbus Story. The Presbyterian Record 117.4 (1993): 37.

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