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- ↑ Celu Amberston, Blessings of the Blood: A Book of Menstrual Lore and Rituals for Women (Beach Holme Publishing 1991). ISBN 9780888782991
- ↑ Celu Amberston, Deepening the Power: Community Ritual and Sacred Theatre (Beach Holme Publishing 1995). ISBN 9780888783578
- ↑ Celu Amberstone, The Dreamer's Legacy (Kegedonce Press 2012). ISBN 9780978499891
- ↑ N. A. Hayes, "Review of So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan" Pop Matters June 21, 2004.
- ↑ Grace L. Dillon, Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (University of Arizona Press 2012). ISBN 9780816529827
- ↑ Joy Sanchez-Taylor, "Interplanetary Diaspora and Fourth World Representation in Celu Amberstone's 'Refugees'" Extrapolation 58(1)(2017): 77-94.
- ↑ Grace Dillon, "Miindiwag and Indigenous Diaspora: Eden Robinson's and Celu Amberstone's Forays into 'Postcolonial' Science Fiction and Fantasy" Extrapolation 48(2)(2007): 219-243.
- ↑ Agnieszka Podruczna, "The Diaspora in Space: The Question of Home, Ancestry and Heritage in Celu Amberstone's 'Refugees'" TransCanadiana 6(2013): 263-273.
- ↑ David T. Fortin, "Indigenous architectural futures: Potentials for post-apocalyptic spatial speculation" Beyond Architecture: New Intersections and Connections (2014): 475-483.
- ↑ Laura M. Stevens, "Early America through the Lens of Science Fiction" lecture, Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany: OK June 27, 2019.
