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Editorial: Indigenous Knowledge and the University
Jo-ann Archibald, Lynne Davis, Celia Haig-Brown Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 31, No. 1, Indigenous Knowledge and the University, 2008, pp. 1-6. Introduction to a special issue of Canadian Journal of Native Education titled "Indigenous Knowledges and the University" which is dedicated to the challenges and opportunities of bringing Indigenous Knowledges and Academia together. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Editors' Introduction: Faces of HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse in Native American Communities
Karen Saylors, Nelson Jiim Ana Vanesa Plasencia, Derek Smith Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Vol. 37, No. 3, Special Issue: Faces of HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse in Native American Communities, 2005, pp. 241-246. Overview of issue articles highlighting traditional support and innovative projects for healthier lifestyles, the state of HIV in communities, information on current rates of HIV, substance use, STIs and other risk factors. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Elaboration Therapy in the Midewiwin and Gerald Vizenor's The Heirs of Columbus
Benjamin V. Burgess Studies in American Indian Literatures, Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 22-36. Uses a Midewiwin framework, and elaboration theory that stories have power, healing abilities and the strength of the story depends on the ability of the healer. Concepts are used to reshape the narrative of Christopher Columbus in Gerald Vizenor's novel. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Eliade and Hultkrantz: The European Primitivism Tradition
Alice B. Kehoe American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 3/4, Special Issue: To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality, Summer - Autumn, 1996, pp. 377-392. Assesses the work of Europeans Mircea Eliade and Ake Hultkrantz in the field of comparative religion, with emphasis on their work on Native Americans. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Ensuring Equitable Distribution of Land in Ghana: Spirituality or Policy? A Case Study From the Forest-Savanna Agroecological Zone of Ghana
Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye, Paul Sarfo-Mensah International Indigenous Policy Journal, Vol. 2, No. 4, Traditional Knowledge, Spirituality and Lands, 2011, pp. 1-20. Study explores dual system used in land tenure distribution and management that faces policy making. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Ethical Considerations in the Conservation of Native American Sacred Objects
Sara J. Wolfe, Lisa Mibach Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, Vol. 23, No. 1, Autumn, 1983, pp. [1]-6. Discusses conservation treatment methods using the following considerations: unresolved questions regarding legal ownership, potential for treatments to prejudice future treatment options and the analytical value, consideration of non-physical aspects. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Ethnological Notes on the Astronomical Customs and Religious Ideas of the Chokitapia or Blackfeet Indians, Canada
Jean L'Heureux Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 15, 1886, pp. 301-304. Discusses star lore of the Pleiades and Sirius. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Ethnological Notes on the Ojibwa of Southeastern Ontario
Paul Radin American Anthropologist, Vol. 30, No. 4, New Series, October-December 1928, pp. 659-668. Brief early 20th century survey of customs regarding children, marriage, death, medicines, hunting, fishing and preparation of food. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Evaluation of the College Experience Among American Indian Upperclassmen
Terry Huffman, Ron Ferguson Great Plains Research, Vol. 17, Spring, 2007, pp. 61-71. Five year study which examined the attitudes, perceptions, and expectations of students attending a predominantly non-Indian university. Focused on two issues: impact of college on appreciation of Native American heritage and level of satisfaction with college experience. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Expanding Knowledge through Dreaming, Wampum and Visual Arts
Dawn Marsden Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Indigenous and Aboriginal Community Health, Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter, 2004, pp. 53-73. Discussion of the Wampum Research Model and its uses, including integrating traditions with contemporary and emerging areas of the arts. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Explanatory and Predictive Power of History: Coping with the "Mystery Illness," 1993
Maureen Trudelle Schwarz Ethnohistory, Vol. 42, No. 3, Summer, 1995, pp. 375-401. Explains why the relatives of the Navajo victims turned to their own history for answers when hanta-virus caused sudden deaths. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Exposing the Poison, Staunching the Wound: Applying Aboriginal Healing Theory to Literary Analysis
Armand Garnet Ruffo The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 29, No. 1/2, 2009, pp. 91-110. Discusses how the Medicine Wheel can be applied to authored text and the potential of applying traditional knowledge to literary analysis. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Fact or Fiction? (Genre) Boarder Crossing in American Indian Film
Lee Schweninger Post Script, Vol. 29, No. 3, Special Edition, Summer, 2010, pp. 94-?. Discusses various documentary and narrative fiction films and shows how embedded historical and cultural information is meant to educate the viewer and undermine the notion of fixed genre. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Factors Associated with the Personal Assessment of College Among American Indian Students at a Rural University
Terry Huffman Rural Educator, Vol. 29, No. 3, Spring, 2008, pp. 18-29. Study examined the relationship between gender, age, reservation background, and cultural traditionalism with three variables: assessment of, and transition to college, and the effect of college on appreciation of Native heritage. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
False Miracles and Failed Vision in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine.
Karen Janet McKinney Critique, Vol. 40, No. 2, Winter, 1999, pp. 152-. Explores the clash between Christianity and shamanistic religions through an analysis of historical interactions between missionaries and the Chippewa, and the character of Lipsha in Love Medicine. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Fast Among North American Indians
Jules Blumensohn American Anthropologist, Vol. 35, No. 3, New Series, July-September 1933, pp. 451-469. Explores the Central Algonquian peoples unique attitudes, understandings and practices with respect to fasting. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Fears of Navajo Children: Adaptation or Pathology?
Frank D. Tikalsky American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1988, pp. 27-31. Studies fear as a cultural pattern with regards to fear response, structure, and frequency. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Fighting For the Mother/Land: An Ecofeminist Reading of Linda Hogan's Solar Storms
Silvia Schultermandl Studies in American Indian Literatures, Vol. 17, No. 3, Fall, 2005, pp. 67-84. Demonstrates how this Chickasaw writer uses ecofeminist heuristics to demonstrate the interconnectedness between tribal cultures and the natural landscape. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
First Nations Career/Life Planning Model: Guidelines for Practitioners
Harly Neumann, Rod M. McCormick, Norman E. Admundson, Holly B. McLean Journal of Employment Counselling, Vol. 36, No. 4, December 1999, pp. 167-176. Discusses recruitment of participants, the counselling process and follow-up issues. Uses a case study to illustrate use of the model. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Fleur Pillager’s Bear Identity in the Novels of
Louise Erdrich
Nora Baker Barry Studies in American Indian Literatures, Vol. 12, No. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2000, pp. [24]-37. Discusses the significance of the bear in Chippewa belief systems, Grand Medicine Society and orders of the midewin, and how the author uses these elements as plot devices. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Flux of Trust: Caribou Co-Management in Northern Canada
Anne Kendrick Environments, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2003, pp. 43-59. Examines a joint management scenarios between traditional Aboriginal caribou hunters, government managers and biologists to share multiple perspectives on what is known about caribou systems and to identify the kinds of changes that are culturally and socially acceptable to traditional caribou hunting societies. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Forty Years and Counting
Greg Sarris American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2011, pp. 11-18. Discusses the conditions of Native American life in California, and the need to break old patterns and embrace new changes. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Freud, Marx and Chiapas in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead.
Debora Horvitz Studies in American Indian Literatures, Vol. 10, No. 3, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Almanac of the Dead, Fall, 1998, pp. 47-64. Discusses the novel's theme of a political revolution which will ultimately result in the disintegration of European power over Aboriginal peoples. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
From Big Green Fly to the Stone Serpent:
Following the Dark Vision in Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
Annette Van Dyke Studies in American Indian Literatures, Vol. 10, No. 3, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Almanac of the Dead, Fall, 1998, pp. [34]-46. Discusses the novel's pessimistic tone, with its plot concerning predictions about the appearance of the Europeans, the destruction they brought and their eventual disappearance. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
From Boarding Schools to the Multicultural Classroom: The Intercultural Politics of Education, Assimilation, and American Indians
John Sanchez, Mary E. Stuckey Teacher Education Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 3, Summer, 1999, pp. 83-96. Looks at politics and practices of cross cultural communication by examining the historical and current status of American Indians as subjects and participants in the educational system. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites |
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