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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: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Examination of Traditional Medicine and Herbal Pharmacology and the Implications for Teaching and Education: A Ghanaian Case Study
Akwasi Asabere-Ameyaw, George J. Sefa Dei, Kolawole Raheem Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 55, No. 3, Expanding Knowledge Systems in Teacher Education, Fall, 2009, pp. 298-318. Looks at local ideas about traditional herbal medicine, uses and applications and how they apply to cultural, social, political, spiritual and physical areas of society. 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: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Experiencing Literacy In and Out of School: Case Studies of Two American Indian Youths
Elizabeth Noll Journal of Literacy Research, Vol. 30, No. 2, 1998, pp. 205-232. Looks at Lakota and Dakota adolescent literacy in reading, writing, music, dance and art over a period of seven months. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, 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: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Exploring a Cultural Borderland: Native American Journeys of Discovery in the Early Twentieth Century
Frederick E. Hoxie Journal of American History, Vol. 79, No. 3, Discovering America: A Special Issue, December 1992, pp. 969-995. Discusses writers like Mourning Dove, Charles Eastman and Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) who all wrote about traditional Native American culture. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Exploring Indigenous Identities of Urban American Indian Youth of the Southwest
Stephen Kulis, M. Alex Wagaman, Crescentia Tso, Eddie F. Brown Journal of Adolescent Research, Vol. 28, No. 3, May 2013, pp. 271-298. Based on questionnaires from 142 middle school students from large urban area. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, 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: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Expressive Therapy as a Treatment Preference for Aboriginal Trauma
Joseph S. Graham Pimatisiwin, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2013, pp. 501-512. Study examines the philosophy and practice of expressive therapies for trauma and links to Aboriginal culture, experiential learning, spirituality and creative arts. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, 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, Indian Cinema, 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: 1, 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: 1, 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. 152-160. 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: 4, 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: 1, 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. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 67. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, 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: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Fish, Politics and Treaty Rights: Who Protects Salmon Resources in Washington State?
Charles F. Broches BC Studies, No. 57, British Columbia a Place For Aboriginal Peoples?, Spring, 1983, pp. 86-98. Reviews court cases trying to clarify Indian salmon fishing treaty rights and Judge Boldt's decision in the case of United States v Washington. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, 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: 2, 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: 4, 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: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Four Quartz Rocks Medicine Bundle of the Kiowa-Apache
J. Gilbert McAllister Ethnology, Vol. 4, No. 2, April 1, 1965, pp. 210-224. Looks at different types of tribal bundles focusing on the Four Quartz Rocks Bundle belonging to Apache Sam Klinekole. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Four Winds, Colonialism, and Gayatri Spivak: Toward a Critically (and Historically) Reflective Educative Practice
Paul Kolenick In Education, Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring, 2013, pp. 86-98. Article comments on the influence of colonial history on the educational practice of educating aboriginal people. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, 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: 2, 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: 3, 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: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites |
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