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Jesus, Too, Is One of the Holy People: Navajo Visions of the Sacred in the World Today
Paul G. Zolbrod Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring, 2000, pp. 207-220. Examination of Navajo religious beliefs and their tolerance of other religions. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 7, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
"A Journey into Sacred Myth"
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 10, No. 2, Autumn, 1994, pp. 98-99. Excerpt from a public lecture by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn commenting on the use of myths in the Native American story. See also : Indian Newspapers, or "Say, Ain't You Some Kind of Indians?" More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Jurisprudence, Peyote and the Native American Church
Paul E. Lawson, Jennifer Scholes American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1986, pp. 13-27. Examines the historical repression experienced by Native Americans who used peyote and their responses to it. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Karl May's Western Novels and Aspects of Their Continuing Influence
Carol Herselle Krinsky American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1999, pp. 53-72. How the authors German language novels planted a seed of interest in North American Indigenous culture, an interest which flourished for over a century. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Kinship as Cosmology: Potatoes as Offspring Among the Aymara of Highland Bolivia
Denise Arnold Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1987, pp. 323-337. Ethnographic comparison of potato cultivation and human reproduction in the Aymara. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
La Nuit Inuit: Éléments de Réflexion
Guy Bordin Études Inuit Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1, 2002, pp. [45]-70. Compares historical writings about the Inuit and the affect of the long periods of darkness and the actual Inuit attitudes and perceptions. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Lady Oracle: Jane Ash Poitras and the First Nations Phenomenon
Gillian MacKay Canadian Art, Vol. 11, No. 3, Fall, 1994, p. 74. Poitras, once labeled an angry artist, believes anger is foreign to Indigenous philosophies and traditions, instead dictates forgiveness. Her works have display evils done to First Nations people by the church, Western materialism, residential schools and alcohol, but her own worldview is that trials and suffering lead to redemption. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Laguna Prototypes of Manhood in Ceremony
Edith Swan MELUS, Vol. 17, No. 1, Native American Fiction: Myth and Criticism , Spring, 1991/1992, pp. [39]-61. Discusses manifestations of male relationships in the novel and compares them to practices at Laguna. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Language, Violence, and Indian Mis-education
Caskey Russell American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2002, pp. 97-112. Examines the strength of the interrelationship among way of life, belief systems and language and the wide ranging effect loss of Tlingit will have in southeast Alaska. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Law, Theory and Aboriginal Peoples
Gordon Christie Indigenous Law Journal, Vol. 2, Fall, 2003, pp. 67-115. Argues that since the theoretical underpinings of Canadian law are Western liberalism, there is a fundamental conflict with the viewpoint of Aboriginal people. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Learning from Promising Programs and Applications in Nourishing the Learning Spirit
Jonathan Anuik, Marie Battiste, Priscilla George Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2010. Looks at educational systems that can facilitate greater understanding of Aboriginal spiritual learning alongside more contemporary formal ones. [Find offline items for Battiste, Marie] More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Learning to Ask: An Aboriginal Custom for Respecting Forests Brings Appreciation and Understanding
Lorne Peterson Alternatives Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3, Summer, 2002, pp. 31-32. Describes ceremony regarding the loss of a forest due to construction of a four lane highway. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Learning to be a Nêhiyaw (Cree) Through Language
Belinda Daniels-Fiss Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, Vol. 2, No. 3, July 2008, pp. 233-245. Describes the author's journey and rediscovery of what it meant, and means, to speak from a Cree worldview. [Find location of Sturgeon Lake First Nation using Google Maps] More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Learning to Relate: Stories from a Father and Son
J. J. Baker, L. M. M. H. Baker Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2010. Discussion on stories shared by Jeff Baker and his father, Lee Baker on physical and cultural disconnection, and the benefits of listening to and learning from each another. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Legitimacy and Conversion in Social Change: The Case of French Missionaries and the Northeastern Algonkian
Robert Conkling Ethnohistory, Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter, 1974, pp. 1-24. Focuses on the years 1610 to 1750 and the Northeastern Algonquian in Maine and the Maritime provinces. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Les Tuurngait dans le Nunavik Occidental Contemporain
Nathalie Ouellette Études/Inuit/Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2002, pp. 107-131. Discusses how despite the influence of Christianity and although no longer associated with the Inuit shaman, the concept of the Tuurngait still permeates the worldview of contemporary Inuit. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Life at Gjoa Haven: The Old Ways and the New
T. C. Landon The Beaver, Vol. 71, No. 4, August/September 1991, pp. 41-?. Describes the Inuit's attempt to balance traditions with the 20th-century. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Like "Reeds Through the Ribs of a Basket": Native Women Weaving Stories
Kimberly M. Blaeser American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 4, Autumn, 1997, pp. 555-565. Examines the literary structures used by some contemporary Native American female writers. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Linda Hogan’s Tribal Imperative: Collapsing Space through “Living” Tribal Traditions and Nature
Melani Bleck Studies in American Indian Literatures, Vol. 11, No. 4, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Linda Hogan, Winter, 1999, pp. [23]-45. Contends that Hogan's novels demonstrate themes of rejection of Western spatial concepts and in favour of the Native America world view and experiences. 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
Linking 'White Oppression' and HIV/AIDS in American Indian Etiology: Conspiracy Beliefs Among AI MSMs and Their Peers
Brian Joseph Gilley, Marguerite Keesee American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2007, pp. 44-62. Presents the results of a pilot study on the use of conspiracy beliefs by American Indian (AI) men who have sex with men and their peers to explain the origins of HIV/AIDS. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Literary Translation and its Limitations in the Wider Spectrum of Cross Cultural Communication
Hemanga Dutta AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Scholarship, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2009, pp. 58-71. Discusses issues and challenges associated with language translation and the problematic aspects of intercultural communication. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Living in Balance: The Universe of the Hopi, Zuni, Navajo and Apache
Kathleen E. Ash-Milby Museum Anthropology, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring/Summer, March 1996, pp. 69-72. Review of Exhibit opened on May 20, 1995 at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA. which is educational, evocative, and culturally sensitive without being romantic. This was achieved by collaborating with Native American consultants and asking for submissions of poetry, essays, artwork, or photographs that reflect the submittor's worldview. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Looking at Animals, Encountering Mystery: The Wild Animal Stories of Ernest Thompson Seton and Charles G.D. Roberts
Janice Fiamengo Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 44, No. 1, Winter, 2010, pp. 36-59. Explores Seton's religious language and his belief that both human beings and animals partake in the divine spirit of the cosmos. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Lost in Conflation: Visual Culture and Constructions of the Category of Religion
Michael J. Zogry American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 1-55. Examines the role of religion in the stereotyping of Native Americans, and looks at the representations of Native American religion in theater through an analysis of visual images including John White's drawings, Theodor de Bry's engravings, and Paul Green's outdoor drama. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Lost Visions, Forgotten Dreams: Life and Art of an Ancient Arctic People
Michelle Samagalski Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1997, pp. 355-356. Review of the art exhibition: Lost Visions, Forgotten Dreams curated by Robert McGhee and Patricia Sutherland and held at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Hull, Quebec, November 1996 to September 1997 provides some insights into the Tuniit people. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites |
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