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Cultural Significance of the Ghost Dance
Alexander Lesser American Anthropologist, Vol. 35, No. 1, New Series, January-March 1933, pp. 108-115. Discusses the circumstances that gave rise to the Ghost Dance and its implications for Shawnee society. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Cultural Sovereignty and Native American Hermeneutics in the Interpretation of the Sacred Stories of the Anishinaabe
Lawrence W. Gross Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, Autumn, 2003, pp. 127-134. Highlights the importance of incorporating the Ojibwa's cultural history in the analysis of their sacred stories and explores the variety and many versions of stories regarding Anishinaabe myth. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Culture, Ceremonialism, and Stress: American Indian Veterans and the Vietnam War
Tom Holm Armed Forces & Society, Winter, 1986, pp. 237-251. Suggests that attitudes and rituals in Native American communities may have mitigated the post-traumatic stress experienced by veterans. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Culture of Strengths Makes Them Feel Valued and Competent: Aboriginal Children, Child Welfare, and a School Strengths Intervention
Keith Brownlee, Edward Rawana, Julia MacArthur, Michelle Probizanski First Peoples Child & Family Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2010, pp. 106-113. Discusses the implementation of a culturally sensitive strengths-based intervention approach within an elementary school, and looks at its value to Aboriginal children from the child welfare system. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Cultures in Collision: Cosmology, Jurisprudence, and Religion in Tlingit Territory
Caskey Russell American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2, Spring, 2009, pp. 230-252. Cultural conflicts between Southeast Alaska's Tlingit Indians and Europeans from the viewpoint of three cultural systems: cosmology, jurisprudence and religion. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Cure and Feeding of Windigos: A Critique
Jennifer Brown American Anthropologist, Vol. 73, No. 1, New Series, February 1971, pp. 20-22. Argues that the Windigo phenomenon cannot be cured by nutritional methods and indicates its cause is not clearly related to nutrition either. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Current Beliefs of the Kwakiutl Indians
Franz Boas Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 45, No. 176, April-June 1932, pp. 177-260. Collection of beliefs observed from 1886 to 1931 about sickness, magic, signs and other topics. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Currents of Trans/national Criticism in Indigenous Literary Studies
Daniel Heath Justice American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 3, Summer, 2011, pp. 334-352. Discusses transnational and national criticism in Indigenous literary studies. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Decolonising the Body: Restoring Sacred Vitality
Alannah Earl Young, Denise Nadeau Atlantis, Vol. 29, No. 2, 2005, pp. 1-13. Examines a program developed for urban Native women that focuses on restoring a sense of sacred interconnection and developing spiritual practices incorporating traditional teachings. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Decolonization in Unexpected Places: Native Evangelicalism and the Rearticulation of Mission
Andrea Smith American Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 3, September 2010, pp. 569-590. Discussion on Native evangelical leaders and organizations that circulate through the North American Institute of Indigenous Theological Studies. The article also looks at the relationship between Native evangelicalism and decolonization. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Developing Aboriginal Tourism: Opportunities and Threats
Barry Parker Tourism Management, Vol. 14, No. 5, October 1993, pp. 400-404. Discusses the benefits and pitfalls that tourism can bring to Aboriginal people. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Diagnosis as a Naming Ceremony: Caution Warranted in Use of the DSM-IV with Canadian Aboriginal Peoples
Danika Overmars First Peoples Child & Family Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2010, pp. 78-85. Discusses the similarities and differences between the use of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders," and an Aboriginal naming ceremony used by the Coast-Salish people in British Columbia. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Dialogue As A Method For Evolving Mātauranga Māori: Perspectives On The Use Of Embryos In Research
Maui Hudson, Mere Roberts, Linda Tuhwai Smith, Murray Hemi, Sarah-Jane Tiakiwai AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Scholarship, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2010, pp. 54-65. Discusses the epistemological distinctions between scientific practice and different Indigenous knowledge systems relating to embryo research and how the two can be mutually beneficial in a changing society. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Diversity in Cosmology: The Case of the Wind River Shoshoni
Ake Hultkrantz Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1987, pp. 279-295. History and cosmology reflecting ancient and widespread traditions of the Wind River Shoshoni . More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Domestic Laws versus Aboriginal Visions: An Analysis of the Delgamuukw Decision
Candice Metallic, Patricia Monture-Angus Borderlands E-Journal: New Spaces in the Humanities, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2002, p. [?]. Examines significant court decisions from an Aboriginal perspective to illustrate the problems facing First Nations when dealing with the Canadian judicial system's inherent legal colonialism. [Find offline items for Monture, Patricia] More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Doubleweaving Two-Spirit Critiques: Building Alliances between Native and Queer Studies
Qwo-Li Driskill GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol. 16, No. 1-2, 2010, pp. 69-92. Looks at how Two-Spirit critiques, critiques that centralize Native peoples, nations, identities, land bases, and survival tactics, challenge and strengthen work in queer studies. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Dreaming of Double Woman: The Ambivalent Role of the Female Artist in North American Indian Myth
Janet Catherine Berlo American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 1, Winter, 1993, pp. 31-43. Discusses the role of women as artists by examining 150 years of Native American myths and folklore. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Drug Tourism or Spiritual Healing?: Ayahuasca Seekers in Amazonia
Michael Winkelman Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Vol. 37, No. 2, June 2005, pp. 209-218. Study recounts the long-term benefits of the ayahuasca experience for spiritual and psychological growth. Scroll to second page for article. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Earth, Animals, and Academics: Plateau Indian Communities, Culture, and the Walla Walla Council of 1855
Clifford E. Trafzer American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3, Special Issue on Encounter of Two Worlds: The Next Five Hundred Years, 1993, pp. 81-100. Argues that historiography, too often, overlooks traditional beliefs and oral histories, especially those regarding the earth, plants, and animals which significantly influenced the course of Aboriginal history. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Earth's Mind
Roger Dunsmore Studies in American Indian Literatures, Vol. 5, No. 2, Series 2: Special Issue, Summer, 1993, pp. 57-66. Explores various metaphorical meanings within oral traditions. 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
Eco-Cosmologies and Biodiversity Conservation: Continuity and Change Among the Karbis of Assam
Ujjal Kumar Sarma, Indrani Barpujari Journal of International Indigenous Policy Journal, Vol. 2, No. 4, Traditional Knowledge, Spirituality and Lands, 2011, pp. 1-12. Examines impact culture and religious beliefs have on conservation of natural resources in contemporary India. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Ecologically Noble Savage Debate
Raymond Hames Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 36, September 2007, pp. 177-190. Discusses two aspects of a debate surrounding the concept that indigenous attitude toward the environment and conservation is the most appropriate model. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Economic Education of Samson Occom
Reginald Dyck Studies in American Indian Literatures, Vol. 24, No. 3, Fall, 2013, pp. 3-25. Looks at Occom's experiences with both Native and Christian beliefs and practices. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Editorial Affirmative Challenges in Indigenous Resilience
Research
Neil Andersson Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health, Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer, 2008, pp. 3-6. Looks at learning that focuses on strengths and those things that are positive, arguing that few people are motivated by being told about their problems. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
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 |
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