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Anishinaabemdaa
Alternate Title
Learn Anishinaabemowin
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Little River Band of Ottawa Indians
Description
Website dedicated to teaching and preserving the Anishinaabemowin language. Features include grammar, everyday terms, culture, legends, history, fun and games, and language camp.
Annotated Bibliography: Examples of Traditional Knowledges in Climate Research: Version 1.0 - September 2014
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Carson Viles
Description
Resources divided under seven topic headings: resolutions, policy and law, protocols, case studies, intellectual property, traditional knowledges and climate change, and ethics and traditional knowledge.
To accompany Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives.
Annotated Bibliography: Internet Resources for Native American and Canadian Aboriginal Studies
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David A. Smith
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 1, 2008, pp. 103-134
Description
An annotated bibliography of Native American and Canadian Aboriginal resources on the Internet, with a brief introduction arguing the pros and cons of digitization, reasons for the selection and scope, and how to access the resources on the Internet.
Annotated Bibliography of Aboriginal Books, Volume II: Pre-School to Adult
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
NWT Literacy Council
Description
Bibliography divides material into three age categories: children, young adult and adult. The list also includes information as to whether the author/illustrator/translator is of Canadian and/or Aboriginal background or northern Aboriginal background.
An Annotated Bibliography of the BIA Education Research Bulletin, 1973-1979
Alternate Title
An Annotated Bibliography of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Education Research Bulletin, 1973-1979
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Thomas R. Hopkins
Description
Bulletin was viewed as a vehicle to share educational research about improving educational outcomes for Native American children.
An Annotated Bibliography of Young People's Books on American Indians
Alternate Title
Curriculum Bulletin (United States Bureau of Indian Affairs) ; no. 12
Documents & Presentations
Description
Lists 367 fiction and non-fiction works published between 1931 and 1972 and graded for students. Supplement to An Annotated Bibliography of Young People's Fiction on American Indians.
Note: Due to age of publication, some selections may no longer be considered appropriate.
An Annotated Bibliography of Young People's Fiction on American Indians
Alternate Title
Curriculum Bulletin (United States Bureau of Indian Affairs) ; no. 11
Documents & Presentations
Description
Lists over 250 works of fiction written between 1933 and 1969. Each annotation notes tribe involved in the story and the suggested grade level. An index arranged by tribe name lists works that concern each particular group.
Note: Due to age of publication, some resources may not be considered appropriate by modern standards.
An Annotated Secondary Bibliography of Louise Erdrich’s Recent Fiction: The Bingo Palace,Tales of Burning Love, and The Antelope Wife
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Furlan Szanto
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 12, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2000, pp. [61]-90
Description
Lists articles written about the four works up to the year 2000.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
The Anomaly of Judical Activism in Indian Country
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James J. Lopach
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, 1997, pp. 83-104
Description
Examines the power of US tribal courts, the Indian Reorganization Act and the arguments for judical review.
Another Fine Example of the Oral Tradition? Identification and Subversion in Sherman Alexie’s Smoke Signals
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jhon Warren Gilroy
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 13, no. 1, Series 2; Representations of American Indians in Contemporary Narrative Fiction Film , Spring, 2001, pp. [23]-42
Description
Contends that the film creates an intersection or "frontier" where the Aboriginal and the non-Aboriginal worlds meet, and in so doing subverts commonly held perceptions and attitudes.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
"Another Kind of Violence": Sherman Alexie's Poems
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ron McFarland
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 251-264
Description
Reviews the poetry and stories of Sherman Alexie as a young polemicist whose work is often viewed as controversial.
Answering the Arrowmaker’s Challenge: Autobiography as a Model of American Indian Literary Nationalism in The Way to Rainy Mountain
Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 7th, 2007
Sixty-Seven Nations and Counting: Proceedings of the Seventh Native American Symposium
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Stacy Pratt
Description
N. Scott Momaday’s book is examined as an autobiographical form which strengthens interpretations of oral and written stories to form identities.
The Antecedents of Failure and Emerging Hope: American Indians & Public Higher Education
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Don B. Woodcock
Osman Alawiye
Education, vol. 121, no. 4, Summer, 2001, pp. 810-820
Description
Historical overview of major issues leading up to under representation of the American Indian at public institutions of higher education.
An Anthropological Analysis of Student Participation in College
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William G. Tierney
The Journal of Higher Education, vol. 63, no. 6, November-December 1992, pp. 603-618
Description
Argues that the theory of "rite of passage" to explain integration into post-secondary education.
An Anthropological Perspective of Native American Cultural Studies
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frederick D. Smith
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 17, no. 3, May 1978, pp. [8-12]
Description
Explores whether Native American cultural programs can be considered revitalization movements and where the initiative for them originated.
Anthropological Studies of Native American Place Naming
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas F. Thornton
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 209-228
Description
Author traces the history and development of “North American Indian Place Names Studies” as a discipline in the field of anthropology; analyzes a successful model of cooperative research on Tlingit place names.
Anthropologists At Work: A Case Study of the Nanticoke Indian Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frank W. Porter
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 1, 1978, pp. 1-18
Description
The author argues that the writings of various anthropologists awoke Nanticoke resolve to exercise self-determination and embrace traditional cultural practices as a means to solidify their identity.
Anthropologists in Unexpected Places: Tracing Anthropological Theory, Practice, and Policy in Indians at Work
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mindy J. Morgan
American Anthropologist, vol. 119, no. 3, September 2017, pp. 435-447
Description
Looks at authors and articles appearing in the periodical published by the Office of Indian Affairs during the 1930s. It served as a forum for intradisciplinary debates, particularly in the emerging subfield of applied anthropology.
Anthropology and Education in Canada, the Early Years (1850-1970)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
A.D. Fisher
Anthropology & Education Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 1, March 1998, pp. 89-102
Description
Argues that this subdiscipline has developed differently than in the United States despite common ground regarding anthropologists and topics studied.
Anthropology and History: Can the Two Sister Disciplines Communicate?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William H. Lyon
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, 1994, pp. 159-176
Description
Discusses the difficulties of writing Indigenous history when there is a lack of communication between historians and anthropologists.
Anthropology and Indian-Hating
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Russel Barsh
Native Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 2, 1996, pp. 3-22
Description
Argues that anthropologists should devote more attention on the culture of the oppressors rather than focusing exclusively on those of the oppressed.
Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Robert Keith Collins
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 36, no. 1, 2012, pp. 181-185
Description
Book review of: Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture by Lee D. Baker.
Review located by scrolling to page 181.
An Anthropology of Repatriation: Contemporary Physical Anthropological and Native American Ontologies of Practice
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ann M. Kakaliouras
Current Anthropology, vol. 53, no. S5, The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations, April 2012, pp. S210-S221
Description
Examines the social, cultural and political issues surrounding the repatriation of historical materials, sacred and significant objects, and human remains.
Anti-Hero Avengers and the Not-So-Lone Ranger
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kathleen Buddle
Canadian Dimension, vol. 41, no. 1, Indian Country, January/February 2007, pp. 48-51
Description
Focuses on activism in film and media arts, highlighting the ImagineNATIVE Film and Arts Festival and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN).
An Apache Medicine Dance
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frank Russell
[American Anthropologist], vol. [11], no. [12], [December] 1898, pp. 357-372
Description
Looks at medicine feasts conducted by an Apache woman from the Pueblo of San Ildefonso for Jicarilla Apaches.