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Washington Partners: How Relationships Shape Policy

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kuna Tavalin
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 28, no. 2, Taking It to the Hill, Winter, November 13, 2016, pp. [34-36,7]
Description
Describes how the American Indian Higher Education Consortium and the organization called Washington Partners collaborate to advocate for policies which support tribal colleges and universities.
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Washington Redskins

Alternate Title
Assignment
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Mike Wendling
Lucy Ash
Description
Assignment reporter Mike Wendling in the United States to find out why protests against the name "Redskins" are on the rise. Duration: 25:00.
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Washo-Northern Paiute Peyotism, a Study in Acculturation

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.40, no.3
E-Books
Author/Creator
Omer C. Stewart
Description
Part of: University of California Publications in American archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 40, (pp63-142).
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Waskawewin

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Floyd Favel
Topoi, vol. 24, no. 1, 2005, pp. 113-115
Description
Author discusses the spiritual roots of Cree dance, and his personal experiences, when trying to bridge the gap between traditional and contemporary dance forms.
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Waste-full Crossings in Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water

Alternate Title
Parallel Encounters: Culture and the Canada-U.S. Border
Waste-full Crossings: Thomas King's Rubbishy Border
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Catherine Bates
Description
Comments on the Canadian-American border which King calls "this line of someone else's imagination" and the river that separates the town of Truth from the First Nation, Bright Water. Chapter from Parallel Encounters: Culture and the Canada-U.S. Border [edited by Gillian Roberts and David Stirrup]
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Watching Navajos Watch Themselves

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sam Pack
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 22, no. 2, Fall, 2007, pp. 111-127
Description
Records and contrasts Navajo respondents reactions to various films on the same Navajo topics, but made by Native American and non-native film makers.
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Water, History, and Sovereignty in Simon J. Ortiz’s “Our Homeland, a National Sacrifice Area”

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robin Riley Fast
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 36-53
Description
Discusses Ortiz’s essay in the context of contemporary concerns surrounding water and environmental damage as forms of oppression of marginalized peoples. Calls for Indigenous led resistance to government and corporate control, and for dismantling systemic factors of oppression which sacrifice peoples and lands in favour of neocolonial and corporate interests.
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Water Is Life: Ecologies of Writing and Indigeneity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christina Boyles
Hilary E. Wyss
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 1-9
Description
Discusses some of the sociopolitical issues and topics addressed in special issue including #NoDAPL, the cuts to the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), water sovereignty, regulation and distribution, and extractive practices.
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Water Sprites: The Elders of the Fish in Aboriginal North America

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Åke Hultkrantz
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 3, Religions, Summer, 1983, pp. 1-22
Description
Looks at representative cases regarding the master of the fish in Indigenous and Inuit communities throughout North American. These fish religions are usually related to fish populations and meant to bring good luck to groups that rely on fish for their livelihoods.
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The Water Walker Written and Illustrated by Joanne Robertson: Teacher Guide

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Laura Horton
Description

To accompany book about Josephine-ba Mandamim, an Ojibwe Grandmother, and her love for water; she has  walked around the Great Lakes to raise awareness of the importance of protecting it for future generations.

Appropriate for use with students aged 6-9 (Grades 1-3). English text with some Ojibwe vocabulary.

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The Way Forward: How Indigenous Philanthropy Can Change the World

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Evelyn Arce
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 2, The Seventh Generation: Spotlight on Indigenous Youth, June 2013, p. [?]
Description
Describes effective grant-making strategies to support sustainable and culturally appropriate development projects, planned and implemented by and for Indigenous communities.
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"The Way I Heard It": Autobiography, Tricksters, and Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lynn Domina
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 3, Fall, 2007, pp. 45-67
Description
Explores the book for autobiographical sections and passages that could also be classified as myth, legend or fiction and how this influences the reader's treatment of the work as life writing. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 45.
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Way of the Warrior

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joan Fischer
Patty Loew
Wisconsin People & Ideas, 2007, pp. 37-42
Description
Interview with creator of a documentary about Native American participation in World I and II, Korea and Vietnam, produced for Wisconsin Public Television.
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Way of the Warrior

Alternate Title
WPT Documentaries (Wisconsin Public Television)
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Patty Loew
Description
Documentary on the role of Native Americans in the military campaigns of World War I and II, and the Korean and Vietnam conflict. Duration: 56:14.
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[The Way of Thorn and Thunder: The Kynship Chronicles]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David D. Oberhelman
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 3, Fall, 2013, pp. 118-120
Description
Book review of: The Way of Thorn and Thunder by Daniel Heath Justice. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 118.
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A Way to Wellness: Locating and Understanding Native-Specific HIV Data

Alternate Title
HIV/AIDS Community Information Outreach Project 2011
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mat Barkhausen
Hannabah Blue
Robert Foley
Jamie Folsom
Tony Aaron Fuller
Vicki Peterson
Description
Lists basic sources of epidemiological information for use by communities, consumers and service providers.
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We All Look Alike

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jamie Figueroa
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 24, no. 1, Communicating Yesterdays Stories Today, Fall, 2012, p. 46
Description
Short story.
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"We All Stand Side by Side": An Interview With Elizabeth LaPensée

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joanna Hearne
Elizabeth LaPensée
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 1, Digital Indigenous Studies: Gender, Genre, and New Media, Spring, 2017, pp. 27-37
Description
Interview with the artist who provided the cover art for this special issue on digital Indigenous studies.
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"We Also Have a Religion". The Free Exercise of Religion among Native Americans

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert S. Michaelsen
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 3, Religions, Summer, 1983, pp. 111-142
Description
Discusses the historical and political challenges for Indigenous religions in the United States. Despite these challenges Indigenous religions have survived and even had a resurgence within Indigenous communities.
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"We Also Serve": American Indian Women's Role in World War II

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Grace Mary Gouveia
Michigan Historical Review, vol. 20, no. 2, American Indians, Fall, 1994, pp. 153-182
Description
Discusses women's involvement in the military, employment in defence industries and on-reservation economic activities, and compares their experiences to those of other minorities.
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We are all Related

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Daniel Wildeat
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 20, no. 2, Native Green, Summer, 2008
Description
Describes the American Indian and Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group, formed by tribal colleges and universities, which brought together leading scientists and elders to address climate-related problems.
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"We Are Among the Poor, the Powerless, the Inexperienced and the Inarticulate": Clyde Warrior's Campaign for a "Greater Indian America"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul McKenzie-Jones
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 2, Spring, 2010, pp. 224-257
Description
Comments on the work done by activist, Clyde Warrior, noting that his focus was always what could be done by and for American Indians, rather than focusing on what was being done against American Indians.
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"We Are Still Here": An Interview With Debbie Reese

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Debbie Reese
English Journal, vol. 106, no. 1, 2016, pp. 51-54
Description
Discusses depictions of Native Americans and First Nations people in children's and young adult literature.
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We Are the Future: A Native Youth Narrative

Alternate Title
[Indigenous Futures Project]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Center for Native American Youth
Description
Disaggregated data from the 2020 Indigenous Futures Survey regarding identity, health and wellbeing, culture and community, and visibility, justice and dismantling racism.
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We Can Learn From American Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Theodore B. Hetzel
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 4, no. 3, May 1965, pp. [23-26]
Description
Author cites traits and values that should be adopted by society as a whole.
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"We Celebrate Our Own Funeral, the Discovery of America:" Pathos, Promise, and Constraint in Simon Pokagon's (Potawatomie) Resistance to the 1893 World's Fair

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jason Edward Black
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2018, pp. 165-181
Description
Considers Potawatomie’s address at the 1893 World’s Fair, in which he used the platform to expose the realities of the U.S. Government Indian policy, as a rhetorical strategy of resistance and an attempt to garner sympathy from the public at large. Discusses the implications and potential fallout of Potawatomie’s move.
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"We Have Always Been the Frontier": The American Revolution in Shawnee Country

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Colin G. Calloway
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 39-52
Description
Author asserts that previous studies on Indigenous people’s engagement in the American Revolution focus on the role played by tribes and their members rather that the effects of the war on Indigenous communities. Article reconsiders the Revolutionary war from the perspective of the Shawnee people.
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