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Aboriginal Housing Assessment: Appendices

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Housing Assessment: Community Design Needs & Preferences and Application of Local Materials
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lisa Hardess
Rodney C. McDonald
Darren Thomas
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Includes survey questions, community profiles and research findings from each of the 14 First Nations involved in study, and results of visits to three sites where local materials were being used in construction. Full research report. Community Report.
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Aboriginal Housing Assessment: Community Design Needs & Preferences and Application of Local Materials [Research Report]

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Housing: Local Materials and Design Preferences
Research Highlight (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Highlight. Socio-economic Series ; 05-001
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)
Lisa Hardess
Rodney C. McDonald
Darren Thomas
Discusses results of research conducted in three locations where local materials were used in construction and survey of 14 First Nations as to their requirements for appropriate housing. Includes both summary and main report. Community Report. Appendices.
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Access to Specialty Health Care for Rural American Indians: Provider Perceptions in Two States

Alternate Title
Rural Health Working Paper Series ; no. 78
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Laura-Mae Baldwin
Walter B. Hollow
Susan Casey
L. Gary Hart
Eric H. Larson ... [et al.]
no. 3
Results from survey sent to clinics in Montana and New Mexico about access to specialty physicians, perceived barriers to access, and access to non-physical clinical services.
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American Indians of the Pacific Northwest

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
University of Washington Libraries
Database with over 2300 original photographs complemented by essays and maps, 1500 pages from the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (USA), and six Treaties.
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Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Resistance in the Age of Big Oil: Corwin Clairmont's Two-Headed Arrow/The Tar Sands Project

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katie Kane
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 2, Spring, 2021, pp. [152]-195
An analysis of the art installation performed and exhibited in 2018 and discussion of how the artist's works express resistance to the proposed oil pipeline and energy extraction projects going through or near Indigenous lands in the U.S. and Canada.
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The Assiniboine

E-Books
Author/Creator
Edwin Thompson Denig
Canadian Plains Reprint Series, vol. 5
Originally published as the Forty-Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. This edition published with a new introduction by David Reed Miller.
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Beaver, Bison, and Black Robes: Montana's Fur Trade, 1800-1860

Alternate Title
Montana: Stories of the Land
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Krys Holmes

Discusses how the demand for beaver pelts brought about a new economy, the shift from hunting beaver to hunting bison, and the impact of missionaries.

Chapter from Chapter from Montana: Stories of the Land by Krys Holmes..

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Bird-Sings-Different: The Beadwork of Emma Last Star

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard Green
Whispering Wind, vol. 45, no. 1, 2016, pp. 6-8
Briefly discusses some items created by the Pikunni Blackfoot artisan from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana.
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Blackfoot Digital Library

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Blackfoot Community
Searchable digital library includes links to historical field notes, photographs, interviews, documents, photographs, etc.
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The Blackfoot War Lodge: Its Construction and Use

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John C. Ewers
American Anthropologist, vol. 46, no. 2, pt.1, New Series, April-June 1944, pp. 182-192
Describes the building techniques used for these structures and how they were utilized in warfare.
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Blackfoot Warrior Shirts

Alternate Title
Lesson Plan: Blackfoot Winter Counts and their Stories
[Kaahsinnooniksi Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ramona L. Big Head
Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta. Designed for Grade 2 language arts, but can be adapted to other levels.
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Blackfoot Warrior Shirts

Alternate Title
Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Lesson Plan: Creative Writing and Drama
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ramona L. Big Head
Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta. Designed for high school students.
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Boosting Underprepared Students

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stacey Sherwin
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 22, no. 4, Honoring Student Success, Summer, 2011
Discusses strategies the Salish Kootenai College uses to help students remain and find success in college.
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Boulder Effigy Monuments in the Northern Plains

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas F. Kehoe
Alice B. Kehoe
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 72, no. 284, April-June 1959, pp. 115-127
Description and discussion of human and other effigy sites.
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Buffalo Past and Present

Alternate Title
Montana State Parks Lesson Plan
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Education for All, Montana Office of Public Instruction

Uses the Madison Buffalo Jump State Park as a starting point to discuss the buffalo's importance in the economies, cosmologies, social organization, and spiritual life of Indigenous peoples of the plains. Recommended for use with Grade 9-12 students.

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Building Healthy Tribal Nations in Montana and Wyoming through Collaborative Research and Development

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steve R. Andersen
Gordon M. Belcourt
Kathryn M. Langwell
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 95, no. 5, May 2005, pp. 784-789
Describes a collaborative approach to reducing health disparities affecting Montana and Wyoming tribal nations while promoting health-protective practices and interventions.
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Building New Programs at Tribal Colleges

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Douglas K. Stevens
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 23, no. 4, Investing in Education, Empowering Tribal Communities, Summer, 2012
Comments on a four year, molecular-based science degree offered for the first time at a tribal college.
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Caring, Sharing in the Big Sky: Writer, Photographer Explore Five of Montana's Tribal Colleges

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jerry Worley
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 22, no. 2, Crossing Borders, Winter, 2010
Comments and observations from a writer and photographer, who toured five tribal colleges in Montana, including noting a strong female presence in leadership roles and feeling very welcomed by all campuses.
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Changing Winds: Service to Native American Students and Communities in Montana: Final Report of the MSU Native American Support Programs Task Force

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native American Support Programs Task Force
Survey results of program assessment found that programs serving students and communities lacked strategic planning for activities, causing concern for quality and effectiveness in future programming. Includes recommendation from the Task force.
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