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Aboriginal Languages within Canada's Friendship Centre Areas: State, Diversity, Prospects and Implications, 2006 Census
Mary Jane Norris Focuses on language learning, maintenance, and revitalization in 304 communities across the country. Chapter from Urban Aboriginal Communities in Canada: Complexities, Challenges, Opportunities edited by Peter Dinsdale, Jerry White and Calvin Hanselmann. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Aboriginal Seniors in Canada
Martin Turcotte, Grant Schellenberg Statistics on demographic trends, culture and language, continuous learning, work and participation in society, living arrangements and housing, and health and well-being. Chapter six of A Portrait of Seniors in Canada 2006. Scroll to page 221 to read chapter. More information... (Rating: 3.82, Votes: 17, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Aboriginal Youth at Risk: The Role of Education, Mobility, Housing, Employment, and Language as Protective Factors for Problem and Criminal Behaviours
Raymond R. Corrado, Irwin M. Cohen Combines data from the 2006 census involving risk and protective factors with literature review to form basis for policy/program recommendations. Chapter from Urban Aboriginal Communities in Canada: Complexities, Challenges, Opportunities edited by Peter Dinsdale, Jerry White and Calvin Hanselmann. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Aia Iā Kākou Nā Hā'ina - The Answers Are Within Us: Language Rights in Tandem With Language Survival
Larry L. Kimura Comments on the Native American Languages Act (NALA). Chapter from American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart edited by Candace K. Galla, Stacey Oberly, G.L. Romero, Maine Sam, Ofelia Zepeda. More information... (Rating: 3.75, Votes: 12, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Approaching Mi'Kmaq Teachings on the Connectiveness of Humans and Nature
Albert Marshall, Murdena Marshall, Marilyn Iwama Chapter in book: Ecosystem Based Management: Beyond Boundaries. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Science and the Management of Protected Areas, 21-26 May 2007 edited by S. Bondrup-Nielsen, K. Beazley, G. Bissix, D. Colville, S. Flemming, T. Herman, M. McPherson, S. Mockford and S. O'Grady. More information... (Rating: 3.75, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Arctic Indigenous Language Initiative: Assessment, Promotion, and Collaboration
Lenore A. Grenoble Comments on the AILI project which is Indigenous-initiated and driven. Excerpt from Endangered Languages Beyond Boundaries: Proceedings of the 17th FEL Conference edited by Mary Jane Norris, Erik Anonby, Maire-Okile Junker, Nicholas Ostler and Donna Patrick. . More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Aspects of Traditional Aboriginal Australia
Stephanie Fryer-Smith Provides overview of society including spirituality, organization. kinship, culture, customs, ceremony, ritual, and law. Chapter 2 from: Aboriginal Benchbook for Western Australia Courts by Stephanie Fryer-Smith. Chapter 2 located by scrolling to page 2:1. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Draft for a Nordic Saami Convention
Timo Koivurova Presents examination of each chapter and article in the Convention. Chapter from: European Yearbook of Minority Issues ; vol.6, 2006/2007. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 7, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Here be Dragons!: Breaking Down the Iron Cage for Aboriginal Children
Jean Lafrance, Betty Bastien Chapter 4 from Putting a Human Face on Child Welfare: Voices From the Prairies edited by Ivan Brown, Ferzana Chaze, Don Fuchs, Jean Lafrance, Sharon McKay and Shelley Thomas Prokop. More information... (Rating: 3.33, Votes: 6, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Indians
[Violla E. Garfield, Robert McKennan, John M. Cooper, Frank G. Speck, Johannes Falkenberg, Eugene A. Golomshtok ... [et al.]] Information on the: Tlingit, Haida, Eyak, Northern Cree, Montagnais-Naskapi, Sami, Chukchis, Dolgans, Gilyaks, Kamchadals, Ostyaks, Samoyeds, Ipiutak, and Inuit. Digitized copy of typescript is part of the unpublished reference work on the Northern Arctic and subarctic regions. Project ran from 1947-1951. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
An Issue of Culture in Educating American Indian Youth
John B. Love, Michael Kallam, Melanie Price Examines historical and current trends to engage Native American students and offers a list of practical suggestions employed in some Oklahoma schools. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Language and Identity: An Inuit Perspective
Shelley Tulloch Comments, from interviews with representatives, show that Inuktitut is an important part of Inuit identity and culture. Chapter from PAMAPLA 23: Papers From the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association edited by Wendy Burnett and Robert Adlam. Chapter located by scrolling to page 106. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 13, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Language of Shamans: Communication as Physical, Symbolic and Subtle
Marilyn Walker Explores the terms 'shamanism' and 'language' and considers how the physical and metaphysical realms are integrated through shamanic language. Chapter from PAMAPLA 23: Papers From the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association edited by Wendy Burnett and Robert Adlam. Chapter located by scrolling to page 117. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
'The Last of the Oral Tradition in Electronic Word Processing': Traditional Material and Postmodern Form in Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart top
Wolfgang Hochbruck Examines links between oral tradition and contemporary written texts. Originally published as essay in Traditionalism vs Modernism: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of New Literatures in English, June 1-14 1991. More information... (Rating: 5.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Linguistic and Cultural Evolution in an Unyielding Environment top
Barbara Burnaby Looks at language developments within the context of modern day circumstances for 2 Innu communities in Labrador. Chapter in book: Cultural Diversity and Education: Interface Issues by David F. Philpott, Wayne C. Nesbit, Mildred F. Cahill, and Gary H. Jeffery. More information... (Rating: 5.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The National Minority Languages in Sweden: Their Status in Legislation and in Practice
Lena Ekberg Article from European Federation of National Institutions for Language Conference, 2009. Looks at the five national minority languages in Sweden: Finnish, Meänkieli, Yiddish, Romany and Sami. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Native Educators: Interface with Culture and Language in Schooling
Octaviana Trujillo, Denis Viri, Anna Figueira, Kathryn Manuelito Research reports an improved academic performance in Native American students whose educational experience has been grounded in heritage languages and cultures. Chapter from ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism edited by James Cohen, Kara T. McAlister, Kellie Rolstad, Jeff MacSwan. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Northwest Coast
Peter H. Stephenson, Steven Acheson Focuses on the peoples of the northern area of the Northwest Coast including Alaska, Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. Chapter from Volume 2 of Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures edited by Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember. More information... (Rating: 2.50, Votes: 18, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Pacific Eskimo
Kaj Birket-Smith Includes two groups: Chugach Eskimos of Prince William Sound and the Kodiak Eskimos of Kodiak Island and adjacent islands. Digitized copy of typescript is part of the unpublished reference work on the Northern Arctic and subarctic regions. Project ran from 1947-1951. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Reclaiming Māori Education
Ranginui Walker Discusses how the educational system imposed by the British served to create social injustice. Chapter one from Decolonisation in Aotearoa: Education, Research and Practice edited by Jessica Hutchings and Jenny Lee-Morgan. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Remarks on the Indian Languages of North America
John Pickering, (1777-1846) Discussion on languages of North America as taken from the Encyclopedia Americana, Volume VI, published in 1831 and reprinted in 1836. More information... (Rating: 2.73, Votes: 11, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Scientific Dogma or Indigenous Geographic Knowledge: Was America a Land Without History Prior to Scientific Contact?
Joseph A.P. Wilson Discusses the linguistic evidence of a link between the Athabascan and the Sino-Tibetan people. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Section 10: Aboriginal Youth
[Services for Youth, Government of Canada] Most statistics from the 2001 Census. Chapter from Canadian Youth: Who are They and What Do They Want?. More information... (Rating: 3.04, Votes: 23, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Social Capital of Indigenous and Autochthonous Ethnicities
Birger Winsa Looks at the relationship between language policies, social capital and cultural and economic development in a multilingual region. Chapter 21 from International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship edited by Léo-Paul Dana and Robert B. Anderson. Entire e-book on one pdf. To access chapter, scroll to page 257 or select chapter 21 on side bar. More information... (Rating: 2.50, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Takelma Language of South-Western Oregon
Edward Sapir Looks at a language study from material gathered from Mrs. Frances Johnson, the last fluent speaker of the Takelma language. Chapter from Handbook of American Indian Languages. Part 2 edited by Franz Boas. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites |
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