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Oyate Resource List
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Oyate
Description
Annotated bibliography of books suitable for teaching various grade levels. Current as of 2005.
The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Patrice Hollrah
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 128-131
Description
Book review of: The People Have Never Stopped Dancing by Jacqueline Shea Murphy.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 128.
Pipeline Dreams: People, Environment, and the Arctic Energy Frontier
Alternate Title
IWGIA Document ; 126
E-Books
Author/Creator
Mark Nuttall
Places of Power: Objects of Veneration in the Canadian Arctic
Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation
Description
Exhibit of photos taken by Norman Hallendy of Canadian Arctic landscapes, Inuit sacred sites and inuksuit. Site includes a short biography of the photographer, a brief introduction and text commentary.
The Power of Dreams
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Darlene Coward Wight
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 25-26
Description
Curator highlights works featured in the exhibition of Inuit Art.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 25.
Power, Policies, and Politics: Women's Involvement in Dene Games in the Northwest Territories
Theses
Author/Creator
Audrey Rhiannon Giles
Description
Physical Education and Recreation Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2005.
Powwow
E-Books
Author/Creator
Clyde Ellis
Luke Eric Lassiter
Gary H. Dunham
Preparing the Ground for Partnership: Exploring Quality Assurance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Care: A Literature Review and Background Paper
E-Books
Author/Creator
Kathryn Priest
Professing An Interest in First Nations History: Reflections on Teaching Native/Settler Relations in a Canadian University
Alternate Title
First Nations, First Thoughts Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jean L. Manore
Description
Relates the challenges faced to include issues of importance to the First Nations when researching and teaching history.
Puo'winue'l Prayers: Readings from North America's First Transtextual Script
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Louis Esme Cruz
Qwo-Li Driskill
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 16, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 243-252
Description
Examines some of the issues related to "coming home" to ourselves, our land, and our people from a multiracial, visual-textual, Two-Spirit perspective.
Raven Imagery in Northwest Coast Indian Art
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jessica Finch
Description
Discusses the importance of the Raven image in art to Native American Indian cultural groups of the Northwest Coast.
Reconciling Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Perspectives in Aboriginal Literacy Practice
Alternate Title
[First Nations, First Thoughts Conference]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Eileen M. Antone
Description
Paper examines Aboriginal perspectives and historical relations impacting literacy .
Redefined Rhetorics: Academic Discourse and Aboriginal Students
Alternate Title
First Nations, First Thoughts Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Linda-Ruth Dyck
Description
Discusses opportunities to redefine writings in ways that allow for Aboriginal students to engage their own oral discourse with the traditional print paradigm.
Rejecting, Revitalizing, and Reclaiming: First Nations Work to Set the Direction of Research and Policy Development
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Keely Ten Fingers
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 96, no. Supplement 1, Aboriginal Health Research and Policy: First Nations-University Collaboration in Manitoba, January-February 2005, pp. S60-S63
Description
Argues that First Nations peoples must develop their own quality-of-life indicators, research ethics and protocols.
"Religion Is Not Inuit": Expérience, identité et ontologie religieuses contemporaines des jeunes Inuit d'Iqaluit
Theses
Author/Creator
Odile Bergeron
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Laval University, 2005.
The Religion of Nature: Evangelical Perspectives on the Environment
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frédéric Laugrand
Jarich Oosten
Études/Inuit/Studies, vol. 34, no. 1, Les Inuit et le Changement Climatique / The Inuit and Climate Change, 2010, pp. 71-91
Description
Reports on recent developments regarding Canada Awakening Ministries (CAM), an Evangelical movement with the Inuit in Canada's Eastern Arctic.
Repatriation, Digital Technology, and Culture in a Northern Athapaskan Community
Theses
Author/Creator
Kate Hennessy
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2010
[Residential Schools Effects: How Are These Affecting Current Elders' Spiritual Leadership]
Theses
Author/Creator
Juan Jimenez
Description
[Conflict Analysis and Management Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2010].
Resiliency and Holistic Inhalant Abuse Treatment
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Colleen Anne Dell
Debra E. Dell
Carol Hopkins
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 2, no. 1, Population Health: Risk and Resistance, March 2005, pp. 4-13
Description
Describes the National Native Youth Solvent Addiction (NNYSA) program, an innovative response to abuse.
Resource Database
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Community Based Aboriginal Curriculum Initiatives
Description
Lists over 2300 resources covering a broad spectrum subject areas. Can be sorted by title or author.
Restorative Justice Circles as a Method For Addressing the Impacts of Crime on Victims, Communities, and Offenders
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ingrid Diane Johnson
Description
Recounts history of restorative justice, who uses them and how successful they are.
Honors Captstone Research Project--[University of Alaska, Fairbanks], 2010.
Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Diane Hirshberg
Jeanette Bushnell
Laura Adams Weaver
Sean O'Neill
Molly McGlennen
Daniele Bolelli
C. Richard King
Joshua Paddison
Terri M. Baker
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, 2005, pp. 97-147
Description
Book reviews of:
Alaska Native Political Leadership and Higher Education: One University, Two Universes by Michael L. Jennings.
Alaska’s Daughter: An Eskimo Memoir of the Early Twentieth Century by Elizabeth Bernhardt Pinson.
Choctaw Tales collected and annotated by Tom Mould.
De Religione: Telling the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Story in Huron to the Iroquois edited and translated by John L. Steckley.
Evil Corn by Adrian C. Louis.
Have You Thought of Leonard Peltier Lately? by Harvey Arden.
Indians in Unexpected Places by Philip J.
Ritual Architecture in Prehistoric Complex Hunter-Gatherer Communities: A Potential Example From Keatley Creek, on the Canadian Plateau
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jesse Morin
American Antiquity, vol. 75, no. 3, July 2010, pp. 599-626
Description
Promotes the study of housepit structures to begin to interpret the bases and origins of social inequality.
[Roland Cotton's Interview on the Unique History of Blackfoot Dance]
Alternate Title
Blackfoot Digital Libary
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Roland Cotton
Description
Interview with Roland Cotton about different kinds of dances and Blackfoot traditions.
Duration: 59:55.
The Role of the Elder within a Mainstream Addiction and Mental Health Hospital: Developing an Integrated Paradigm
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Peter Menzies
Ana Bodnar
Vern Harper
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 7, Promising Practices in Mental Health: Emerging Paradigms for Aboriginal Social Work Practices, November 2010, pp. 87-107
Description
Discusses the role of an Elder in counseling sessions with Aboriginal clinicians trained in Western healing intervention, providing insight into their problems both from an Aboriginal perspective as well as from a western clinical perspective.
Round Up
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Narcisse Blood
Description
Traces Pete Standing Alone's last round up of his horses and how his life has changed in the last twenty years. Accompanying material: An Integrated Educator's Guide.
Duration:18:02.
Sacred Ways of Life: Traditional Knowledge
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Chelsea Crowshoe
Description
Discussion on various aspects of traditional knowledge, including traditional knowledge and the law,
comparison of scientific and traditional approaches to knowledge, and tools for maintaining traditional knowledge.
Sayt K'ilim Goot (Of One Heart): Transforming Suffering
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia J. Vickers
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3/4, Special Issue: The National Museum of the American Indian, Summer - Autumn, 2005, pp. 691-706
Description
Author combines Buddhist teaching and the traditional teachings of the Indigenous peoples of the North West Coast to talk about healing from trauma and loss.
Sharing Aboriginal Stories: Dreamcatcher
Alternate Title
Circles of Intelligent Knowledge Program
sihcikêwin acoskîyonis-powamin kahtinikan
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Chelsey Caisse
Description
Very short pamphlet, written by a student, meant for use in the classroom as a tool to improve literacy. Text in English and Cree.
Sharing Aboriginal Stories: Eagle Feathers
Alternate Title
Circles of Intelligent Knowledge Program
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Roger Gardypie
Description
Very short pamphlet, written by a student, meant for use in the classroom as a tool to improve literacy. Text in English and Cree
Sharing Aboriginal Stories: Learning about the Sundance
Alternate Title
Circles of Intelligent Knowledge Program
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kimberly Loftus
Description
Very short pamphlet, written by a student; meant for use in the classroom as a tool to improve literacy. Text in English and Cree.
Sharing the Seven Sacred Teachings through Puppetry
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rebecca Penner
Description
Designed to increase students' knowledge of the teachings and by creating puppets, writing scripts, and performing plays teach younger students about them.
Shaunee Casavant - Backstory: Nuuchaanulth Ceremonial Curtains and the Work of Ki-Ke-In
Alternate Title
Global Encounters Initiative, University of British Columbia
Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame March 4-6, 2010 University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Media » Film and Video
Description
Chief Councilor of the Hupacasath Nation shares her story, place of being and knowledge about ceremonies, designs on Ceremonial Curtains and her own Ceremonial Curtain.
Duration: 1:03:13.
Short Film Study 110: Journey of the Healer
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
NWT Literacy Council
Description
Teacher's guide to accompany the short film dealing with traditional healing and spirituality. The film is written, produced and based on a comic book by Steven Keewatin Sanderson. Includes comprehension questions, writing activities, and research activities.
Short Film Study: 120-130: Journey of the Healer
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
NWT Literacy Council
Description
Teacher's guide to accompany the short film dealing with traditional healing and spirituality. The film is written, produced and based on a comic book by Steven Keewatin Sanderson. Includes comprehension questions, writing activities, and research activities.
Smudge
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Gail Maurice
Wanda Whitebird
Michaela Washburn
Bonita Lawrence
Description
Aboriginal women discuss their spiritual practices.
Duration: 12 min.
Social Determinants of Educational Outcomes in Indigenous Learners
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Michael J. Chandler
Education Canada, vol. 50, no. 2, Spring, 2010, pp. 46-50
Description
Over view on the link between ethnic identification and cultural continuity on the educational success of youth.
Spirit Beings, Mental Illness, and Murder: Fur Traders and the Windigo in Canada's Boreal Forest, 1774 to 1935
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shawn Smallman
Ethnohistory, vol. 57, no. 4, 2010, pp. [571]-596
Description
Looks at how Hudson's Bay Company traders viewed the Algonquian belief in the cannibal spirit, windigo.
Spirit Doctors
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Marie Burke
Bonnie Thompson
René Sioui Labelle
Doug Forbes
Mary Louie
Ed Louie
National Film Board of Canada
Description
Documentary about the work of Mary and Ed Louie, two traditional healers from British Columbia.
Duration: 40:04.
Spirit Doctors
Alternate Title
Docs for Schools
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Suzanne Methot
Description
Teacher's resource for documentary written and directed by Marie Burke about Mary and Ed Louie, two Sqilxw (Okanagan) traditional healers.
The Spirit Messenger and the Traditional Exemplar: Two Figures of the Elder Among Plains Cree Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrew R. Hatala
Michel Desjardins
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, 2010, pp. 49-81
Description
Interviews conducted on four Aboriginal elders living in Saskatchewan reveal two categories of Cree elders.
Spiritual Appropriation As Sexual Violence
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrea Smith
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 97-111
Description
Asserts that withholding knowledge is an act of resistance and argues that to fully understand Native American people is how a dominant society gains a sense of mastery and control.
Stolen Lands, Broken Promises: Researching the Indian Land Question in British Columbia
E-Books
Author/Creator
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC)
Description
Second edition.
Stone by Stone: Exploring Ancient Sites on the Canadian Plains
E-Books
Author/Creator
Liz Bryan
Streetwolf: Seven Principles of Self-Leadership
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Curtis Bell]
Description
Workbook meant to help youth make healthy life choices based on traditional teachings.
Student Activities: Choosing Life: Bobby's Story
Alternate Title
Ningwakwe's Healthy Life Series
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Christopher McGruer
Description
Activities designed for use with the novel Choosing Life: Bobby's Story by Gilles Pinette. The target audience is young adults.
Sweating in the Joint: Personal and Cultural Renewal and Healing Through Sweat Lodge Practice by Native Americans in Prison
Theses
Author/Creator
Emily R. Brault
Description
Religion Thesis (Ph.D.)--Vanderbilt University, 2005.
The Task Force on Museums and First Peoples, a Decade Later: A Case Study of the McCord Museum of Canadian History
Alternate Title
[First Nations, First Thoughts Conference]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Stephanie Bolton
Description
Examines three areas for reform: increased Aboriginal involvement, repatriation of artefacts and improved access.