Theses
Author/Creator
Soma de Bourbon
Description
American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2013.
Indigenous History: A Bibliography
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Shekon Neechie
Description
Lists works written by Indigenous authors published between 2000 and 2018. Focuses on substantial books, articles and book chapters on original primary historical research, research methodology and historiography.
Indigenous Knowledge, Land, History and Health: The Construction of Diabetes on the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation
Theses
Author/Creator
Tennille Larzelere Marley
Description
Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 2013.
Indigenous Peoples' Extended Family Relationships: A Source for Classroom Structure
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Douglas James Smith
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 32, no. 2, 1997, pp. 125-138
Description
Contends that the children in family-based bicultural classes had fewer late, absent and dropout behaviours when compared to students in mainstream classes.
Indigenous Relationality and Kinship and the Professionalization of a Health Workforce
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Erika Campbell
Alyssa Austin
Maddison Bax-Campbell
Esmé Ariss
Sophia Auton ... [et al.]
Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 1, no. 1, Heartwork, October 12, 2020, pp. 8-13
Description
Authors advocate for the prioritization of Indigenous systems of kinship and relationality over the professionalization of healthcare providers in healthcare practices as a means of decolonizing biomedical healthcare frameworks and systems.
Indigenous Suicide and Colonization: The Legacy of Violence and the Necessity of Self-Determination
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Keri Lawson-Te Aho
James H. Liu
International Journal of Conflict and Violence, vol. 4, no. 1, Collective Memories of Colonial Violence, 2010, pp. 124-133
Description
Risk factors include loss of culture, acculturative stress and unstable family situations or drug use.
Indigenous Two-Spirit Youth Sharing Personal Stories
Alternate Title
Two-Spirit Tuesdays! Learning Community, Part 3
We Are All One Family: Let's Not Make This "Just a Dream"
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Harlan Pruden
Layha Spoonhunter
Otta Moody
Dominque Briggs
Shea Norris
Description
Webinar panelists discuss their experiences with coming out, interactions with community and family, dealing with challenges, biggest accomplishments, resources that have assisted them, and things that support their mental health.
Duration: 1:28:33.
The Influence of Acculturation on Attitudes of Filial Responsibility among Navajo Youth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clifton E. Barber
Alicia S. Cook
Alan Ackerman
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 4, Autumn, 1985, pp. 421-432
Description
Addresses the effects of the post 1930's modernization of the Navajo nation on the Navajo youth and elderly.
The Influence of Significant Relationships on Sobriety Decisions and Sobriety Processes for Tlingit and Haida People
Theses
Author/Creator
Lisa R. Thomas
Description
Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2004.
Influences on Native American High School Students' Financial Knowledge and Behavior
Theses
Author/Creator
Lorna Saboe-Wounded Head
Description
Family and Consumer Sciences Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Iowa State University, 2010.
Innovative Strategies of Indigenous Resistance Among the Wounaan People of Columbia
Alternate Title
Notes From the Field: Innovative Strategies of Indigenous Resistance Among the Wounaan People of Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Cappelli
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 89-95
Description
Discusses how 63 families worked diligently to find a peaceful way to recover their own indigenous land.
Interactions Between Wage Employment and Subsistence Lifestyle: Oil Development on the North Slope, Alaska
Theses
Author/Creator
Uma Ganapathy
Description
Economics-Marine Resources Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Rhode Island, 1995.
Intergenerational Differences in Ethnic Identification in a Northern Athapaskan Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Norman Alexander Easton
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, [Aboriginal Peoples: Special Issue], Spring/Summer, 2001, pp. 105-19
Description
Compares ethnicity in those born after systematic state intervention (1960) and those born before.
The Intergenerational Effects of Relocation Policies on Indigenous Families
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melissa L. Walls
Les B. Whitbeck
Journal of Family Issues, vol. 33, no. 9, 2012, pp. 1272-1293
Description
Research reveals government relocations programs negatively affects not only well-being of grandparent-generation but ripples out to affect subsequent generations.
Intertexual Twins and Their Relationships: Linda Hogan's Mean Spirit and Solar Storms
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Catherine Rainwater
Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 45, no. 1, Native American Literature, Spring, 1999, pp. 93-113
Description
Discusses the significance attached to twins and their depiction in these two novels by Hogan.
Interview: Sandy Osawa
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lawrence Abbott and Sandy Osawa
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 104-115
Description
Abbott interviews film producer and director Sandra Sunrising Osawa about her work and how it relates to her family's history, her identity and her sense of place, and the larger cultural survivance and resurgence movements.
Intimacy and Empire: Indian-African Interaction in Spanish Colonial New Mexico, 1500-1800
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dedra S. McDonald
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 134-156
Description
Author explores the relationships, communities, and peoples that grew out of the interactions between Black or African American communities and Indigenous communities in the southern United States; highlights cultural hybridity and colonial resistance.
Iñupiaq Values Curriculum: Avoidance of Conflict-Paaqæaktautaiññiq
Alternate Title
Iñupiaq Values Curriculum
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
North Slope Borough School District
Description
An Investigation of How Culture Shapes Curriculum in Early Care and Education Programs on a Native American Indian Reservation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer L. Gilliard
Rita A. Moore
Early Childhood Education Journal, vol. 34, no. 4, February 2007, pp. 251-258
Description
Looks at early care and eduction programs on the Flathead Indian Reservation.
Is a Structured, Manualized, Evidence-Based Treatment Protocol Culturally Competent and Equivalently Effective Among American Indian Parents in Child Welfare?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark Chaffin
David Bard
Dolores Subia Bigfoot
Erin J. Maher
Child Maltreatment, vol. 17, no. 3, 2012, pp. 242-252
Description
"This study tests recidivism reduction equivalency and acceptability among American Indian parents."
"It Runs in the Family": Intergenerational Transmission of Historical Trauma Among Urban American Indians and Alaska Natives in Culturally Specific Sobriety Maintenance Programs
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laurelle L. Myhra
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 18, no. 2, 2011, pp. 17-40
Description
Comments on empowering families and communities to draw on their cultural strengths to stop the pattern of substance and physical abuse.
“It’s a Social Thing”: Sociocultural Experiences with Nutrition and Exercise in Anchorage, Alaska
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Britteny M. Howell
Shoshana H. Bardach
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 55, no. 2, 2018, pp. 1-16
Description
Study interviews 15 seniors in Anchorage about the socio-cultural factors that influence their level of physical activity and their diet. Researchers identify six major themes: the media, friends and peers, family influences, social opportunities, ethnicity and subsistence practices, and weight loss/body weight concerns.
It's About Family: Native American Student Persistence in Higher Education
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Raphael M. Guillory
Mimi Wolverton
Journal of Higher Education, vol. 79, no. 1, January/ February 2008, pp. 58-87
Description
Examines factors and barriers to degree completion for Native American students at three state land-grant universities.
"It Was Two Different Times of the Day, But in the Same Place": Coast Salish High School Experience in the 1970s
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Marker
BC Studies, no. 144, Being Young: Journeys to Young Adulthood, Winter, 2004/2005, pp. 91-113
Description
Discusses federal Indian education policies and racism in small town high schools. Compares the state of Washington with the province of British Columbia.
Jean Baptiste Cadotte's First Family: Genealogical Summary
Alternate Title
Michigan's Habitant Heritage
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John P. DuLong
Description
Cadotte (sometimes spelt Cadot) was a prominent figure in the Lake Superior fur trade and married two Ojibwe women, Athanasie and Catherine. These articles focus on the children of Athanasie, also known as Equawaice, part of the Bullhead Catfish clan.
Compilation of three articles which appeared in Michigan's Habitant Heritage in 2020-2021.
Jean Baptiste Cadotte's Second Family: Genealogical Summary
Alternate Title
Michigan's Habitant Heritage
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John P. DuLong
Description
Cadotte (sometimes spelt Cadot) was a prominent figure in the Lake Superior fur trade and married two Ojibwe women, Athanasie and Catherine. These articles focus on the children of Catherine, whom he married in the custom of the country.
Compilation of four articles which appeared in Michigan's Habitant Heritage in 2015-2016.
Related: Jean Baptiste Cadotte's First Family.
A Journey of Healing and Awakening
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Waziyatawin Angela Wilson
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 258-282
Description
Author provides a personal account of the Commemorative Walk that was held in memory of the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota peoples that were removed from their traditional territories and marched to a Fort Snelling concentration camp.
Journeying North: Reflections on Inuit Stories as Law
Alternate Title
Accessing Justice and Reconciliation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lori Groft
Rebecca Johnson
Description
Research aims to support the creation of Indigenous law materials for communities, academic institutions, and practitioners with a focus on Inuit perspectives.
The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me
Alternate Title
The Writer's Presence: A Pool of Readings
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Sherman Alexie
Description
Autobiographical short story. Author writes about his childhood, learning to read, his intelligence, lack of acceptance by others, refusal to fail, and becoming a teacher for other young Native American kids. From The Writer's Presence: A Pool of Readings edited by Donald McQuade, Robert Atwan.
Julia Sanchez's Story: An Indigenous Woman between Nations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Renya Ramirez
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, 2002, pp. 65-83
Description
Chronicles the life story of a woman who is of Chicana and Native American descent.
Ka Oopikihtamashook’: Becoming Family
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Krystl Raven
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 4, Special Issue: Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, December 2018, pp. 319-325
Description
Describes the Métis customs of adoption (Ka Oopikihtamashook) which are rooted in the wahkootowin (Indigenous frameworks of kinship). Examines the adoptions of several historical figures in the Métis community to further contextualize these practices of creating and maintaining familial and community relationships.
Keeping Up With the Begays: Observations of Competitive Consumption in Contemporary Navajo Society
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sam Pack
Native Studies Review, vol. 21, no. 1, 2012, pp. 83-101
Description
Author uses experiences with the Benally clan as an example to show changes in the Navajo culture from a community focus to an individual focus.
Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters
E-Books
Author/Creator
Christi Belcourt
Kim Anderson
Debra Leo
Beatrice Starr
Stella August
Beverly Jacobs
Sandra Lamouche
Ann-Marie Livingston
Sarah Hunt
Robyn Bourgeois
Michelle Good
Kelsey T. Leonard
Maya Ode'amik chacaby
Helen Knott
Alex Wilson
Robert Alexander Innes
Waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Darlene R. Okemaysim-Sicotte ...
Rita Bouvier
Pahan Pte San Win
Laura Harjo
Jenell Navarro
Kimberly Robertson
Maria Campbell
Description
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"Kill the Indian, Save the Man": A Young Oneida Man's Perspective on Sexuality
Articles » General
Author/Creator
D. J. Danforth
Our Schools, Our Selves, vol. 18, no. 2, Sex Ed and Youth: Colonization, Sexuality and Communities of Colour, Winter, 2009, pp. 17-19
Description
Comments on domestic violence and the need for young men to get back to the roots of their culture and treat women with love and respect.
Killing the Policy to Save the Child: Comparing the Historical Removal of Indigenous Children in Australia to the United States and How the Countries Can Learn From Each Other
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Drew Pollom
American Indian Law Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, May 15, 2016, pp. 252-296
Description
Contends that legislative action is the next step for both Australia and the United States. Legislation will help both countries to recognize and acknowledge historical atrocities through compensation and ensuring future transgressions do not occur.
Kinship and Identity: Mixed Bloods in Urban Indian Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Applegate Krouse
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, 1999, pp. 73-89
Description
Examines the effectiveness and limitations of kinship-based identity for individuals lacking cultural knowledge.
Kinship Care: A Community Alternative to Foster Care
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jeannine Carriere-Laboucane
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, Inaugural Edition, May 1997, pp. 43-53
Description
Looks at a kinship care model that preserve the integrity and autonomy for First Nations, recognizing the importance of prior relationships between the child, caregiver and community, and is rooted in traditional connectedness.
Kinshipwrecking: John Smith’s Adoption and the Pocahontas Myth in Settler Ontologies
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rachel Bryant
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 4, Special Issue: Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, December 2018, pp. 300-308
Description
Reconsiders the colonial narrative surrounding Pocahontas and Wahunsenaca (Powhatan) created by John Smith in Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England and the Summer Isles (1624) as a “mode of storytelling that destroys and moves to supplant traditional Indigenous kinship structures and obligations.” Argues that Smith depicts colonization as a war between British patriarchal structures and Indigenous systems of kinship.
Koniag Ceremonialism: An Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Analysis of Sociopolitical Complexity and Ritual Among the Pacific Eskimo
Theses
Author/Creator
Christopher Donta
Description
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Bryn Mawr College, 1993.
Kónitsąąíí gokíyaa Ndé: 'Big Water People's Homeland' a Shadow of Self-Determination in a Bifurcated Traditional Territory
Alternate Title
Strengthening Partnership Between States and Indigenous Peoples: Treaties, Agreements and Other Constructive Arrangements
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Margo Tamez
Description
Highlights Ndé concepts and perspectives of self-determination and decision-making with regard to children, mothers, fathers, families and communities.
Presented at the 3rd United Nations Seminar on Treaties, Agreements and Other Constructive Arrangements entitled: "Strengthening Partnership Between Indigenous Peoples and States".
Ladies, Livestock, Land and Lucre: Women's Networks and Social Status on the Western Navajo Reservation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christine Conte
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 1/2, Spring-Summer, 1982, pp. 105-124
Description
An investigation into the role of Navajo women and their kinship relations towards economic development in rural America.
Laguna Prototypes of Manhood in Ceremony
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Edith Swan
MELUS, vol. 17, no. 1, Native American Fiction: Myth and Criticism , Spring, 1991/1992, pp. [39]-61
Description
Discusses manifestations of male relationships in the novel and compares them to practices at Laguna.
Landowning, Dispossession and the Significance of Land Among Dakota and Scandinavian Women at Spirit Lake, 1900-29
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karen V. Hansen
Grey Osterud
Gender & History, vol. 26, no. 1, April 2014, pp. 105-127
Description
Looks at how and in what ways gender was paramount in obtaining and losing land in the context of immigrants and American Native people.
Landscape as Narrative, Narrative as Landscape
Alternate Title
Landscape as Narrative: Traveling the Sacred Geography of the Anishinaabeg
Narrative as Landscape: A Home Beyond Boundaries in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Theresa S. Smith
Jill M. Fiore
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 4, Winter, 2010, pp. [58]-80
Description
Discusses the importance of environment, location and sense of place in Native American literature.
Two sub-articles: Landscape as Narrative: Traveling the Sacred Geography of the Anishinaabeg and Narrative as Landscape: A Home Beyond Boundaries in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 58.
Landscape Travelled by Coyote and Crane: The World of the Schitsu'umsh (Coeur d'Alene Indians)
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jay Hansford C. Vest
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 4, Fall, 2008, pp. 547-548
Description
Book review of: Landscape Travelled by Coyote and Crane: The World of the Schitsu'umsh (Coeur d'Alene Indians) by Rodney Frey in collaboration with the Schitsu'umsh.
League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee, or, Iroquois
E-Books
Author/Creator
Lewis H. Morgan
Herbert M. Lloyd
[Ely S. Parker]
Description
Ha-sa-no-an'-da, Ely S. Parker, a Seneca, co-researched this work, presented in three parts: Structure of the League; Spirit of the League; and Incident to the League.
"A new edition, with additional matter, edited and annotated".
Learning to be and Anthropologist and Remaining "Native": Selected Writings
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kathleen Buddle
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 25, no. 2, 2001, pp. 207-210
Description
Book review of:Learning to be an Anthropologist and Remaining "Native" by Beatrice Medicine with Sue-Ellen Jacobs, forewords by Ted Garner and Faye V. Harrison.
The Legacy of Iouskeha and Tawiscaron: The Western Wendat People to 1701
Theses
Author/Creator
Christophe Jules Maurice Boucher
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2001.
The Legacy of White Supremacy and the Challenge of White Antiracist Mothering
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rebecca Aanerud
Hypatia, vol. 22, no. 2, [Reproduction of Whiteness: Race and Regulation of the Gendered Body], 2007, pp. 20-38
Description
Article is written in the context of historic constructions of white mothering in the 20th century.
Legislating Women's Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the Nineteenth Century
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fay Yarbrough
Journal of Social History, vol. 38, no. 2, 2004, pp. 385-406
Description
Comments on laws passed by the legislative branch of the Cherokee government, particularly those regarding marital choices and interracial unions.