American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Autumn, 1997, pp. 633-662
Description
Literary criticism article in which the author explores the different ways that knowledge is made, transferred, and protected in Indigenous literatures. Stresses the relational understandings of oral traditions and the resistance to colonial commodification by Indigenous writers.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 4, Autumn, 1990, pp. 355-366
Description
Article voices the concerns and commentary of Tlingit elders surrounding the effects of secular performance of sacred song and dances and weighs the value of creating cross-cultural understanding against the devaluation of ceremonial practices.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 9-30
Description
Looks at reasons for the population's poor health and difficulties encountered when a tribes try to control production, quality and distribution of food. Some of the issues include definition of "traditional food", access, environmental degradation, poaching and invasive species.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 31, no. 1, Indigenous Knowledges and the University, 2008, pp. 251-252
Description
Argues that with the increase in Aboriginal people with undergraduate degrees there is also increasing pressure, in the academic world, to have Indigenous knowledge both respected and validated.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 31, no. 1, Indigenous Knowledges and the University, 2008, pp. 9-10
Description
Authors discuss personal journeys that brought them through a cultural knowledge of their peoples to find teaching and research methodologies that would respect and affirm the ways of being in their Nations.
Report (Conference Board of Canada) ; November 2010
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 11-120]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bjorn Rutten
Description
Examines security challenges of Arctic including consequences of climate change, natural and man-made disasters, sovereignty-related issues, and sustainability and resiliency of communities.
Video (30 min) explores the First Nations prophecy of spiritual rebirth for all North Americans. Includes historical background and interviews with residential school survivors.
Docu-drama about a young man from the Lakota Sioux Nation in South Dakota who travels to Washington State to live with his uncle to learn about his relatives, the coastal Salish. In the process he also learns about the environment and the salmon.
Duration: 43:59
See resource guide Shadow of the Salmon: Respect the Salmon, Respect Yourself.
Guide accompanies docu-drama, Shadow of the Salmon. Provides links for resources, suggestions for classroom activities, stories to read aloud in class and information about history and resource management in Washington State.
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 1, March 2019, pp. 82-89
Description
Argues that Indigenous academics can implement new way of sharing and transferring knowledge and research; discusses an ethical approach to Indigenous research methodologies.
Highlights the importance of considering cultural, political, and epistemological context by looking at the data in an interdisciplinary study of the role of fire in affecting the resilience of Alaska Native communities and the relationship between wildfire and human activity in the boreal forest of Alaska and the Yukon Territory.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, Populations et migrations / Populations and Migrations, 2002, pp. 157-173
Description
Discussion, based on interviews with 50 Inupiat from northern Alaska, of how incidence of disorientation has increased in recent decades despite modern navigating tools.
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Art, Aesthetics and Decolonial Struggle, 2014, pp. 101-118
Description
Examines a form of creative resistance and discusses how a music video is used to develop a Native feminist aesthetic that is tied to land sovereignty, representation and community power.
American Antiquity, vol. 4, no. 1, July 1938, pp. 53-58
Description
Long Island excavations in the 1930's indicate that most wampum was produced less than 350 years ago. Methods and materials for making white and black wampum are discussed.
[Weber Studies], vol. 12, no. 3, Native American Special Issue, Fall, 1995, p. [?]
Description
Questions whether critical theory should attempt to enable the 'not we' to access the 'so much' that lies beyond the song [Native American literature]".
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 19, no. 2, Autumn, 2004, pp. 79-104
Description
Analyzes of the vision quest of Native Americans by using resources of the Lakota. The most famous resource is the book Black Elk Speaks, which is deemed controversial because of the sacred knowledge it imparts to the reader.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 4, Autumn, 1990, pp. 379-386
Description
Author discusses some of the difficulties raised by teaching pieces of Indigenous literature that contain information considered to be sacred, ceremonial, or confidential.
Illustrates that women's writings must not only deal with the marginalization of being Aboriginal, but with the further marginalization of being female.