American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, 1989, pp. 1-52
Description
Asserts that traditional Native American peoples and mainstream Anglo Americans embody different world views, creating problems for Native Americans who practice traditional religions.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, Winter, 1994, pp. 61-70
Description
Discusses the role of reoccurring themes and metaphors in the traditional stories of the Yup’ik people by comparing two different narratives “The Boy Who Went to Live with the Seals” and “The Girl Who Returned from the Dead.”
Journal of Multicultural Counseling & Development, vol. 22, no. 3, July 1994, pp. 153-164
Description
Looks at the clown characters of Kachinas, the Heyokas, and the Society of the False Faces and implications for use with nonverbal communication and learning styles.
A Comment on John Rowzée Peyton and the Mound Builders: The Elevation of a 19th Century Fraud to a 20th Century Myth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeffrey K. Yelton
American Antiquity, vol. 54, no. 1, January 1989, pp. 161-165
Description
Discusses how the mound builder myth may have been created from stories of John Rowzée' Peyton's in 1774, and writings of John Lewis Peyton, his grandson.
Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 69, no. 2, Negotiating the culture of Indigenous Schools, Winter, 1994, pp. 172-185
Description
Reviews articles in the special issue, Negotiating the Culture of Indigenous Schools, discusses barriers to careers in teaching, expanding knowledge base of Indigenous education and the relationship between school change, culture, power and control.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 2, Spring, 1994, pp. 215-228
Description
Article examines the interaction between Moravian missionaries and Lenape people; describes similarities and differences in spiritual beliefs and practices.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 4, Series 2. Critical Approaches, Winter, 1994, pp. 107-113
Description
Looks at the power of spirituality and the way that it seems to transcend the limits that conventional worldviews would place upon it.
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, 1994, pp. 67-93
Description
Focuses on the Kumivit, or Gabrielino, Indians and documents the resistance and responses of women to the new colonial order. The time period covered for this topic includes Toypurina’s revolt and Bartolomea’s bitter recollections of the destruction of her culture.
Looks at the religious considerations underlying construction of the Great North Road and other Chaco roads uniting the Chaco world and its works with its spiritual landscape.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 1-17
Description
Explains how Louise Erdrich uses "survival humor" to compare a white world that is spirituality bankrupt, with no meaningful tradition and ceremony, to that of the Ojibway culture that tends to have coherent meaning.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Autumn, 1994, pp. 98-99
Description
Excerpt from a public lecture by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn commenting on the use of myths in the Native American story.
See also : Indian Newspapers, or "Say, Ain't You Some Kind of Indians?"
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3, Summer, 1994, pp. 321-348
Description
Author explores the role that powwows play in intertribal social culture, discusses the ritual of such events, and the elements of shared musical and dance traditions among Southern Plains Peoples. Focuses on the Kiowa and their engagement in the powwow events since the 1870s.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 1, Winter, 1989, pp. 30-57
Description
Considers the influence of both federal administration and personal vision on the translated responses of tribal people who testified before the committee that investigated fraudulent land allotment at the White Earth Reservation at the turn of the century.
Arctic, vol. 42, no. 2, Current Perspectives on Western Boreal Forest Life: Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Research in Late , June 1989, pp. 97-108
Description
Looks at the effects of climate change on the moose and caribou populations, ethnoarchaeological study of moose hunting and butchering in Alaska and Yukon, and the importance of caribou to the Athapaskan lifestyle.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4, The California Indians, Autumn, 1989, pp. 529-534
Description
The author describes his own experience of finding spiritual balance through a visit to the Tolowa's Yontockey village. The author examines how he found this spiritual balance, how he came to this realization and its implications.