Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 1997, pp. 370-372
Description
Book review on: The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography: Six Hundred Life Stories of Important People from Powhatan to Wilma Mankiller by Bruce E. Johansen and Donald A. Grinde Jr..
Canadian Journal of Native Studies , vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 199-201
Description
Book review of: William Bartram on the Southeast Indians by Gregory A. Waselkow and Kathryn E. Holland Braund (Editors). Historical reprint with extensive notes and analysis of Bartram's 18th century perspectives.
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska, 2010.
Based on viewpoints of Napoleon Bonaparte Johnson, Helen Peterson, Oliver La Farge, and Hugh Butler.
American Quarterly , vol. 62, no. 2, June 2010, pp. 387-394
Description
Book reviews of: The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations edited by Amy Lonetree and Amanda J. Cobb.
Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indianedited by Lowery Stokes Sims, Truman T. Lowe and Paul Chaat Smith.
George De Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings edited by Nancy K. Anderson.
Prose Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, April 1997, pp. 58-76
Description
Discusses how Zitkala-Sa used her literacy and command of the English language as a weapon to fight preconceptions and racist attitudes in the wider society.
To Honor & Comfort Native Quilting Traditions (An Educational Curriculum)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Shawn Termin
Description
Guide aimed at middle year students is divided into four sections: Strengthening Community, Design Tells a Story, Expressions of Honor, and Origins of Native Quilting. Discusses eight individual quilters (Aboriginal and Hawaiian): Mary Bighouse (Osage), Sheree "Peachy" Bonaparte (Mohawk), Alice Olsen Williams (Anishinabe), Nancy Crone Naranjo (Eastern Cherokee), Bernyce Courtney (Wasco-Tlingit), Harriet Soong (Native Hawaiian), Ollie Napesni (Rosebud Lakota), and Lula Red Cloud (Ogala Lakota).
Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture and Community
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Peterson Zah
Description
Simon Ortiz introduces Dr. Peterson Zah who speaks on the history of Native American education, Navajo education and student recruitment. Fifth installment of lecture series.
Duration: 1:12:14
Geraldine Forbes Isais, Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, speaks about Lou Weller's life as an architect and supporter of the school.
Duration: 59:28.
Communique, Special Section: Indigenous Peoples: Promoting Psychological Healing and Well-Being, August 2010, pp. xxiii-xxvii
Description
Presents the People Awakening Project as a good example of a strength-based and culturally-appropriate approach.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page xxiii.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1997, pp. [41]-56
Description
Discusses the autobiography of John Joseph Mathews in terms of the discrepancy between the actual man and his depiction of himself.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 4, Winter, 2010, pp. 88-93
Description
Book reviews of Lost Creeks by Alexander Posey, edited by Matthew Sivils and Song of the Oktahutche edited by Matthew Sivils
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to p. 88.
Website makes accessible 570 objects, 2600 written documents, 500 black and white photographs and 8 sound recordings from the Shotridge collection featuring southeastern Alaskan Native history and culture.
American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Danny Lopez
Description
Author shares cultural knowledge that he learned from O'odham elders.
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, Maxine Sam, Ofelia Zepeda.
Pimatisiwin, vol. 8, no. 1, Summer, 2010, pp. 1-18
Description
Looks at the Caregiver Ratio Index (CRI), the number of potential caregivers divided by the number of potential frail elders, and its usefulness as a demographic tool.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 149-157
Description
Reviews three books, each providing a life history of an Indigenous male: Blackfoot warrior Red Crow, Comanche Chief Quanah Parker, and Nuumuu farm labourer Corbett Mack.