Preserving the Past, Inspiring the Future Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
[George MacDonald]
Description
Looks at architecture of the houses and carving styles on totem poles in the villages of Howkan, Hydaburg, Sukkwan and Kygani.
Part 2: Duration: 31:06.
Access to Part 1.
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.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 1, 1999, pp. 87-94
Description
Examines the 1972 publication by John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes on Lakota worldviews and why the book is on the periphery of scholarly discussion and marginalized.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, 1999, pp. 149-207
Description
Book reviews of:
American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk edited by Troy Johnson, Joane Nagel, and Duane Champagne.
As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity edited by William S. Penn.
Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World edited by Timothy R. Pauketat and Thomas E.
Documentary explains the spiritual significance of the pipe, sweat lodge, four gates, tree of life and the other aspects of the dance.
Duration: 69:22.
Lakota family violence expert and one of the founders of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, sings as she and the audience face the four directions at the Northern Michigan University's Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED) Conference on September 23, 2008.
World Archaeology, vol. 31, no. 2, October 1, 1999, pp. 272-287
Description
Cultural biography of a sacred mask of Alk'unta'm, discussing how the meaning and perception of it changed during its journey from its origin to a museum.