Teachers' guide developed in conjunction with exhibition mounted to dispel the misrepresentations of cultural beliefs created by Stephanie Myer's Twilight books.
Attempts to decolonize Indigenous citizenship to more relevant and timely conceptions.
Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (B.A.)--Stanford University, 2010.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 101-111
Description
Author discusses his experience in working with the Hopi tribe, and the development of culturally sensitive dispute-resolution services and legal systems.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1999, pp. [66]-78
Description
Argues that King's works, Medicine River and Green Grass, Running Water represent a process of challenging views held by the dominant culture and constructing a new identity which is not based on the premise of superiority/inferiority as in previous cross-cultural relationships.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 50, no. 1, 2011, pp. 49-59
Description
"This article describes the influences of William Demmert's formative years growing up in Alaska and his years as an educator of Native American students upon his career in Native education policy".
Lesson Plan: Blackfoot Winter Counts and their Stories
[Kaahsinnooniksi Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ramona L. Big Head
Description
Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta.
Designed for Grade 2 language arts, but can be adapted to other levels.
Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Lesson Plan: Creative Writing and Drama
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ramona L. Big Head
Description
Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta.
Designed for high school students.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, Special Issue on Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans, 1999, pp. 119-142
Description
Investigates an order, from the Office of Indian Affairs (OIA), that requested that all OIA physicians learn to perform the approved operations for the cure of trachoma, a disease of the eye(s), and how this policy may have caused even more suffering for patients.
American Literature, vol. 71, no. 1, March 1999, pp. 93-116
Description
Discusses the debate about what constitutes American Indian identity by contrasting U.S. government's standard of blood quantum with N. Scott Momaday's trope of "memory in the blood" as a sign of racial authenticity.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, Special Issue on Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans, 1999, pp. 47-61
Description
Examination of the religious and cultural responses, of two California Native American groups, to new diseases, which were of Spanish origin, and to colonization.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, Technologies Créatives / Creative Technologies, 2010, pp. 39-59
Description
Examines the connection between body and technology and wellness. Also seeks understanding of why local residents consider traditional activities a solution to social problems such as substance abuse.
Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place
Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border Crossing, and Loose Canons
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David Payne
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1999, pp. 84-89
Description
Book reviews of:
Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place by Louis Owens.
Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border Crossing, and Loose Canons by Paula Gunn Allen.
To Access Reviews, scroll to Page 84-89
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 2, Digital Technologies and Native Literature, Summer, 2011, pp. [91]-96
Description
Book reviews of First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin.
Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin.
Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 91.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 3, Fall, 2011, pp. [128]-132
Description
Book review of Reckonings: Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women edited by Hertha D. Sweet Wong, Lauren Stuart Muller, and Jana Sequoya Magdaleno.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 128.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 4, Winter, 2010, pp. [81]-85
Description
Book review of: Do You See What I Mean? Plains Indian Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action by Brenda Farnell.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 81.
Discusses a unique governance system and challenges facing tribal governments and communities.
Duration: 41:32. Includes textual transcript.
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