Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Ernest Tootoosis
Mani Boyd
Johnson Wanepee
Barney Dog
Jim Dumont
Ron Wakegijig
Dan Pine
Indian History Film Project
Description
A conference discussing Indian and Christian creation myths, reflections on education and religion, comparison of Indian and non-Indian values, and the loss of traditional values and beliefs and the movement to recover them.
1981 Elders' Conference 2/4
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Ernest Tootoosis
Mani Boyd
Johnson Wanepee
Barney Dog
Jim Dumont
Ron Wakegijig
Dan Pine
Indian History Film Project
Description
Elders discuss: loss of values; loss of language; the role of the old ceremonies; the responsibility of the elders to teach the young people.
1981 Elders' Conference 3/4
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Ernest Tootoosis
Mani Boyd
Johnson Wanepee
Barney Dog
Jim Dumont
Ron Wakegijig
Dan Pine
Indian History Film Project
Description
Elders discuss the loss of traditional religion and values; the relationship between traditional religions and Christianreligions; some stories of the creation and the flood.
1981 Elders' Conference 4/4
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Ernest Tootoosis
Mani Boyd
Johnson Wanepee
Barney Dog
Jim Dumont
Ron Wakegijig
Dan Pine
Indian History Film Project
Description
A conference about prophecies and the recovery of traditional values, the role of Elders in the community, and the philosophy and practice of traditional medicine.
2019 Climate Change Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Carole Brazeau
Naomi George
Rebekah Elkerton
Description
Based on interviews with Indigenous women and Elders about relationships to the environment, observed changes, traditional practices on the land, and the health of their families and communities.
Aboriginal Resource "Must Have" List 2019/2020
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nadine McSpadden
Heidi Wood
Description
Extensive list of titles with the applicable grade levels and subjects.
Afghan Stories From the North-East of South Australia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Luise A. Hercus
Aboriginal History, vol. 5, no. 1, Special Issue: Aboriginal-Asian Contact, 1981, pp. 39-70
Description
Presents stories and translations on the Aborigines reaction to the presence of Afghans.
Afghans and Aborigines: Diyari Texts
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ben Murray
Peter Austin
Aboriginal History, vol. 5, no. 1, Special Issue: Aboriginal-Asian Contact, 1981, pp. 71-80
Description
Presents two stories about encounters with Afghans that were transcribed and analyzed from their original Diyari.
American Indian English in History and Literature: The Evolution of a Pidgin From Reality to Stereotype
Theses
Author/Creator
Beverly Olson Flanigan
Description
[Applied Linguistics and English ]Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1981.
The American Indian in the American Film
Theses
Author/Creator
Michael J. Brathwaite
Description
American Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Canterbury, 1981.
American Indian Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carol Hunter
MELUS, vol. 8, no. 2, Summer, 1981, pp. 82-85
Description
Overview of works produced during the 1980s, as well predictions for the future.
Among the Chiglit Eskimos
Alternate Title
Les Grands Esquimaux
Occasional Publication (Boreal Institute for Northern Studies) ; no. 10
E-Books
Author/Creator
Émile Petitot
Occasional Publication (Boreal Institute for Northern Studies)
Angus Bear Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Angus Bear
Janet R. Fietz
Indian History Film Project
Description
Mr. Bear has worked for Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting company for almost 30 years and he talks about the many changes he has witnessed as well as some of his experiences.
Animkee
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Schlonies
M'Wikwedong Youth Group
Carlos E. Sanchez-Pimienta
Jeffrey Masuda
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 13, no. 2, Special Audiovisual Edition, 2019, p. [10]
Description
Links to a short video in which the narrator speaks about his experience with mainstream education and mental health institutions, and his more positive experience with culturally-based healing practices.
Animkee
Duration: 2:35
Annie Richard Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Annie Richard
Janet R. Fietz
Indian History Film Project
Description
Annie Richard talks about traditional lifestyle and shares her memories of childhood in the bush.
Applying Deloria’s Challenge: Indigenous and Mass Society’s Conceptions of Indian Self-determination
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard M. Wheelock
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 30, no. 2, Fall, 2019, pp. 26-45
Description
Author draws on Vine Deloria Jr.’s work on the role that a difference in worldviews plays in communication to examine the distance between what Indigenous peoples mean by self-determination and what policy makers mean by it.
Aquagenesis: Drowning by Flooding is So Good for You
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph Mercredi
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1981, pp. 331-336
Description
Satirical pseudo-report to the Board of Directors of a hydroelectric project, proposing a solution to the problem of Indigenous people displaced by flooding.
As I Remember It: Teachings (ɂɘms taɂaw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder
E-Books
Author/Creator
Elsie Paul
At the Intersections of Empire: Ceremony, Transnationalism, and American Indian–Filipino Exchange
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alyssa A. Hunziker
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 116-134
Description
Author uses a transnational framework for engaging with Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel; argues that this approach allows the reader to see similarities between Indigenous people in North America and other colonized nations, and to compare settler-colonial and colonial contexts.
Bat Steals the Moon
Alternate Title
We Share the Same Moon
Documents & Presentations
Description
Retelling of traditional story.
Source: Man in the Moon: Sky Tales from Many Lands collected by Alta Jablow and Carl Withers.
Battle of the Northern Lights
Alternate Title
We Share the Same Moon
Documents & Presentations
Description
Traditional Sami story.
Source: The Storytelling Star by James Riordan.
"Beatty, Reginald Bird-Diary & Correspondence"
Archival » Archival Items
Description
This file contains excerpts from Reginald Beatty's diary, correspondence about his encounters with Cree people, and letters home to his parents detailing his experience in the 1885 Riel Rebellion. Mr. Beatty was a farmer and fur trader in what is now known as the Melfort area of Saskatchewan.
Being an Indigenous CRC in the Era of the TRC #Notallitscrackeduptobe
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chelsea Gabel
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, January 31, 2019, pp. 88-98
Description
Author discusses their experience as a Canadian Research Chair (CRC) in Indigenous Well-Being, Community-Engagement, and Innovation at McMaster University. Considers the role that Indigenous scholars are currently playing in decolonization and Indigenization efforts in the Canadian academy and the personal cost to those scholars.
Being Indigenous: Perspectives on Activism, Culture, Language and Identity
E-Books
Author/Creator
Neyooxet Greymorning
Anna Afanasyeva ...
Piita Irniq
Gunvor Guttorm
Arleen Adams
Moana Jackson
Henrietta Mann
James (Sa’ke’j) Youngblood Henderson
Kauanoe Kamanā
Steven Newcomb
Sharon Venne
Jirota Kitahara
Robert Hall
Black Hawk in Translation: Indigenous Critique and Liberal Guilt in the 1847 Dutch Edition of Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frank Kelderman
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 58-83
Description
Author discusses the 1846 translation and annotation of Black Hawk’s autobiography by the Dutch pastor Rinse Posthumus; offers critical commentary on Posthumus’ station and politics as an influencing factor in his additions to and translation of the text.
Book Guide for How Raven Got His Crooked Nose: An Alaskan Dena'ina Fable Retold by Barbara J. Atwater and Ethan J. Atwater, Illustrated by Mindy Dwyer
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
West Margin Press
Description
Recommended for Grade 3 students.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jean Friesen
K. Wilson
Scott Clark
Ken Hanly
George F. G. Stanley
et al.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1981, pp. 217-257
Description
Book reviews of 23 books:
The Forces Which Shaped Them: A History of the Education of Minority Group Children in British Columbia by Mary Ashworth.
Forty Years a Chief by George Barker.
A History of Native Claims Processes in Canada, 1867-1979 by Richard C. Daniel.
The Metaphysics of Modern Existence by Vine Deloria
The Covenant Chain: Indian Ceremonial and Indian Trade Silver by N.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Various authors
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1981, pp. 363-375
Description
Book reviews of 6 books:
Urban Indians: The Strangers in Canada's Cities by Larry Krotz.
Report of the Indian Child Welfare Sub-Committee Manitoba.
Inuit Songs from Eskimo Point [edited] by Ramon Pellinski, Luk Suluk and Lucy Amarook.
Song of Sedna by Robert D. San Souci.
Gathering What the Great Nature Provided: Food Traditions of the Gitksan by the People of 'Ksan.
Pitseolak, A Canadian Tragedy by David F. Raine.
The Buffalo, the Chickadee, and the Eagle: A Multispecies Textual History of Plenty Coups’s Multivocal Autobiography
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jasmine Spencer
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2, Spring, 2019, pp. 168-203
Description
Critical essay in which the author argues that Coups’s autobiography, originally published in 1930 as American: The Life Story of a Great Indian, Plenty- coups, Chief of the Crows is best read as multivocal text that presents both human and more-than-human voices and perspectives.
Campaigning in the North West Territories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Mortimer Austin
Description
A write up on the experiences of James Austin, a member of the Ontarian Midland Battalion involved in the suppression of the 1885 uprising. Austin relates the story of his trek west from Ontario, but missed all major actions. Austin later became a Presbyterian minister.
Canadian Indigenous Books for Schools: Selected and Evaluated by Teacher-Librarians and Educators: 2019/20
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia
Description
Lists recently released works which have been evaluated for representing an "authentic voice" and annotations are written by Indigenous educators. Organized by elementary (K-7), cross-grade (suitable for all levels) and secondary (8-12) levels, then alphabetically by title.
Canadian Indigenous Books for Schools: Selected & Evaluated by Teacher-Librarians and Educators, 2018/19
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia
Description
Annotated list divided into elementary (K-7), cross-grade (suitable for all levels) and secondary (8-12) then alphabetically by title. Subject and curriculum areas included.
Canadian Indigenous Children's Books through the Lense of Truth and Reconciliation
Alternate Title
Canadian Indigenous Children's Books through the Lens of Truth and Reconciliation
Polar Libraries Colloquy 2018: Developing Polar Networks: Ideas & Possibilities for the Future
Polar Libraries Colloquy 2018 Proceedings
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Sarah Campbell
Maria Tan
Andrea Quatattini
Description
Primary source for titles was Amazon Best Sellers in Children’s Native Canadian Story Books, as well as publishers' web pages, and library and authors' lists. Objective was to identify fiction books for ages 0-18 written by Indigenous authors that contained reconciliation-related themes. More than 150 books met the inclusion criteria.
Child-Targeted Assimilation: An Oral History of Indian Day School Education in Kahnawà:ke
Theses
Author/Creator
Wahéhshon Shiann Whitebean
Description
Individualized Program Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2019.
Claims to Native Identity in Children’s Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Debbie Reese
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 123-132
Description
Discusses successful children's writers that falsely claim Indigenous ancestry and the effect their success had on maintaining stereotypes that fit the popular conception of what constitutes an Indigenous person. The four of the writers profiled are: Jamake Highwater Anpao, Paul Goble, Sharon Creech, and Asa Carter.
Collaborative Game Development with Indigenous Communities: A Theoretical Model for Ethnocultural Empathy
Theses
Author/Creator
Laura K. Horton
Description
New Media Game Design and Production Thesis (M.A.)--Aalto University, 2019.
Looks at Never Alone, Mulaka and the Sámi Game Jam.
Colonial Violence in Sixties Scoop Narratives: From In Search of April Raintree to A Matter of Conscience
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Petra Fachinger
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 115-135
Description
Author analyzes three different novels in order to provide a complex and nuanced perspective on the different ways that the ‘60’s Scoop has been treated by Indigenous authors over a prolonged period (1983-2018). Includes discussion of Beatrice Mosionier In Search of April Raintree, Robert Arthur Alexie's The Pale Indian, and James Bartleman's A Matter of Conscience.
A Conversation with Lisa Brooks about Our Beloved Kin
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Matt Cohen
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 157-164
Description
Author, Brooks, discusses new book, Our Beloved Kin, with interviewer, Cohen. Brooks's book offers an Indigenous Perspective on King Philip's War, its scope, and its impact.
Copy of Official Reports (116H) from Major General Middleton, C.B. (Commanding North-West Field Force), Concerning the Engagements at Fish Creek, on the 24th April, 1885, Poundmaker's Camp (Near Cree's Reserve) 2nd May, 1885, Batoche, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th May, 1885
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Fred Middleton
[W.D. Otter]
Cora Sanderson Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Cora Sanderson
Janet R. Fietz
Archdeacon J.E. McKay
Indian History Film Project
Description
Cora Sanderson and Archdeacon J.E. McKay tell of their lives in the bush and in La Ronge.
Coyote and the Stars
Alternate Title
The Indian Reading Series: Stories and Legends of the Northwest ; Level 1, Book 1
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Members of the Warm Springs Reservation Committee
Description
The Critical Collaboration: Introductions as a Gateway to the Study of Native American Bi-Autobiography
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
R. D. Theisz
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 5, no. 1, 1981, pp. 65-80
Description
Presents method of analysis which can be applied to the introductions of a literary genre consisting of an individual's personal narrative being recorded/edited by a non-Indigenous person.
Deadly Detectives: How Aboriginal Australian Writers are Re-creating Crime Fiction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicole Watson
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 1, March 2019, pp. 75-81
Description
Illustrates the new character tropes being developed by Aboriginal Australian writers to challenge the stereotypical representation of Indigenous peoples in detective fiction.
Decolonizing the Medium: How Indigenous Creators are Defying "Sidekickery” and Centering Indigenous Stories and Characters in the Comics Landscape
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amanda Morris
Journal of American Culture, vol. 42, no. 4, December 2019, pp. 326-334
Description
Looks at Sixkiller #1 by writer Lee Franics IV and artist Weshoyot Alvitre, Deer Woman Anthology and Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection.
Diary of Lieutenant R. Lyndhurst Wadmore, Infantry School Corps, April 8, 1885 to July 20, 1885, N.W. Campaign.
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
R. Lyndhurst Wadmore
Description
Original diary and various papers of R. Lyndhurst Wadmore, Lieutenant of the Royal Canadian Regiment during the Northwest Resistance, covering from 8 April to 20 July 1885. Included in diary pocket is a requisition for short boots that was signed by Wadmore on May 1885, lyrics of the Infantry School Corps fight song, and a Victoria Daily Times article from 23 June 1944 about the remaining members of the Northwest Field Force and their experiences.
Do You Recognize Who I Am? Decolonizing Rhetorics in Indigenous Rock Opera Something Inside is Broken
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shannon Claire Toll
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 2, December 5, 2019, pp. 1-22
Description
Article discusses the different ways that Something Inside is Broken brings attention decolonization and how the language and music in the piece are both made to serve this purpose.
Eastern Cherokee Creation and Subsistence Narratives: A Cherokee and Religious Interpretation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John D. Loftin
Benjamin E. Frey
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 1, 2019, pp. 83-98
Description
Article explores Eastern Cherokee epistemology; by examining sacred traditional-narratives the authors reveal the cultural meanings, purposes and values that are embodied in different characters and deities within those stories.
Educator's Guide: Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nastassia Subban
Description
Uses chapters from book by Daniel Heath Justice as a tool to educate teachers.
[Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous People]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah Lee
International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion, vol. 3, no. 2, Special Issue: Diversity and Reading , 2019, pp. [103]-106
Description
Book review of Elements of Indigenous Style by Gregory Younging.
The Evolution of a Poem: An Interview with Tiffany Midge
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tiffany Midge
Scott Andrews
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 208-222
Description
Andrews interviews Midge about her poem “The Woman Who Married a Bear.” Discussion covers symbolism, identity, and Midge’s writing process.