Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 18, no. 2, Autumn, 2003, pp. 127-134
Description
Highlights the importance of incorporating the Ojibwa's cultural history in the analysis of their sacred stories and explores the variety and many versions of stories regarding Anishinaabe myth.
American Literature, vol. 80, no. 4, December 2008, pp. 677-705
Description
Discusses how Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk contextualizes the Battle of Bad Axe within previous conflicts between the U.S. government and Indigenous peoples of the Great Lake region over conceptions of landholding, diplomacy and trade.
Discusses differences between Western and Indigenous understandings of what maps are, how they are made, how they look and what they do using two examples: one a drawing of north-eastern Siberia by a Chukchi man, the other by Sami of Lapland using marks on a drum in conjunction with Shamanistic performances as a means of mapping physical, spiritual and temporal elements of the environment.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 31, no. 1, Indigenous Knowledges and the University, 2008, pp. 1-6
Description
Introduction to a special issue of Canadian Journal of Native Education titled "Indigenous Knowledges and the University" which is dedicated to the challenges and opportunities of bringing Indigenous Knowledges and Academia together.
Futures, vol. 35, no. 9, November 2003, pp. 917-929
Description
Author predicts that Indigenous values surviving in the future will be the exception, but argues that they enrich both Indigenous and mainstream societies.
Poem by Nils-Aslak Valkeapāā and translated by Ralph Salisbury, Lars Nordström and Harald Gaski describes how the Sámi people live in relation to the land.
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, vol. 14, no. 5, June 2008, pp. 497-504
Description
Evaluates the commonalities of 47 people who were given a 10% or less chance of survival beyond five years and sought out traditional healers for help with cancer.
Journal of Military History, vol. 72, no. 1, January 2008, pp. 71-104
Description
Examines the cultural significance of scalping among the Pawnee Indians, who lived in Nebraska and Kansas until their removal to Oklahoma in the 1870s.
Resisting Exile in the Homeland: He Mo'oleno No La'ie
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hokulani K. Aikau
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1, Winter, 2008, pp. 70-95
Description
The author explores the contradictions in the different narratives about place—Indigenous and Mormon—surrounding the town of Lā'ie on O’ahu. Works to problematize the oppositional relationship between Indigeneity and modernity. Explores sites of resistance occupied by Kanaka Maoli members of the Church of Latter-day Saints (LDS).