Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 25, no. 1, Sharing Aboriginal Knowledge and Aboriginal Ways of Knowing, 2001, pp. 86-88
Description
Book review of: ah-ayitaw isi e-ki-kikeyihtahkik maskihkiy They Knew Both Sides of Medicine Cree Tales of Curing and Cursing, Told by Alice Ahenakew edited and translated by H.C. Wolfart and Freda Ahenakew.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 1, A Special Symposium Issue on Leslie Marmon Silko's , 1979, pp. 13-18
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Looks at the role animals play in Leslie Silko's story and its reflections on Indigenous people needing to learn what to accept and what to resist in order to survive.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 1, Winter, 2020, pp. [86]-114
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An examination of the author's writings about the loss of land and access to food due to the encroachments of cattle ranchers and the impact it had on the Paiute people.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 49-69
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Discusses concerns by Native American communities of the impacts of science, research and information on nation building and the protection of their rights and culture.
Ethnohistory, vol. 23, no. 4, Autumn, 1976, pp. 387-413
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Examines turn-of-the-century culture using missionary correspondence, archival photographers and Native accounts to show assimilation as an envisioning process.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1, 2001, pp. 21-27
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Examines the effects of the tourism and mining industries on the northern Arizona ecosystem and suggests management strategies aimed at minimizing the impact on traditional way of life.
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.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 30, no. 4, Therapeutic Use of Hallucinogens, October-December 1998, pp. 333-341
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Discusses four perspectives of psychotherapy; the western paradigm, the shamanic rituals of divination, folk religious ceremonies and "hybrid" rituals.
Agriculture and Human Values, vol. 15, no. 2, June 1998, pp. 133-138
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Looks at the concept of one medicine, the relationship between the doctor and horse in the Cheyenne, and the intimacy between people and their horses in the Navajo or Apache.
Compilation of interviews conducted with Aboriginal social media users in Australia to investigate emerging cultural expressions expressed around death.
American Anthropologist, vol. 26, no. 2, April 1924, pp. 247-257
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Discusses the construction of types of shelters used in various territories and suggests they may have developed from a single ancestral form of the lodge.
Comments on the changes to reservation life due to modern communications and electricity and the need to return to a simpler, less complicated life that includes traditional ways.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 14, no. 3, 1990, pp. 93-174
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Book reviews of:
As Long as the Rivers Run: Hydroelectric Development and Native Communities in Western Canada by James B. Waldram.
Sun Journey: A Story of Zuni Pueblo by Ann Nolan Clark.
Maricopa Morphology and Syntax by Lynn Gordon.
The Cheyenne Nation: A Social and Demographic History by John H. Moore.
Pride of the Indian Wardrobe-Northern Athapascan Footwear by Judy Thompson.
Sagebrush Soldier: Private William Earl Smith's View of the Sioux War of 1876 by Sherry L.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 19, no. 2, Fall, 2004, pp. 105-125
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Osage perspective on the consciousness of rocks and trees and their ability to speak. Comparison of Western scientific thought with the relationship between Native Americans and nature.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010
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Discusses the way in which the tobacco contributes to Indigenous research methodology and examines how Indigenous research can draw upon Indigenous ways of knowing by connecting individuals with the spiritual and physical world.
Three youth forget to respect tradition and notice the results of their careless behaviour in episode 3 of a stop-motion animation series. Accompanying material: Wapos Bay: They Dance at Night: Study Guide.
Duration: 24:00.