American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 3, Summer, 2011, pp. 372-393
Description
Examines the romanticism and primitivism that plague Native American studies by looking at Hopi Indian religion and how they deal with the problem of evil.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 24, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 89-112
Description
Seeks to uncover paradoxes within the Hopi epistemology, arguing that in confounding Euroamerican efforts to "know", the Hopi can claim their rights to sovereignty and political self-determination.
Museum Anthropology, vol. 22, no. 3, Winter, December 1999, pp. 41-51
Description
Reviews how the assertion by Aboriginal peoples that they define their own histories served to interrupt and redefine the western idea of scholarly privilege, as it applied to several public representations of indigenous languages and cultures at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology.
Agriculture and Human Values, vol. 15, no. 2, June 1998, pp. 133-138
Description
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.
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 1, 2010, pp. 29-51
Description
Looks at the relationship between nature and culture on the Northwest Coast, and also examines the contrasts between the natural and the supernatural of western and Coast Salish peoples.
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 2000.
Argues that the efforts to empower First Nation people by granting them a significant role in the governance of their own lands and people comes as a mixed blessing.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010, pp. 137-155
Description
Explores the writer's use of narrative inquiry, autoethnography, and Indigenous research paradigms to address her research on Indigenous spirituality and her journey with learning the Cree language.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 4, Winter, 2006, pp. 88-114
Description
Demonstrates how Indigenous women often rely on their knowledge of the lives of other women, which can both strengthen individual writings and give back to the collective.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 88.
Childhood Education, vol. 88, no. 5, September/October 2012, pp. 286-291
Description
Comments on the need to "understand the ways in which Indigenous children are ready to learn, and to acknowledge the skills, interests, and knowledge they have developed in their families and communities during their early years."
Identity, Prejudice and Healing in Aboriginal Circles: Models of Identity, Embodiment and Ecology of Place as Traditional Medicine for Education and Counselling
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kisiku Sa'qawei Paq'tism Randolph Bowers
AlterNative, vol. 6, no. 3, 2010, pp. 203-221
Description
Looks at healing of identity from an Aboriginal perspective using holistic models of wellbeing through the integration of emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of being.
Canadian Geographer, vol. 55, no. 1, Geographies of Inuit Sea Ice Use, Spring, 2011, p. 42–55
Description
Discusses the research undertaken over several years, to track movement of Inuit hunters and to monitor the environment with the use and development of a GPS based tracking and weather recording system.
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 4, Special Issue: Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, December 2018, pp. 326-332
Description
Examines the nuances of adoption into Aboriginal communities within the frameworks of Nêhiyaw (Cree) law, and wahkotowin (laws of kinship). Discusses how a lack of knowledge on the part of the adoptee can lead to appropriation and extraction of Indigenous knowledge.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 227-235
Description
Author discusses worldview, identity, Indigeneity, and religion in the context of The Spirit and the Sky: Lakota Visions of the Cosmos, God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance and the Making of Modern America, and Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary.
Indian Tribal Studies Programs in the Tribally Controlled Community Colleges
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wayne J. Stein
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 2, no. 2, Autumn, 1986, pp. 29-33
Description
Argues that academic process can be used to restore traditional knowledge and that the Tribal Community College provides a forum for discussion of concerns.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Autumn, 1997, pp. 675-702
Description
Author examines the neocolonial practice of cultural appropriation as “theft of cultural property” and notes its connection to the erasure of history and language performed by colonial states.
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 3, September 2018, pp. 218-227
Description
Surveys 25 Indigenous academics and allies, discusses three different levels of indigenization at Canadian post-secondary institutions revealed in the results. Suggests two frameworks creating a more just Canadian academy: treaty-based decolonial indigenization and resurgence-based decolonial indigenization.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 31, no. 1, Indigenous Knowledges and the University, 2008, pp. 107-122
Description
Describes the training of individuals in the graduate counselor education program who are destined to work in Aboriginal communities. The article also discusses the process used for implementing curriculum changes in an undergraduate prerequisite counseling skills course.