Social Science & Medicine, vol. 91, August 2013, pp. 219-228
Description
In-depth interviews were conducted with 36 individuals who had moved to Toronto from rural or reserve settings. Participants identified issues such as difficulties accessing services/benefits they were entitled to and lack of respect for culture and identity.
Third Text, vol. 27, no. 1, Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology, January 2013, pp. 17-28
Description
Discusses how several Aboriginal artists have incorporated the traditional worldview, in which everything is animate, into their modern works. Highlights Jimmie Durham, Rebecca Belmore, Jolene Rickard, and Will Wilson.
Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 60, December 2013, pp. 11-17
Description
Overview of the quality of water in Aboriginal communities and interviews Grandmothers about the nature of water, its meaning and the importance of water to Aboriginal women.
Museum Anthropology, vol. 36, no. 2, September 2013, pp. 113-127
Description
Looks at works by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas who infuses Haida form lines, ideas, and oral histories with Manga, a Japanese genre of cartoon illustration.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 36, no. 1, Indian Control of Indian Education--40 Years Later, 2013, pp. 36-58
Description
Discusses the process of developing the Anishinaabe Bimaadiziwin Cultural Healing and Learning Program in an off-reserve school.The concept of the medicine wheel was central to design, implementation and evaluation of the curriculum.
Early American Literature, vol. 48, no. 3, 2013, pp. 743-754
Description
Book review essay of:
English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830 by Hilary E. Wyss.
Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature by Birgit Rasmussen.
On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory by Andrew Newman.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 28, no. 2, Fall, 2013, pp. 87-111
Description
Argues that scholars have oversimplified Haudenosaunee creation stories and that John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt's versions, which have not received much attention, should be re-examined.
World Archaeology, vol. 45, no. 1, Archaeology of Religious Change, March 2013, pp. 64-82
Description
Investigates the evolution of Sámi ethnic religious practices in northern Fennoscandia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia) through the amalgamation of different religious traditions into a new one.