Museum Anthropology, vol. 31, no. 1, Spring, 2008, pp. 1-18
Description
Discusses how mass-produced clothing has been indigenized by its use to display familial symbols, affiliations with places and organizations, and commemorate significant events like potlatches.
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.
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.
Harvard Educational Review, vol. 58, no. 1, February 1988
Description
Examines three perspectives that were factors in the campaign to assimilate aboriginal people through schooling: the Protestant ideology, the civilization-savagism paradigm, and the quest for land by Whites.
American Anthropologist, vol. 90, no. 2, New Series, June 1988, pp. 272-290
Description
Using ethnobotanical data gathered from two groups in British Columbia, an index was developed to measure the cultural significance a given plant taxon. Discusses importance of such knowledge to the language.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 3, Summer, 1988, pp. 229-249
Description
Looks at the journey spiritual of Leslie Silko's protagonist Tayo through a Laguna symbolic world created by the Spider Women character. Laguna Pueblo is located in northwestern New Mexico.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 4, Fall, 2008, pp. 547-548
Description
Book review of: Landscape Travelled by Coyote and Crane: The World of the Schitsu'umsh (Coeur d'Alene Indians) by Rodney Frey in collaboration with the Schitsu'umsh.
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.
Current Issues in Language Planning, vol. 9, no. 4, 2008, pp. 440-463
Description
Looks at the Traditional Land Use Study and Consultation Unit created to act as an intermediary between industry, the provincial government of Alberta and First Nations to protect language and culture.