Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bradley Shreve
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 28, no. 3, Indigenous Peoples History, Spring, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Discusses colonization, historical trauma and historical loss symptoms.
Okwire’shon:’a, the First Storytellers: Recovering Landed Consciousness in Readings of Trees & Texts
Theses
Author/Creator
Kaitlin Sandra June Debicki
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2017. Refers to the works Power by Linda Hogan, Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson, and Truth and Bright Water by Thomas King.
Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ezekiel Gow
BC Studies, no. 195, Autumn, 2017, pp. 174-175
Description
Book review of Once They Were Hats by Frances Backhouse.
Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 174.
One Writer, Becoming
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy Lord
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 9-17
Description
Author is presented with letters written to a friend 40 years previously and reflects on her younger self.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Seven: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Ten: Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Two: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Nursery/Preschool/Kindergarten. Day 1: : First Nation Creation Stories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
The Opinions of Ambulance Personnel Regarding Using a Heated Mattress for Patients Being Cared for in a Cold Climate - An Intervention Study in Ambulance Care
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jonas Aléx
Tom Uppstu
Britt-Inger Saveman
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 76, 2017, p. article no. 1379305
Description
Ambulance personnel from northern Sweden rate their experiences as being positive for patient comfort.
Opposition Play: Trans-Atlantic Trickstering in Gerald Vizenor's The Heirs of Columbus
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Iping Liang
Concentric, vol. 29, no. 1, January 2003, pp. 121-141
Description
Examines the turn of clash into comedy by using idea of trickster, turning Christopher Columbus into a crossblood Jewish Mayan trickster.
Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture. Jace Weaver.
Alternate Title
American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series; vol. 39
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sidner Larson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2003, pp. 86-88
Description
Book review of: Other Words by Jace Weaver.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Our Women and Girls Are Sacred: Interim Report: The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
E-Books
Author/Creator
Marion Buller
Michèle Audette
Brian Eyolfson
Qajaq Robinson
Patterns in Contemporary Canadian Picture Books: Radical Change in Action
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Beverley Brenna
Shuwen Sun
Yina Liu
In Education, vol. 23, no. 2, Autumn, 2017, pp. 43-70
Description
Study examined two groups of books, 57 titles published 2005 and 120 published in 2015 in terms of authors, illustrators, characterization, genre, and audiences.
Perfect Cree
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Margery Fee
Canadian Literature, no. 176, Spring, 2003, pp. 156-157
Description
Book review of: Perfect Cree by Margery Fee.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access book review, scroll to page 156.
Permafrost
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Thaler
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 67-83
Description
Short story.
Perspectives on the Indigenous Tradition/New Technology Interface
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Greg Young-ing
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2, Indigenous Peoples and Information Technology, 2003, pp. 14-17
Description
Examines the Indigenous peoples' ability to adapt to technological change.
To access this article scroll down to page 14.
Poetries of Transformation: Joy Harjo and Li-Young Lee
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jacqueline Kolosov
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2003, pp. 39-57
Description
Author contends that despite superficial differences, the two poets' works display thematic commonalities.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vladimir Swirynsky
Delilah O'Haynes
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 2, 2003, pp. 93-102
Description
Contains the poems: "Quiet Truth of History", "Wolf Visions", "American Indians", "Navajo Country", "Winter Moon", and "Hallowed Host".
Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Landgraf
Robert Nazarene
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, 2003, pp. 119-127
Description
Contains the poems: "Prison Powwow", "Simple: On the Reservation at First Beach, La Push", "Norma Before She Moved to the Reservation", "Norma's Gift", "Two White Men on the Quinault Indian Reservation", "The Meeting", "Postmodern", "The Declaration of Indepestilence, July 4th, 2002", "We Are, After All, Americans", and "Rice & Sand".
Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, 2017, pp. 133-138
Description
Three poems: Selling Cigars on a Coral Gables Corner 1987, Into the Red Devil's Horn, and For a Good Boy We'll Break All the Rules.
The Poetry of Carter Revard: Stars Among the Walking
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dean Rader
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue in Honor of Carter Revard], Spring, 2003, pp. [45]-52
Description
Explores the use of celestial references in the poet's work.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Poster for Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Chester Brown
Description
Poster entitled "Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography", featuring sample of artwork.
[Preston Singletary: Threshold]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Katie Jernnings
Description
Profile of the Tlingit glass artist and his work.
Duration: 15:03.
The Quest For the Historical Tekánawí-ta': Oral Tradition and the Founding of the Iroquois League
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jonathan Bernier
Totem, vol. 11, no. 1, 2003, pp. 80-84
Description
Questions the validity of the Tekánawí-ta' Myth for give biographical details of his life and role in the formation of the League.
The Quinzhee
Alternate Title
The Cantilevered Universe
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kirsten Madsen
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 121-136
Description
Excerpt from the novel Cantilevered Universe.
Radical Writing, Radical Women: An Interview with Lee Maracle by Tania Willard
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Tania Willard
Lee Maracle
Redwire, vol. 7, no. 1, [2003?], p. [?]
Description
Interview with the author of Ravensong, I am Women, Bobbi Lee-Indian Rebel, Daughters are Forever, and the poetry collection Bentbox.
Rare Intellect
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Carla Robinson
Jennifer Sinclair
Windspeaker, vol. 21, no. 6, September 2003, p. 25
Description
Brief article focusing on two books recommended by the author; Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson and Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples From Earliest Times by Olive Dickason.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.25.
Raven Tales: Traditional Quileute Stories of Bayak, the Trickster
Documents & Presentations
Description
Includes five stories: Raven and Bear; Raven and Fishduck; Raven and Mole; Raven and Skatefish; and Raven and Eagle.
(Re)claiming History and Visibility Through Rhetorical Sovereignty: The Power of Diné Rhetorics in the Works of Laura Tohe
Theses
Author/Creator
Jessica Marie Safran Hoover
Description
[English] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Illinois State University, 2017.
Re/ Marking on History, or, Playing Basketball with Godzilla: Thomas King’s Monstrous Post-colonial Gesture
Alternate Title
Connections: Non-Native Responses to Native Canadian Literature
[Creative New Literature Series ; 62]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Gerry Turcotte
Description
Argues that even though King expresses a dislike of the term "post-colonial" and what it implies about Indigenous literature, he still engages in "writing back" to European master narratives.
Chapter from Connections: Non-Native Responses to Native Canadian Literature edited by Hartmut Lutz and Coomi S. Vevaina.
Reading Australian Indigenous Life Narratives and Whiteness: Relationality and the Ethical Turn
Alternate Title
Culture and the State ; v. 2
Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Anne Brewster
pp. 75-80
Description
Argues that the relationality of Indigenous and non-Indigenous constituencies within the postcolonial nation in Australia has always been mediated by the discourse of race.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
Entire book on one pdf. To access paper, scroll to p. 75.
READiscover Nevada: A Great Basin Bibliography of the Northern Paiute, Southern Paiute, Washoe, & Western Shoshone Tribes
Alternate Title
The Indian Heritage of Nevada
Documents & Presentations
Description
Current as of 2003. When available, indicates critical evaluation and learning activities.
Reasserting the World: The Convergence of Mythic and
Modern Realities in Enactment Narratives
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shawna Thorp
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 3&4, Series 2; [Indigenous Intersections], Fall-Winter, 2003-2004, pp. [147]-167
Description
Discusses arguments for creating a new genre of American Indian literature which uses culturally specific models.
Entire issue on one pdf. To Access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
[Recensions/Book Reviews]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Edmund Searles
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Architecture Paléoesquimaude / Palaeoeskimo Architecture, 2003, pp. 549-552
Description
Review of: Saqiyuq, Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women by Nancy Wachowich, in collaboration with Apphia Agalakti Awa, Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak, and Sandra Pikujak Katsak.
Reclaiming Territories through Indigenous Performance
Theses
Author/Creator
Francine Burning
Description
Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2017Focusess on experiences of Madelaine McCallum, Mike Dengeli, Mique'l Dangeli, Leela Gilday, and Ronnie Dean Harris.
Reconciling Issues of Time-Past and Time-Present in New Works of BC Ethnography: A Review Essay
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Wendy Wickwire
BC Studies, no. 138/139, Native Geographies, Summer/Autumn, 2003, pp. 165-172
Description
Book review of: Indian Myths & Legends From the North Pacific Coast of America: A Translation of Franz Boas' 1895 Edition of Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Kuste Amerikas edited by Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy.
Gateways: Exploring the Legacy of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902 edited by Igor Krupnik and William W. Fitzhugh.
Q'sapi: A History of Okanagan People as Told by Okanagan Families edited by Shirley Louis.
Red Pens, White Paper: Wider Implications of Coulthard’s Call to Sovereignty
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Brian Burkhart
David J. Carlson
Billy J. Stratton
Theodore C. Van Alst
Carol Edelman Warrior
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 111-128
Description
Article is the transcript of a round table discussion the authors participated in at the Native American Literature Symposium at the Isleta Resort and Casino in Albuquerque, NM, on Thursday March 17, 2016. Panelists were discussing Glen Sean Coulthard's Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition.
Reflections on Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. E. Michael Kew
BC Studies, no. 193, 2017, pp. 163-185
Description
Former professor at the University recounts his education, career, and work and relationships with Indigenous peoples.
Reservation Life as Depicted In Contemporary Native American Literature
Theses
Author/Creator
Katharina Ha slinger
Description
American Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Graze, 2017.
Focuses on The Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich, The Rez Sisters by Thomson Highway, and Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie.
Reset and Redefine: Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) and the Rise of Indigenous Games
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Maize Longboat
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 170-179
Description
Author critically engages the format and storytelling devices within the videogame Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) and discusses how this and other digital platforms can be used to build understanding and counter stereotypes and misinformation about Indigenous peoples.
Resilience and Rebellious Memory Loops: Further Musings of an American Indian Ethnoecologist
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Enrique Salmón
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 127-132
Description
Author of Eating the Landscape discusses how resilience theory can explain the relationship between traditional knowledge and adaptive change to ecological circumstances.
Resisting Consumption: Exploring Pathways of Resistance to the Assimilative Nature of the Canadian Education System Through Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen
Theses
Author/Creator
Blake Bilmer
Description
English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2016.
A Review of The Navajo and the Animal People: Native American Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ethnozoology
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Herman A. Peterson
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 3, no. 1, 2017, pp. 74-76
Description
Book review of: The Navajo and the Animal People: Native American Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ethnozoology by Steve Pavlik.
Revisiting A Really Good Brown Girl
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle La Flamme
Thirdspace, vol. 2, no. 2, March 2003
Description
Examines Marilyn Dumont's collection of poems to determine whether or not it contributes to feminist scholarship.
Richard Van Camp Interview by Judi Saltman
Alternate Title
Richard Van Camp Interview by Judi Saltman, Canadian Children's Illustrated Books Project: September 29, 2003 in Vancouver
Web Sites » Personal
Author/Creator
Judi Saltman
Richard Van Camp
Description
Contains information about the author who grew up in Fort Smith and why he is happy he bypassed Canadian publishers and went straight to the US.
The Roads of My Relations: Stories. Devon A. Mihesuah.
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Susan Bernadin
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2003, pp. 73-76
Description
Book review of: The Roads of My Relations: Stories by Devon A. Mihesuah.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West
Alternate Title
Paper 2405
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Shirley A. Leckie
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 3, Summer, 2003, pp. 207-208
Description
Book review of: Review of Sacagawea's Nickname by Larry McMurtry.
The Saugeen Ojibway Nation and Canada: Historical Relationships, Settler Colonialism, and Stories of a Shared Space
Theses
Author/Creator
Christopher James Wright
Description
History Research Thesis (Ph.D.)--King's College London, 2017.
"Say Commodity Cheese!" (Chapter 1)
Alternate Title
Circle of Goods: Women, Work, and Welfare in a Reservation Community
SUNY Series in Anthropological Studies of Contemporary Issues
SUNY Series in Anthropology of Work
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Tressa Berman
Description
Looks at women's role to maintain economy and culture of reservation life.
Chapter one from, Circle of Goods: Women, Work, and Welfare in a Reservation Community by Tressa Berman.
Seeing the Skies through Navajo Eyes: An Introduction to Cross-Cultural Astronomy
Alternate Title
Navajo Skies: An Introductory Guide to the Navajo Skies Planetarium Show
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nancy C. Maryboy
David H. Begay
Ashley C. Teren
Description
Designed as a resource for planetariums, for middle school teachers, and a book that families can read together.