Alternate Title
The Deerslayer or, The First War-Path: A Tale
The Last of the Mohicans
The Pathfinder
The Pioneers
The Prairie
E-Books
Author/Creator
James Fenimore Cooper
Description
Cooper's writings were very influential in producing stereotypes of the "Noble Savage" and bloodthirsty savage in the minds of the public.
Leaving the Desert: Actors and Sufferers in the Aboriginal Exodus From the Western Desert
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeremy Long
Aboriginal History, vol. 13, no. 1, 1989, pp. 9-43
Description
Gives an account of the author's own experiences and discussions with Aboriginal people involved in emigration between 1957 and 1975.
Legacies of the Tribal Languages of Arizona: Gifts or Responsibilities
Alternate Title
A Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture and Community
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ofelia Zepeda
Description
Ofelia Zepeda speaks about language in general.
Duration: 1:00:25
Legacy of Betrayal: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison of the Cherokee Removal and the Highland Clearances
Theses
Author/Creator
Lisa Brown
Description
History Thesis (PhD) -- University of New Mexico, 2012.
The Legacy of Residential School Abuse
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Daria Shewchuk
BC Psychologist, Psychological Services for First Nations, Spring, 2012, pp. 36-38
Description
Argues that in order for psychologists to provide effective psychological treatment for Aboriginal people, they need to understand the profound impact the residential school trauma and its ongoing legacy has had on their people.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, Scroll to page 36.
A Legal Analysis of Genocide: Supplementary Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Description
Represents views and opinions of the National Inquiry after consultations with legal scholars and lawyers with expertise on genocide and international crimes. Topics include: definition, Canada's actions and omissions as genocidal conduct (actus reus), Canada's specific intent to destroy Indigenous peoples (mens rea), and Canada's responsibility for genocide and obligations for reparations.
Legal and Policy Tools for Source Water Protection in Indigenous Communities: A Tri-First Nation (Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, Munsee-Delaware First Nation, Oneida Nation of the Thames) and Canadian Environmental Law Association Initiative
Alternate Title
Tri-Nation Source Water Protection Project
E-Books
Author/Creator
Canadian Environmental Law Association
Chippewas of the Thames First Nation
Munsee-Delaware First Nation
Oneida Nation of the Thames
Description
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The Legend of Jump Mountain: Narrative Dispossession of the Monacan in Postcolonial Virginia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jay Hansford C. Vest
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 36, no. 3, 2012, pp. 99-116
Description
Delves into the authenticity of this romantic legend.
[Legends XII]: Legends of the Cayuga
Alternate Title
Ideas (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Legends Project
Maid of the Mist
Maple Sugar
The Hunting of Ugly Bear
The Seven Dancers
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Alfred Keye
Lottie Keye
Ima Johnson
Ruby Williams
Ariel Harris
Betty Henry
Nora Carrier
Description
The Legends Project is a compilation of traditional oral stories, legends, and histories of Canada's Inuit and First Nations. They are transcribed, dramatized, and cast within the communities. This audio recording is from Ohsweken, on the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory.
Duration: 53.58
Legislated Oppression: Racism, Patriarchy and Colonialism in the Status Provisions of the Indian Act
Theses
Author/Creator
Michael James Burton
Description
Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 2012.
Lehae-La-Rona: Epistemological Interrogations to Broaden our Conception of Environment and Sustainability
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tsepo Mokuku
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, vol. 17, [Indigenizing and Decolonizing Environmental Education], 2012, pp. 159-172
Description
Author discusses her involvement in the Development Partnerships in Higher Education (DelPHE) project and the process developing an education for sustainable development theory suited to the context of the country of Lesotho.
The Lenâpé and Their Legends; With the Complete Texts and Symbols of the Walam Olum: A New Translation, and an Inquiry into Its Authenticity
Alternate Title
Briton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature ; Number 5
E-Books
Author/Creator
Daniel G. Brinton
Lenses of Indigenous Feminism: Digging Up The Roots of Western Patriarchy in Perma Red and Monkey Beach
Theses
Author/Creator
Pamela Kay CampBell
Description
American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Arizona, 2012.
[Leo Baskatawang, Applied Research, Marching From Vancouver to Ottawa]
Alternate Title
At the Edge of Canada: Indigenous Research
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Leo Baskatawang
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Description
Interview with a Masters student who will be conducting a march (March4Justice) across Canada from Vancouver to Ottawa to force awareness about the issues surrounding the Indian Act.
Duration: 32:38. Interview begins at 7:10.
A Lesson From the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 about Cultural Appropriation and Tribal Sovereignty: What Santa Clara Pueblo Can do to Protect Tewa Cultural Property
Theses
Author/Creator
Patrick Victor Naranjo
Description
American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2012.
Lesson Plan: Fur Trade Timeline
Alternate Title
Fur Trade Times
How Furs Built Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Phipps
Description
Designed for Grades 3-8. Information from the article Fur Trade Times in the special issue of Kayak magazine How Furs Built Canada. Students play a class game of "I Have ... Who Has?"
Lessons Learned: A Report on HR Components of Aboriginal Community and Mining Company Partnership Agreements.
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mining Industry Human Resources Council
Description
Looks at human resource strategies developed to facilitate successful partnership for maximum benefit for Aboriginal communities near mining operations. Includes summary of recommendations.
Lessons Learned: Achieving Positive Educational Outcomes in Northern Communities
Alternate Title
Report (Conference Board of Canada) ; February 2012
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 12-212]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ashley Sisco
Margaret Caron-Vuotari
Carole Stonebridge
Greg Sutherland
Gilles Rhéaume
Description
Recommendations include: developing an integrated approach which addresses issues of community and individual well-being, facilitating access to post-secondary education, recruiting and retaining experienced teaching professionals, and improving and maintaining technical infrastructure.
Letter from Middleton Demanding Poundmaker's Unconditional Surrender
Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Description
Image showing General F.D. Middleton's letter to Poundmaker demanding unconditional surrender after Louis Riel's surrender on 17 May 1885.
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
Letter from Thomas Quinn to George G. Mann
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Thomas T. Quinn
Description
A photocopy of a letter sent by Indian agent Thomas Quinn of Frog Lake to farm instructor George G. Mann of Onion Lake on 31 March 1885. It reads: "Dear Mann - Messenger [that] hand you this letter is sent by me to tell some of your Indians to come here to have a talk and try and keep all quiet here. If any wish to come give them grub enough to come with to here. All quiet here and no danger. I will be down on the 2nd. Faithfully T. T. Quinn."
Letters From The Inside
Articles » General
Eagle Feather News, vol. 15, no. 8, August 2012, p. 22
Description
Presents several letters from inmates and one from a correctional officer commending Eagle Feather News for its quality newspaper.
Article located by scrolling to page 22.
Level and Temporal Trend of Perfluoroalkyl Acids in Greenlandic Inuit
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Manhai Long
Rossana Bossi
Eva C. Bonefeld-Jørgensen
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 71, p. article no. 17998
Description
Study findings conducted with 284 subjects suggest that sources other than seafood intake may contribute to elevated perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) in Nuuk Inuit than non-Nuuk Inuit.
Level of Selected Toxic Elements in Meat, Liver, Tallow and Bone Marrow of Young Semi-Domesticated Reindeer (Rangifer Tarandus Tarandus L.) From Northern Norway
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ammar Ali Hassan
Charlotta Rylander
Magritt Brustad
Torkjel M. Sandanger
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 71, 2012, p. article no. 18187
Description
Results show that the highest level of contaminants was found in the liver with indications of low elevated risk associated with consumption.
LFMO Policy Statement on Forced and Coerced Sterilization
Alternate Title
Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak Policy Statement on Forced and Coerced Sterilization
Women of the Métis Nation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak = Women of the Métis Nation
Description
Brief discussion of the issue of forcing women to have tubal ligations and administering Depo-Provera shots before the contraceptive had general approval, ensuring informed consent, and raising awareness with healthcare providers.
Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Heather Devine
BC Studies, no. 176, Winter, 2012/13, pp. 167-168
Description
Book review of Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance by Keith D. Smith.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 167.
Liberating Community Education and Social Change: the Regina Native Women's Group (1971-1986)
Theses
Author/Creator
Anne-Marie DiLella
Description
Communication, Continuing and Vocational Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1989.
Lieut.-Col. Boulton - Sketch. - 1885.
Documents & Presentations
Description
Portrait sketch of Lieut.-Col. Charles A. Boulton.
Historical note:
Charles Arkoll Boulton (b. 17 April 1841 - d. 15 May 1899) is noted for his role in the Red River and North-West Resistances.Lieut.- Col. W.M. DeRay [Williams] - Sketch. - [1885?].
Documents & Presentations
Description
Head and shoulders sketch of Lieut.- Col. W.M. DeRay[Williams] in uniform.
Lieutenant Colonel Bowen Van Straubenzie - Sketch. - [1885?].
Documents & Presentations
Description
Head and shoulders sketch of Lieutenant Colonel Bowen Van Straubenzie of the North-West Field Force, in uniform.
Historical note:
Lieutenant Colonel Bowen Van Straubenzie was involved in the Battle of Batoche.Lieutenant Colonel J.F. Turnbull - Sketch. - [1885?].
Documents & Presentations
Description
Portrait sketch of Lieutenant Colonel James Ferdinand Turnbull, in full uniform.
[The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain: Native American Mill Worker]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Margaret M. Bruchac
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 24, no. 3, Fall, 2012, pp. 138-141
Description
Book review of: The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain by Judith Ranta.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 138.
Life Devoted to Healing and Higher Learning
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Dianne Meili
Windspeaker , vol. 30, no. 4, July 2012, p. 26
Description
Profiles Lillian McGregor's lifetime of accomplishments, including her work on many committees, boards, and her knowledge of traditional medicine.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.34.
Life Expectancy of First Nations, Métis and Inuit Household Populations in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Tjepkema
Tracey Bushnik
Evelyne Bougie
Health Reports, vol. 30, no. 12, December 18, 2019, pp. 3-10
Description
Found that life expectancy was substantially and consistently shorter for the Indigenous groups compared with non-Indigenous population across all time periods.
Life on the Hardened Border
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce Granville Miller
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 36, no. 2, 2012, pp. 23-45
Description
Comments on the difficulties faced by Coast Salish groups to cross the United States border particularly the Washington State-British Columbia border.
Life on Victor Street
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kirby Hammond
Description
Documentary shot over two years about an Aboriginal teenager living in west end Winnipeg coping with everyday life in his neighborhood.
Duration: 30:00.
Life Satisfaction, Victimization, and Discrimination among Off-Reserve Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Douglas Spafford
Description
Economics[?] Thesis (M.A.)--University of Dalhousie University, 2019.
Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Rebeka Tabobondung
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, Summer, 2012, pp. 226-227
Description
Review of book: Life Stages and Native Women by Kim Anderson.
The Life You Want: A Young Woman's Struggle through Addiction: Educational Resource
Alternate Title
Docs for Schools
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Suzanne Methot
Description
To accompany documentary directed by Michelle Derosier about 22-year-old Fort Hope (Eabametoong First Nation) resident Doris Slipperjack and her struggle to overcome her addiction to Oxycontin.
Documentary.
Lighting Fires: Re-Searching Sexualized Violence with Indigenous Girls in Northern Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Anna Chadwick
Description
Child and Youth Care Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2019.
Focuses on the Sisters Rising project.
"Like Residential Schools All Over Again": Experiences of Emergency Evacuation from the Assin'skowitiniwak (Rocky Cree) Community of Pelican Narrows
Theses
Author/Creator
Megan Nichole Poole
Description
Archaeology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A) -- University of Saskatchewan, 2019.
Limited Impact of Pneumococcal Vaccines on Invasive Pneumococcal disease in Nunavik (Quebec)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jean-Baptiste LeMeurBrigitte LefebvreJean-François ProulxPhilippe De Wals
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 110, no. 1, 02 2019, pp. 36-43
Description
Objective of this study was to describe the epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in relation to pneumococcal vaccine use. The 2002 immunization campaign may have contributed to controlling serotype 1 outbreaks in Nunavik, but effected were short-lived as IPDs caused by serotypes included in this vaccine continued to occur after 2005.
Limited Notions of Culture Ensure Research Failure
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fred Beauvais
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 2, no. 3, Spring, 1989, pp. 25-28
Description
Suggests the lack of participation by the Inupiat people in the Barrow Alcohol Study contributed to the failure of the study.
The Link Between Indigenous Culture and Wellbeing: Qualitative Evidence for Australian Aboriginal Peoples
Alternate Title
CLMR Discussion Paper Series ; 2011/01
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Simon Colquhoun
Alfred Michael Dockery
Description
Looks at 17 themes that emerged when parents responded to a question regarding what they want for their children.
Linking Indigenous Communities with Regional Development
Alternate Title
OECD Rural Policy Reviews
E-Books
Author/Creator
Dawn Madahbee Leach
Lars-Anders Baer
Peter Yu
Linking the Indigenous Sami People with Regional Development in Sweden
Alternate Title
OECD Regional Policy Reviews
E-Books
Author/Creator
OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship
SMEs
Regions and Cities
Linking Two Ways of Knowing to Understand Climate Change on Geese and First Nations in the Hudson Bay Lowland
Theses
Author/Creator
Jennifer Robus
Description
Environmental and Life Sciences Thesis (M.Sc.)--Trent University, 2012.
List of Known IBAs
Alternate Title
IBA Database
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Impact and Benefit Agreement Research Network
Description
Provides a nationwide list of Impact and Benefits Agreements.
Listening to First Nations Women’ Expressions of Heart Health: ‘mite achimowin’ Digital Storytelling
Alternate Title
Listening to First Nations Women’s Expressions of Heart Health: ‘mite achimowin’ Digital Storytelling
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine
Sarah Wood
Lisa Forbes
Annette S. H. Schultz
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Article examines a digital storytelling study which collaborated with First Nations (FN) Women in Manitoba to discuss many of the issues surrounding heart health management including: the relationship between FN and Western Medical knowledges, diet and lifestyle, related health conditions, experiences with healthcare system, residential schools, and relationships with children and grandchildren.
Listening to the Stories of American Indians at Oregon State Hospital
Theses
Author/Creator
Cynthia A. Prater
Description
Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacific University, 2012.