Alternate Title
Twenty-two Miles Home
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lulla S. Johns
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 19-33
Description
Author recalls her attempts to avoid being sent back to a residential school.
[3 Plays: If Jesus Met Nanabush; The Tommy Prince Story; Born Buffalo]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lisa Tatonetti
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 2, Summer, 2017, pp. 101-104
Description
Book review of: 3 Plays by Alanis King.
Abenaki Daring: The Life and Writings of Noel Annance, 1792-1869
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Colin G. Calloway
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 98, no. 2, Summer, 2017, pp. 409-411
Description
Book review of Abenaki Daring by Jean Barman.
Acknowledging the Māori Cultural Values and Beliefs Embedded in Rongoā Māori Healing
Alternate Title
Acknowledging the Maori Cultural Values and Beliefs Embedded in Rongoa Maori Healing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Glenis Mark
Kerry Chamberlain
Amohia Boulton
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 12, no. 1, 2017, pp. 75-92
Description
Comments on the findings of semi-structured narrative interviews from which two key topics emerged: concepts of healing and the focus of healing.
Afghan Stories From the North-East of South Australia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Luise A. Hercus
Aboriginal History, vol. 5, no. 1, Special Issue: Aboriginal-Asian Contact, 1981, pp. 39-70
Description
Presents stories and translations on the Aborigines reaction to the presence of Afghans.
Afghans and Aborigines: Diyari Texts
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ben Murray
Peter Austin
Aboriginal History, vol. 5, no. 1, Special Issue: Aboriginal-Asian Contact, 1981, pp. 71-80
Description
Presents two stories about encounters with Afghans that were transcribed and analyzed from their original Diyari.
Again Around the Maypole
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Annie Osburn
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 85-100
Description
Short story.
Ahkii: A Woman Is a Sovereign Land
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gwendolywn Benaway
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 109-138
Description
In this creative nonfiction piece, poet talks about her practice of writing and how it relates to gender, land, and community.
American Indian English in History and Literature: The Evolution of a Pidgin From Reality to Stereotype
Theses
Author/Creator
Beverly Olson Flanigan
Description
[Applied Linguistics and English ]Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1981.
The American Indian in the American Film
Theses
Author/Creator
Michael J. Brathwaite
Description
American Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Canterbury, 1981.
American Indian Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carol Hunter
MELUS, vol. 8, no. 2, Summer, 1981, pp. 82-85
Description
Overview of works produced during the 1980s, as well predictions for the future.
Among the Chiglit Eskimos
Alternate Title
Les Grands Esquimaux
Occasional Publication (Boreal Institute for Northern Studies) ; no. 10
E-Books
Author/Creator
Émile Petitot
Occasional Publication (Boreal Institute for Northern Studies)
Anishinaabeg Women's Stories of Wellbeing: Physical Activity, Restoring Wellbeing, and Confronting the Settler Colonial Deficit Analysis
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tricia McGuire-Adams
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing: Te Mauri - Pimatisiwin, vol. 2, no. 3, December 2017, pp. 90-104
Description
Three themes emerged in interviews with seven Indigenous women: personal empowerment and confidence; wellbeing for themselves, family and community; and the importance of group mentorship. Author argues that they are applying the concept of gwesayjitodoon indo bimaadiziiwin, transforming oneself into a better life.
Apostate Englishman: Grey Owl the Writer and the Myths
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jonathan Clapperton
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 2, 2017, pp. 81-82
Description
Book review of: Apostate Englishman by Albert Braz.
Approaching Anxiety: Reading Eden Robinson in an Era of Reconciliation
Theses
Author/Creator
Hannah Mclean Skrynsky
Description
English Language and Literature Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University, 2017.
Aquagenesis: Drowning by Flooding is So Good for You
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph Mercredi
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1981, pp. 331-336
Description
Satirical pseudo-report to the Board of Directors of a hydroelectric project, proposing a solution to the problem of Indigenous people displaced by flooding.
Archival Sovereignty in LeAnne Howe's Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Emily Lederman
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 3, Fall, 2017, pp. [64]-88
Description
Looks at how the author critiques the colonial archive and emphasizes Indigenous ways of accessing, organizing and preserving histories.
Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Rose Stremlau
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 106-107
Description
Book review of: Asegi Stories by Qwo-Li Driskill.
Askî and Turtle Island
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Saskatchewan
Description
Primary reading level storybook.
[Askî Scrapbook]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Saskatchewan
Description
For use with the storybook Askî and Turtle Island.
"Basket Becomes Codex: A Poem by Trevino Brings Plenty in the Portland Art Museum"
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Karen M. Poremski
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 53-78
Description
Essay discusses Trevino Brings Plenty’s poem "Little, Cultural, Teapot Curio Exposes People" and its relationship to the object it is about, the museum that holds the object, and the social and cultural issue surrounding Indigenous materials in colonial museums.
“Because our law is our law”: Considering Anishinaabe Citizenship Orders through Adoption Narratives at Fort William First Nation
Theses
Author/Creator
Damien Lee
Description
Native Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2017.
Bigger They Are
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jason Jobin
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 137-166
Description
Short story.
Body Image Dissatisfaction (BID) from an Indigenous Alaska Native Female Perspective: A Pilot Study
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karaline Naegele
Christine R. Cook
Northern Review, no. 45, Innovation in the Circumpolar North, June 2017, pp. 141-160
Description
Researchers interviewed female participants between the ages of 18 and 23 and found that all participants experienced BID as young adults. Participants provided suggestions for working with Indigenous Alaska females who suffer from BID.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jean Friesen
K. Wilson
Scott Clark
Ken Hanly
George F. G. Stanley
et al.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1981, pp. 217-257
Description
Book reviews of 23 books:
The Forces Which Shaped Them: A History of the Education of Minority Group Children in British Columbia by Mary Ashworth.
Forty Years a Chief by George Barker.
A History of Native Claims Processes in Canada, 1867-1979 by Richard C. Daniel.
The Metaphysics of Modern Existence by Vine Deloria
The Covenant Chain: Indian Ceremonial and Indian Trade Silver by N.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Various authors
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1981, pp. 363-375
Description
Book reviews of 6 books:
Urban Indians: The Strangers in Canada's Cities by Larry Krotz.
Report of the Indian Child Welfare Sub-Committee Manitoba.
Inuit Songs from Eskimo Point [edited] by Ramon Pellinski, Luk Suluk and Lucy Amarook.
Song of Sedna by Robert D. San Souci.
Gathering What the Great Nature Provided: Food Traditions of the Gitksan by the People of 'Ksan.
Pitseolak, A Canadian Tragedy by David F. Raine.
But I Was Wearing a Suit
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Continuing Legal Education Society of BC
Description
Indigenous lawyers and law students from British Columbia recount their experiences with stereotyping, race-based assumptions, and discrimination within the legal profession and while practicing in the justice system.
Duration: 25:43.
Related material: Part 2.
[California Through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Terria Smith
Studies in American Indian Literature, vol. 29, no. 2, Summer, 2017, pp. 98-101
Description
Book review of: California Through Native Eyes by William J. Bauer.
Canada's Dark Secret
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Bud Whiteye
Roberta Hill
Ron Shortt
Rania El Rafei
Description
Primary focus is the personal narratives of two survivors of the Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School, with some general information of the school system and the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Duration: 47:30.
Canadian Indigenous Books for Schools: Selected and Evaluated by Teacher-Librarians: 2017-2018
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia
Description
Annotated list organized into elementary, secondary, and cross-grades, then alphabetically by title. Subject and curriculum areas included.
Canadian Indigenous Writers Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[NWT Literacy Council]
Description
Material divided into seven categories: graphic novel, nonfiction, novel, play, poetry, short stories, and stories. Each entry contains summary, information about the author and list of titles also written by them.
A Change of Subject: Perspectivism and Multinaturalism in Inuit Depictions of Interspecies Transformation
Alternate Title
Un changement de sujet : Perspectivisme et multinaturalisme dans les représentations inuit des transformations interespèces
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sean P.A. Desjardins
Études Inuit Studies , vol. 41, no. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 101-124
Description
Article argues that two pre-contact Inuit artifacts, recovered from the Pingiqqalik site, depict interspecies transformation; author argues that this is evidence that interspecies relations were influenced by a cosmology rooted in multinaturalism.
The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River
Alternate Title
Critical Studies in Native History ; 20
E-Books
Author/Creator
Susan M. Hill
Critical Studies in Native History
Closed Stranger Adoption, Māori and Race Relations in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1955-1985
Alternate Title
Closed Stranger Adoption, Maori and Race Relations in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1955-1985
Theses
Author/Creator
Maria Haenga-Collins
Description
[Indigenous History] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian National University, 2017.
Collective and Individual Memories: Narrations about the
Transformations in the Nenets Society
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roza Laptander
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 54, no. 1, 2017, pp. 22-31
Description
Discussion of how members of this Russian group choose to relay stories about events surrounding Soviet confiscation of reindeer herds during the collectivization period.
Colonialism and Race Relations in Remote Inland Australia: Observations from the Field of Australian Indigenous Studies
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Barry Judd
ab-Original, vol. 1, no. 2, 2017, pp. 214-242
Description
Opinion piece in which the author works to document their efforts to close the spatial distance between researcher and researched through a series of vignettes, and later reflects on the results of their work.
Coming Out Stories: Two Spirit Narratives in Atlantic Canada: Final Report
Alternate Title
Research Project Report (Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network) ; 2017
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John R. Sylliboy
Tuma Young
Description
Through 20 in-depth interviews project gathered information on socio-cultural context, state of mental health and well-being during process, and supports which were relied upon.
“Common Disaster”?!: Three Works Revealing the Importance of Inuit Presence and Inuit Oral History [On the Writings about the Man in Charge / the Men Aboard / the Unceasing Searching for the Erebus and Terror]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah Stiles
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 2, Spring, 2017, pp. 520-532
Description
Article examines non-fiction texts about the search for the Northwest Passage to illustrate the contributions of Inuit people and communities to Arctic exploration.
Communicating Effectively with Indigenous Clients: An Aboriginal Legal Services Publication
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lorna Fadden
Description
Reports on issues raised by Indigenous clients themselves and discusses features of Aboriginal varieties of English and how linguistic prejudice may affect interactions between lawyer and client and court outcomes.
Companion to James Welch's "The Heartsong of Charging Elk"
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lydia R. Cooper
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 2, Spring, 2017, pp. 182-185
Description
Book review of Companion to James Welch's "The Heartsong of Charging Elk" edited by Arnold Krupat.
The Concept of Duality in Culture and Myths of Lakota Indians
Theses
Author/Creator
Klára Perlíková
Description
[Ethnology] Thesis (Ph.D)--Univerzita Karlova [Charles University], 2017
Consuming, Incarcerating, and “Transmoting” Misery: Border Practice in Vizenor’s Bearheart and Jones’s The Fast Red Road
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cathy Covell Waegner
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 1-29
Description
Literary criticism article discusses themes of survivance and transmotion in Vizenor’s (1978) and Jones’ (2000) debut novels, considers contexts of postmodernism and carceral theory, and the generational difference between the two authors.
Cornus versus dentus et autres modalités d’association des animaux dans l’imaginaire inuit
Alternate Title
Horned versus Teethed and Other Modalities of Animal Association in the Inuit Imagination
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vladimir Randa
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 41, no. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 51-71
Description
Author explores Inuit ontologies or knowledge systems around non-human members of their ecosystem; discuss how Inuit ways of knowing the animals are rooted in social and cultural factors of relationality.
Text in French.
The Cosmological Liveliness of Terril Calder's The Lodge: Animating Our Relations and Unsettling Our Cinematic Spaces
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Salma Monani
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 4, Winter, 2017, pp. 1-28
Description
Examines Calder’s stop-frame animated feature film in the context of animation, ecocinema, and Indigenous studies; focuses on theme of hybridity and métissage.
Coyote and the Stars
Alternate Title
The Indian Reading Series: Stories and Legends of the Northwest ; Level 1, Book 1
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Members of the Warm Springs Reservation Committee
Description
Coyote Places the Stars [by] Harriet Peck Taylor
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Erie District
Description
Designed to accompany retelling of traditional Wasco story about how stars came to be arranged in the shapes of animals. Recommended for use with Grade 3 students.
Coyote Tales: Written by Thomas King; Illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler
Alternate Title
Coyote Sings to the Moon
Coyote's New Suit
Groundwood Study Guides
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Groundwood Books
Description
Guide for book containing two humorous trickster stories.
For use with Grades 1 to 4.
Creating Space for Historical Narratives through Indigenous Storywork and Unsettling the Settler
Theses
Author/Creator
Margaret J. A. Knickle
Description
Education Thesis (M.A.)--Mount Saint Vincent University, 2017.
Cree Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lawrence Barkwell
Norman Fleury
Description
Material on: culture, history, mythology and language as well as separate sections for scholarly articles and theses.children's books, films, internet resources, music, recordings, curriculum materials, and textbooks.
The Critical Collaboration: Introductions as a Gateway to the Study of Native American Bi-Autobiography
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
R. D. Theisz
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 5, no. 1, 1981, pp. 65-80
Description
Presents method of analysis which can be applied to the introductions of a literary genre consisting of an individual's personal narrative being recorded/edited by a non-Indigenous person.