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.
The Old People
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Eliana Ramage
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 3, no. 1, 2016, pp. 158-159
Description
Book review of: The Old People by A. J. Perry.
Old Song, Rough Music: The Shivoree Politics of Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jenna Hunnef
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 3, Fall, 2016, pp. 1-22
Description
Discusses the play's treatment of lawlessness and racial violence in Oklahoma prior to it achieving statehood as expressed in the ritual of the shivoree, which was used to show community disapproval of an inappropriate marriage.
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 Good Story, That One]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Anne Mai Yee Jansen
The American Indian Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 1, Winter, 2016, pp. 74-76
Description
Book review of: One Good Story, That One by Thomas King.
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.
Oskisihcikêwak / New Traditions in Cree Two -Spirit, Gay and Queer Narratives
Theses
Author/Creator
June Scudeler
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2016.
Our People's Stories
Alternate Title
Nobody Wants to Die. They Want the Pain to Stop: The Mushkegowuk Inquiry into Our Suicide Pandemic
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mushkegowuk Council
Description
Personal narratives gathered during a First Nations' inquiry into high number of suicides in Northern Ontario.
Our Stolen Grandmother: The Entanglement of Slavery and Colonization in Anna Lee Walters's Ghost Singer
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reid Gómez
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 70-90
Description
This literary criticism article examines the intersections and lasting consequences of settler colonialism and the chattel enslavement of African people on North American lands, cultures and identities in the context of the novel.
Our Stories: First Peoples in Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Jodie Adams
Liz Clarke
Dani Kwan-Lafond
Meera Mather
Natalie Thornhill ... [et al.]]
Description
eTextbook is a multi-media resource developed in collaboration with Indigenous peoples from across Canada. Covers both historical and contemporary topics.
Can be downloaded as iBook, ePub, or PDF.
Our Stories: First Peoples in Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Jodie Adams
Liz Clarke
Dani Kwan-Lafond
Meera Mather
Natalie Thornhill ... [et al.]]
Description
eTextbook is a multi-media resource developed in collaboration with Indigenous peoples from across Canada. Covers both historical and contemporary topics.
Can be downloaded as iBook, ePub, or PDF.
Our Time to Dance
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Celeste Pedri-Spade
The First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 11, no. 2, Special Issue: Sixties Scoop And Indigenous Child Welfare, 2016, pp. [43]-44
Description
A poem.
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
Outsourcing Reconciliation: The Government of Canada's #IndigenousReads Campaign and the Appropriation of Indigenous Intellectual Labor
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pauline Wakeham
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 1-30
Description
Author examines the #IndigenousReads campaign, considering it as a case study of reconciliatory gestures made by the Canadian Government; points out that reconciliation projects rely too heavily on the work of Indigenous writers and scholars, and fail to build cross-cultural relationships.
Palliating Inside the Line: The Effects of Borders and Boundaries on Palliative Care in Rural Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melissa Giesbrecht
Valorie A. Crooks
Heather Castleden
Nadine Schuurman
Mark Skinner
Allison Williams
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 168, November 2016, pp. 273-282
Description
Examines the everyday lived experiences of those giving and receiving rural palliative care.
Pan- Maya and “Trans- Indigenous”: The Living Voice of the Chilam Balam in Victor Montejo and Leslie Marmon Silko
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Worley
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 1, Spring, 2016, pp. 1-20
Description
Analyzes the presence of prophetic books by Yucatec Mayan "Jaguar Prophet" in Oxlanh b'aqtun and Almanac of the Dead, both works by non-Yucatec Indigenous authors.
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.
Paul Boyer on the New Information Age
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bradley Shreve
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 31, no. 1, The New Information Age, Spring-Summer, Aug 11, 2019
Description
Interview with the founding editor of Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education; Boyer reflects on the journal and on the new challenges that tribal communities face in the new information age.
Paul Simon Money
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Terese Mailhot
Transmotion, vol. 2, no. 1 - 2, November 28, 2016, pp. 131-135
Description
Creative prose piece in which the author describes her mother’s role in the creation of Paul Simon’s play The Capeman.
Paved Trails: Crip Poetics as an Approach Towards Decolonizing Accessibility
Theses
Author/Creator
Aimee Louw
Description
Media Studies Thesis (MA) -- Concordia University, 2019
Pedagogy, Pleasure and the Art of Poking Fun: Anti-colonial Humour in Australian Indigenous Studies
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Garry Jones
Colleen McGloin
AlterNative, vol. 12, no. 5, [Indigenous Peoples, Popular Pleasures and the Everyday], 2016, pp. 527-540
Description
Author discusses his experience with incorporating humour into an undergraduate class where the majority of students were not Indigenous.
Penitentiary Round Dance
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dawn Karima Pettigrew
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 40, no. 1, 2016, p. 189
Description
Poem.
Entry found under the Poetry section. Scroll down to page 189 to read.
People Before the Park: The Kootenai and Blackfeet Before Glacier National Park
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Joanne Schmidt
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 3, Summer, 2016, pp. 246-247
Description
Book review of: People Before the Park by Sally Thompson, Kootenai Culture Committee, and the Pikunni Traditional Association.
Permafrost
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Thaler
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 67-83
Description
Short story.
Photo Vignette – Whale Watching, Salish Style
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lee Maracle
BC Studies , no. 200, 50th Anniversary, Winter, 2019, pp. 27-29
Description
Author shares a personal story as a means of teaching about cross-cultural relationships.
"Playing Indian" Revisited: American Indians in the Transatlantic Cultural Landscape
Alternate Title
From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie
[Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
[György Ferenc Tóth]
Description
Focuses on the influence of German author Karl May's Winnetou cycle of novels and Central European hobbyists' obsession with impersonating Plains Indians.
Chapter from From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie by György Ferenc Tóth.
Poems from Of Hawks and Horses
Alternate Title
Native American Leadership: Past, Present and Future
Native American Symposium; 11th, 2015
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Ron Wallace
Description
Four poems: Death of a Leftfielder, Between the Moon and Mexico, October Rising, and Lawton, Oklahoma (February 17th 1909).
Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
José D. Trejo-Maya
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 40, no. 3, 2016, pp. 123-128
Description
Six poems are part of the larger work Death Throws.
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.
Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jake Skeets
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 123-124
Description
Three poems:
Native American Poem
Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
Comma
“Poetry [Film] = Anger × Imagination”: Intermediality, the Synthesis of Poetry and Film, and Cross- Cultural Belonging in Sherman Alexie’s The Business of Fancydancing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sabine N. Meyer
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter , 2019, pp. 36-73
Description
Cultural and artistic criticism piece; considers Alexie’s film as an adaptation and as a poetry film. Discusses artistic tools of referencing, trans media adaptation, and genre defiance; and considers the social and political statements made about identity formation, cross cultural relationships, and the centering of Indigenous narratives.
The Politics of Immobility in Leonard Peltier's Prison Writings and Tomson Highway's Rose
Theses
Author/Creator
Cameron Norman Paul
Description
English Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2016.
Power in My Blood: Corporeal Sovereignty Through the Praxis of an Indigenous Eroticanalysis
Theses
Author/Creator
Tracy Lee Bear
Description
English and Film Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2016.
Practicing Sovereignty: Colonial Temporalities, Cherokee Justice, and the "Socrates" Writings of John Ridge
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kelly Wisecup
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 30-60
Description
"This article shows that Ridge's Socrates articles provided a public venue in which to define relationships among the Cherokees, the states, and the federal government".
Preserving Cultural Heritage and Creating Economic
Stability after the Nepal Earthquake
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kylie Rose Doran
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 2, 2016, pp. 85-93
Description
Student discusses her time spent working for a non-governmental organization in Nepal.
Prisons of History: Pocahontas, Mary Jemison, and the Poetics of an American Myth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karenne Wood
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 1, Spring, 2016, pp. 73-82
Description
Focuses on two women's lives (one born Native American and one who "became" Native American) and how society chose to perceive them.
Progressive Traditions: Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture; Sovereign Stories: Aesthetics, Autonomy, and Contemporary Native American Writing; Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jessica Bardill
American Literature, vol. 88, no. 1, March 2016, pp. 191-193
Description
Review of three books:
Progressive Transitions by Joshua B. Nelson
Sovereign Stories by Padraig Kirwan
Settler Common Sense by Mark Rifkin
Promises of the "Vanishing" Worlds: Re-Storying "Civilization" in the Philippine National Imaginary
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
S Lily Mendoza
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, 2019, pp. 119-143
Description
Using the literary work of Filipino author Nick Joaquin to examine the Philippine discursive between the "normal" civilized and the defined "primitive" Indigenous populations.
Promoting Culturally Respectful Cancer Education Through Digital Storytelling
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melany Cueva
Regina Kuhnley
Anne Lanier
Mark Dignan
Laura Revels ... [et al.]
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 11, no. 1, Wellness-Based Indigenous Health Research and Promising Practices, 2016, pp. 34-49
Description
Looks at using digital storytelling as a way to combine storytelling traditions with modern technology for promoting both individual and community health.
Quarantine Zone
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jace Weaver
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 3, Fall, 2016, pp. 127-129
Description
Book review of Quarantine Zone by Daniel H. Wilson
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.
Racism Experiences of Urban Indigenous Women in Ontario, Canada: “We All Have That Story That Will Break Your Heart”
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anita C Benoit
Jasmine Cotnam
Doe O'Brien-Teengs
Saara Green
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, June 18, 2019
Description
Mixed methods research study explores how Indigenous women in two Canadian urban centers experience racism. Findings indicate that participants experience racism in ways that can be classified as individual, collective or institutional, and cultural and rage from historical events to contemporary manifestations.
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.