Native American Leadership: Past, Present and Future
Native American Symposium ; 11th, 2015
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Jennifer L. McMahon
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Compares and contrasts Sartre’s play and Harjo’s short film; focuses on the setting, characters, and themes of confinement and social / personal interaction.
Exploring Effective Systems Responses To Homelessness
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Yale D. Belanger
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Gives overview of reserve housing conditions tracked through government and academic reports dating to the 1930s, looks at the impacts of the Indian Act, and discusses how jurisdictional disputes over responsibility and subsequent legal and policy separations have contributed to the current housing crisis.
Chapter from Exploring Effective Systems Responses To Homelessness edited by Naomi Nichols and Carey Doberstein.
Proceedings of the IDEAS: Designing for Innovation
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Yvonne Poitras Pratt
Solange Lalonde
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Looks at building educator capacity for media.
Chapter from Proceedings of the IDEAS: Designing for Innovation edited by M. Takeuchi, A. P. Preciado Babb and J. Lock.
"This audit focused on whether Correctional Service Canada provided correctional interventions in a timely manner to Indigenous offenders to assist with their successful reintegration into the community."
Audit covered the period between April 2013 and August 2016.
Discusses how environmental change has impacted men's roles and responsibilities in four areas: health, migration and displacement, economic and professional development, and culture.
Chapter from Men, Masculinities and Disaster edited by Elaine Enarson and Bob Pease.
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook on Psychology of Violence
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Jane E. Palmer
Michelle Chino
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Focuses on child abuse and neglect, and sexual and intimate partner violence.
Excerpt from: The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook on Psychology of Violence edited by Carlos A. Cuevas and Callie Marie Rennison.
[Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture ; 31]
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Brian Beaton
Terence Burnard
Adi Linden
Susan O’Donnell
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Describes Keewaytinook Okimakanak First Nations' development, implementation and operation of the not-for-profit KMobile system.
Chapter from Indigenous People and Mobile Technologies edited by Laurel Evelyn Dyson, Stephen Grant, and Max Hendriks.
Reservation X: The Power of Place in Aboriginal Contemporary Art
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Nancy Marie Mithlo
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Comments on an exhibit showcasing four Native American women artists.
Chapter from Reservation X: The Power of Place in Aboriginal Contemporary Art edited by Gerald McMaster.
Native American Leadership: Past, Present and Future
Native American Symposium; 11th, 2015
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Caleb Tankersley
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Literary criticism which discusses novels in the context of the genre of magical realism; discusses the genre as a means of political resistance and subversion favoured by post-colonial writers, feminist writers, and writers of colour.
Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies
The History of Cartography; vol, 2, bk. 3
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G. Malcolm Lewis
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Attempts to describe Native American ways of representing worlds and landscapes.
Chapter 4 in book: Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies edited by David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis.
SMSociety '16: Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society
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Mylynn Felt
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Looks at election-related tweets which carried hashtag #MMIW; content analysis showed that they mostly commonly conveyed hope, anger and disgust.
Paper from: SMSociety '16: Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society.
Native American Leadership: Past, Present and Future
Native American Symposium ; 11th, 2015
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Amy M. Gantt
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Situates the decline of Indigenous languages within historical and colonial contexts; examines some of the barriers to modern language reclamation and revitalization; discusses different methods and programs for language learning.
Painted Wood: History and Conservation. Part Five: Ethical Considerations
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Andrew Todd
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Discusses issues surrounding conservation, preservation, and restoration of totem poles from the Pacific Northwest.
Chapter from: Painted Wood: History and Conservation edited by Valerie Dorge and F. Carey Howlett.
[Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building]
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[György Ferenc Tóth]
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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.
Decolonisation in Aotearoa: Education, Research and Practice
Reclaiming Maori Education
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Ranginui Walker
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Discusses how the educational system imposed by the British served to create social injustice.
Chapter one from Decolonisation in Aotearoa: Education, Research and Practice edited by Jessica Hutchings and Jenny Lee-Morgan.
The King of the Waters: Legend of the Horned Water Serpent
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Deborah Mitchell
Jerry Bryan Lincecum
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The King of the Waters: Legend of the Horned Water Serpent by Deborah Mitchell examines the rare legend of a "snake-man".
Chahta-Immataha and the Choctaw Bible by Jerry Bryan Lincecum discusses the oral tradition of the Choctaw people.
Language in Mari Sandoz’s Crazy Horse: Strange Man of the Oglalas
Native American Symposium ; 2nd, 1997
Sam Kenoi’s “Coyote and the Whitemen”: Contact in and out of a Chiricahua Narrative
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Anthony K. Webster
Kimberli Lee
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Sam Kenoi’s “Coyote and the Whitemen”: Contact in and out of a Chiricahua Narrative by Anthony K. Webster examines specific narration by placing it within the context of received standards for a Coyote narrative.
Language in Mari Sandoz’s Crazy Horse: Strange Man of the Oglalas by Kimberli Lee discusses the Indian perspectives used in Mari Sandoz’s work.
Native American Voices in the Museum: The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Enters a New Century
Reclaiming Artifacts Through Oral History
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Clifford Crane
Annette B. Fromom
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Reclaiming Artifacts Through Oral History by Clifford Crane discusses strategies of representing Native American cultures in museums.
Native American Voices in the Museum: The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Enters a New Century by Annette B. Fromom examines the importance of involving Native Americans in correctly representing museum artifacts.
John Collier and the Controversial Resignation of Indian Commissioner Charles Burke, 1921-1929
Native American Symposium ; 2nd, 1997
Reclaiming the Feminine in the Chitimacha Creation Myth
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Ginger R. Davis
Carlon Andre
Carole McAllister
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John Collier and the Controversial Resignation of Indian Commissioner Charles Burke, 1921-1929 by Ginger R. Davis examines the federal Native American policy, and Burke's assimilationist policy and the end of his administration.
Reclaiming the Feminine in the Chitimacha Creation Myth by Carlon Andre and Carole McAllister discusses ways in which French influence altered and disturbed Chitimacha of Louisiana's oral traditions.
LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History
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Will Roscoe
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Overview of the various characteristics, roles and meanings ascribed to two spirit people followed by brief biographies of four historical figures.
Chapter from LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History edited by Megan E. Springate.
Curator's essay from catalogue for the exhibition Native Visions: Evolution in Northwest Coast Art from the Eighteenth Through the Twentieth Century by Steven C. Brown.
Argues that psycho-social issues and rather than only physical, must be addressed in treatment.
Chapter from Social Work and HIV -- The Canadian Experience edited by William Rowe and Bill Ryan.