Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs
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Author/Creator
Noel Edward Smyth
Description
Looks how European and American writers, anthropologists and historians have misconstrued and misrepresented the history of the Natchez people for the last 250 years.
Presented at the Tenth Native American Symposium, November 14-15, 2013.
Chapter from Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs edited by Mark B. Spencer.
Describes the current state of crime and violence in Inuit communities and the programs and services that exist to reduce or eliminate violence against women and girls.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 27, no. 1, Tribal College Communities, Fall, August 20, 2015, pp. [20-24,7]
Description
Briefly discusses tribal colleges and universities' integration of community-based and formal education through ceremonial life, programs, partnerships, and outreach efforts.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 6, no. 3, June 2015, pp. 1-19
Description
Looks at the need for reducing the prevalence and burden of disease for Maori and other Indigenous populations through biobanking initiatives and genetic research.
Northern Review, no. 39, Consultation and Resource Development in Northern Communities: Russia, Scandinavia & Canada, 2015, pp. 124-135
Description
Argues collaboration between governments, industry and educational institutions is needed to engage communities. Findings show development strategies should be integrated with mental health and addiction programs to keep youth in schools.
English Practice, vol. 57, no. 1, Starting a Circle: Exploring Aboriginal Education, Fall, 2015, pp. 43-[45]
Description
Provides observations about the challenges of implementing the English First Peoples curriculum.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 43.
Reports results of interviews with service providers, Elders, community members, and people experiencing homelessness in 11 Saskatchewan communities and one in Manitoba.
Book reviews of:
Eskimokunstler, Ergebnisse Einer Reise in Alaska (Eskimo Artists, Resutls of a Voyage in Alaska) by Hans Himmelheber.
Der Gefrorene Pfad, Mythen, Marchen Und Legenden De Eskimo ( The Frozen Path, Myths, Fairy-Tales and Legends of the Eskimo) by Hans Himmelheber.
Compares the role of Indigenous hunters as portrayed in the novels Pursuing the Whale by John A. Cook, and Chasing the Bowhead by Hartson H. Bodfish to Brower's Fifty Years Below Zero
BC Studies, no. 187, These Outer Shores, Autumn, 2015, pp. 21-50
Description
Looks at area where people and land otters lived over the past fifty-five hundred years and explains why Tlingit have a cultural tie to the land otter.
Discusses criteria for selecting or rejecting each type of material including: content, illustrations, and accompanying sections such as discussion questions, bibliographies, and further activities.
Guidelines equally applicable to Canadian context.
Rev. ed.
Reterritorialising Social Media: Indigenous People Rise Up
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Author/Creator
Leesa Watego
Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol. 1, no. 2, Reterritorialising Social Media: Indigenous People Rise Up, 2015
Description
Creator of deadlybloggers.com discusses the use of blogs and other forms of social media as an avenue to for Indigenous represent themselves, results of survey of bloggers who use the site.
Duration: 40:38.
Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health
Description
Report was developed for two child and youth mental health agencies (one a First Nations agency) seeking to understand the current literature related to best practices.