Western Education Meets Native Westerners
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Arthur H. DeRosier
Victoria Brown Cech
National Forum, vol. 71, no. 2, Spring, 1991, p. 7
Description
Brief general discussion of Montana's American Indian enrolment statistics, problems encountered when tribal colleges apply for accreditation and a cooperative effort by three institutions to ease the transition from tribal colleges to four-year institutions.
[Western Goes East: Limonádový Joe and Its Possible Interpretations]
Theses
Author/Creator
Kateřina Juřinová
Description
[[English and American Studies?] Thesis (M.A.)--Masarykova univerzita, 2006].
Western Medicine and Australian Indigenous Healing Practices
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Don Gorman
Anne-Maree Nielsen
Odette Best
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, January/February 2006, pp. 28-29
Description
Studies the outcomes of patients treated by both western and Indigenous forms of medicine.
Western Perspectives
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Robert Coutts
The Beaver, vol. 71, no. 3, June/July 1991, pp. 57-[?]
Description
Book review of: Images of the West: Changing Perceptions of the Prairies, 1690-1960 by R. Douglas Francis.
Wet Prairie: An Environmental History of Wetlands, Flooding and Drainage in Agricultural Manitoba, 1810-1980
Theses
Author/Creator
Shannon Stunden Bower
Description
Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 2006.
Wettlaufer, Boyd N. (1914-)
Alternate Title
Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ian Dyck
Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan
Description
Brief biography of Boyd Wettlaufer which describes his training in New Mexico, and his field work in Saskatchewan. Wettlaufer is regarded as the father of Saskatchewan archaeology.
The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Charlotte Coté
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 177-181
Description
Book review of: The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters by Edward Sapir, et al.
"What a Women Can Do With an Auto": American Women in the Early Automotive Era
Theses
Author/Creator
Carla Rose Lesh
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Albany, State University of New York, 2010.
What Are Indigenous Health Workers Saying About Their Smoking Status: Does it Prevent Them Providing Tobacco Information and/or Quit Support to the Community
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Marlene A. Thompson
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 34, no. 2, March/April 2010, pp. 3-8
Description
Concludes that barriers between health workers and their communities can effect smoking cessation.
What Are Our Expectations Telling Us?: Encounters with the NMAI
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gwyneira Isaac
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3/4, Summer/Fall, 2006, pp. 574-596
Description
Describes four viewpoints about the National Museum of the Native American (NMAI) garnered through two personal visits and the others through newspaper articles and discussions.
What Are Warrior Societies?
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Taiaiake Alfred
Lana Lowe
New Socialist, no. 58, Special Issue on Indigenous Resurgence, Sept-Oct 2006, pp. 4-8
Description
Looks at the Mohawk Warrior Society, Red Power movement and the West Coast Warrior Society.
Scroll down to page 4 to read article.
What Are You In the Dark?: The Transformative Powers of Manitouminasuc Upon the Identities of Anishinabegi in the Ontario Child Welfare System
Theses
Author/Creator
Rose Ella Cameron
Description
Social Work Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2010.
What Can We Learn From Traditional Aboriginal Education? Transforming Social Work Education Delivered in First Nations Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara Harris
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 29, no. 1, 2006, pp. 117-134
Description
Discusses the importance of context for social work education, illustrated by the First Nations Bachelor of Social Work program, which was delivered as a satellite program in a First Nations community.
What Causes Canadian Aboriginal Protest? Examining Resources, Opportunities and Identity, 1951-2000
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Howard Ramos
Canadian Journal of Sociology, vol. 31, no. 2, Spring, 2006, p. 211
Description
Analyzes whether protest can be explained by resource mobilization, political opportunities or the construction of PanAboriginal collective identity.
What do Mental Health Practioners Need to Know When Working with Aboriginal Clients to ensure Intercultural Competence and Safe Practice?
Theses
Author/Creator
Murray W. Kowalzik
Description
Integrated Studies Project towards (M.A.)--Athabasca University, 2010.
What Do We Know About Health Literacy and Diabetes Care, and What Does This Mean for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples with Diabetes?
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sean Taylor
Robyn McDermott
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 34, no. 6, November/December 2010, pp. 28-30
Description
Comments on the high prevalence of diabetes in Indigenous Australians and the correlation between poor management of the disease and health literacy.
What Good Condition? Reflections on an Australian Aboriginal Treaty 1986-2006
Alternate Title
Aboriginal History Monograph ; 13
E-Books
Author/Creator
Peter Read
Steven Churches
Ravi de Costa
William Jonas
Roderic Pitty ... [et al.]
Aboriginal History Monograph
What Has American Indian Medicine Given Us?
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Virgil J. Vogel
National Forum, vol. 71, no. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. [28-30?]
Description
Comments on Native American herbal medicine, curing practices, and influences on western medicine.
What is the Degree of Mātauranga Māori Expressed Through Measures Of Ethnicity?
Alternate Title
What Is the Degree of Matauranga Maori Expressed Through Measures Of Ethnicity?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shaun Awatere
AlterNative, vol. 6, no. 1, 2010, pp. 1-14
Description
Study that looks at the link between Māori cultural identity and concern for the environment.
What is the Duty to Consult, Anyway, and Why is it Important?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jason J. Annibale
McMillan Aboriginal Law Bulletin, January 2010, pp. 1-3
Description
Discusses the Crown's obligation to consult whenever their actions could impact Aboriginal right or title interests that are recognized by section 35 of the Constitution.
“What is the proper word for people like you?”: The Question of Métis Identity in In Search of April Raintree
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sharon Smulders
English Studies in Canada , vol. 32, no. 4, December 2006, pp. 75-100
Description
Discusses the significance of identity in the novel due to varying definitions of the term Métis.
What is Working, What is Hopeful: Developing Suicide Prevention Strategies With Indigenous Communities
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Masecar
Description
Shares portions of stories and comments collected from representatives from a number of Indigenous communities that have overcome suicide.
Phase II Report.
What is Working, What is Hopeful: Phase II: Supporting Community-Based Suicide Prevention Strategies Within Indigenous Communities: A Proposal
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Masecar
Description
Discusses the three components of the project: resources, research, and training.
Phase One Report.
What it Means to be an Indian
Alternate Title
One Native Life
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Richard Wagamese
Canadian Dimension, vol. 44, no. 2, March/April 2010, pp. 8-9
Description
Story about accepting who you are.
What Kind of Learning? For What Purpose?: Reflections on a Critical Adult Education Approach to Online Social Work and Education Courses Serving Indigenous Distance Learners
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Kovach
Harpell Monty Montgomery
Critical Social Work, vol. 11, no. 1, Special Indigenous Issue, 2010, pp. 27-41
Description
Looks at online learning with a historical review of adult education & its lack of engagement with Indigenous knowledge. Also discusses need to create culturally sensitive technology designed to include Indigenous knowledge.
What Nurses Should Know When Working in Aboriginal Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Caroline H. Foster
Canadian Nurse, vol. 102, no. 4, April 2006, pp. 28-31
Description
Argues that nurses need to understand the specific history, culture and the concept of respect, in Aboriginal terms, within a particular community and then apply this knowledge to their relationships in that community.
What Other Canadian Kids Have: The Fight for a New School in Attawapiskat
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karl Reimer
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 1, 2010, pp. 119-136
Description
Discussion, at the structural level, about the kind of education that is provided to Canada’s Indigenous peoples. The article also discusses a social activist, Shannen Koostachin, and her campaign to engage in social action in order to pressure the federal government to build a new school.
What's In It For Me? My Story of Becoming a Facilitator of an Aboriginal Empowerment Program
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cath Brown
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 34, no. 5, September/October 2010, pp. 12-15
Description
Author reflects on her personal courage when moving to a new job and the rewards received for facing her fears.
What's the Score?: A Survey of Cultural Diversity and Racism in Australian Sport
E-Books
Author/Creator
Paul Oliver
What's to Be Done with the Fox? Inuit Teachers Inventing Musical Games for Inuit Classrooms
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joan Russell
Curriculum Inquiry, vol. 36, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 15-33
Description
Discusses music course offered at the Nunavut Arctic College's Teacher Education Program (NTEP) which incorporated Inuit culture as a central theme.
What’s Up at FNUC?
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Wiona Wheeler
Denise Henning
Canadian Dimension, vol. 40, no. 1, January 2, 2006, p. [?]
Description
Commentary on the events surrounding the financial crisis at the First Nations University of Canada.
What Sort of Indian Will Show Me the Way?: Colonization, Mediation, and Interpretation in the Sun Dance Contact Zone
Theses
Author/Creator
Sandra Garner
Description
Comparative Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2010.
What the White "Squaws" Want From Black Hawk: Gendering the Fan-Celebrity Relationship
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tena L. Helton
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 4, Fall, 2010, pp. 498-520
Description
Looks at the culture of celebrity in the early nineteenth century focusing on Black Hawk, a Sauk Indian war chief.
What Their Stories Tell Us: Research Findings From the Sisters in Spirit Initiative
Alternate Title
Sisters In Spirit 2010 Research Findings
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)
Description
Report, based on five years of research into missing and murdered Aboriginal females in Canada, explores circumstances, root causes and trends of violence, numbers of missing/murdered women, and questions why this is occurring.
What to the American Indian is the Fourth of July? Moving Beyond Abolitionist Rhetoric in William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Drew Lopenzina
American Literature, vol. 82, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 673-699
Description
Looks at Apess's historical address given in 1836 in which he uses the power of the role as a Christian minister and the rhetoric of the abolitionist movement to argue for Native rights.
What We Don't Know Can Hurt Them: White Teachers, Indian Children
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bobby Ann Starnes
The Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 87, no. 5, January 2006, pp. 384-392
Description
Looks at impact of cultural and historical misunderstandings and the effect on Native students. Provides recommendations.
What Works: Effective Policies and Programs for Aboriginal Peoples of Canada: Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Natasha Caverley
Description
Overview of a project intended to identify effective human resource management strategies, practices and programs (specifically, within the areas of recruitment and career development).
What Works: The Work Program, Improving Outcomes for Indigenous Students: Successful Practice
Alternate Title
Successful Practice
E-Books
Author/Creator
Geoff Ainsworth
David McRae
What Writer Would Not Be an Indian for a While?: Charles Alexander Eastman, Critical Memory, and Audience
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gale P. Coskan-Johnson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 105-131
Description
Contends that the work of Sioux writer Alexander Eastman reflects not only an assimilationist perspective but also examines Native Americans within the oppressive socio-cultural context of 19th and 20th century.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 105.
When a Native "Goes Researcher" : Notes from the North American Ingenious Games
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle M. Jacob
American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 50, no. 4, Indigenous Peoples: Canadian and U.S. Perspectives, December 2006, pp. 450-461
Description
Discusses how an Aboriginal researcher analyzes the effects of "authentic Indianness" and "white privilege" on the research process.
When Aboriginal and Métis Teachers Use Storytelling as an Instructional Practice
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Melanie MacLean
Linda Wason-Ellam
Description
Study involved in-depth interviews with seven teachers from two Saskatchewan school divisions about their classroom practices and experiences.
When Consultation Becomes a Checkbox, What's the Fracking Point?: Colonial Constraints on Social Learning Processes in Northeast BC and the Fort Nelson First Nation's New Approach to Resource Governance
Theses
Author/Creator
Rosanna Breiddal
Description
Geography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Guelph, 2006.
When is Research Relevant to Policy Making? A Study of the Arctic Human Development Report
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David M. Brock
Pimatisiwin, vol. 8, no. 1, Summer, 2010, pp. 125-149
Description
Discussion on the frustration felt, by northern Aboriginal peoples, that research conducted in the north is invariably not relevant to the people or to pubic policy.
When Love Medicine Is Not Enough: Class Conflict and Work Culture on and off the Reservation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reginald Dyck
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 3, 2006, pp. 23-43
Description
Essay arguing for a way of reading responsibly that takes into account socioeconomic realities. The essay further argues that the roles of reader and critic must also become that of active teacher and citizen to become agents for change.
When Love Medicine is Not Enough: Class Conflict and Work Culture On and Off the Reservation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reginald Dyck
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 3, 2006, pp. 23-43
Description
Authors comments on the inequities that exist due to the Euro-American conquest of Native Americans by an analysis of Erdrich's Love Medicine.
When the Other Is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1850-1990
E-Books
Author/Creator
Emma LaRocque
When the State Bar Exam Embraces Indian Law: Teaching Experiences and Observations
Alternate Title
When the State Bar Exam Embraces Indian Law: Teaching Experiences and Observations The Pedagogy of American Indian Law
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gloria Valencia-Weber
Sherri Nicole Thomas
North Dakota Law Review, vol. 82, no. 3, Pedagogy of American Indian Law, 2006
Description
Outlines the history of Indian law at the University of New Mexico and the decision to include Indian law on the state bar exam. The article is the perspective of a professor and a research librarian, and includes impacts on the inclusion and insights gained.
When the Women Heal: Aboriginal Women Speak About Policies to Improve the Quality of Life
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carolyn Kenny
American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 50, no. 4, December 2006, pp. 550-561
Description
Discussion of the dilemmas when conducting research that is culturally appropriate.
When You Sing It Now, Just Like New: First Nations Poetics, Voices, and Representations
E-Books
Author/Creator
Robin Ridington
Jillian Ridington