Theses
Author/Creator
Suzanne Morrissette
Description
Social and Political Thought Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2017.
Refers to works by Bonnie Devine, Kent Monkman, Kade Twist, Christian Chapman, the Ogimaa Mikana Project, Cheryl L'Hirondelle, Carl Beam, Merritt Johnson, A Tribe Called Red, and Fallon Simard.
Off-Reserve Aboriginal Internet Users
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Susan Crompton
Canadian Social Trends, no. 75, Winter, 2004, pp. 8-15
Description
Indicates off-reserve First Nations people are as likely to use the internet as non-Aboriginal people. Uses data from the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) and the 2000 General Social Survey.
An Offering: Lakota Elders Contributions to the Future of Food Security
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph Paul Brewer II
Mary Kate Dennis
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 1-22
Description
Study works with 25 Elders living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to explore narratives surrounding food and food production over their lives. Four themes emerged: family homestead, food as security, food preservation, and generational gardening. Discusses potential implications for future programming to improve food security.
Offering our Gifts, Partnering for Change: Decolonizing Experimentation in Winnipeg-based Settler Archives
Theses
Author/Creator
Sarah Story
Description
History-Archival Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2017.
Office of the Languages Commissioner of Nunavut
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Office of the Languages Commissioner of Nunavut
Description
Site provides links to newsletters and press releases, annual report, language legislation and related reports for Nunavut's three official languages: French, English, and Inuktitut/Inuinnaqtun.
Oh Canada, Whose Home and Native Land? Negotiating Multicultural, Aboriginal and Canadian Identity Narratives
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Momina Khan
Michael Cottrell
Education Matters: The Journal of Teaching and Learning, vol. 5, no. 1, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Discusses the need to restructure the social studies curriculum that allows for more voices and narratives to be heard.
Oil and the Iñupiaq: Linking Industry and Education at Iļisaġvik College
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Pearl Kiyawn Brower
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 28, no. 4, Oil and Indian Country, Summer, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Comments on college programming designed to support industry jobs.
Ojibwa Fishing Grounds: A History of Ontario Fisheries Law, Science, and the Sportsmen's Challenge to Aboriginal Treaty Rights, 1650--1900
Theses
Author/Creator
J. Michael Thoms
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2004.
Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement
Alternate Title
[North American Indian Thought and Culture]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Dennis Banks
Richard Erdoes
The Ojibwe Who Slew the Wiindigo
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.
Old Cuts and Scrapes: Composite Chipped Stone Knives on the Canadian Plateau
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mike K. Rousseau
Canadian Journal of Archaeology, vol. 28, no. 1, 2004, pp. 1-31
Description
Discusses stone knives involving both bifacial blades and unifacial scrapers and implications for their use.
"The Old Lady Trill, the Victory Yell": the Power of Women in Native American Literature
E-Books
Author/Creator
Patrice E.M. Hollrah
Description
Includes readings on the works of Zitkala-Sa, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie.
"Old Things" on the Loose: The Legal Market for Archaeological Materials From Alaska's Bering Strait
Theses
Author/Creator
Julia J. Hollowell
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2004.
Older Programs in Navajo Area Progressing, New Ones Promising
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William J. Benham
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 11, no. 1, October 1971, pp. [11-15]
Description
Discusses Navajo specialized bilingual programs.
On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race and the Making of British Columbia 1849-1871
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Elbourne
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 85, no. 3, September 2004, pp. 595-598
Description
Book review of: On the Edge of Empire by Adele Perry.
On the Political "Warpath": Native Americans and Australian Aborigines After the First World War
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Maynard
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 48-62
Description
"Focuses on and discusses two organizations that formed during this global time period: the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association (AAPA) in Australia and the Mission Indian Federation (MIF) in the United States".
On the Return of the Native
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Asch
Colin Samson
Current Anthropology, vol. 45, no. 2, April 2004, pp. 261-268
Description
Critiques Adam Kupers' article The Return of the Native; includes response from the author.
On the Streets and in the State House: American Indian and Hispanic Women and Environmental Policymaking in New Mexico
Alternate Title
Indigenous Peoples and Politics
E-Books
Author/Creator
Diane-Michele Prindleville
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.
Ondinnok
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Yves Sioui Durand
Catherine Joncas
Description
Presents the only Native theatre company in Québec founded in 1985.
A One-Day Snapshot of Aboriginal Youth in Custody Across Canada: Phase II
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jeff Latimer
Laura Casey Foss
Description
Snapshot and sharing circle results and discussion of information gathered. Compares 2000 and 2003 Snapshots to determine changes in absolute numbers in custody over three-year period.
One Flea-Bitten Gray Horse: Women, Horses, and Economy on the Yakama Reservation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clifford E. Trafzer
T. Robert Przeklasa
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 5-29
Description
Authors use bills of sale for horses from 1909-12 as primary documents to explore the roles women on the Yakima reservation played in their nation’s economy and their resistance to conforming to Western or Christian gender roles.
One Little, Two Little, Three Little Stereotypes: A History of Native Culture and Imagery in American Cinematic Cartoons
Theses
Author/Creator
Dustin Devore
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Oklahoma State University, 2017.
"One of the Queenliest Women in Dignity, Grace, and Character I Have Ever Met": Photography and Navajo Women: Portraits of Juanita, 1868-1902
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Nez Denetdale
New Mexico Historical Review, vol. 79, no. 3, Summer, 2004, pp. 289-318
Description
Comments on a Navajo woman who is only one of two women consistently named in historical photographs.
"One Small Medicine": An Interview with Maria Campbell
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gingell
Susan
Essays on Canadian Writing, vol. 83, Fall, 2004, pp. 188-205
Description
Interview with Maria Campbell about her reasons for writing the book Stories of the Road Allowance People and her experience in translating Cree concepts into English.
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.
One Year On: Indigenous Network Celebrates 1st Birthday
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Kidd
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 28, no. 6, November/December 2004, p. 28
Description
Reflects on the accomplishments of the Indigenous Positive Network (IPN+), a national organization which strives to represent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with HIV/AIDS.
'The Only Good Thing That Happened at School': Colonising Narratives of Sport in the Indian School Bulletin
Alternate Title
'The Only Good Thing That Happened at School': Colonizing Narratives of Sport in the Indian School Bulletin
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janice Forsyth
Michael Heine
British Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 30, no. 2, 2017, pp. [205]-225
Description
Challenges the selective representations of sports and recreation in residential schools.
"Only the Home Can Found a State": Gender, Labor, and the United States Indian Service, 1869-1928, Volume One
Theses
Author/Creator
Cathleen D. Cahill
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2004.
"The Only True People": Linking Maya Identities Past and Present
E-Books
Author/Creator
Bethany J. Beyette
C. Mathews Samson
Juan Castillo Cocom
Timoteo Rodriguez
McCale Ashenbrener ... [et al.]
Ontario First Nations Special Education Review Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ontario First Nations
Description
Synthesizes published literature and information gathered from educators, administrators and service organizations. Focus is on funding.
Ontario's History of Tampering and Re-Tampering With Birth Registration Forms
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lynn Gehl
The First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 12, no. 1, 2017, pp. 24-33
Description
Looks into governmental interference with the long form birth registration for unmarried or separated mothers.
Ontological Conflicts Concerning Indigenous Peoples in Contemporary Brazil
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vanessa R. Lea
ab-Original, vol. 1, no. 2, 2017, pp. 151-175
Description
Author examines the ongoing conflicts between Indigenous peoples and state government in Brazil, notes that at the root of the conflict is a profound difference in worldview and what is an appropriate use of resources. Where Indigenous perspective advocate for subsistence use, state governing bodies are tied to extractive practices and focus on growth centered economies.
Open Letter to Massachusetts Joint Committee on Education to Ban Native American Mascots
Articles » General
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Summer, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Reprinted from Cultural Survival, June 6, 2017.
Open Professional Learning Resources: Audience Profiles
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
BCcampus
Indigenization Project Steering Committee
Description
Focuses on desired outcomes rather than current practices in the areas of intention, behaviour, community and systems fit in each of six post-secondary staff groups: front line staff / student services / advisors; leaders / administrators; curriculum / educational developers; educators / teachers / instructors; and researchers.
Opening Doors to the Future: Applying Local Knowledge in Curriculum Development
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Veronica Ignas
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 28, no. 1/2, Transformative Sites of Indigenous Education, 2004, pp. 49-60
Description
Discusses linking local ecological knowledge and science education.
Opening Pandora's Box: Métis Aboriginal Rights in Alberta
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa D. Weber
Saskatchewan Law Review, vol. 67, no. 1, 2004, pp. 315-338
Description
Topics include self-determination, self-government, Aboriginal title and land ownership issues.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade 5: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Eight: Foreigners Invade Your Country Simulation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Eleven: Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Nine: Introduction and Directions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[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.
Opioid Use in Pregnancy and Parenting: An Indigenous-Based Collaborative Framework for Northwestern Ontario
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Naana Afua Jumah
Lisa Bishop
Mike Franklyn
Janet Gordon
Len Kelly ... [et al.]
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 108, no. 5-6, 2017, pp. e616-e620
Description
Describes two workshops that looked at issues from the perspectives of research, health care, social service provision and supportive care.
Opioids and Substances of Misuse among First Nations People in Alberta
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Analytics and Performance Reporting Branch
Alberta Health
Description
Data for: mortality (apparent accidental deaths from fentanyl/non-fentanyl opioids), confirmed drug and alcohol toxicity deaths (both accidental and suicides), opioid dispensing, emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and emergency medical response.