Our Elders Come First: Human Development and Aging in an Inuit Community
Theses
Author/Creator
Peter F. Collings
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pennsylvania State University, 1999.
Oyate Resource List
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Oyate
Description
Annotated bibliography of books suitable for teaching various grade levels. Current as of 2005.
Peekiskwetan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rhonda Johnson
Winona Stevenson
Donna Greschner
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 6, no. 1, 1993, pp. 153-173
Description
Cross-cultural dialogue between three women: Rhonda Johnson, Winona Stevenson and Donna Greschner.
People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879: With an Epilogue, 1969-1974 [Vol. 1]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Peter John Powell
Pete Price, Navajo Medicineman (1868-1951): A Brief Biography
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephen C. Jett
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, Winter, 1991, pp. 91-103
Description
The author uses published documents, archival sources, and family interviews to construct a biography of the Diné medicine man, Pete Price (also called Chief Silagotio in some media accounts).
Placing The Sacred Pipe: A Fractal Model for Lakota Ritual
Theses
Author/Creator
Stephen Oyer-Owens
Description
Humanities Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Dallas, 2002.
Powered by a Higher Power: A Conversation with HvnSent
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
HvsSent
Honey Dawn Karima Pettigrew
Whispering Wind, vol. 39, no. 4, Issue 272, September-October 2010, pp. 28-[?]
Description
Interview with singer Wesley Royce Stops also known as HvnSent.
Protestant Missionaries and Native Culture: Parallel Careers of Asher Wright and Silas T. Rand
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas S. Abler
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 25-37
Description
Author examines the writings and compares the careers of two missionaries working to convert Indigenous peoples in North America; focuses on the missionaries’ engagement with the elders, storytellers and culture of the nations.
Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief
Alternate Title
[North American Indian Thought and Culture]
E-Books
Author/Creator
William T. Hagan
[Red Crow College Sponsored "Teach-In" With Treaty 7 Idle No More Keith Chief Moon]
Alternate Title
Blackfoot Digital Library
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Keith Chief Moon
Description
Keith Chief Moon speaks about his life, education and Bill C-45.
Part 1: 24:39.
Part 2: 24:00.
The Red Record of the Sioux: Life of Sitting Bull and History of the Indian War of 1890-'91...
Alternate Title
Life of Sitting Bull and History of the Indian War of 1890-'91
The Red Record of the Sioux: Life of Sitting Bull and History of the Indian War of 1890-'91
E-Books
Author/Creator
W. Fletcher Johnson
Red World and White: Memories of a Chippewa Boyhood
Alternate Title
Civilization of the American Indian Series; [v. 126]
E-Books
Author/Creator
John Rogers
Civilization of the American Indian Series
Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Michelle R. Kloppenburg
Melissa Hearn
L. G. Moses
Frederick H. White
Barbara Iliff Brotherton
Rebecca Dobkins
Chris B. Wooley
Ward Churchill
Raymond Wilson
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, 1996, pp. 181-249
Description
Book reviews of:
All My Sins Are Relatives by William S. Penn.
Aniyunwiya/Real Human Beings: An Anthology of Contemporary Cherokee Prose edited by Joseph Bruchac.
Becoming and Remaining a People: Native American Religions on the Northern Plains by Howard L.
Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Eileen Luna-Firebaugh
Mary E. Stuckey
D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark
Susan L. Rockwell
Jason Edward Black
Tiya Miles
John W. Heaton
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, 2007, pp. 139-193
Description
Book reviews of:
American Indian Constitutional Reform and the Rebuilding of Native Nations edited by Eric D. Lemont.
American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance: Word Medicine, Word Magic edited by Ernest Stromberg.
Bernie Whitebear: An Urban Indian’s Quest for Justice by Lawney L. Reyes.
Black Silk Handkerchief: A Hom-Astubby Mystery by D. L. Birchfield.
The Collected Speeches of Sagoyewatha, or Red Jacket edited by Granville Ganter.
Elias Cornelius Boudinot: A Life on the Cherokee Border by James W.
Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Robert Gish
J. Anthony Paredes
Victoria Wyatt
Michael D. Green
Marvin Cohodas
Richard L. Haan
Thomas D. Hall
Gregory R. Campbell
Larry R. Stucki
Tessie Naranjo
Tito Naranjo
Jeffery R. Hanson
Kenneth Lincoln
Alfred Young Man
Richard O. Clemm
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, 1988, pp. 85-143
Description
Book reviews of:
The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage by Gerald Vizenor.
Nairne's Muskhogean Journals: The 1708 Expedition to the Mississippi River edited by Alexander Moore.
The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, Captive of Maquinna annotated and illustrated by Hilary Stewart.
A Creek Warrior for the Confederacy: The Autobiography of Chief G. W. Grayson edited by W. David Baird.
Native American Baskertry: An Annotated Bibliography complied by Frank W.
Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Steven Hoelscher
Michelene E. Pesantubbee
Jaye T. Darby
Thomas Maxwell-Long
Barbara Krauthamer
Peter Nabokov
Greg O'Brien
James A. Lewis
Sandra Baringer... [et al.]
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 2, 2006, pp. 141-186
Description
Book reviews of:
Beyond the Reach of Time and Change: Native American Reflections on the Frank A. Rinehart Photograph Collection edited by Simon J. Ortiz.
Bringing Indians to the Book by Albert Furtwangler.
A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children edited by Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin.
Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769–1850 by Steven W.
Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ron Welburn
Anton Treuer
Jace Weaver
Jessiline Anderson
Karren Baird-Olson
John M. Shaw
David La Vere
Susan Lobo
Robert L. Munkres
Greg Poelzer
Brian Calliou
Raphael Comprone
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 3, 2006, pp. 129-178
Description
Book reviews of:
Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America edited by Brian Swann.
Building on a Borrowed Past: Place and Identity in Pipestone, Minnesota by Sally J. Southwick.
The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature edited by Joy Porter and Kenneth M.
Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Daniel M. Cobb
Samuel R. Cook
Peter G. Beidler
Barbara A. Mann
Donald B. Smith
Amelia V. Katanski
Paula Richardson Fleming
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 1, 1999, pp. 213-268
Description
Book reviews of:
The Alabama-Coushatta Indians by Jonathan B. Hook.
American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice by David E. Wilkins.
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich.
Apocalypse of Chiokoyhikoy: Chief of the Iroquois by Robert Griffin and Donald A. Grinde.
Dissonant Worlds, Roger Vandersteene Among the Cree by Earle H. Waugh.
Early Native American Writing edited by Helen Jaskoski.
Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Inc. by Mick Gidley.
A Grammar of Bella Coola by Philip W.
Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Murray L. Wax
S. Carol Berg
John Richard Beery
Roberta Haines
Karen Wallace
Natchee Blu Barnd
Sioux Harvey
Paul Pasquaretta
Jerome Klinkowitz
Susan L. Rockwell
Anthony Webster
Manley Begay
Betty Booth Donohue
et. al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 4, 1999, pp. 195-238
Description
Book reviews of:
Beyond the Lodge of the Sun: Inner Mysteries of the Native American Way by Chokecherry Gall Eagle.
Chippewa Families: A Social Study of White Earth Reservation, 1938 by. M. Inez Hilger.
David Zeisberger: A Life Among the Indians by Earl P.
Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
June Nash
Renée Ater
James J. Garrett
William Willard
S. Carol Berg
Malinda Maynor Lowery
Rebecca Kugel
Marie Watkins
Robert Keith Collins
James D. Drake
David M. Brugge
Arif Dirlik
Kenichi Matsui
Qwo-Li Driskill
J. Cedric Woods
et. al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 119-185
Description
Book reviews of:
2000 Years of Mayan Literature by Dennis Tedlock.
Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject by Kirsten Pai Buick.
Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie.
Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation by Brice Obermeyer.
Demons, Saints, & Patriots: Catholic Visions of Indian America through The Indian Sentinel (1902–1962) by Mark Clatterbuck.
[Roland Cotton's Interview on the Unique History of Blackfoot Dance]
Alternate Title
Blackfoot Digital Libary
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Roland Cotton
Description
Interview with Roland Cotton about different kinds of dances and Blackfoot traditions.
Duration: 59:55.
Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
Articles » General
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 14, no. 1, March 1990, pp. 14-18
Description
Talks about commissioner Pat Dodson, appointed to study issues surrounding Aboriginal deaths in custody including social, cultural and legal influences.
The Salish People: The Local Contribution of Charles Hill-Tout; Volume 1: The Thompson and the Okanagan; Volume II: The Squamish and the Lillooet; Volume III: The Mainland Halkomelem; Volume IV: The Sechelt and the South-Eastern Tribes of Vancouver Island
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Michael Kew
BC Studies, no. 50, Summer, 1981, pp. 60-65
Description
Book review of: The Salish People edited with introduction by Ralph Maud.
Scroll down to page 60 to read review.
The Salvation Art of Yuxweluptun
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Charlotte Townsend-Gault
Description
Looks at artwork by Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun that reflect the effects of mining, clear-cutting and other intrusions which are destroying Coast Salish lands.
Shamanism, Sacred Narratives, the Sea, and the Cedar in the Art of John Hoover, Aleut Sculptor
Theses
Author/Creator
Duane Niatum
Description
American Culture Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Michigan, 1997.
The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt
E-Books
Author/Creator
John Gneisenau Neihardt
The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies
Alternate Title
The Social Archeology of Australian Indigenous Societies
E-Books
Author/Creator
Bruno David
Bryce Barker
Ian J. McNiven
Sandra Bowdler
Deborah Brian ... [et al.]
Some Sign Will Be Seen: The Aurora Borealis at Black Elk’s Death
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark Hollabaugh
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 1, Winter, January 10, 2019, pp. 1-10
Description
Article examines the eyewitness accounts of profound aurora borealis displays on the night of Black Elk’s death (August 19, 1950) in the context of scientific and astronomical reports. Considers the narrative in within the framework of ethnoastronomy which combines scientific accounts with eyewitness reports and interpreting the meaning of an event through a cultural lens.
Southern California Indian Concepts of Illness and Healing from Antiquity to the Present
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George F. Longstreth
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, 2007, pp. 121-139
Description
Review of written works on illness and healing by Native American tribes in the Southern California region.
Souvenirs d'un Missionnaire en Colombie Britannique
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Adrien-Gabriel] Morice
Standing Alone
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Colin Low
Description
Documents the successes, challenges and transformations experienced by Pete Standing Alone and the Blood Reserve in Alberta over the past 25 years. Accompanying material: An Integrated Educator's Guide.
Duration: 57:50.
Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Andrew Cienski
BC Studies, no. 179, Ethnobotany in BC, Autumn, 2013, pp. 228-229
Description
Book review of Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las by Leslie A. Robertson and the Kwagu’ł Gixsam Clan.
Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review, scroll to p. 228.
A Stone for Yontocket
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
E. Breck Parkman
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4, The California Indians, Autumn, 1989, pp. 529-534
Description
The author describes his own experience of finding spiritual balance through a visit to the Tolowa's Yontockey village. The author examines how he found this spiritual balance, how he came to this realization and its implications.
Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian
Alternate Title
[North American Indian Thought and Culture]
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Don C. Talayesva]
Tahan: Out of Savagery into Civilization: An Autobiography
E-Books
Author/Creator
Joseph K. Griffis
Tall Woman: The Life Story of Rose Mitchell, a Navajo Woman, c. 1874-1977
Alternate Title
[North American Indian Thought and Culture]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Rose Mitchell
Description
1st. edition.
Tecumseh, The Shawnee Prophet, and American History: A Reassessment
Articles » General
Author/Creator
R. David Edmunds
The Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3, July 1983, pp. 261-276
Description
Discusses reasons why white Americans found Tecumseh to be a great man and warrior, compared to his brother Tenskwatawa the Holy man, who was thought of as a coward and pretender.
Telling Anishinaabe Women's Art: Piecing Together: No Stranger in the House
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alice Olsen Williams
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 4, Winter, 1997, p. 144
Description
1995 Margaret Laurence lecture at Trent University by the artist and quilt maker Alice Olsen Williams. The version given here has been adapted, revised and edited.
Telling Anishinaabe women's art: Piecing Together: No Stranger in the House [Speech by Alice Olsen Williams, Margaret Laurence Lecture at Trent University]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alice Olsen Williams
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 4, Winter, 1997, p. 144
Description
Transcript of speech give by quilter Alice Olsen Williams relating her background, inspirations, and spiritual beliefs.
Thomas Crosby and the Tsimshian: Small Shoes for Feet Too Large
E-Books
Author/Creator
Clarence Bolt
Through the Eyes of the Cree
Web Sites » Virtual Exhibits
Author/Creator
Allen Sapp Gallery
The Gonor Collection
Description
Website contains links to photographs of paintings, videos, songs, etc. Accompanying Teacher Resource Guide.
Tradition & Change on the Northwest Coast: The Makah, Nuu-chah-nulth, Southern Kwakiutl, and Nuxalk
E-Books
Author/Creator
Ruth Kirk
The Treaty Makers - Bull Head (Chula)
Alternate Title
Treaty 7: Past and Present
Treaty Seven: Past and Present
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Description
Brief history of Chula, or Bull Head, who was the Chief of the Tsuu T’ina (Sarcee) First Nation when Treaty 7 was signed. Bull Head is remembered as an outstanding leader and pivotal player in Tsuu T’ina history.
The Tunguska Project: Educational Resource
Alternate Title
DOClibrary
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
hotDOCS
Description
Guide to accompany film of same name which follows Cree playwright Floyd Flavel on a journey from Saskatchewan to Siberia.
Two Paiute Autobiographies
Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.33, no.5
E-Books
Author/Creator
Julian H. Steward
Description
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 33, (pp423-438).
"Two People": An American Indian Narrative of Bicultural Identity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Tlanusta Garrett
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 36, no. 1, Fall, 1996, pp. [1-21]
Description
Uses an Elder's life story to illustrate the bicultural identity development model.
Understanding Place in Culture: Serigraphs and the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
University of Victoria Art Collections
Shelby Richardson
Description
Exhibition features 30 prints by seven Indigenous artists from the coastal areas of British Columbia: Francis Dick, Maynard Johnny Jr., Edward Joe, Stan Greene, Floyd Joseph, Tim Paul, and Joe David.
Contains links to short biographies of artists, images of each artwork, brief bibliography and curatorial essay.
Varieties of Medical Treatment and Hierarchies of Resort in Johan Turi's Sámi Deavsttat
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas A. DuBois
Journal of Northern Studies , no. 1, 2010, pp. 9-43
Description
Looks at Johan Turi's books Sámi Deavsttat / Lappish Texts and Muitalus Sámiid Birra showing the changes in traditional healing practices.