Film depicts the family’s progress from a proud Chiricahua Apache family of storytellers in Oklahoma to a multi-talented artistic family in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Duration: 32:17.
Survivors of the Thomas Indian School in New York state and the Mohawk Institute (The Mush Hole) of southern Ontario relate their experiences.
Duration: 29:50.
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Paul Berger
Description
Comments on the findings from interviews with 74 Inuit adults regarding what they like about schooling and what they would like to see change.
Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
Brief news story discusses history of residential schools, the apology by the Minister of Indian Affairs and some solutions to problems on the Indian Brook Reserve in Nova Scotia. Includes synopsis.
Duration: 5:13
Video of excerpts from interviews conducted as part of the exhibition "We Were So Far Away...": The Inuit Experience of Residential Schools.
Duration: 26:07.
University of the Fraser Valley Research Review, vol. 2, no. 2, Through Students Eyes: Selected Papers From the Stó:lō Ethnohistory Field School, Spring, 2009, pp. 54-72
Description
Comments on the reclamation of ancestral names and the continuous ritual cycles of naming.
Discusses research project activities including literature review of family literacy, assessment of literacy programs in Saskatchewan, environment mapping, and the development of a province wide online survey tool.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 21, no. 1, Celebrating Tribal College Journals 20th Anniversary, Fall, 2009, pp. 51-52
Description
Presents a personal narrative titled, A Whole Person, written by a student of Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, KS.
American Theatre, vol. 26, no. 3, March 2009, p. 23
Description
Brief discussion of the play Battles of Fire and Water by Dave Hunsaker. The playwright used oral and written histories about battles (in 1802 and 1804) fought by Russians and the Tlingits over land, as the basis for the play.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 3, Fall, 2009, pp. 90-94
Description
Reflects on lessons learned from the authors' grandmother, such as watching and learning from spiders.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 90.
Book review of: Words of Our Country, Stories, Place Names and Vocabulary in Yidiny, the Aboriginal Language of the Cairns-Yarrabah Region compiled and edited by R. M. W. Dixon.
Review located by scrolling to page 272.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 46-62
Description
The author uses Out of the Depths, Isabel Knockwood’s autobiography about her time in Indian Residential School, to discuss English alphabet writing as a colonizing tool and as consider different ways that Indigenous peoples have appropriated English writing as a form of cultural survivance.
Explores the issue of teen pregnancy among Aboriginal women by speaking with them about their experiences and perceptions on sex, protection and pregnancy and their expectations and the realities of becoming a young mother.
Published by the Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence.