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Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lisa Tatonetti
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 2, Summer, 2017, pp. 101-104
Description
Book review of: 3 Plays by Alanis King.
Arctic Clothing of North America- Alaska, Canada, Greenland
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jana Harcharek
Elena Charles
Dixie Masak Dayo
Chuna McIntyre
Nigel D. Meeks ... [et al.]
Aundjitowin...: In The Footsteps of Anishinabeg Architecture. Aund-ji-to-win (Ojibwe v.: Change, Alteration, Amendment, Reconstruction---as Pertaining to Building)
Theses
Author/Creator
Daniel R. Smith
Description
Architecture Thesis (M.Arch.)--Carleton University, 2005.
Castor Resartus: The Beaver Hat in History
Alternate Title
Castor Resartus; or “The Beaver Hat Retailored”: An Economic History in Many Parts
E-Books
Description
Compilation of primary sources, mainly newspaper articles.
Compendium of Research Undertaken in Nunavut 2005
Alternate Title
Nunavut Research Compendium 2005
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nunavut Research Institute
Description
Lists title, location of research, principal researcher, etc. for over ninety projects. Divided by topic area: social sciences, traditional knowledge, medical and health, and physical and natural sciences.
"Concourse and Periphery" in Perspective: Well Past Planning
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Judith Ostrowitz
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3/4, Summer/Fall, 2005, pp. 384-425
Description
Commentary on the planning process plus the public and critical reaction to the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in 2004.
The Cosmological Liveliness of Terril Calder's The Lodge: Animating Our Relations and Unsettling Our Cinematic Spaces
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Salma Monani
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 4, Winter, 2017, pp. 1-28
Description
Examines Calder’s stop-frame animated feature film in the context of animation, ecocinema, and Indigenous studies; focuses on theme of hybridity and métissage.
Cree Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lawrence Barkwell
Norman Fleury
Description
Material on: culture, history, mythology and language as well as separate sections for scholarly articles and theses.children's books, films, internet resources, music, recordings, curriculum materials, and textbooks.
Cross-Curricular Connect: The Last of the Buffalo
Author/Creator
McQuillen Studios
Description
Resource uses the painting by Albert Bierstadt to teach close reading skills, allegory and the importance of wildlife conservation. Includes links to interactive puzzle, team-building game, sorting activity, game-based art survey and inquiry study.
Defining the Native: Local Print Media Coverage of the NMAI
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Akim D. Reinhardt
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3/4, Summer-Fall, 2005, pp. 450-465
Description
Commentary in regards to the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) on September 22, 2004, particularly the clichés, exclusion and stereotyping.
Delicious Resistance, Sweet Persistence: First Nations Culinary Arts in Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Annie Turner
Description
Canadian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2005.
Dialogue- Assimilation- Subversion: Contemporary New Media Native Art in Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
María Victoria Guglietti
Description
Study focuses on two Aboriginal artistic on-line projects CyberPowWow and Speaking the Language of Spiders.
The Digital Biography of Things: A Canadian Case Study in Digital Repatriation
Alternate Title
Cultural Heritage: Scenarios 2015-2017
Sapere l’Europa. Sapere d’Europa ; 4
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Emanuela Rossi
Description
Describes the database created by The Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC).
Chapter from Cultural Heritage: Scenarios 2015-2017 edited by Simona Pinton and Lauso Zagato.
Digital Indigeneity: Digital Media's Uses for Identity Formation Education, and Activism by Indigenous People in the Northeastern United States
Theses
Author/Creator
Virginia A. McLaurin
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2022.
Effigy Pipes, Diplomacy, and Myth: Exploring Interaction Between St. Lawrence Iroquoians and Eastern Iroquois in New York State
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anthony Wonderley
American Antiquity, vol. 70, no. 2, April 2005, pp. 211-240
Description
Describes how 500 year old smoking pipes left archaeological evidence that links the St. Lawrence Iroquoians of Jefferson County with the Mohawks, Oneidas, and Onondagas of Upstate New York.
Garden of Relatives Coloring Book
Alternate Title
Garden of Relatives Colouring Book
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Hawlii Pichette
Description
Colouring pages based on design that features plants and the animals associated with them.
Geology of National Parks, 3D and Photographic Tours: American Indians of the Southwest, 1871-1875
Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
U.S. Department of the Interior
Description
Websites includes photographs of American Indians posing in Aboriginal dress or activities during the U.S. Geological and Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian and the Powell Survey of the Colorado River Canyons.
He Whare Hangarau Māori: Language, Culture & Technology
E-Books
Author/Creator
Hineitimoana Greensill
Hōri Manuirirangi
Hēmi Whaanga
Te Taka Keegan
Tania M. Ka‘ai … [et al.]
Highlights Report: RAIC International Indigenous Architecture and Design Symposium
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC)
Description
Overview of presentations from four sessions: Kora Sessions from Aotearoa New Zealand; Respecting the Land and Identities; Creating Consensus and Engagement; and Indigenous Design: Tools, Methods and Processes.
IKMS Offers Home For Indigenous Knowledge
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Tom Davis
Marty DeMontano
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 16, no. 4, International Indigenous Education, Summer, 2005
Description
Discussion of an international initiative to control access to indigenous knowledge, aimed at protecting sacred and secret knowledge and ensuring proper compensation for intellectual property which is shared.
In/consequential Relationships: Refusing Colonial Ethics of Engagement in Yuxweluptun’s Inherent Rights, Vision Rights
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah King
BC Studies, no. 193, Spring, 2017, pp. 187-192
Description
Reviews artist's virtual reality installation from the exhibit Unceded Territories.
Indigi-Genuis
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Lee Francis
Anthony Rodriguez
Kevin McDonald
Vision Maker Media
New Mexico PBS
Description
Series of 13 videos (each approximately 5 minutes long), geared toward children, explore how Indigenous knowledge and traditions have contributed to the modern world.
Issues of Collective Leadership in Building a Business with Indigenous Artists: An Arts Management Case Study
Alternate Title
International Conference on Arts & Cultural Management ; 8th
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jennifer Radbourne
Description
Examines the development of Arilla Paper, a viable and sustainable enterprise from natural materials, created by Aboriginal women.
The Lens of Science: Anthropometric Photography and the Chippewa, 1890–1920
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cory Willmott
Visual Anthropology, vol. 18, no. 4, July 2005, pp. 309-337
Description
Examines the exploitation and inaccurate interpretation of Native American photography by anthropologists and commercial photographers.
Lines and Criss-crossings: Hyperlinks in Australian Indigenous Narratives
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara Glowczewski
Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy, vol. 116, August 2005, pp. 24-35
Description
Provides background on two multimedia projects that open up new ways of seeing and thinking about narratives, images and performances in virtual space-time and discusses the relevance of games for anthropological insights.
The Museum and the Web: Three Case Studies
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Marcy McDonald
Description
Examines three public museums to see how their websites are being used to help in the understanding of history and culture. Suggestions for improvements are given.
[Narcisse Blood's Interview on the Unique History of Blackfoot Dance]
Alternate Title
Blackfoot Digital Library
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Narcisse Blood
Description
Video interview with Narcisse Blood discussing ceremonies based on a way of life and environment that is being destroyed.
Duration: 59:41.
Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism
Alternate Title
First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Natchee Blu Bard
First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies Series
Never Alone: The Art and the People of the Story
Alternate Title
Game Development Conference ; 2015
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Dima Veryovka
Description
A Discussion on the visual style, cultural infusion and impact of the 2014 video game Never Alone. The game is based off the Iñupiat legend of Kanuk Sayuka and was created in cooperation with elders, storytellers, and artists from the Cook Inlet Tribal Council.
Duration: 50:01.
Not Your Grandfather's Horse: Automobiles Performing the Trickster in Modern and Contemporary Work by Artists from Plains Cultures
Theses
Author/Creator
Aaron Moses
Description
Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Oklahoma State University, 2017
Refers to the works of Horace Poolaw, Dallin Maybee, Arthur Amiotte, Jay Polite Labor, and Wendy Red Star
Open Educational Resources: Native American Medicine
Alternate Title
Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians
The Botanical Lore of the California Indians
The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees
The Medicine-Men of the Apache
The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa
E-Books
Author/Creator
Huron H. Smith
John Bruno Romero
James Mooney
John Gregory Bourke
Walter James Hoffman
Description
Compilation of previously published material.
Re/making the 'Meeting Place' - Transforming Toronto's Public Spaces Through Creative Placemaking, Indigenous Story And Planning
Theses
Author/Creator
Nelly Volpert Knizhnik
Description
Environmental Studies Major Paper (MES)--York University 2017.
Reclaiming Culture: Indigenous People and Self-Representation
E-Books
Author/Creator
Joy Hendry
Reconciliation through Revitalization
Alternate Title
The Big Land, the Kayak and Reconciliation!
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Meredith Rusk
Description
For use with the article The Big Land, the Kayak and Reconciliation! by Lisa Jane Smith found on page 24 of Remembering the Children.
A Regional Profile of Non-Timber Forest Products Being Harvested from the Cariboo-Chilcotin, British Columbia Area
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
George W. Powell
Description
Outlines the commercial and First Nations use of non-timber forest products including wild mushrooms and other wild foods, botanical medicinals, arts and crafts, floral greenery, bio-fuels, and forest recreation/tourism based on the forest botanical resources.
Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Christine Gray
Tol Foster
Patricia Penn Hilden
Donald A. Grinde
D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark
Michael S. Nassaney
Amelia V. Katanski
Bradley J. Gills
Dorothy A. Nason
G. L. Worthington
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 3, 2005, pp. 125-178
Description
Book review of:
Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations by Charles Wilkinson.
Chinnubbie and the Owl: Muscogee (Creek) Stories, Orations and Traditions by Alexander Posey.
Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast by Michelene E. Pesantubbee.
A Colonial Complex: South Carolina’s Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War 1680–1730 by Steven J.
Rita Letendre's Astral Abstractions
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adam Lauder
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 1/2, Winter/Spring, 2022, pp. [94]-122
Description
An ethnoastronomic analysis of Rita Letendre's paintings.
Sacred Salmon Film Wins National Acclaim for SKC
Articles » General
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 16, no. 3, Indigenizing Education, Spring, 2005
Description
Discusses a film produced by the student television station at Salish Kootenai College (SKC), Sacred Salmon: A Gift to Sustain Life, that has received national acclaim. The film is about the health of the Columbia River salmon and the Yakama Nation.
Saskatchewan History - The First Peoples: Plains First Nations
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
J. Giannetta
Description
A wide range of topics such as clothing, bison, decoration, tools, etc. Developed for Grade 4 Social Studies.
Updated version.
Student Handouts.
Seneca Art and Culture Center at Ganondagan State Historic Site
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alyssa Mt. Pleasant
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 124-125
Description
Reviews and describes the Center including architecture, landscaping and exhibits.
Telling New Myths: Contemporary Native American Animal Narratives From Michigan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Magoulick
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 130, no. 515, Winter, 2017, pp. 34-71
Description
Comments on the creative process of cultural renewal by using new myths as teachings.
Telling Our Stories: Voices on the Land: A Performing Arts and Digital Storytelling Teaching Guide for Educators
Alternate Title
Telling Our Stories: Voices on the Land: A Teaching Guide
E-Books
Author/Creator
Sealaska Heritage Institute
A Tradition of Evolution: The Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carleigh Baker
BC Studies, no. 195, Autumn, 2017, pp. 151-154
Description
Brief description of the events, presentations and works featured in the event.
The Way We Never Were: Native Americans in Popular Culture: A Proposal for a Virtual Reality Based Exhibit
Theses
Author/Creator
Jon C. Ketchem
Description
History Thesis (M.A.)--Oklahoma State University, 2017.
The White Earth Digital Tribal Museum: Creation of an Open-Access Online Museum Using 3D Images of Cultural Heritage Objects
Theses
Author/Creator
Larissa Harris
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2017.
Who is artinjun.ca?
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cheryl L'Hirondelle
ConunDrumOnline, vol. 1, April 2005, p. [?]
Description
Answers some frequently asked questions about the website.