American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, Winter, 1994, pp. 61-70
Description
Discusses the role of reoccurring themes and metaphors in the traditional stories of the Yup’ik people by comparing two different narratives “The Boy Who Went to Live with the Seals” and “The Girl Who Returned from the Dead.”
Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 69, no. 2, Negotiating the culture of Indigenous Schools, Winter, 1994, pp. 172-185
Description
Reviews articles in the special issue, Negotiating the Culture of Indigenous Schools, discusses barriers to careers in teaching, expanding knowledge base of Indigenous education and the relationship between school change, culture, power and control.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 2, Spring, 1994, pp. 215-228
Description
Article examines the interaction between Moravian missionaries and Lenape people; describes similarities and differences in spiritual beliefs and practices.
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 19, no. 2, Culture and Education: Aboriginal Settings, Concerns, and Insights, Spring, 1994, pp. 194-196
Description
Review of: First Nations: The Circle Unbroken by Geraldine Bob, Gary Marcuse, Denna Nyce, Lorna Williams. Four video cassettes plus Teachers' Guide and Implementation Workshop for Teachers: A Guide.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, 1994, pp. 67-93
Description
Focuses on the Kumivit, or Gabrielino, Indians and documents the resistance and responses of women to the new colonial order. The time period covered for this topic includes Toypurina’s revolt and Bartolomea’s bitter recollections of the destruction of her culture.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 1-17
Description
Explains how Louise Erdrich uses "survival humor" to compare a white world that is spirituality bankrupt, with no meaningful tradition and ceremony, to that of the Ojibway culture that tends to have coherent meaning.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Women's Traditional Governance Research Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nancy Wachowich
Description
Includes brief historical overview, profile of the community, discussion of women's role in traditional and modern society, and transcriptions of 20 interviews conducted in 1993.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3, Summer, 1994, pp. 321-348
Description
Author explores the role that powwows play in intertribal social culture, discusses the ritual of such events, and the elements of shared musical and dance traditions among Southern Plains Peoples. Focuses on the Kiowa and their engagement in the powwow events since the 1870s.
Poitras, once labeled an angry artist, believes anger is foreign to Indigenous philosophies and traditions, instead dictates forgiveness. Her works have display evils done to First Nations people by the church, Western materialism, residential schools and alcohol, but her own worldview is that trials and suffering lead to redemption.
Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 69, no. 2, Negotiating the Culture of Indigenous Schools, Winter, 1994, pp. 12-18
Description
Author uses personal experiences to explain the stresses involved with understanding two cultures relating to values, activities, obedience, worldview and contemporary cultural tools.