International Journal of Sociology of the Family, vol. 37, no. 1, Policing Motherhood, Spring, 2011, pp. 69-84
Description
Data from interviews with Lakota and other women on the Pine Ridge Reservation about motherhood management by the State and American Indian Health Service.
[Principles of Tsawalk: An Indigenous Approach to Global Crisis]
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E. Richard Atleo
Description
Discusses the Nuu-chah-nulth concept of heshook-ish tsawalk which means "everything is one" and how this differs from Western philosophy.
Prologue and introduction from: Principles of Tsawalk: An Indigenous Approach to Global Crisis by E. Richard Atleo.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 26, no. 2, 2002, pp. 1-15
Description
Explores how transculturation or a middle ground, one that balances Indigenous and Christian religions, is used as a strategy for defining how religion is dealt with in three books. The three books used are: Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit, Diane Glancy’s Pushing the Bear, and Sherman Alexie’s Reservation Blues.
Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence
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Leanne Simpson
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Author's personal reflections on identity, resistance and cultural revival.
Chapter from Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence by Leanne Simpson.
Looks at the concepts terroir (earth), taste, and taste of place and how they shape the cultural identity of the Osoyoos Indian Band who own and manage a winery in the Okanagan Valley.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, Inuit and Qallunaaq Perspectives: Interacting points of view, 2002, pp. [45]-70
Description
Compares historical writings about the Inuit and the effect of the long periods of darkness and the actual Inuit attitudes and perceptions.
Text in French.
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 13, no. 2, Thematic Issue: About Indigenous Literatures, June 2011, pp. 1-10
Description
Discusses how indigenous knowledge is overlooked by non-Indigenous scholars when it comes to the subject of marginalizing and resistance in the 1986 novel, Potiki by Māori writer Patricia Grace.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2011.
Discusses works by Susan Power, James Welch, Sherman Alexie, Anna Lee Walters, Louis Owens, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Louise Erdrich.
Examines installation specifically the mural pathway exploring the sense of community that comes from traditional modes of art, storytelling and interpretation.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3, Summer, 2002, pp. 460-478
Description
Author critiques the theory presented in Basso’s book, Wisdom sits in Places, which argues that the voice of a place is nothing more than the projection of human imagination; article contextualize the critique in the within Apache cultural and spiritual practice.
BC Studies, no. 135, Perspectives on Aboriginal Culture, Autumn, 2002, pp. 55-90
Description
Examines how cultural displays for non-Aboriginal audiences, which were sometimes revised for public presentation, were used as a method to increase political legitimacy.
Social Politics, vol. 18, no. 4, Winter, 2011, pp. 572-597
Description
Discusses the disruption the system caused in cultural transmission and the efforts of 20 Aboriginal women to reestablish this connection for their children.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 4, 2011, pp. 119-145
Description
Discusses the metaphorical surrealism in Jim Denomie paintings showing historical and contemporary events in American and Native American history, as well as aspects of pop-culture, art history and Anglo-Indian relations.
Discusses six films: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Rabbit Proof Fence, Once Were Warriors, Whale Rider, Ten Canoes and The Feathers of Peace.
Chapter in book: New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting the Past edited by Alistair Fox, Hilary Radner and Barry Keith.
Documentary investigates the resource boom's effects on the Indigenous people of Peru.
Episode of The Nature of Things which aired July 7, 2011.
Duration: 1:22:47.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, Populations et Migrations / Populations and Migrations, 2002, pp. 199-204
Description
Book review of: Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory by Lucien M. Turner, with an introduction by Stephen Loring.
Review in French.
Book is reprint of paper which originally appeared in the Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, published in 1894.