Conversation between Vancouver based artist and art historian in conjunction with exhibition, (And) Other Echos which is inspired by the 1961 film, The Exiles.
Duration: 1:15:21
Recovering From Colonization: Perspectives of Community Members on Protection and Repatriation of Kw KW Akw Aka'Wakw Cultural Heritage (January 2005 Draft)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Catherine Bell
Heather Raven
Heather McCuaig
Description
Examines community efforts to revive cultural practices, reclaim knowledge, and get back cultural objects, specifically involving the potlatch system. Scroll to page 51
Video of speech by author of Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America; followed by brief question and answer period.
Duration: 25:01.
Discusses opportunities to redefine writings in ways that allow for Aboriginal students to engage their own oral discourse with the traditional print paradigm.
Gaagnig Pane Chiyaayong: Forever, We Will Remain, Reflections and Memories: "Resiliency" Concerning the Walpole Island Residential School Survivors Group
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 96, no. Supplement 1, Aboriginal Health Research and Policy: First Nations-University Collaboration in Manitoba, January-February 2005, pp. S60-S63
Description
Argues that First Nations peoples must develop their own quality-of-life indicators, research ethics and protocols.
Resource Development and Well-Being in Northern Canada: Myth or Opportunity
Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic Workshop Report ; no.7
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brenda Parlee
Description
Discusses if resource development will improve the well-being of people in the northern communities or add to the growing gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 28, no. 2, Fall, 2013, pp. 87-111
Description
Argues that scholars have oversimplified Haudenosaunee creation stories and that John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt's versions, which have not received much attention, should be re-examined.
Discussion on various aspects of traditional knowledge, including traditional knowledge and the law,
comparison of scientific and traditional approaches to knowledge, and tools for maintaining traditional knowledge.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3/4, Special Issue: The National Museum of the American Indian, Summer - Autumn, 2005, pp. 691-706
Description
Author combines Buddhist teaching and the traditional teachings of the Indigenous peoples of the North West Coast to talk about healing from trauma and loss.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 16, no. 3, Indigenizing Education, Spring, 2005
Description
Looks at the Sisseton Wahpeton Community College and the integration of the Dakota language and tribal cultural values into the programs offered at the institution.
World Archaeology, vol. 45, no. 1, Archaeology of Religious Change, March 2013, pp. 64-82
Description
Investigates the evolution of Sámi ethnic religious practices in northern Fennoscandia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia) through the amalgamation of different religious traditions into a new one.
Ethnicity and Health, vol. 10, no. 4, November 2005, pp. 341-354
Description
Study based on information gathered from Oglala Lakota Souix participants from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota found two personal themes and three environmental emerged with regard to tissue donation.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 37, no. 3, Face of HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse in Native American Communities, September 2005, pp. 305-311
Description
Discusses risks from co-occurring conditions and social and cultural customs contributing to spread of HIV/AIDS and the unique foundation and influence of the project on the development of HIV/AIDS care and treatment.
Documentary about the challenges faced by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and how they have combined economic development in the form of tourism, cultural preservation, and spirituality as a means to carry the tribe into the future.
Duration: 1:26:30.