Osage Gender: Continuity, Change and Colonialzation, 1720s-1870s
Theses
Author/Creator
Tai S. Edwards
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2010.
Oskisihcikêwak / New Traditions in Cree Two -Spirit, Gay and Queer Narratives
Theses
Author/Creator
June Scudeler
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2016.
Partnering With American Indian Communities in Strength-Based Collaborative Health Research: Guiding Principles From the Fort Peck Ceremony of Research Project
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Rink
Elizabeth Ann R. Bird
Kris Fourstar
Adriann Ricker
Winona Runs-Above/Meyers
Rachel Hallum-Montes
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 23, no. 3, Strength-based Approaches to Wellness in Indian Country, 2016, pp. 187-205
Description
Findings address relationship building and maintenance, inclusion of Tribal members in research design, respect for Tribal values, beliefs and customs in research process, and the reciprocity of research to assist in promotion of favourable experiences for communities.
The Performance of Body, Space, and Place: Creating Indigenous Performance
Alternate Title
Healing Collective Trauma: Using Sociodrama and Drama Therapy
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Thomas Riccio
Description
Discusses strategies and exercises used to promote individual and community healing.
Chapter seven from Healing Collective Trauma: Using Sociodrama and Drama Therapy edited by Eva Leveton.
The Peyote Road: Religious Freedom and the Native American Church
Alternate Title
Civilization of the American Indian Series; v. 265
E-Books
Author/Creator
Thomas Constantine Maroukis
Civilization of the American Indian Series
Philosophy of Law in the Arctic
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dawid Bunikowski
Jaakko Husa
Diana Ginn
Ko Husegawa
Karol Dobrzeniecki ... [et al.]
Description
Articles cover five themes: Arctic cosmologies, beliefs, art and shamanism; Arctic lands, waters, and environment; Indigenous rights and customary law; topics for future teaching.
Pipeline Dreams: People, Environment, and the Arctic Energy Frontier
Alternate Title
IWGIA Document ; 126
E-Books
Author/Creator
Mark Nuttall
Place, Indigeneity, and Identity in Australia's Gulf Country
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Trigger
Richard J. Martin
American Anthropologist, vol. 118, no. 4, December 2016, pp. 824-837
Description
Studies the different ways Aboriginal and non-Aboriginals see connections between identity, land and water.
The Plains Indian Clowns, Their Contraries and Related Phenomena
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John Plant
Description
Looks at historical information on ceremonial clowns, individual contraries, Reverse Reaction Warriors and the Ceremonial Fool of the Mandan.
Powered by a Higher Power: A Conversation with HvnSent
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
HvsSent
Honey Dawn Karima Pettigrew
Whispering Wind, vol. 39, no. 4, Issue 272, September-October 2010, pp. 28-[?]
Description
Interview with singer Wesley Royce Stops also known as HvnSent.
Project Uplift: Managing Stress Through Mind, Body, Heart and Spirit
Alternate Title
Labour Market Development - Strategic Partnership Agreement
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada
Description
Toolkit developed to help manage stress by understanding energy and vibration based on concepts of interconnection and energetic aura that links all living beings to the universe.
Promising Practices in Indigenous Communities in Saskatchewan
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network
Ken Clement
Merv Thomas
Jake Hanna
Jason Lawrence
Description
Focuses on AIDS initiatives developed by and for Aboriginals such as the Cree Haven Treatment Centre located on the Ahtahkakoop First Nation and the All Nations Hope organization.
Duration: 21:50.
Protective Factors of Native Youth: Findings from a Self-Report Survey in Rural Alaska
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa M. Wexler
Hang T. Dam
Katie Silvius
Janet Mazziotti
Ife Bamikole
Journal of Youth Studies, vol. 19, no. 3, 2016, pp. 358-373
Description
Study looked at youth's perceived internal and external assets, and evaluated how different factors related to gender, age, and community size.
Three hundred and fifty-five adolescents participated.
Psychological-Mindedness and American Indian Trauma: Interviews with Service Providers from a Great Plains Reservation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William E. Hartmann
Joseph P. Gone
American Journal of Community Psychology, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 229-242
Description
Shows how cultural assumptions can encourage perspectives based on psychological concepts, limiting social, economic, and political aspects of health determinants.
Puo'winue'l Prayers: Readings from North America's First Transtextual Script
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Louis Esme Cruz
Qwo-Li Driskill
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 16, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 243-252
Description
Examines some of the issues related to "coming home" to ourselves, our land, and our people from a multiracial, visual-textual, Two-Spirit perspective.
Qugax̂: An Ethnoscience Analysis of Ancient Unangax̂
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Livingston
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 53, no. 2, 2016, pp. 81-92
Description
Analyzes archival material written at first contact in an attempt to reconstruct how Aleutians might have used spiritual beliefs to safeguard themselves during encounters with potentially aggressive or violent strangers.
A Radiant Curve: Poems and Stories
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Esther Belin
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 125-128
Description
Book review of: A Radiant Curve by Luci Tapahonso.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 125.
Raven Imagery in Northwest Coast Indian Art
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jessica Finch
Description
Discusses the importance of the Raven image in art to Native American Indian cultural groups of the Northwest Coast.
Re-conceptualizing Anishinaabe Mino-Bimaadiziwin (the Good Life) as Research Methodology: A Spirit-centered Way in Anishinaabe Research
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brent Debassige
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010, pp. 11-28, 154
Description
Discusses Indigenous approaches to knowledge concerning ethical and spiritual ways of knowing and being.
Re-imagining Nature and American Indian Identity in Film
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ulrike Wiethaus
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture, vol. 10, no. 2, 2016, pp. 189-207
Description
Comments on the theme of boarding-schools, and the films The Only Good Indian directed by Kevin Wilmott, and The Education of Little Tree directed by Friedenberg and Older Than America directed by Lightning.
Re-indigenizing Curriculum: An Eco-hermeneutic Approach to Learning
Alternate Title
Re-indigenizing Curriculum
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrejs Kulnieks
Dan Roronhiakewen Longboat
Kelly Young
AlterNative, vol. 6, no. 1, 2010, pp. 15-24
Description
Discusses how eco-hermeneutics that places a priority on oral tradition is needed to reform the academic curriculum for a deeper understanding of the relationship between place and language.
Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming
E-Books
Author/Creator
Winona LaDuke
Reflections on C.G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Thomas J. Hoffman
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, Proceedings of the 2010 Western Social Science Association American Indian Studies Section, Summer, 2010, pp. 1-5
Description
Manuscript review of: C.G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions by Vine Deloria.
Regional Practitioners Colloquium
Alternate Title
Indigenous Architecture Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Description
Presentations and roundtable discussion by several different professionals including architects and interior designers; Beverly J. Diddy, Paul Fragua, Tamara Gay, Michelle Pfeiffer.
Duration: 58:26.
Rekindling the Sacred Fire: Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Tricia Logan
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 40, no. 1, 2016, pp. 221-222
Description
Book review of: Rekindling the Sacred Fire by Chantal Fiola.
Scroll down to page 221 in REVIEWS section to read.
Remembering Smoke Signals: Interviews with Chris Eyre and Sherman Alexie
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joanna Hearne
Post Script, vol. 29, no. 3, Indian Cinema, Summer, 2010, pp. 119-[?]
Description
Interview transcript with director and writer discuss the film and its continued impact on Native filmmaking ten years after release.
Repatriation, Digital Technology, and Culture in a Northern Athapaskan Community
Theses
Author/Creator
Kate Hennessy
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2010
A Report on the Water Ceremony & Candlelight Vigil for the Missing Murdered Indigenous Women at Honouring the Circle, Hamilton, Ontario
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clarissa Kennedy
Indigenous Social Work Journal, vol. 10, Issues That Relate to Indigenous Relations, 2016, pp. 101-108
Description
Using a Honouring the Circle event to discuss using an Indigenous culturally specific approach to provide empowerment for its participants. To view article scroll down to page 101.
Restorative Justice Circles as a Method For Addressing the Impacts of Crime on Victims, Communities, and Offenders
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ingrid Diane Johnson
Description
Recounts history of restorative justice, who uses them and how successful they are.
Honors Captstone Research Project--[University of Alaska, Fairbanks], 2010.
Rethinking Inequality in a Northern Indigenous Context: Affluence, Poverty, and the Racial Reconfiguration and Redistribution of Wealth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter Kulchyski
The Northern Review, no. 42, Northern Inequalities - Global Processes, Local Legacies, 2016, pp. 97-108
Description
Discusses Indigenous inequality relating to their way of life being under attack.
Rim First People: Participatory Design
Alternate Title
Indigenous Architecture Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Michael Fredericks
Description
Michael Fredericks discusses her company's philosophy and first project using a participate design concept at the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Facility at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Duration: 47:37.
Ritual Architecture in Prehistoric Complex Hunter-Gatherer Communities: A Potential Example From Keatley Creek, on the Canadian Plateau
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jesse Morin
American Antiquity, vol. 75, no. 3, July 2010, pp. 599-626
Description
Promotes the study of housepit structures to begin to interpret the bases and origins of social inequality.
Round Lake Indian School Interview #2
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
D.G. (Dr) Mandelbaum
Sam (Long Horned Sitting Bull) Belanger
kicemanito'owacis (God's Child)
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of a very brief description of a naming ceremony.
Round Up
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Narcisse Blood
Description
Traces Pete Standing Alone's last round up of his horses and how his life has changed in the last twenty years. Accompanying material: An Integrated Educator's Guide.
Duration:18:02.
Sharing Aboriginal Stories: Dreamcatcher
Alternate Title
Circles of Intelligent Knowledge Program
sihcikêwin acoskîyonis-powamin kahtinikan
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Chelsey Caisse
Description
Very short pamphlet, written by a student, meant for use in the classroom as a tool to improve literacy. Text in English and Cree.
Sharing Aboriginal Stories: Eagle Feathers
Alternate Title
Circles of Intelligent Knowledge Program
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Roger Gardypie
Description
Very short pamphlet, written by a student, meant for use in the classroom as a tool to improve literacy. Text in English and Cree
Shaunee Casavant - Backstory: Nuuchaanulth Ceremonial Curtains and the Work of Ki-Ke-In
Alternate Title
Global Encounters Initiative, University of British Columbia
Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame March 4-6, 2010 University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Media » Film and Video
Description
Chief Councilor of the Hupacasath Nation shares her story, place of being and knowledge about ceremonies, designs on Ceremonial Curtains and her own Ceremonial Curtain.
Duration: 1:03:13.
Short Film Study 110: Journey of the Healer
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
NWT Literacy Council
Description
Teacher's guide to accompany the short film dealing with traditional healing and spirituality. The film is written, produced and based on a comic book by Steven Keewatin Sanderson. Includes comprehension questions, writing activities, and research activities.
Short Film Study: 120-130: Journey of the Healer
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
NWT Literacy Council
Description
Teacher's guide to accompany the short film dealing with traditional healing and spirituality. The film is written, produced and based on a comic book by Steven Keewatin Sanderson. Includes comprehension questions, writing activities, and research activities.
Singing the Coast
E-Books
Author/Creator
Margaret Somerville
Tony Perkins
Skawennati's Time Traveller: Deconstructing the Colonial Matrix in Virtual Reality
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Treva Michelle Pullen
AlterNative, vol. 12, no. 3, 2016, pp. 236-249
Description
Discusses the film series TimeTraveller which is about a Mohawk bounty hunter on a vision quest to uncover Mohawk history.
The Skirt Project: Connecting Gender, Religion, and Colonialism
Alternate Title
Clothing the Collective
Religion and Diversity Project
The Skirt Project: Resources for TEachers and Communities
Web Sites » Personal
Author/Creator
Natalia Sudeyko
Description
Blog uses a discussion of the "skirt protocol" (the practice which, in some Indigenous communities, requires women wear long skirts to participate in spiritual ceremonies) as starting point to explore how clothing is related to culture, religion, tradition, gender, colonialism, and identity.
Includes links to lesson plan, backgrounder, activities, teaching resources, and consolidated materials.
Sky City Cultural Center and Haaku Museum: A Community-Based Project
Alternate Title
Indigenous Architecture Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Barbara Felix
Brian Vallo
Description
Brian Vallo, looks at the history of the Acoma Pueblo and the Tourist Center. Barbara Felix discusses the design proposal and the Tourist Center's redevelopment.
Duration: 56:11.
Social Determinants of Educational Outcomes in Indigenous Learners
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Michael J. Chandler
Education Canada, vol. 50, no. 2, Spring, 2010, pp. 46-50
Description
Over view on the link between ethnic identification and cultural continuity on the educational success of youth.
Social Impacts of Non-Renewable Resource Development on Indigenous Communities in Alaska, Greenland and Russia
Alternate Title
ReSDA GAP Analysis Report ; no. 2A
Resources and Sustainable Development n the Arctic (ReSDA) Gap Analysis Report ; no. 2A
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Peter Schweitzer
Florian Stammler
Cecilie Ebsen
Aytalina Ivanova
Irina Litvina
Description
Looks at formal and informal economic impacts, subsistence and cultural values, human mobility and Indigenous adaptations, and future scenarios.
Social Media and the Opportunities for Expression and Action of Tino Rangatiratanga (Self-determination)
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Acushla Sciascia
Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol. 1, no. 2, Reterritorialising Social Media: Indigenous People Rise Up, 2016
Description
Discusses how sites such as Facebook and Twitter can become a space for establishing online Indigenous citizenship and vehicles for discussion, practicing culture, expressing identity, and political mobilization.
Duration: 34:30.
Songs that Make the Road Dance: Courtship and Fertility Music of the Tz'utujil Maya
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Garrett W. Cook
American Anthropologist, vol. 118, December 2016, pp. 941-942
Description
Book review of: Songs that Make the Road Dance by Linda O'Brien-Rothe.
Speaking Our Truths in "A Good Way"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lyn Trudeau
Lorenzo Cherubini
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010, pp. 113-121,155-156
Description
Discussion on spiritual engagement within research practices from an Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal perspective.
Spirit Doctors
Alternate Title
Docs for Schools
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Suzanne Methot
Description
Teacher's resource for documentary written and directed by Marie Burke about Mary and Ed Louie, two Sqilxw (Okanagan) traditional healers.