Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 35-54
Description
Discusses the Biographies of Prominent Elders project as a method for using oral histories to preserve and promote Gwich'in culture, traditional knowledge and values. Includes five short stories told by project participants.
Novel tells the story of the nineteen-year-old Cree girl from Norway House Cree Nation who was murdered near The Pas, Manitoba on November 13, 1971. Recommended for use with students Grade 10 or above.
Traditional Healing Circle of Elders, Elsipogtog First Nation, September 19th, 2007
Documents & Presentations
Description
Comments on the First Nations Centre's Traditional Healing Circle of Elders event held to discuss needs and priorities related to traditional health, healing and related knowledge.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 22, no. 1, January 1993, p. 1
Description
Two Canadians, Mary Simon of the Inuit Tapirisat and National Chief Ovide Mercredi, were invited to address the forty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Tribute to the life of Senator Myles Venne, 1918-2007, of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and former Chief of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 63-79
Description
"This study addresses the gap in our understanding through a transnational examination of the administration of veterans' benefits for Indigenous military personnel in four victorious settler societies that all mobilized significant recruits from their Indigenous minority populations".
Study guide to accompany film, Wapos Bay: Something to Remember. Oriented toward elementary school students; contains episode description, background information, previewing and post-viewing activities and questions which pertain to the key themes.
An Aboriginal Accomplishment Award is celebrated and a hunting mishap is remedied in episode 13 of a stop-motion animation series. Accompanying material: Wapos Bay: The Hunt: Study Guide.
Duration: 23:59.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 3, Fall, 2007, pp. 45-67
Description
Explores the book for autobiographical sections and passages that could also be classified as myth, legend or fiction and how this influences the reader's treatment of the work as life writing.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 45.
Interview with creator of a documentary about Native American participation in World I and II, Korea and Vietnam, produced for Wisconsin Public Television.
Canadian Literature, no. 136, Spring, 1993, pp. 24-44
Description
Argues work is an example of cultural appropriation and discusses the pitfalls of a non-Aboriginal writing about Aboriginal literature.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 24.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 2, Summer, 2007, pp. 83-103
Description
Contends that humorist Will Rogers, who was a member of the Cherokee Nation, was appropriated and mainstreamed as a mythic American figure and consequently has been denied a prominent place in Native American literary history.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 83.
[English] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2017.
Refers to the works of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Simon Pokagan, E. Pauline Johnson, and Alex Posey.
Biographical and critical essay about Zitkala-Sa, most famous for the book, Old Indian Legends, Retold by Zitkala-Sa (nom de plume of Gertrude Bonnin) in 1901.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1993, pp. 3-24
Description
Explores the author's autobiographical essays and looks at her personal and tribal experiences.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.