Our Life Among the Iroquois Indians
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Laurence M. Hauptman
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, Summer, 2010, pp. 401-402
Description
Book review of: Our Life Among the Iroquois Indians by Harriet S. Clark Caswell, reprinted with a new introduction by Joy Bilharz.
The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Patrice Hollrah
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 128-131
Description
Book review of: The People Have Never Stopped Dancing by Jacqueline Shea Murphy.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 128.
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
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.
Preserving Tradition and Understanding the Past: Papers From the Conference on Iroquois Research, 2001-2005
Alternate Title
New York State Museum Record
E-Books
Author/Creator
Christine Sternberg Patrick
Barbara Graymont
Christina B. Rieth
Elizabeth Horton
Anthony Wonderley ... [et al.]
Reanimating Storywork: Indigenous Elders' Reflections on Leadership
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John O'Leary (Sahnbadis)
Description
Interview with Elder working at the University of British Columbia First Nations House of Learning.
Reanimating Storywork: Indigenous Elders' Reflections on Leadership
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Doreen Sinclair (White Cloud)
Description
Interview with Elder working at the University of British Columbia First Nations House of Learning.
Reanimating Storywork: Indigenous Elders' Reflections on Leadership
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lee Brown
Description
Interview with Elder working at the University of British Columbia First Nations House of Learning.
Revival and Community: The History and Practices of a Native American Flute Circle
Theses
Author/Creator
Mary Jane Jones
Description
Art Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2010.
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 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.
Sea-lion Whiskers and Spray-crete: The Affect of Indigenous Status in Contemporary British Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charlotte Townsend-Gault
Journal of Material Culture, vol. 16, no. 4, Special issue: Materializing identities, December 2011, pp. 416-428
Description
Examines the conflicting ways in which artifacts and cultural heritage of First Nations are understood and how contradictory positions are to be reconciled.
The ‘Secularization’ Process of Diné Commercial Sand Paintings and the Persistence of Religious Values: A Critical Discussion, Concerning the Diné People in Southwestern North America ...
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jason Falkenburg
Description
Discusses the differences between sand art for spiritual ceremonies and commercialized sand painting for the western art-market.
The Seen and Unseen: Religion and Identity in the Chicago American Indian Community
Theses
Author/Creator
Eli Steven Suzukovich III
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Montana, 2011.
Shaking Up Christianity: The Indian Shaker Church in the Canada-U.S. Pacific Northwest
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Neylan
The Journal of Religion, vol. 91, no. 2, April 2011, pp. 188-222
Description
Looks at the history of Aboriginal Shakerism.
Sharing Aboriginal Stories: Learning about the Sundance
Alternate Title
Circles of Intelligent Knowledge Program
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kimberly Loftus
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.
Singing the Coast
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Steve Morelli
Aboriginal History, vol. 35, November 2011, pp. 221-224
Description
Book review of: Singing the Coast by Margaret Somerville and Tony Perkins.
Review located by scrolling to page 221.
The Spirit Messenger and the Traditional Exemplar: Two Figures of the Elder Among Plains Cree Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrew R. Hatala
Michel Desjardins
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, 2010, pp. 49-81
Description
Interviews conducted on four Aboriginal elders living in Saskatchewan reveal two categories of Cree elders.
The Sun Dance and the Gustafsen Lake Standoff: Healing Through Resistance and the Danger of Dismissing Religion
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicholas D. Shrubsole
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 2, no. 4, Traditional Knowledge, Spirituality and Lands, 2011, pp. 1-17
Description
Examines renewal and interpretation of spiritual practices and the failures to safeguard ceremonies and off-reserve sacred sites.
Te Awa Atua, Te Awa Tapu, Te Awa Wahine: An Examination of Stories, Ceremonies and Practices Regarding Menstruation in the Pre-Colonial Māori World
Theses
Author/Creator
Ngāhuia Murphy
Description
Arts Thesis (M.A.)--University of Waikato, 2011
Time and Eldership in Torrobo World View
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shelley Ashdown
AlterNative, vol. 6, no. 3, 2010, pp. 261-271
Description
Discusses the orientation to past, present and future time in the Ceremony of Eldership.
Tobacco Ties: The Relationship of the Sacred to Research
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Debby Danard Wilson
Jean-Paul Restoule
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010
Description
Discusses the way in which the tobacco contributes to Indigenous research methodology and examines how Indigenous research can draw upon Indigenous ways of knowing by connecting individuals with the spiritual and physical world.
Transcending the Borderlands: Elements of the Anzalduan Mestiza Consciousness in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony
Alternate Title
Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium
Native American Symposium ; 8th, 2009
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Rachael Price
Description
Describes how elements from these novels serve as a mirror of hybridity theory with an emphasis on stories and the idea of journeys for true cultural unity.
Tribal Flag Songs: Arikara, Hidatsa, Dakota
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Louis Garcia
Whispering Wind, vol. 40, no. 2, Issue 276, July-August 2011, pp. 26-27
Description
Looks at the history of the Arikara Flag song.
Turquoise in the Life of American Indians
Alternate Title
Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium
Native American Symposium ; 8th, 2009
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Oksana Y. Danchevskaya
Description
Reviews the historical use of this stone as a decorative and symbolic gemstone in North American Indian cultures.
A Whalebone Mask From Amaknak Island, Eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jason S. Rogers
Evguenia V. Anichtchenko
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 48, no. 1, 2011, pp. 66-79
Description
Looks at an Amaknak whalebone mask which offers a look at prehistoric Aleutian ritual and spiritual life.
What Sort of Indian Will Show Me the Way?: Colonization, Mediation, and Interpretation in the Sun Dance Contact Zone
Theses
Author/Creator
Sandra Garner
Description
Comparative Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2010.
Working and Walking Together: Supporting Family Relationship Services to Work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families and Organisations
E-Books
Author/Creator
Secretariat of National Aboriginal & Islander Child Care Inc. (SNAICc)