First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 88-95
Description
Looks at how a community-based model of education can provide an avenue for integrating Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing into a Western-based educational system.
Looks at examples from Apache, Ojibwe, Diné (Navajo), Hawaiian, and Blackfeet language programs.
Condensed version of this article in Heritage Language Journal, vol. 7 no. 2, Fall 2010, pp.138-152.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, Development and Customary Law, 2010, pp. 38-43
Description
Provides examples of the positive moves promoting and protecting indigenous peoples' traditional system of governance to retain traditional ways of life.
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Global Environmental Politics, vol. 10, no. 4, November 2010, pp. 12-35
Description
Looks at the environmental justice struggles of Indigenous peoples and their demands for equity, recognition, participation, and other capabilities, looking at all of these in terms of a concern for the basic functioning of nature, culture, and communities.
Focuses on the teachers and leaders associated with a community school which integrates language and culture into the curriculum.
Accompanied by video directed by Catherine Martin. (Duration: 20:29).
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 96-106
Description
The author examines his life-work of community development and healing work in northern Aboriginal communities of Ontario in a reflective and narrative way.
Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 36, no. 1, 2011, pp. 115-140
Description
Compares the similarities and differences in the strategic approaches of two Indigenous groups in the development of a nationally coordinated and community-driven broadband system.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring, 2011, pp. 113-136
Description
Looks at the role of research within Indigenous communities, grounded in an Indigenous knowledge system, and examines an alternative to traditional research methods that form the basis for mainstream academic research protocols.
Canadian Geographer, vol. 55, no. 3, Fall, 2011, p. 334–353
Description
Analysis of the impact and sustainability of a forest management initiative involving Cree and Dene entrepreneurs in partnership with Mishitu and Mayangna villagers in Nicaragua.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 4, Autumn, 1995, pp. 519-525
Description
Examines how Blackfeet author James Welch depicts characters from two eras who improvise and appropriate Blackfeet and white cultures while facing loss of political autonomy, illness and attack while retaining hope for the future.
Canadian Studies in Population, vol. 37, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 151-174
Description
Study shows that when children and parents belong to the same ethnic group, children will take their parents identity and in Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal unions, children will favor Aboriginal identities.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 4, Fall, 2010, pp. 475-497
Description
Comments on the exchange of cultures between American Indians and Scottish-Irish settlers and the positive transformation into an intertribal community that occurred.
Native Authenticity: Transnational Perspectives on Native American Literary Studies
Native Traces
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Deborah L. Madsen
Description
Discussion of difficulties involved in determining who can legitimately be called a "Native American" author.
Excerpt from Native Authenticity: Transnational Perspectives on Native American Literary Studies edited by Deborah L. Madsen.
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 13, no. 2, Thematic Issue: About Indigenous Literatures , June 2011, pp. 1-7
Description
Looks at how indigenous writers and scholars see non-Indigenous scholarly critics, writers, and readers, and examines how to establish Indigenous literature.
Contends that a long-term vision and standardization of the methodologies, determinants and indicators of food security are required to improve access and availability to food that is of acceptable quality.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 182, no. 1, January 12, 2010, p. E46
Description
Discusses the need for programs to promote wellness and community development; and looks at young people returning to traditions, such as acknowledging their spirit names.