Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 3, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Almanac of the Dead, Fall, 1998, pp. 65-83
Description
Explores how the writer replaces the European linear thinking about time and replaces it with the indigenous viewpoint of circularity.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Animated Inuit story demonstrates the magic and beauty of family as well as the inherent struggles that arise from cultural differences.
Duration: 7:38
Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 29, 2007, pp. 137-166
Description
Looks at effectiveness of transnational Indigenous action networks and how Indigenous movements have become mainstreamed in the United Nations structure.
Interviews Navajos who were involved in a voluntary foster-care program sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah which placed Native American Mormon children into white Mormon homes for the school year.
Paper presented at the 2nd Biennial Conference of the Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and the Humanities Carleton University, Ottawa, October 12-14, 2007.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 31, no. 4, July/August 2007, pp. 28-31
Description
Comments on enormous burden change has placed on Aboriginal and Torres Strait people resulting in displacement of traditional male role as main family provider.
An overall summary of Treaty #6, the hows and whys of the difference in interpretation between Indian and non-Indian, based on field interviews and historical documents.
Topics include: building relationships, balance in content and perspectives; accessibility and use; culturally sensitive materials; providing context; intellectual property issues; copying and repatriation of records; research protocols; and reciprocal education and training.
Providing Psychiatric-Mental Health Care for Native Americans: Lessons Learned by a Non-Native American PMHNP (Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amy G. Barnard
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing And Mental Health Services, vol. 45, no. 5, May 2007, pp. 30-35
Description
Author describes lessons learned while practicing on the reservation and suggests ways other non-Native American practitioners can best serve the population.
Outlines women's traditional roles and discusses how churches and various Canadian government policies and legislation have created their current disadvantaged position.
New Brunswick and Atlantic Studies Research and Development Centre Conference, Town and Country: Exploring Urban and Rural Issues in New Brunswick, June 22nd -23rd, 2007
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jo-Anne Elder
Description
Looks at working intercultural models by examining cultural practices, arts policies and literary and popular writing.
Language in Mari Sandoz’s Crazy Horse: Strange Man of the Oglalas
Native American Symposium ; 2nd, 1997
Sam Kenoi’s “Coyote and the Whitemen”: Contact in and out of a Chiricahua Narrative
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Anthony K. Webster
Kimberli Lee
Description
Sam Kenoi’s “Coyote and the Whitemen”: Contact in and out of a Chiricahua Narrative by Anthony K. Webster examines specific narration by placing it within the context of received standards for a Coyote narrative.
Language in Mari Sandoz’s Crazy Horse: Strange Man of the Oglalas by Kimberli Lee discusses the Indian perspectives used in Mari Sandoz’s work.