Looks at the history and contemporary life of the Abenaki and the importance of basket making to their way of life.
Duration: 1:44:05.
Accompanying material.
Opening Up about Oppression Through Forum Theatre: Teacher's Guide
Teaching and Learning Research Exchange
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Melissa] Marley
[Carol] Fulton
McDowell Foundation Research Project
Description
Looks at a Grades 10-12 student drama project about living and going to school in a culturally mixed community. Included is a teachers guide with lesson plans.
Report provides a "snapshot" of the impact of the art program on teachers, students and off-reserve communities. Research was conducted between April 1 and August 30, 2006.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 2, Spring, 2010, pp. 224-257
Description
Comments on the work done by activist, Clyde Warrior, noting that his focus was always what could be done by and for American Indians, rather than focusing on what was being done against American Indians.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 29-41
Description
Relates how colonization and Western influences have caused societal problems in Indian cultures. Restorative justice models by the Navajo and Haudenosaunee are also explored.
Based on papers presented at the conference: The West and Beyond : Historians Past, Present and Future, held at the University of Alberta, 19–21 June, 2008.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3/4, Summer/Fall, 2006, pp. 574-596
Description
Describes four viewpoints about the National Museum of the Native American (NMAI) garnered through two personal visits and the others through newspaper articles and discussions.
Canadian Nurse, vol. 102, no. 4, April 2006, pp. 28-31
Description
Argues that nurses need to understand the specific history, culture and the concept of respect, in Aboriginal terms, within a particular community and then apply this knowledge to their relationships in that community.
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 1, 2010, pp. 119-136
Description
Discussion, at the structural level, about the kind of education that is provided to Canada’s Indigenous peoples. The article also discusses a social activist, Shannen Koostachin, and her campaign to engage in social action in order to pressure the federal government to build a new school.
American Literature, vol. 82, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 673-699
Description
Looks at Apess's historical address given in 1836 in which he uses the power of the role as a Christian minister and the rhetoric of the abolitionist movement to argue for Native rights.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 105-131
Description
Contends that the work of Sioux writer Alexander Eastman reflects not only an assimilationist perspective but also examines Native Americans within the oppressive socio-cultural context of 19th and 20th century.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 105.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 3, 2006, pp. 23-43
Description
Essay arguing for a way of reading responsibly that takes into account socioeconomic realities. The essay further argues that the roles of reader and critic must also become that of active teacher and citizen to become agents for change.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northern Illinois University, 2006.
Discusses works by S. Alice Callahan, Mourning Dove (Christal Quintasket), D'Arcy McNickle, Anna Lee Walters, Thomas King and Sherman Alexie.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 47, no. 2, Fall, 1995, pp. 13-19
Description
Author presents evidence which suggests that there were not just nine, but ten people killed at Frog Lake on April 2 1885.
Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 13.
BC Studies, no. 152, Past Emergent, Winter, 2006/2007, pp. 67-95
Description
Traces the history of archaeological digs and subsequent Western theories about the identity of the peoples who inhabited the Lower Fraser River area of BC.