Theses
Author/Creator
Patricia Ann Holkup
Description
Nursing Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Iowa, 2003.
Native Americans & Westward Expansion: Cultures and Conflicts: Reader
Alternate Title
Core Knowledge History and Geography
E-Books
Author/Creator
Core Knowledge Foundation
Description
Related material: Teacher Guide; Timeline Cards; Online Resources.
Native-Directed Social Change in Canada and the United States
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Duane Champagne
American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 50, no. 4, Indigenous Peoples: Canadian and U.S. Perspectives, December 2006, pp. 428-449
Description
Compares coercive and consensual social change through historical periods: pre-contact, competitive colonialism from 1600 to 1760, British hegemony from 1760 to 1770, colonial competition from 1777 to 1820, U.S. and Canadian hegemony from 1820 to 1871, absolute control of Aboriginal communities from 1872 to 1968, and 1969 to present.
Native Women's Association of Canada's Report in Response to Canada's Fourth and Fifth Reports on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Covering the Period of September 1999-December 2004
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)
Description
Presents the Native Women's Association of Canada's (NWAC) perspective on Canada's compliance with articles in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
Natives Know How Peacemaking Can Succeed
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, March 7, 2003, p. A13
Description
Describes the First Nations experience in peace treaty negotiations using the example of the Blackfoot and Cree settlement at Wetaskiwin 150 years ago.
Navajo Cultural Identity: What Can the Navajo Nation Bring to the American Indian Identity Discussion Table?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lloyd Lee
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 21, no. 2, Fall, 2006, pp. 79-103
Description
Discusses Navajo cultural identity and its significance to the Native American society.
Navajo Cyber-Sovereignty
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Frances Vitali Jean Whitehorse
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2, Indigenous People and Information Technology, 2003, pp. 38-43
Description
Reports on the changes technology is bringing to the culture of the Navajo Nation.
To access this article scroll down to page 38.
Navajo Nation Brain Drain: An Exploration of Returning College Graduates' Perspectives
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Quintina Ava Bearchief-Adolpho
Aaron P. Jackson
Steven A. Smith
Moroni T. Benally
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, January 2017, pp. 1-25
Description
Looks at the primary reasons for returning back to the reservation to live and work: family support, community, cultural identity, the simple life, reservation economy, and commitment to the reservation.
Navigating Structural Violence With Indigenous Families: The Contested Terrain of Early Childhood Intervention and the Child Welfare System in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alison J. Gerlach
Annette J. Browne
Vandna Sinha
Diana Elliott
The International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 3, July 2017, pp. 1-23
Description
Reports findings from inquiry into Aboriginal Infant Development Program (AIDPs) in British Columbia.
Needs, Rights, Nationhood, and the Politics of Indigeneity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dominic O'Sullivan
MAI Review, no. 1, 2006, p. article 1
Description
Answers the question, "Are Māori peoples with rights, or individuals with needs?".
Negotiating Accuracy and Authenticity in an Aboriginal King Lear
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Dean
Rethinking History, vol. 12, no. 2, 2017, pp. 255-273
Description
Discusses the landmark production opening on May 8, 2012 under the direction of Peter Hinton.
Negotiating Rights, Reconciling History: The Nisga'a Treaty and the Terms of Inclusion in the Canadian State
Theses
Author/Creator
Carole Blackburn
Description
Cultural and Social Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2003.
The Negotiation of Native American Identity: A Narrative Analysis of the Controversy Over the Storing of Nuclear Waste on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation
Theses
Author/Creator
Tracy Lee Clarke
Description
Communication Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Utah, 2006.
Neshnabemwen Renaissance: Local and National Potawatomi Language Revitalization Efforts
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher Wetzel
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1/2, Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Literature, Winter - Spring, 2006, pp. 61-86
Description
Author considers the current status of the Potawatomi language, describes different efforts being made by both tribal and National authorities to revitalize the language, and examines the impacts of these projects.
Nevada Children's Justice Act Task Force: Indian Child Welfare Resource Guide
Alternate Title
ICWA Resource Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Family Programs Office Child Protective Services
Description
Discusses the Indian Child Welfare Act and suggests how to be culturally responsive in child welfare practices.
New Agenda for Strengthening Canada's Aboriginal Population: Individual Treaty Benefits, Reduced Transfers to Bands and Own-Source Taxation
Alternate Title
Backgrounder (C.D. Howe Institute) ; no. 66
E-Books
Author/Creator
John Richards
Description
Argues that Treaty benefits should move from band councils to individuals and that there should be an introduction of taxation on reserves to raise revenue.
[New Approaches to First Nation Infrastructure Development: The Nipissing First Nation Experience]
Alternate Title
Rural Ontario Foresight Papers 2019
[Northern Perspective: New Approaches to First Nation Infrastructure Development]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Amanjit Garcha]
Dwayne Nashkawa
Description
Outlines challenges faced in addressing infrastructure needs and gaps, and discusses how this First Nation went about planning and financing improvements.
The New Deal for Tribes: Resource Extraction & Toxic Waste (Minus the Jobs)
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Mark Trahant
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Summer, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Reprinted from Trahant Reports, April 10, 2017.
New Deal Rumored for Off-Reserve People
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 21, no. 9, December 2003
Description
Outlines the federal government's political stance on Aboriginal issues as Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, hands over the reins to Paul Martin.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.10.
New FSIN Vice-Chiefs Job Needs Running Start
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, December 8, 2006, p. A15
Description
Article introduces Lyle Whitefish from Big River First Nation and his accomplishments in the educational field.
New Light on Black Elk and The Sacred Pipe
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Fitzgerald
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 71-91
Description
Uses correspondence to and from Joseph Brown to explore his personal philosophy and his process of transcribing and editing The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
Niitsitapiisini: Our Way of Life: The Story of the Blackfoot People
Web Sites » Virtual Exhibits
Author/Creator
Glenbow Museum
Description
Virtual exhibition divided into six sections: how we lived with the buffalo; how we lived with the land; how we lived with other people; our world; and traditional stories.
Includes link to teacher toolkit.
Nindoodemag: Anishinaabe Identities in the Eastern Great Lakes Region, 1600 to 1900.
Theses
Author/Creator
Heidi Rosemary Bohaker
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2006.
Nisga’a Final Agreement
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Government of British Columbia
Nisga'a Nation
Description
Concluded between the Nisg'a Nation, Canada and the province of British Columbia on April 27, 1999.
No Home in a Homeland : Indigenous Peoples and Homelessness in the Canadian North
E-Books
Author/Creator
Julia Christensen
No Means No: Ermineskin's Resistance to Land Surrender, 1902-1921
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Irwin
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 23, no. 1, 2003, pp. 165-183
Description
Discusses how the Department of Indian Affairs pushed for the Ermineskin people to surrender their land and how people resisted.
Northern Québec James Bay Cree Regional Health Governance in Support of Community Participation: Honouring the "Butterfly"
Alternate Title
Northern Quebec James Bay Cree Regional Health Governance in Support of Community Participation: Honouring the "Butterfly"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Martine C. Lévesque
Susan Law
Jill Torrie
Robert Carlin
Lucy Trapper ... [et al.]
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, October 21, 2019
Description
Discusses the revelations of studies conducted by the Quebec regional health and social services agency on community engagement in healthcare planning. Highlights the nuanced differences between Cree perspectives and non-Indigenous perspectives and the need for models based in the recognition and elevation of community knowledges and viewpoints.
Northern Tutchone (Athabascan) Poetics
Theses
Author/Creator
Gerald Lee Carr
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2003.
Nursing in First Nations and Inuit Communities in Atlantic Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer L. Dobbelsteyn
The Canadian Nurse, vol. 102, no. 4, April 2006, pp. 32-35
Description
Argues that addressing the health care needs in Inuit and First Nations communities requires an understanding of the cultural richness of the people and an ability to see things from another perspective.
Obesity in American-Indian Children: Prevalence, Consequences, and Prevention
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Story
June Stevens
John Himes
Elaine Stone
Bonnie Holy Rock ... [et al.]
Preventive Medicine, vol. 37, Supplement 1: Pathways Prevention of Obesity in American Indian Schoolchildren, December 2003, pp. S3-S12
Description
Looks at occurrences of obesity in children and adults and promotes the need for intervention studies that involve the American-Indian community.
An Offering: Lakota Elders Contributions to the Future of Food Security
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph Paul Brewer II
Mary Kate Dennis
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 1-22
Description
Study works with 25 Elders living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to explore narratives surrounding food and food production over their lives. Four themes emerged: family homestead, food as security, food preservation, and generational gardening. Discusses potential implications for future programming to improve food security.
Offering our Gifts, Partnering for Change: Decolonizing Experimentation in Winnipeg-based Settler Archives
Theses
Author/Creator
Sarah Story
Description
History-Archival Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2017.
An Ojibwe American Indian Vew of Adult Learning in the Workplace
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Linda LeGarde Grover
Karen M. Keenan
Advances in Developing Human Resources, vol. 8, no. 3, 2006, pp. 391-399
Description
Uses cultural group located in North Central United States and southern Canada ito illustrate how knowledge of culture, world view and learning-styles can inform human resource development practices
An Ojibwe Perspective on the Welfare of Children: Lessons of the Past and Visions for the Future
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carol A. Hand
Children and Youth Services Review, vol. 28, no. 1, January 2006, pp. 20-46
Description
Discusses an over reliance on child welfare agencies.
Ojibwe Treaty Rights: Understanding and Impact
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sue Erickson
Description
Designed to introduce younger readers to Ojibwe history, culture and exercising rights and resource management.
5th edition
On Being Two-Spirited in Eeyou Istchee
Theses
Author/Creator
Patrice Larivée
Description
Nursing Thesis (MScN)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2019.
On the Importance of Language: Reclaiming Indigenous Place Names at Wasagamack ᐘᕊᑲᒪᕁ First Nation, Manitoba, Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Veronica Wojtuszewska
Description
Natural Resources Thesis (MNRM)--University of Manitoba, 2019.
One Flea-Bitten Gray Horse: Women, Horses, and Economy on the Yakama Reservation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clifford E. Trafzer
T. Robert Przeklasa
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 5-29
Description
Authors use bills of sale for horses from 1909-12 as primary documents to explore the roles women on the Yakima reservation played in their nation’s economy and their resistance to conforming to Western or Christian gender roles.
One Person, One Vote for Grassroots
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 23, no. 11, February 2006, p. 8
Description
Recounts the 47 recommendations proposed by the Assembly of First Nations renewal commission, including allowing grassroots people to vote for the national chief, a new political body and the formation of a national council.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
"The One Who Did Not Break His Promises": Native Americans in the Evangelical Race Reconciliation Movement
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrea Smith
American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 50, no. 4, Indigenous Peoples: Canadian and U.S. Perspectives, December 2006, pp. 478-509
Description
Examines Native American people within the New Charismatic movements focusing on the Promise Keepers organization.
Onondaga Pronominal Prefixes
Theses
Author/Creator
Percy W. Abrams
Description
Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2006.
Ontario First Nations Regional Health Survey Phase III: People's Report
Alternate Title
Ontario First Nations Regional Health Survey Phase 3: People's Report
RHS Phase III Peoples' Report
E-Books
Author/Creator
Chiefs of Ontario
Open Letter to Massachusetts Joint Committee on Education to Ban Native American Mascots
Articles » General
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Summer, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Reprinted from Cultural Survival, June 6, 2017.
Operation Water Spirit
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
Description
Collection of K-12 thematic units and lesson plans which focus on Aboriginal culture and perspectives on water and water quality issues faced by reserves.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade 5: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Nine: Introduction and Directions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Two: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
Opioid Use among First Nations in Ontario: A Report of Current Findings
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Description
Statistical information on number of prescriptions, number of prescriptions by type, rates of opioid-related hospitalization and emergency department visits, and mortality
Opioids and Substances of Misuse among First Nations People in Alberta
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Analytics and Performance Reporting Branch
Alberta Health
Description
Data for: mortality (apparent accidental deaths from fentanyl/non-fentanyl opioids), confirmed drug and alcohol toxicity deaths (both accidental and suicides), opioid dispensing, emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and emergency medical response.