Northern Public Affairs, vol. 6, no. Special Issue 2, Connectivity in Northern and Indigenous Communities, October 2018, pp. 46-49
Description
Describes the development and administration of Atlantic Canada's First Nation Help Desk network, which provides broadband services to 30 Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, and Innu First Nation communities.
Following the Trails of Our Ancestors: Re-Grounding Tlicho Knowledge on the Land
Articles » General
Author/Creator
John B. Zoe
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 6, no. Special Issue 1, The Pan-Territorial on-the-Land Summit, July 2018, pp. 18-23
Description
Author uses traditional stories of Yamozha to talk about the relationship that the Tłįchǫ (Tlicho) have historically had and are rebuilding with the land; draws on teachings of Elders to discuss the importance of language, sacred place names, and people “living in spirit with the environment, with the animals.”
Video of conference presentation: Trails of our Ancestors
Duration: 47:22
Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC)
Description
Results of project showed that the Indigenous perspective was more wholistic than the mainstream and encompassed community safety, environment, beliefs, kinship patterns, social arrangements, and norms of individual, familial and social conduct. Includes case study of a project which failed to move forward because researchers refused to sign a Research Collaboration Agreement.
Related material: Ganohonyohk Tool.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, 2018, pp. 83-99
Description
Article pulls together several elements that when implemented together into ethnographic research create a process of Indigenization. These elements include: respecting distinct cultures and nations, rooting methods in culture, understanding the importance of story, language, place, and relationality, committing to an ethic of reciprocity.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 1-42
Description
Looks at strategies employed by the National Congress of American Indians, the National Indian Youth Council, and the Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium in their efforts to combat racial stereotypes.
This videos examines approaches of reclaiming, revitalizing and reinventing to transform trauma into a new form to improved Indigenous communities.
Duration: 49:54.
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 4, Special Issue: Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, December 2018, pp. 354-364
Description
Examines the complexity of identity and community belonging in the context of the Indian Act, colonial influence, Indigenous kinship systems, contemporary spaces, and the 2016 revision of Kahnawà:ke Law on Membership regarding adoption.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 3, Native Narratives of Indigenous History and Culture, 2018, pp. 27-46
Description
Explores the subversive and satirical practice of creating souvenirs for settler-tourists arguing that the small totem poles carved as keepsakes were in fact a form of resistance to settler colonialism.
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 4, Special Issue: Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, December 2018, pp. 326-332
Description
Examines the nuances of adoption into Aboriginal communities within the frameworks of Nêhiyaw (Cree) law, and wahkotowin (laws of kinship). Discusses how a lack of knowledge on the part of the adoptee can lead to appropriation and extraction of Indigenous knowledge.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 227-235
Description
Author discusses worldview, identity, Indigeneity, and religion in the context of The Spirit and the Sky: Lakota Visions of the Cosmos, God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance and the Making of Modern America, and Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary.
Discusses the work of visual artist Summer Zah; highlights the way in which the artist engages with media stereotypes and representations, and the effects they can have on individual identities as well as on mainstream perceptions of Indigenous peoples.
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 3, September 2018, pp. 237-244
Description
Retrieves and examines state produced data about the intersections between Indigenous peoples and Information and Communication Technologies using an anthropological perspective.
Authors argue that current top-down policy models have produced poor outcomes, and that social and economic change must start at a grass-roots level and be tailored to individual communities' specific geographical and cultural concerns. Looks at the issues through fieldwork in the remote settlement of Wakathuni.
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 74, Spring, 1993, pp. 35-[?]
Description
Discusses the theatre and how rehearsal can aid in the development of an identity through of role playing and acting, and recognizing identity as a dynamic concept.
Northern Review, no. 47, Dealing with Resource Development in Canada's North, August 03, 2018, pp. 167-185
Description
Study employs the Arctic Social Indicators (ASI) framework to assess the health of six communities in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR). Indicators assessed include: health and population, material well-being cultural vitality, closeness to nature, education, and fate control.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 2, Spring, 1992, pp. 157-167
Description
Authors, who are also FBI agents, describe some of the potential complications and pitfalls for non-Indigenous investigators working in Indigenous communities; highlight cultural misunderstandings, negotiation of systems of authority and governance, Indigenous systems of justice.
As part of development of community-based participatory muskox health surveillance system, interviews were conducted with local muskox experts about the human-wildlife context.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, Special Issue on International Year of Indigenous Peoples: Discovery and Human Rights, 1993, pp. 153-174
Description
Argues that the Iroquois Confederacy had an influence upon Thomas Jefferson and the model upon which the United States government is based on.
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, pp. 27-32
Description
Extract from a presentation at the Indigenous Perspectives on Repatriation: Moving Forward Together symposium Discusses the process and the work of repatriation, the kinship bonds that are formed while doing the work. Also discusses digital repatriation efforts and projects.
It’s all about Whanaungatanga: Alcohol Use and Older Maori in Aotearoa
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah Herbert
Christine Stephens
Margaret Forster
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 3, September 2018, pp. 200-208
Description
Study of 19 participants notes a bias in research: normally being focused on alcohol misuse rather than on non-problematic use; works to focus on its use in the context of whanaungatanga (maintaining relationships). Findings highlight the importance of whanaungatanga among Māori; suggest events and activities that support whanaungatanga, rather than alcohol use, to enhance the well-being of older Māori.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 55, no. 1, 2018, pp. 1-23
Description
Describes the archaeological reassessment of the Iyatayet, a Holocene site at Cape Denbigh, Alaska. New data collected in 2012 and 2013 provides insight into the site’s occupation by three different cultural groups: the Denbigh, the Norton, and the Thule.
Kaupapa Korero: A Maori Cultural Approach to Narrative Inquiry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Felicity Ware
Mary Breheny
Margaret Forster
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 1, March 2018, pp. 45-53
Description
Focuses on Maori principles, concept of narrative and analysis, and argues this approach ensures how the stories are shared, presented and understood conforms to cultural preferences.
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 4, Special Issue: Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, December 2018, pp. 300-308
Description
Reconsiders the colonial narrative surrounding Pocahontas and Wahunsenaca (Powhatan) created by John Smith in Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England and the Summer Isles (1624) as a “mode of storytelling that destroys and moves to supplant traditional Indigenous kinship structures and obligations.” Argues that Smith depicts colonization as a war between British patriarchal structures and Indigenous systems of kinship.
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 4, 2018, pp. 157-166
Description
Author describes her experience conducting ethnographic research with Indigenous Tz’utujil residents of Santiago Atitlán, as they navigate the growing tourism industry in their town.
International Indigenous Youth and Elder Gathering regarding land and cultural relations held at Little Red River, Saskatchewan in 1992.
Duration: 27:54.
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 16, no. 5, September/October 1992, pp. 15-17
Description
Looks at the report A Matter of Survival an inquiry into the loss of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages and what can be done to save the remaining languages.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies , vol. 38, no. 2, 2018, pp. 125-144
Description
Author discusses their positionality as an Indigenous Canadian scholar and researcher in Yucatan, Mexico; reflects on how their Indigenous identity and culture helped to inform their approach to learning and led them to select Indigenous research methods.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 2, Fall, 2018, pp. 1-15
Description
Author challenges the mainstream narratives about Lifta, a Palestinian village located in the Western corridor of Jerusalem, and advocates for its consideration as part of a larger Indigenous historical narrative of Palestine.