American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 1, Winter, 2000, pp. 91-109
Description
Article examines the ways that cultural expectations and gender roles intersected with Grey Owl's performance of Indigeneity and permitted/inhibited his work as a conservationist.
Health & Place, vol. 16, no. 4, July 2010, pp. 638-645
Description
Study, through the use of interviews and surveys, assessed women's attitudes about the impact of having to travel outside the community to deliver their babies.
Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Linc Kesler
Larry Grant
Coll Thrush
Neil Safier
Shaunee Casavant
Nika Collison
Tirso Gonzaez
Sheryl Lightfoot
Description
Webcast of Global Encounters Initiative Symposium called Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame held at the University of British Columbia, March 4-6, 2010. Panel discussion begins at 36:41.
Duration: 2:24:18.
Guidelines for use by Elders, authors and illustrators, curriculum developers and administrators, educators, editors and publishers, document reviewers, researchers, Aboriginal language specialists, Aboriginal community organizations, and the general public.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 7, Promising Practices in Mental Health: Emerging Paradigms for Aboriginal Social Work Practices, November 2010, pp. 11-31
Description
Looks at the key findings of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, and its relevance to residential school experience.
Drama Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2000.
Focuses on four playwrights Suzan-Lori Park, Daniel David Moses, and filmmakers Midi Onodera and Julie Dash.
Canadian Literature, no. 167, First Nations Writing, Winter, 2000, pp. 141-144
Description
Book reviews of:
I Knew Two Métis Women: The Lives of Dorothy Scofield and Georgina Houle Young by Gregory Scofield.
Red Blood: One (Mostly) White Guy's Encounters with the Native World by Robert Hunter.
The Visions and Revelations of St. Louis the Métis edited by David Day.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 12, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 2000, pp. [14]-34
Description
Discusses how an urban upbringing has disrupted her "sense of place", present in much of American Indian literature, and replaced it with the theme of absence and the search for identity.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Examines how the traditional activities of the Yukaghirs are determined by the landscape they inhabit and how their identity has managed to survive because of these traditional activities.
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, vol. 8, no. 2, [Indigenous Health Special Issue], April 2010, pp. 362-373
Description
Contends that a Community Based/Tribally Based Participatory approach (CBPR/TPR) was the best practice approach and was congruent with the community's Tribal culture.
Identity, Prejudice and Healing in Aboriginal Circles: Models of Identity, Embodiment and Ecology of Place as Traditional Medicine for Education and Counselling
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kisiku Sa'qawei Paq'tism Randolph Bowers
AlterNative, vol. 6, no. 3, 2010, pp. 203-221
Description
Looks at healing of identity from an Aboriginal perspective using holistic models of wellbeing through the integration of emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of being.
English and Film Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2010.
Looks at four narratives: Jeannette Armstrong’s Slash, Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer, Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen, and Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road.
Seachange, The Face-to-Face, Spring, 2010, pp. 51-80
Description
Looks at the history of Native Net, a nation-wide computer based multimedia communication network, and the development of CyberPowWow, an online gallery and chat room produced by the Aboriginal collective Nation to Nation.
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 11, no. 1, New Series, 2000, pp. 87-108
Description
Discusses the Royal visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later George V and Queen Mary), the ceremonies held and review of the extensive related archival records.
Journal of Indigenous Voices in Social Work, vol. 1, no. 2, December 2010, pp. 1-12
Description
Discusses research practice model which is based on that indigenous ways of knowing, cultural practices, and provides pathways to strengthening community-based programs through collaborative research.