International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, The Future of Traditional Knowledge Research: Building Partnership and Capacity, May 2015, pp. 1-25
Description
Defines traditional knowledge, how it can be validated among parties with different interests, and implemented in policy-making arenas.
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 106, no. 6, September/October 2015, pp. 382-387
Description
Studies links between racial discrimination and substance abuse finding that over 80% of Canadian Aboriginal adults had experienced recent racial discrimination.
International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership 2015
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Carol Hopkins
Description
Looks at transforming the mental health systems and services using Indigenous knowledge and culture, to benefit Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.
Presentation from the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership meeting held September 21-22, 2015 in Vancouver, B.C.
Duration: 19:06.
Transcultural Psychiatry, vol. 52, no. 2, 2015, pp. 139-149
Description
Introduction to articles from conference about the merging of evidence based practice and cultural competence held at the University of Michigan with anthropologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and social work researchers.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 22, no. 2, Fall, 2007, pp. 23-55
Description
Compares old and new environmental ethics pertaining to Indigenous peoples and Euro-Americans.The author also explores the concept of indigenous knowledge.
Myth and Memory: Stories of Indigenous-European Contact
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Keith Thor Carlson
Description
Discusses the Indigenous historical perspective of the contact era and experience.
Chapter 3 from Myth and Memory: Stories of Indigenous-European Contact
Australasian Journal of American Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, December 2007, pp. 48-73
Description
Discusses the experiences of the codetalkers in the broader context of government-Navajo relations, including military opposition, motivations to serve, attitudes toward indigenous knowledge, and post-war discrimination.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, The Future of Traditional Knowledge Research: Building Partnership and Capacity, May 2015, pp. 1-13
Description
Contends that future policy regarding collaboration between non-Indigenous academics and Indigenous communities should look at the lessons learned from the work of Franz Boas, George Hunt and other Indigenous field workers.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, The Future of Traditional Knowledge Research: Building Partnership and Capacity, May 2015, pp. 1-15
Description
Documents the ways Indigenous communities and research teams are benefiting from two-eyed seeing, the compilation of Indigenous and Western ways of knowing.
Society & Natural Resources, vol. 20, no. 4, April 2007, pp. 291-305
Description
Suggests that the creation of place-based learning communities will engage researchers and indigenous people as collaborators in the process of knowledge production.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, Resistance and Resiliency: Addressing Historical Trauma of Aboriginal Peoples, March 2007, pp. 33-55
Description
Looks at the research focusing on the strengths of four urban Aboriginal women, including a critique of the Western concept definition of resilience, and the process of resilience from the cultural framework of the Medicine Wheel, while applying post-colonial Indigenous epistemological and methodological approaches.
Argues that sentencing circles are more effective and meaningful than Western justice. Looks at the Hollow Water sentencing circle's revival in response to widespread crime in the community.
Scroll down to page 12 to read article.
BC Studies, no. 188, Winter, 2015/2016, pp. 108-111
Description
Book reviews of: Return to the Land of the Head Hunters edited by Brad Evans and Aaron Glass.
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To read this review scroll to p. 108.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, 2007, pp. 113-166
Description
Book reviews of:
Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences edited and with an introduction by Clifford E. Trafzer, Jean A. Keller, and Lorene Sisquoc.
Captive Histories: English, French, and Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid by Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney.
A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814 by Gregory A. Waselkov.
Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life by Kingsley M. Bray.
Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Native Peoples and Archaeology in the Northeastern United States edited by Jordan E.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 3, March 2007, p. 16
Description
Discusses an Aboriginal style guide written to give guidance as to when approval is needed to use certain dances, songs, motifs, etc. and in what settings.
Article located by scrolling to page 16.
Discusses the exchange of scientific and traditional knowledge on the northern environment to gain a better understanding of the atmospheric and water environments in the Sahtu.
Docu-drama about a young man from the Lakota Sioux Nation in South Dakota who travels to Washington State to live with his uncle to learn about his relatives, the coastal Salish. In the process he also learns about the environment and the salmon.
Duration: 43:59
See resource guide Shadow of the Salmon: Respect the Salmon, Respect Yourself.
Discusses six "faces" of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) including, factual observations, management systems, past and current land uses, ethics and values, culture and identity, and cosmology.