"Our Responsibility to Keep The Land Alive": Voices of Northern Indigenous Researchers
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah McGregor
Walter Bayha
Deborah Simmons
Pimatisiwin, vol. 8, no. 1, Summer, 2010, pp. 101-123
Description
Looks at the Research the Indigenous Way workshop, held at the Northern Governance Policy Research Conference in November 2009, where a discussion of Indigenous methodologies took place.
Pack-bells on the Rock Face: Aboriginal Paintings of European Contact in Northwestern Arnhem Land
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George Chaloupka
Aboriginal History , vol. 3, no. 2, 1979, pp. 92-95
Description
Drawings located at Magela Creek depicting a European exploring party that could have been either Leichhardt or McKinlay.
Participatory Archiving: Exploring a Collaborative Approach to Aboriginal Societal Provenance
Theses
Author/Creator
Michelle Rydz
Description
Archival Studies - History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba/University of Winnipeg, 2010
Peek-Skee-Ton (Let's Talk): Co-Creating the Aboriginal Learner Post-Secondary Experience
Theses
Author/Creator
Michael Paul French
Description
Leadership Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2010.
Perceptions of Digital Libraries With Indigenous Knowledge: An Exploratory Study
Theses
Author/Creator
Debra Lynn Capponi
Description
Thesis (M.Sc.)--The University of Tennessee, 2010.
Perspectives on Health Within The Teachings of a Gifted Cree Elder
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ross Hoffman
Pimatisiwin, vol. 8, no. 1, Summer, 2010, pp. 19-31
Description
Comments on the authors friendship and learnings of Indigenous knowledge from Elder Joe P. Cardinal.
Pipeline Dreams: People, Environment, and the Arctic Energy Frontier
Alternate Title
IWGIA Document ; 126
E-Books
Author/Creator
Mark Nuttall
Putting the ‘Last-Mile’ First: Re-framing Broadband Development in First Nations and Inuit Communities
E-Books
Author/Creator
Rob McMahon
Susan O’Donnell
Richard Smith
Jason Woodman Simmonds
Brian Walmark
Description
Looks at how First Nations and Inuit communities are using broadband networks and information and communication technologies; and discusses the broadband projects and federal broadband Initiatives in First Nations and Inuit communities.
Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Igloolik Isuma Productions
Kunuk Cohn Productions
Zacharias Kunuk
Ian Mauro
Norman Cohn
Stéphane Rituit ... [et al.]
Description
Leaders, Elders and hunters speak about the social and ecological impact of warming in the Arctic. In Inuktitut with English subtitles.
Duration: 54:07.
The Quest for Mythic Vision in Contemporary Native American and Chicano Fiction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vernon E. Lattin
American Literature, vol. 50, no. 4, January 1979, pp. 625-640
Description
Exploration of mythical quest in the novels House Made of Dawn and Bless Me, Ultima.
Re-conceptualizing Anishinaabe Mino-Bimaadiziwin (the Good Life) as Research Methodology: A Spirit-centered Way in Anishinaabe Research
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brent Debassige
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010, pp. 11-28, 154
Description
Discusses Indigenous approaches to knowledge concerning ethical and spiritual ways of knowing and being.
Re-Conceptualizing Research: An Indigenous Perspective
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Naadli Todd Ormiston
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 1, 2010, pp. 50-56
Description
Discusses various Indigenizing approaches to research including concepts of actualizing, regeneration of cultures and communities, and sustainable self-determination.
Re-indigenizing Curriculum: An Eco-hermeneutic Approach to Learning
Alternate Title
Re-indigenizing Curriculum
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrejs Kulnieks
Dan Roronhiakewen Longboat
Kelly Young
AlterNative, vol. 6, no. 1, 2010, pp. 15-24
Description
Discusses how eco-hermeneutics that places a priority on oral tradition is needed to reform the academic curriculum for a deeper understanding of the relationship between place and language.
Realizing 'Quality' in Indigenous Early Childhood Development
Theses
Author/Creator
Danielle Nichole Mashon
Description
Language and Literacy Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2010.
The Reciprocity Principle and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Understanding the Significance of Indigenous Protest on the Presumpscot River
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lisa T. Brooks
Cassandra M. Brooks
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 2010, pp. 11-28
Description
Looks at the story of a Wabanaki sagamore who protested the damming of a river which he and his people relied on for sustenance.
Records of Times Past: Ethnohistorical Essays on the Culture and Ecology of the New England Tribes.
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sylvia J. Hallam
Aboriginal History, vol. 3, no. 2, 1979, pp. 156-158
Description
Book review of: Records of Times Past edited by Isabel McBryde.
To access review, scroll down to page 156.
The Rediscovered Self: Indigenous Identity and Cultural Justice
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Mark K. Watson
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 2, 2010, pp. 150-152
Description
Book review of: The Rediscovered Self by Ronald Niezen.
Reliability, Accuracy, and Tracking Techniques of Inuit Hunters in Estimating Polar Bear Characteristics From Tracks
Theses
Author/Creator
Pamela Wong
Description
Biology Thesis (M.Sc.)--Queen's University, 2010.
Repatriation, Digital Technology, and Culture in a Northern Athapaskan Community
Theses
Author/Creator
Kate Hennessy
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2010
Repatriation of Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property to East Greenland
Alternate Title
Inuit Studies Conference ; 17th, 2010
[Inuit People and the Aboriginal World]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Aviâja Rosing Jakobsen
Cunera Buijs
Description
Discusses project to connect Greenlanders with two photo collections that are their intellectual property.
Report on the Status of B.C. First Nations Languages 2010
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Peoples' Heritage
Language and Culture Council
Description
Provides statistics regarding risk of endangerment, revitalization efforts, and numbers of existing speakers, as well as list of resources.
Reports From a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonization
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Nathaniel Pollock
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 2, 2010, pp. 153-154
Description
Book review of: Reports From a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonization by Deborah Bird Rose.
Residential Schools: The Intergenerational Impacts on Aboriginal Peoples
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cheryle Partridge
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 7, Promising Practices in Mental Health: Emerging Paradigms for Aboriginal Social Work Practices, November 2010
Description
Investigates the role and impacts of residential schools on Aboriginal traditional knowledge.
Resource Guide for Canadian Aboriginal Astronomy (May 2010)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Prune Harris
Description
Annotated bibliography includes printed and web-based materials. Appropriate for students and educators.
Restorative Justice Circles as a Method For Addressing the Impacts of Crime on Victims, Communities, and Offenders
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ingrid Diane Johnson
Description
Recounts history of restorative justice, who uses them and how successful they are.
Honors Captstone Research Project--[University of Alaska, Fairbanks], 2010.
Restoring the Balance: First Nations Women, Community and Culture
Alternate Title
Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, Madeleine Dion Stout and Eric Guimond (eds), Restoring the Balance: First Nations Women, Community and Culture
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jacky Moore
British Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, Fall, 2010, pp. 292-93
Description
Book Review of: Restoring the Balance edited by Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, Madeleine Dion Stout and Eric Guimond.
Returning Home Through Stories: A Decolonizing Approach To Omushkego Cree Theatre Through the Methodological Practices of Native Performance Culture (NPC)
Theses
Author/Creator
Candace Brandy Brunette
Description
Adult Education and Counselling Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2010.
Robes of Power: Totem Poles on Cloth
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ira Jacknis
BC Studies, no. 78, Summer, 1988, pp. 82-84
Description
Book review of: Robes of Power by Doreen Jensen and Polly Sargent.
Scroll down to page 82 to read review.
The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in the Promotion of Anti-Racism Education in Schools
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rose Ann Torres
Our Schools, Our Selves, vol. 19, no. 3, Anti-Racism in Education: Missing in Action, Spring, 2010, pp. 239-254
Description
Discusses strategies for the classroom by using an anti-colonial discursive framework.
The Role of ‘Kijigabandan’ and ‘Manadjitowin’ in Understanding Harm Reduction Policies and Programs for Aboriginal Peoples
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Colleen Anne Dell
Tara Lyons
Kathleen Cayer
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 7, Promising Practices in Mental Health: Emerging Paradigms for Aboriginal Social Work Practices, November 2010, pp. 109-137
Description
Looks at how the concepts of ‘Kijigabandan’ and ‘Manadjitowin’ can assist Aboriginal social work to address two key barriers that often impede Aboriginal-specific harm reduction discussions, widespread support for abstinence and prohibition, and the belief that harm reduction and Aboriginal culture are incompatible.
The Role of the Elder within a Mainstream Addiction and Mental Health Hospital: Developing an Integrated Paradigm
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Peter Menzies
Ana Bodnar
Vern Harper
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 7, Promising Practices in Mental Health: Emerging Paradigms for Aboriginal Social Work Practices, November 2010, pp. 87-107
Description
Discusses the role of an Elder in counseling sessions with Aboriginal clinicians trained in Western healing intervention, providing insight into their problems both from an Aboriginal perspective as well as from a western clinical perspective.
Sam Gill's Mother Earth: Colonialism, Genocide and the Expropriation of Indigenous Spiritual Tradition in Contemporary Academia
Alternate Title
Commentary and Debate: Sam Gill's Mother Earth: Colonialism, Genocide and the Expropriation of Indigenous Spiritual Tradition in Contemporary Academia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ward Churchill
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, 1988, pp. 49-67
Description
Commentary states that there is a growing tendency to distort and misrepresent Native American spiritualism in academic and commercial circles.
School Failed Coyote, So Fox Made a New School: Indigenous Okanagan Knowledge Transforms Educational Pedagogy
Theses
Author/Creator
William Alexander Cohen
Description
Educational Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2010.
Security in Canada’s North: Looking Beyond Arctic Sovereignty
Alternate Title
Report (Conference Board of Canada) ; November 2010
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 11-120]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bjorn Rutten
Description
Examines security challenges of Arctic including consequences of climate change, natural and man-made disasters, sovereignty-related issues, and sustainability and resiliency of communities.
Seeing the Homeland and the Trees? First Nations/Environmentalist Relations in N'Daki MenanTemagami 1986-1994
Theses
Author/Creator
Alexandra M. Thomson
Description
Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 2010
Self Study: The Inbetween Space of an Aboriginal Academic
Theses
Author/Creator
Angelina Weenie
Description
Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Regina, 2010.
Sharing Aboriginal Stories: Drumming Traditional Knowledge
Alternate Title
Circles of Intelligent Knowledge Program
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Henry Earl Gardypie
Description
Very short pamphlet, written by a student, meant for use in the classroom as a tool to improve literacy. Text in English and Cree.
Sherman Alexie's Reservation: Relocating the Center of Indian Identity
Theses
Author/Creator
Tracey L. Connette
Description
English Thesis (M.A.)--East Carolina University, 2010.
The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Hendrika H. Beaulieu
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 1, 2010, pp. 147-150
Description
Book review of: The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies edited by David Bruno, Bryce Barker, and Ian J. McNiven.
Space, Place, and Hunting Patterns among Indigenous Peoples of the Guyanese Rupununi Region
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jane M. Read
José M. V. Fragoso
Kirsten M. Silvius
Jeffrey Luzar
Han Overman
Anthony Cummings
Sean T. Giery
L. Flamarion de Oliveira
Journal of Latin American Geography, vol. 9, no. 3, 2010, pp. 213-243
Description
Looks at Indigenous hunting patterns, using a mixed-methods approach and taking into account both biophysical and cultural/spiritual factors.
Speaking Our Truths in "A Good Way"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lyn Trudeau
Lorenzo Cherubini
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010, pp. 113-121,155-156
Description
Discussion on spiritual engagement within research practices from an Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal perspective.
Starting Fire With Gunpowder Revisited: Inuktitut New Media Content Creation in the Canadian Arctic
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Timothy J. Pasch
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, Technologies Créatives / Creative Technologies, 2010, pp. 61-80
Description
Examines how the creation of Inuktitut media content could be an effective means of creative improvisation, linguistic and cultural preservation. Article also challenges prevailing critical approaches to the Inuit as linguistically and culturally vulnerable.
Stepping Outside the Box: Traditional Knowledge, Folklore, Indigenous Textiles and Cultural Appropriation---Is There Room for Folklore Protection Under Intellectual Property Law?
Theses
Author/Creator
Josephine Asmah
Description
Law Thesis (LL.D.)--University of Ottawa, 2010.
Strength of the Earth
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Dawn Karima Pettigrew
Whispering Wind, vol. 39, no. 3, Issue 271, 2010, p. 33
Description
Book review of: Strength of the Earth by Frances Densmore.
Scroll down page to read review.
Successful Aging through the Eyes of Alaska Natives: Exploring Generational Differences Among Alaska Natives
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jordan P. Lewis
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol. 25, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 385-396
Description
Examines the concept of successful aging from an Alaska Native perspective that is designated when an individual has demonstrated wisdom because of the experiences he or she has gained throughout life.
Suicide and Aboriginal Youth: Cultural Considerations in Understanding Positive Youth Development
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cynthia Howard
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 7, Promising Practices in Mental Health: Emerging Paradigms for Aboriginal Social Work Practices, November 2010, pp. 163-180
Description
Examines the need for culturally appropriate mental health services for the prevention of Aboriginal youth suicide and the importance of positive youth development to foster healthy mental, emotional, social, spiritual and physical development.
Sustainable Development Strategy Using Indigenous Knowledge and Entrepreneurship: Working Paper
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Henrietta Onwuegbuzie
Description
Argues that indigenous entrepreneurs provide an opportunity to assimilate conventional strategies with more sustainable Indigenous practices.
Tau Kaleveleve ne Tauhele Aki e Mauaga he Vagahau Mo e Aga Fakamotu Niue: Challenges of Language and Cultural Loss
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rosa Kalauni
Feofanaki Pocock
Pennie Otto
Tina O’Halloran
Betty Lafu
Lima Drysdale
Halo Asekona
Koloti Peika
Phiaddra Otto
Misiane Viliko
AlterNative, vol. 6, no. 2, 2010, pp. 163-170
Description
Discusses the different views on Niue language and cultural loss in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Majority of text in Niue language.