AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 3, September 2019, pp. 205-216
Description
Reports on a study of the use of internet based teaching and learning technologies and strategies in Mapuche language learning and revitalization in Chile.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 14, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 2002, pp. 75-78
Description
Book review of: Telling the Stories: Essays on American Indian Literatures and Cultures edited by Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson and Malcolm A. Nelson.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Canadian Literature, no. 124-125 , Native Writers & Canadian Writing, Spring/Summer , 1990, pp. 32-47
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Essays examining the conventional portrayals of Native people in literature, exposing prejudices and misconceptions entrenched since colonial days regarding Native societies, including their moral, spiritual, and political values.
Entire journal in one pdf. Scroll down to page 32 to read article.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2, Spring, 2019, pp. 204-235
Description
Report demonstrates that the objectifying space of the traditional beauty pageant has been appropriated by the Miss World Eskimo– Indian Olympics (WEIO), and reconstructed as a space focused on developing community-centered leadership skills in the young women that participate.
BC Studies , no. 200, 50th Anniversary, Winter, 2019, pp. 31-44
Description
Author uses a personal essay to discuss basic tenets of Indigenous knowledge, ways of knowing, and ontological constructs; uses Líl̓wat language concepts to help illustrate her points. Highlights experiential and action based teaching and learning, relational understanding, and the concepts of flux, balance.
Psychology Thesis (Psy.D.)--The Wright Institute, 2002.
Analyses of resiliency in the work of authors including Sherman Alexie, Leslie Silko, Louise Erdrich,
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 131-139
Description
Pasifika youth (aged 18-25) are interviewed in focus groups in which they express their distress about the diminishing presence of Indigenous language use and preservation, article notes that there is no comprehensive language policy to preserve these languages and that losing them has profound negative effects for the youth of culturally marginalized communities.
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 168-179
Description
Article draws on author’s work with youth who are learning new ways to practice Indigenous Ainu culture in an urban center in Japan; focuses on cultural practice and revitalization, decolonization and self-determination.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 4, Autumn, 1990, pp. 349-354
Description
Reviews and discusses how Blackfeet author James Welch used history, realism, and myth as themes to affirm the power of storytelling and language Fools Crow.
Federal/Provincial/Territorial Early Childhood Development Agreement
The Well-Being of Canada's Young Children: Government of Canada Report
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Government of Canada
Description
Five areas assessed: physical health and motor development, emotional health, social knowledge and competence, cognitive learning and language, and communication. Also provides overview of families in which children are growing up.
Excerpt from The Well-Being of Canada's Young Children: Government of Canada Report.
To access this section scroll to p. 39.