Antoine Lonesinger discusses different methods of earning a living that included making charcoal and lime. Also included is the story of a boy saved a camp from starvation with the help of the raven spirit.
Interview includes stories about a ghost priest and a non-existent camp. Also included is a story of how a lame boy's skill as a medicine man won him a chieftainship and a wife.
Maclean's, vol. 111, no. 52, December/January 1998, pp. 114-[?]
Description
Discussion of mini-series based on the historical novel The Temptations of Big Bear about the Plains Cree leader and his fight to gain a fair Treaty settlement for his people. Filmed in Saskatchewan by Gil Cardinal of Alberta.
Elders discuss concerns regarding: loss of Indian culture and traditions; failure to educate young Indians in traditionalways; young well-educated chiefs who will not take advice from elders.
Elders speak of their concerns regarding leadership on the reserves; new young leaders with education but no experience who ignore the elders and their advice; the failure to educate the young in traditional Indian ways.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 28, no. 3, Fall, 1998, p. 3
Description
First Nation's people encouraged to consider careers in the film industry through on-site experience in $8.5 million, four hour mini-series by CBC being filmed on Pasqua.
A transcript of an interview with Chief Thomas Settee of Cumberland House, SK. Settee discusses everything from employment and culture to religion and politics.
Mrs. Adams is a retired white schoolteacher and was 69 years old at the time of the interview. She tells of her induction as an honorary chief of the Blackfoot reserve and shares her experiences among the Blackfoot.
Early American Literature, vol. 37, no. 2, June 2002, pp. 311-335
Description
Describes William Apess' misunderstanding of the relationship between his grandmother and Philip of the Pequots and his later discovery of his Wampanoag heritage.
Language in Mari Sandoz’s Crazy Horse: Strange Man of the Oglalas
Native American Symposium ; 2nd, 1997
Sam Kenoi’s “Coyote and the Whitemen”: Contact in and out of a Chiricahua Narrative
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Anthony K. Webster
Kimberli Lee
Description
Sam Kenoi’s “Coyote and the Whitemen”: Contact in and out of a Chiricahua Narrative by Anthony K. Webster examines specific narration by placing it within the context of received standards for a Coyote narrative.
Language in Mari Sandoz’s Crazy Horse: Strange Man of the Oglalas by Kimberli Lee discusses the Indian perspectives used in Mari Sandoz’s work.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 280-304
Description
Author offers a critical examination of the ways that the Coast Salish Chief Seattle is remembered; considers both Indigenous and settler perspectives, and different social and cultural discourses that have evolved around the leader.
Shingwaukonse A 19th Century Innovative Ojibwa Leader
Shingwaukonse A 19th Century Innovative Ojibwe Leader
Shingwaukonse A Nineteenth Century Innovative Ojibwe Leader
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janet E. Chute
Ethnohistory, vol. 45, no. 1, Winter, 1998, pp. 65-101
Description
Ethnohistorical analysis of the leadership of Shingwaukonse (Little Pine, 1773-1853), who combined traditional values with western technology in an attempt to secure a place for his people amidst settlement.
Includes scences from a play entitled by Rod Langley about the Northwest Rebellion during the opening of Canada's west by white settlers. Includes commentary from the members of the audience.
Duration: 27:35.