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Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lisa Tatonetti
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 2, Summer, 2017, pp. 101-104
Description
Book review of: 3 Plays by Alanis King.
Aboriginal Presence in Science Fiction Fleeting and Few
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Drew Hayden Taylor
Windspeaker, vol. 27, no. 2, May 2009, p. 12
Description
Looks at the gap in Aboriginal science fiction literature.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.12.
Atchakosuk: Ininewuk Stories of the Stars
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Wilfred Buck
First Nations Perspectives Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, 2009, pp. 71-83
Description
Discusses Ininewuk (Cree) perspectives of astronomy, including mythology, stories and unique interpretations.
Between Fire and Water, Ice and Sky
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
G. Burns Cooper
The Northern Review, no. 31, Northern Literature, Fall, 2009, pp. 225-227
Description
Book review of: Between Fire and Water, Ice and Sky by Gretchen Diemer.
"Centre from Which Underground Passages Radiate": Understanding Metaphysical Tunnels in a Stó:lõ Spiritual Geography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Margaret Robbins
Description
Project created to understand the Stó:lõ people by mapping and documenting the tunnel stories to produce a holistic view of their connection to sacred and physical geography. Project for Ethnohistory Field School 2009.
Cornus versus dentus et autres modalités d’association des animaux dans l’imaginaire inuit
Alternate Title
Horned versus Teethed and Other Modalities of Animal Association in the Inuit Imagination
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vladimir Randa
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 41, no. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 51-71
Description
Author explores Inuit ontologies or knowledge systems around non-human members of their ecosystem; discuss how Inuit ways of knowing the animals are rooted in social and cultural factors of relationality.
Text in French.
The Cosmological Liveliness of Terril Calder's The Lodge: Animating Our Relations and Unsettling Our Cinematic Spaces
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Salma Monani
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 4, Winter, 2017, pp. 1-28
Description
Examines Calder’s stop-frame animated feature film in the context of animation, ecocinema, and Indigenous studies; focuses on theme of hybridity and métissage.
Coyote Places the Stars [by] Harriet Peck Taylor
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Erie District
Description
Designed to accompany retelling of traditional Wasco story about how stars came to be arranged in the shapes of animals. Recommended for use with Grade 3 students.
Cree Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lawrence Barkwell
Norman Fleury
Description
Material on: culture, history, mythology and language as well as separate sections for scholarly articles and theses.children's books, films, internet resources, music, recordings, curriculum materials, and textbooks.
The Death of Ice
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia Robertson
The Northern Review, no. 31, Northern Literature, Fall, 2009, p. 9
Description
Poem about ice.
Decolonizing Science Education and the Science Teacher: A White Teacher's Perspective
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrea Belczewski
Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics & Technology Education, vol. 9, no. 3, [Special Issue: Indigenous Science Education From Place: Best Practices on Turtle Island], July 2009, pp. 191-202
Description
Outlines the process of decolonizing the thinking and teaching practice in order to make science education relevant, meaningful, and respectful for First Nations students
Defensible Space
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carol Kaynor
The Northern Review, no. 31, Northern Literature, Fall, 2009, pp. 59-62
Description
A short piece of non-fiction regarding preparations for forest fire season.
A Description of a Successful Indigenous Online High School: Perspectives of Teachers, Staff, Students, and Parents
Theses
Author/Creator
Sophia Garnel Palahicky
Description
Education Thesis (EdD)--Athabasca University, 2017.
Digital Storytelling and Implicated Scholarship in the Classroom
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher Fletcher
Carolina Cambre
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter, 2009, pp. 109-130
Description
Discusses the development of digital storytelling and how the authors have applied the multimedia work within the university classroom setting.
Domestic Resistance: Gardening, Mothering, and Storytelling in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephanie Li
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 18-37
Description
Explains that although the author was planning on writing a novel with no political subject matter, she found that gardening was actually very political.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 18.
Dreams and Nightmares in First Nations Fiction
Theses
Author/Creator
Lena Ruwoldt
Description
Philosophy Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Greifswald, 2017.
Focuses on Robert Arthur Alexie's Porcupines and China Dolls, Cherie Dimaline's Red Rooms, Richard Van Camp's "On the Wings of This Prayer" and Richard Wagamese's Ragged Company.
The Ecological Other: Indians, Invalids, and Immigrants in U.S. Environmental Thought and Literature
Theses
Author/Creator
Sarah Jaquette Ray
Description
Environmental Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2009.
Epicenter: Deep Mapping Place in Fiction and Nonfiction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rilla Askew
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 4, Fall, 2017, pp. 259-263
Description
Comments on the Indigenous writers who have influenced author's work.
The Ethnography of Memory in East Siberia: Do Life Histories from the Arctic Coast Matter?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Florian Stammler
Aytalina Ivanova
Lena Sidorova
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 54, no. 2, 2017, pp. 1-23
Description
Authors discuss how oral histories can influence and change collective memories and memory negotiation; argue that collective memory which includes a diversity of perspective is vital increasing human understanding of the past and a sense of belonging in the present.
Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Julianne Newmark
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 4, Winter, 2009, pp. 93-96
Description
Book review of: Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong by Paul Chaat Smith.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 93.
First Nation Elders Who Use Wheeled Mobility: An Exploration of Culture and Health
Theses
Author/Creator
Lindsay Croxall
Description
Health Sciences Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Ottawa, 2017.
First Nations Elders in Northwestern Ontario's Perspectives of Health, Body Image and Eating Disorders
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Taslim Alani-Verjee
Peter Braunberger
Tina Bobinski
Christopher Mushquash
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing - Te Mauri: Pimatisiwin, vol. 2, no. 1, June 2017, pp. 76-96
Description
Interviews with five First Nations Elders to gain a better understanding of health, healthy eating and ideal body image and the relationship to the well-being of youth.
First Nations Women Advocating Responsibility Mining (FNWARM): Interview with Jacinda Mack, Coordinator
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jacinda Mack
BC Studies, no. 196, Perspectives on the Gold Rush, Winter, 2017/2018, pp. 5-9
Description
Brief discussion of organization's formation and activities.
The Flaming Chicken
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Winston Cambridge
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 21, no. 1, Celebrating Tribal College Journals 20th Anniversary, Fall, 2009, p. 60
Description
Presents a personal narrative titled, The Flaming Chicken, written by a student at Navajo Technical College.
Food Stories: A Labrador Inuit-Metis Community Speaks about Global Change
Theses
Author/Creator
Debbie Holly Martin
Description
Interdisciplinary Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University, 2009.
Forty
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joanna Lilley
The Northern Review, no. 31, Northern Literature, Fall, 2009, p. 104
Description
A poem.
The GameKeeper
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joanna Lilley
The Northern Review, no. 31, Northern Literature, Fall, 2009, p. 105
Description
A poem.
Geologic Oral Traditions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
ATEP (Alaska Tsunami Education Program), University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute
Description
Lesson involves the Aleutians oral traditions regarding tsunamis, volcanoes and earthquakes. Suitable for Grades 5-6.
Related Material: Legends animated video.
The High Stakes of Protecting Indigenous Homelands: Coastal First Nations' Turning Point Initiative and Environmental Groups on the B.C. West Coast
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lynne Davis
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 39-40, Culture - Natures in Canada / Culture - natures au Canada, 2009, pp. 137-159
Description
Concludes that relationship of two groups has evolved through four phases: confrontation, relationship building, becoming allies, and shifting terrains.
Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Nadine Attewell
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 126-127
Description
Book review of: Hope at Sea by Teresa Shewry.
Hurricane Station House
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tom Sexton
The Northern Review, no. 31, Northern Literature, Fall, 2009, p. 56
Description
A poem.
Impacts of Place and Social Spaces on Traditional Food Systems in Southwestern Ontario
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hannah Tait Neufeld
Chantelle A. M. Richmond
Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 12, no. 1, 2017, pp. 93-115
Description
Study shows urban mothers experience greater challenges than those residing on a reserve.
Indigenous Geographies: Research as Reconciliation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cindy Smithers Graeme
Erik Mandawe
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research Involving Indigenous Peoples -Part 1, April 2017, pp. 1-19
Description
Discusses how research in a community based Indigenous project reflected personal stories of reconciliation.
The Inuit Sky
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Virtualmuseum
Description
Discusses the short period of time each year that the Inuit have to study the sky and presents several legends in which the moon plays a central role.
Inuit Symbolism of the Bearded Seal
Alternate Title
Symbolisme inuit du phoque barbu
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Birgitte Sonne
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 41, no. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 29-50
Description
Examines traditional Inuit and Yupiit stories, rituals, and colloquial sayings to reveal different meanings associated with the bearded seal in these Indigenous cultures. Finds that bearded seals can impart multiple meanings ranging from monstrous to protection to renewal and reproduction.
"It's So Different Today": Climate Change and Indigenous Lifeways in British Columbia, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy J. Turner
Helen Clifton
Global Environmental Change. A, Human and Policy Dimensions, vol. 19, no. 2, Traditional Peoples and Climate Change , May 2009, pp. 180-190
Description
Paper focuses the experiences, knowledge and observations of members of Gitga’at communities over the course of eight years in terms of environments and indigenous knowledge.
Kitselas Canyon 2
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
[George F. MacDonald]
[Bill Reid Centre]
Description
Video features historical photos of area and excavated Kitselas fortress site in the canyon.
Duration: 26:42.
Late Bloomer
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Coray
The Northern Review, no. 31, Special Issue; Northern Literature, Fall, 2009, p. 57
Description
A poem.
Listening to the Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Janis Johnson
MELUS, vol. 34, no. 2, Summer, 2009, pp. 190-193
Description
Book review of: Listening to the Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape by Lee Schweninger.
Loon
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Kooistra
The Northern Review, no. 31, Northern Literature, Fall, 2009, p. 107
Description
Poem.
Making Connections Through Experiential Education: Teachers and Students in Science 10
Alternate Title
McDowell Foundation Research Project ; no. 159
Teaching and Learning Research Exchange
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Beth Campbell
Susan Campbell
Marcia Klein
McDowell Foundation Research Project
Description
Reports on the course, Sustainability of Ecosystems taught at Brightsands Science and Environment Centre with a Traditional Knowledge Keeper in a tipi or on the open prairie.
Muin: The Celestial Bear: A Hight Sky Story from the Mi'kmaw Nation
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Astronomy: Night Sky Stories
International Year of Astronomy 2009
Media » Film and Video
Description
Story describes the movement of stars associated with the cycle of the seasons.
Near No Name Cove
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jerah Chadwick
The Northern Review, no. 31, Northern Literature, Fall, 2009, pp. 28-29
Description
A poem.
Needing Water
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susheila Khera
The Northern Review, no. 31, Northern Literature, Fall, 2009, p. 171
Description
A poem about August in Alaska.
Never Alone: The Art and the People of the Story
Alternate Title
Game Development Conference ; 2015
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Dima Veryovka
Description
A Discussion on the visual style, cultural infusion and impact of the 2014 video game Never Alone. The game is based off the Iñupiat legend of Kanuk Sayuka and was created in cooperation with elders, storytellers, and artists from the Cook Inlet Tribal Council.
Duration: 50:01.
Night Light
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Coray
The Northern Review, no. 31, Northern Literature, Fall, 2009, p. 58
Description
A poem.
Nilliajut 2: Inuit Perspectives on the Northwest Passage Shipping and Marine Issues
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK)
[Aqqaluk Lynge
Robert Comeau
Mary Simon
Nancy Karetak-Lindell
Alfred E.R. Jakobsen … [et al.]]
Description
Essays by authors from across Inuit Nunangat and Greenland discuss the possible impacts of the opening of the Passage due to climate change.
No Takebacks
Alternate Title
No take backs
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stephen Graham Jones
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 139-169
Description
Short fiction piece. When two friends develop an app for mobile devices the results are much different than they expect.
Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ezekiel Gow
BC Studies, no. 195, Autumn, 2017, pp. 174-175
Description
Book review of Once They Were Hats by Frances Backhouse.
Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 174.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Seven: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation