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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.
Nga Reanga: Youth Development Māori Styles
E-Books
Author/Creator
Teorongonui Josie Keelan
The Oceanic Imagination: Canadian and Australian Contributions to a Trans-Indigenous Methodology
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Birgit Däwes
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, 2014, pp. 65-84
Description
Looks at significance of seascapes through representations found in Rebecca Belmore's Fountain, Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach and Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance.
Okwire’shon:’a, the First Storytellers: Recovering Landed Consciousness in Readings of Trees & Texts
Theses
Author/Creator
Kaitlin Sandra June Debicki
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2017. Refers to the works Power by Linda Hogan, Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson, and Truth and Bright Water by Thomas King.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Seven: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Nursery/Preschool/Kindergarten. Day 1: : First Nation Creation Stories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
Oral History of the Dakota Tribes 1800's - 1945: As Told to Colonel A.B. Welch, the First White Man Adopted by the Sioux Nation
Alternate Title
Welch Dakota Papers
Web Sites » Personal
Author/Creator
Everett Cox
Description
Over 4000 personal papers of A.B. Welch including battle stories, short biographies, personal diaries and more.
Our Ice Is Vanishing = Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change
Alternate Title
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series ; 75
E-Books
Author/Creator
Shelly Wright
Our Stories Are Our Survival
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Gaynor Macdonald
Aboriginal History, vol. 38, 2014, pp. 213-214
Description
Book review of: Our Stories Are Our Survival by Lawrence Bamblett.
Scroll down to page 213 to read review.
Overcoming
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Clifton J. Pecore
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 26, no. 1, Celebrating 25 Years, Fall, 2014, p. 51
Description
Short story about the ghost of a young boy who walks after enduring a lifetime of suffering.
Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence: Native Ghosts in North American Culture & History
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Yvonne J. Milspaw
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 127, no. 506, Fall 2014, 2014, pp. 478-480
Description
Book review of: Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence edited and introduced by Colleen E. Boyd and Coll Thrush.
The Purchase of the Nahuhulk: A Tsimshian Tale of the Acquisition of a Great Copper
Alternate Title
Copper Ethnographies no. 2
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Don Macnaughtan
Description
Story tells of the purchase of a Native Copper by the Tsimshian chief Wasaiks.
Queer Xicana Indígena Cultural Production: Remembering Through Oral and Visual Storytelling
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susy J. Zepeda
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Art, Aesthetics and Decolonial Struggle, 2014, pp. 119-141
Description
Examines the use of Indigenous storytelling to regain ancestral memories and restore cultural identity.
Reclaiming Territories through Indigenous Performance
Theses
Author/Creator
Francine Burning
Description
Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2017Focusess on experiences of Madelaine McCallum, Mike Dengeli, Mique'l Dangeli, Leela Gilday, and Ronnie Dean Harris.
Recording Toponyms to Document the Endangered Hopi Language
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Saul L. Hedquist
Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa
Peter M. Whiteley
Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma
Kenneth C. Hill .... [et al.]
American Anthropologist, vol. 116, no. 2, June 2014, pp. 324-331
Description
Looks at project to preserve Hopi place-names for sacred locations and landforms.
[Red Medicine: Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Renae Watchman
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 2, Spring, 2014, pp. 256-258
Description
Book review of: Red Medicine by Patrisia Gonzales.
ReEarthlings: Finding Our Way Back to the Land
Alternate Title
Film Seedlings
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Teresa Konechne
Brad Haami
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 3, Indigenous Land-Based Education, 2014
Description
These two video shorts - seedlings/sketches - are stories from Aotearoa.
Rekindling the Sacred Fire: Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Blanca Tovías
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 2, Spring, 2017, p. 146
Description
Book review of: Rekindling the Sacred Fire by Chantal Fiola.
Resilience and Rebellious Memory Loops: Further Musings of an American Indian Ethnoecologist
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Enrique Salmón
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 127-132
Description
Author of Eating the Landscape discusses how resilience theory can explain the relationship between traditional knowledge and adaptive change to ecological circumstances.
A Review of The Navajo and the Animal People: Native American Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ethnozoology
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Herman A. Peterson
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 3, no. 1, 2017, pp. 74-76
Description
Book review of: The Navajo and the Animal People: Native American Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ethnozoology by Steve Pavlik.
Rougarou
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Marjorie Beaucage
Description
Presents a story about the spirit of a traditional Métis shapeshifter who transforms people's lives.
Duration: 5:31.
The Saugeen Ojibway Nation and Canada: Historical Relationships, Settler Colonialism, and Stories of a Shared Space
Theses
Author/Creator
Christopher James Wright
Description
History Research Thesis (Ph.D.)--King's College London, 2017.
[Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories: Truths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Susan Gardner
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 4, Indigenous Performance 2, Winter, 2014, pp. 89-91
Description
Book review of: Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories by Adam Fortunate Eagle.
Scroll down to page 89 to read review..
Seeing the Skies through Navajo Eyes: An Introduction to Cross-Cultural Astronomy
Alternate Title
Navajo Skies: An Introductory Guide to the Navajo Skies Planetarium Show
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nancy C. Maryboy
David H. Begay
Ashley C. Teren
Description
Designed as a resource for planetariums, for middle school teachers, and a book that families can read together.
Sensoriality and Wendat Steams: The Analysis of Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Wendat Steam Lodge Rituals in Southern Ontario
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steven Dorland
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 1, Winter, 2017, pp. 1-30
Description
Analysis combines multiple approaches including archaeological evidence, ethnohistorical accounts, oral traditions, and an interview with an Elder.
Showing and Telling the Story of Nikis (My Little House): An Arts-Based Autoethnographic Journey of a Cree Adult Educator
Theses
Author/Creator
Brenda Isabel Wastasecoot
Description
Leadership, Higher and Adult Education Thesis (Ph.D)--University of Toronto, 2017
Simon Ortiz's Poetry of Crisis Ordinariness: Spiritual Uncertainty During a Rosebud Reservation Winter
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reginald Dyck
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, Winter, 2017, pp. 1-14
Description
Looks at the poetry collection After and Before the Lightning by Simon Ortiz.
Sq’ éwlets: A Stó:lō -Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley Virtual Museum
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dara Kelly
BC Studies, no. 194, Summer, 2017, pp. 195-197
Description
Reviews website featuring stories, history, language, and the connection between the people and place.
Stories That Nourish: Minnesota Anishinaabe Wild Rice Narratives
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amelia V. Katanski
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 71-91
Description
Looks at how works by writers such as Jim Northrup, Heid Erdrich, Linda LeGarde Grover, and Gerald Vizenor illustrate the connection between story, culture, and knowledge.
Survivance as an Indigenously Determined Game
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth LaPensée
AlterNative, vol. 10, no. 3, 2014, pp. 263-275
Description
Examines development, design, and playtesting outcomes of game adapted from multimedia health and wellness program project, Discovering Our Story
Teacher's Guide: Pīsim Finds Her Miskanaw by William Dumas; illustrated by Leonard Paul
E-Books
Author/Creator
Margaret Dumas
Deborah Schnitzer
Description
For use with picture-book which provides historical information about the pre-contact culture and language of the Rocky Cree people from around South Indian Lake in Northern Manitoba.
English text with some Cree vocabulary and phrases, and glossary and pronunciation guide.
Teaching Each Other: Nehinuw Concepts and Indigenous Pedagogies
E-Books
Author/Creator
Linda M. Goulet
Keith N. Goulet
Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and Supreme Deity
E-Books
Author/Creator
Michael E. Smith
Juan Jose Batalla Rosado
Guilhem Olivier
Emily Umberger
Elizabeth Baquedano ... [et al.]
"That The People Might Live": Loss and Renewal in Native American Elegy
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jay Hansford C. Vest
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 185-187
Description
Book review of: That The People Might Live by Arnold Krupat.
Review located by scrolling to page 185.
Timely Objects and the Revolutionary Formerly Known as Marcos: Rereading Almanac of the Dead
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kyle Bladow
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 2, Summer, 2017, pp. 1-25
Description
Comments on the novel by Leslie Marmon Silko.
"To Bid His People Rise": Political Renewal and Spiritual Contests at Red Jacket's Reburial
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lauren Grewe
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 1, no. 2, Fall, 2014, pp. 44-68
Description
Discusses how three authors propose to memorialize the leaders' reburial ceremony.
Trickster Chases the Tale of Education
Alternate Title
Article 2
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kaitlyn Watson
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 4, Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research Involving Indigenous Peoples - Part 2, October 2017, pp. 1-[3]
Description
Book review: Trickster Chases the Tale of Education by Sylvia Moore.
Trickster Chases the Tale of Education
Alternate Title
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series ; 89
E-Books
Author/Creator
Sylvia Moore
Understanding the Impact of Indian Residential Schools on Cultural Identity: Canadian Indigenous Perspectives and Practices of Spirituality: A Qualitative Study with Storytelling as Narrative
Theses
Author/Creator
Carole L. Patrick
Description
Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Saybrook University, 2017.
Uno Native Film Festival
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brady DeSanti
Michele M. Desmarais
Beth R. Ritter
Journal of Religion & Film, vol. 18, no. 1, 2014, p. Article 40
Description
Film reviews of:
40 Years Celebrating Wounded Knee directed by Christopher Marshall.
The Medicine Game directed by Lukas Korver.
Shouting Secrets directed by Korinna Sehringer.
Spirit in Glass: Plateau Native Beadwork.
Winter in the Blood directed by Alex Smith and Andrew J. Smith.
Yellow Fever: The Navajo Uranium Legacy directed by Sophie Rousmaniere.
[Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time: Indigenous Thoughts Concerning the Universe ; Walking in the Land of Many Gods: Remembering Sacred Reason in Contemporary Environmental Literature]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Margaret Noodin
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 3, Fall, 2014, pp. 91-93
Description
Book reviews of:
Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time edited by MariJo Moore and Trace A. Demeyer.
Walking in the Land of Many Gods by A. James Wohlpart.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 91.
Wampum, Bibles, Treaties, and American Letters: Native American and Anglo-American Communications in Early America
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Rebecca M. Lush
Early American Literature, vol. 49, no. 3, 2014, pp. 771-785
Description
Review essay of: Pen and Ink Witchcraft: Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History by Colin G. Calloway.
Bradford's Indian Book: Being the True Roote and Rise of American Letters as Revealed by the Native Text Embedded in "Of Plimoth Plantation" by Betty Booth Donohue.
John Eliot and the Praying Indians of Massachusetts Bay by Kathryn N. Gray.
We Interrupt This Program: Indigenous Media Tactics in Canadian Culture
E-Books
Author/Creator
Miranda J. Brady
John M.H. Kelly
Who Are These People Anyway?
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kahente Horn-Miller
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 122-123
Description
Book review of: Who Are These People Anyway? by Chief Irving Powless, Jr., of the Onondaga Nation, edited by Lesley Forrester.
"The Wish to Become a Red Indian": Indianthusiasm and Racil Ideologies in German
Theses
Author/Creator
Kelly Rachel Laframboise
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oklahoma, 2017.
Women's Work Women's Art: Nineteenth-Century Northern Athapaskan Clothing
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Nicole Bauberger
Northern Review, no. 38, Political and Economic Change in Canada’s Provincial North, 2014, pp. 295-297
Description
Book review of: Women's Work Women's Art by Judy Thompson.
A Woodland Creation Story: A Concise Version
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Phyllis E. Wms. Bardeau
Description
Based on the Iroquois story as told by John A. Gibson in the 1890s. Done in a glossary format.
Worldwide Indigenous Science Network: Research Library
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Worldwide Indigenous Science Network
Description
Links to various subject related articles: ancestors, earth sciences, healing practices, indigenous science, and traditional stories.
Written as I Remember It: Teachings (ɂɘms taɂaw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder
Alternate Title
Women and Indigenous Studies Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Elsie Paul
Women and Indigenous Studies Series
"You Can't Say You're Sovereign If You Can't Feed Yourself": Defining and Enacting Food Sovereignty in American Indian Community Gardening
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Hoover
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 31-70
Description
Discusses how farmers and gardeners define food sovereignty and how the concept has been put into practice to attain the goals of promoting health and traditional culture.