E-Books
Author/Creator
Simon Brascoupé
The Long Tent of Life
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Settee Jr.
Description
Describes the Anishinaabeg approach to the quest to live a long, healthy life (Medewiwin), how it is connected to the ceremonial lodge and the physical structure of the lodge itself. One of three articles published in the Selkirk Chronicle in 1887 under the title Indian Mythology.
The Lord of the Coppers
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Don Macnaughtan
Community College Moment, May [2015], pp. 74-78
Description
Brief rendition of story of a copper artifact with great power and value.
Mi'kmawe'l Tan Teli-kina'muemk: Teaching about the Mi'kmaq
E-Books
Author/Creator
Mi’kmawey Debert Cultural Centre
Description
[Michif Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography]
Alternate Title
Anishinaabe / Chippewa / Ojibwe 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.
Mingadhuga Mingayung: Respecting Country Through Mother Mountain's Stories to Share Her Cultural Voice in Western Academic Structures
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anthony McKnight
Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol. 47, no. 3, 2015, pp. 276-290
Description
Uses stories to help non-Aboriginal residents of Yuin Country in Australia respect and understand Yuin ways of knowing, learning and behaving.
Nationhood Interrupted: Revitalizing nêhiyaw Legal Systems
E-Books
Author/Creator
Sylvia McAdam (Saysewahum)
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.
Niitsitapiisini: Our Way of Life: The Story of the Blackfoot People
Web Sites » Virtual Exhibits
Author/Creator
Glenbow Museum
Description
Virtual exhibition divided into six sections: how we lived with the buffalo; how we lived with the land; how we lived with other people; our world; and traditional stories.
Includes link to teacher toolkit.
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.
Ontological Security, Movement, and Well-Being: Teetł'it Gwich'in Experiences of Life Transformations
Theses
Author/Creator
Thea Luig
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2015.
[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
Our Stories: First Peoples in Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Jodie Adams
Liz Clarke
Dani Kwan-Lafond
Meera Mather
Natalie Thornhill ... [et al.]]
Description
eTextbook is a multi-media resource developed in collaboration with Indigenous peoples from across Canada. Covers both historical and contemporary topics.
Can be downloaded as iBook, ePub, or PDF.
Our Stories: First Peoples in Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Jodie Adams
Liz Clarke
Dani Kwan-Lafond
Meera Mather
Natalie Thornhill ... [et al.]]
Description
eTextbook is a multi-media resource developed in collaboration with Indigenous peoples from across Canada. Covers both historical and contemporary topics.
Can be downloaded as iBook, ePub, or PDF.
Participatory Action Research and Researcher's Responsibilities: An Experience With an Indigenous Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ranjan Datta
Nyojy U. Khyang
Hla Kray Prue Khyang
Hla Aung Prue Kheyang
Mathui Ching Khyang ... [et al.]
International Journal of Social Research Methodology, vol. 18, no. 6, November 2015, pp. 581-599
Description
Looks at how the relational methodology was applied during a study conducted in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.
Plains Indian History and Culture: Essays on Continuity and Change
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lew Richards
Whispering Wind, vol. 43, no. 4, Issue 296, April 2015, pp. 33-34
Description
Book review of: Plains Indian History and Culture by John C. Ewers.
[Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native Americans]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Matika Wilbur
Description
Matika Wilbur shares photographs and stories from Project 562, her multi-year project to document members of federally recognized tribes in the United States.
Duration: 1:42:58.
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.
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.
Reserving Identities
Alternate Title
Asha Reports
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Asha Siad
Levi First Charger
Casey Eagle Speaker
Kristy North Peigan
Carissa Auger
Description
Looks at the challenges faced by Aboriginal youth who are trying to find a balance between maintaining cultural roots and living in the mainstream world.
Duration: 31:30.
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.
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.
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.
Settler/Colonial Violences: Black and Indigenous Coalition Possibilities through Intergroup Dialogue Methodology
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kelsey Dayle John
Kimberly Williams Brown
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 2, [Rethinking Blackness and Indigeneity in the Light of Settler Colonial Theory], 2019, pp. 135-156
Description
The authors suggest that a coalition of different methodologies can be used to unify Black and Indigenous colonial experiences regarding land. The coalition provide the opportunity to connect both experiences as they overlap and diverge from another.
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
Silko’s Vévé and the Web of Differing Versions
Alternate Title
Silko’s Veve and the Web of Differing Versions
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reid Gómez
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 2, [Rethinking Blackness and Indigeneity in the Light of Settler Colonial Theory], 2019, pp. 89-112
Description
The author investigates the novel Almanac of the Dead and how it's content and structure focus attention on the central question "who had spiritual possession of the Americas?".
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, Sovereignty, and Story: Teaching American Indian Rhetorics
E-Books
Author/Creator
Janice Gould
Resa Crane Bizzaro
Lisa King
Rose Gubele
Joyce Rain Anderson ... [et al.]
"That the People Might Live": Loss and Renewal in Native American Elegy
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Chris Nelson
Early American Literature, vol. 50, no. 1, 2015, pp. 253-258
Description
Book review of: That the People Might Live by Arnold Krupat.
Thunder Finder
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kaitrina L. Harrisson
M'Wikwedong Youth Group
Carlos E. Sanchez-Pimienta
Jeffrey Masuda
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 13, no. 2, Special Audiovisual Edition, 2019, p. [9]
Description
Links to a short video biography of Little Thunder Woman (Katrina Harrison) in which the narrator discusses her experiences and the teachings she has received as a two-spirit person.
Thunder Finder
Duration: 3:10
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.
Tracking Heaven: Stories from Aboriginal Men and Women on Life, the Spirit World and Heaven
Alternate Title
Literacy and Learning Symposium ; 2015
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ric Richardson
Lorny Metchooyeah
Alexi Wah-Shee
Henry Jenson
Chris Paul ... [et al.]
Description
Stories from across Canada transcribed by Richard Van Camp.
Trickster Chases the Tale of Education
Alternate Title
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series ; 89
E-Books
Author/Creator
Sylvia Moore
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.
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.
Unikkaaqtuat: Traditional Inuit Stories
Theses
Author/Creator
Noel K. McDermott
Description
Cultural Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen's University, 2015.
The Unmissable: Transmotion in Native Stories and Literature
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gerald Vizenor
Transmotion, vol. 1, no. 1, 2015, pp. 63-75
Description
The author describes the concept of Transmotion and how it relates to Indigenous literatures, worldviews and systems of knowledge. Discusses how the concept became central to his work and scholarship.
Untranslatable Timescapes in James Welch’s Fools Crow and the Deconstruction of Settler Time
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doro Wiese
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 56-75
Description
Literary criticism article in which the author suggests that Welch’s use of Indigenous understandings of time as a narrative device in the novel Fools Crow works to both dismantle Western histories and to disrupt the mainstream perception of Western ontologies as universal and self-evident.
Voicing the Bones: Heid Erdrich's Poetry and Discourse of NAGPRA
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karen M. Poremski
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 27, no. 1, Spring, 2015, pp. 1-32
Description
Looks at recognition of life within human remains and objects through the writings of Heid Erdrich, LeAnne Howe, and Allison Adelle Hedge Coke in the context of the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Walk With Me: Chapters in the Life of Stó:lō Elder Archie Charles (1922-2010) and Reflections on Collaborative Research
Theses
Author/Creator
Meagan Evelyn Gough
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2015.
Walking with Our Sisters: Healing through Storytelling
Theses
Author/Creator
Julia Rowat
Description
Indigenous Relations Thesis (MIR)--Laurentian University, 2019.
We Interrupt This Program: Indigenous Media Tactics in Canadian Culture
E-Books
Author/Creator
Miranda J. Brady
John M.H. Kelly
[Week 6: The Legacies of Residential Schools with Residential School Survivors]
Alternate Title
MIKM 2701: Learning From Knowledge Keepers of Mi'kma'ki
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Stephen Augustine
Ashlee Cunsolo Willox
Clark Paul
Karen Burnard
Michael R. Denny
Description
Clark Paul shares his emotional and inspiring story of his experience at residential school. Stephen Augustine provides an overview of residential schools in Canada.
Presentations begin at 20:35.
Duration: 2:41:51.
"The Whirlwind Is Coming To Destroy My People!": Symbolic Representations of Epidemics in Arikara Oral Tradition
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark van de Logt
The American Indian Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 1, Winter, 2015, pp. 52-72
Description
Studies the religious symbolism in creation stories of the Arikara.
Whispering Tales: Using Augmented Reality to Enhance Cultural Landscapes and Indigenous Values
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruno Marques
Jacqueline McIntosh
Hannah Carson
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 3, September 2019, pp. 193-204
Description
Describes a project in which digitally augmented reality (AR) is used to engage people in traditional Māori land-based narratives, values, and storytelling. Argues that Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, a design approach developed to illustrate narratives using contemporary media, helps to promote “bicultural engagement with landscape.”