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Clowning Tops Hip Hop: Reflections on Teaching at a First Nations School
Theses
Author/Creator
Susan Davis
Description
Curriculum and Instruction Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Victoria, 2015.
Coded Territories: Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Elise Huffer
AlterNative, vol. 11, no. 4, 2015, pp. 428-430
Description
Book review of: Coded Territories edited by Steven Loft and Kerry Swanson.
Collapse/X Artifact/Whirling
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Crisosto Apache
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 39, no. 4, 2015, pp. 121-132
Description
Poem by Crisosto Apache, an enrolled Mescalero Apache member from New Mexico.
The Columbian Moment: Overcoming Globalization in Vizenor’s The Heirs of Columbus
Articles » General
Author/Creator
David J. Carlson
Transmotion, vol. 1, no. 2, November 20, 2015, pp. 26-46
Description
Author considers the philosophical writings of Amartya Sen and Giacomo Marramao as a context for rethinking the meanings embedded in Vizenor’s novel, The Heirs of Columbus.
Companion to James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk
E-Books
Author/Creator
James Welch
Kathryn W. Shanley
Owen Heidemann
Lois M. Welch
John Purdy ... [et al.]
Conceptualizing Teachers' Perceptions of Aboriginal Student Achievement: An Exploratory Study
Theses
Author/Creator
Joseph Victor Pearce
Description
Educational Administration Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2015.
Conjoint Therapy for Intimate Partner Violence Among Aboriginal Couples: Service Provider's Perspectives on Therapeutic Content and Activities
Alternate Title
Conjoint Therapy for Intimate Partner Violence Among Indigenous Couples: Service Provider's Perspectives on Therapeutic Content and Activities
Theses
Author/Creator
Parisa Ghanbari
Description
Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of Western Ontario, 2015.
A Conversation with the World
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lonnie Graham
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 1, no. 2, 2015, pp. 98-111
Description
Looks at two groups photographed and interviewed for the project: First Nations youth from Calgary, Alberta and Te Ora Hou, a Maori youth organization in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Keith D. Smith
BC Studies, no. 185, Barkerville, Spring, 2015, pp. 225-226
Description
Book review of Conversations with a Dead Man by Mark Abley.
Entire book review section on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 225.
Copy of Official Reports (116H) from Major General Middleton, C.B. (Commanding North-West Field Force), Concerning the Engagements at Fish Creek, on the 24th April, 1885, Poundmaker's Camp (Near Cree's Reserve) 2nd May, 1885, Batoche, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th May, 1885
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Fred Middleton
[W.D. Otter]
Coyote in Love: The Story of Crater Lake: Illustrated & Retold by Mindy Dwyer: Teacher Resource
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mindy Dwyer
Description
Story about how Coyote's love for a star resulted in the formation of a lake in Oregon.
Coyote is Not a Metaphor: On Decolonizing, (Re)claiming and (Re)naming Coyote
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cutcha Risling Baldy
Decolonization, vol. 4, no. 1, 2015, pp. 1-20
Description
Explores how Coyote First Person has incorrectly come to be seen as a trickster archetype but actually is a character who supports Indigenous ideas about the world.
Creating Space For an Indigenous Approach to Digital Storytelling: "Living Breath" of Survivance With an Anishinaabe Community in Northern Michigan
Theses
Author/Creator
Brenda K. Manuelito
Description
Leadership and Change Thesis (Ph.D.)--Antioch University, 2015.
Cree, Canadian and American: Negotiating Sovereignties with Jeff Lemire's Equinox and "Justice League Canada"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Will Smith
Luminary, no. 6, Visualizing Fantastika, Summer, 2015, p. [?]
Description
Looks at a superhero team storyline set in Northern Ontario which underscores how the characters can provide real-life negotiations of American, Canadian and Indigenous identity.
Cree Creation Story
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Norm Wesley
Description
Story told by a member of Moose Cree First Nation.
Duration: 8:20.
Cree Lawfulness and Unlawfulness
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Val Napolean
JOTWELL, September 3, 2015, p. [?]
Description
Analysis of the novel Birdie by Tracey Lindberg.
[Criminal Justice Since Gladue: What's Changed and What Hasn't]
Alternate Title
McKercher LLP Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jonathan Rudin
Yvonne Johnson
Description
Focuses on the importance of the decision and Gladue reports, which give judges a picture of Aboriginal offender's past experiences and circumstances. These reports are taken into consideration when sentencing decisions are made.
Followed by talk by Yvonne Johnson co-author of Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman.
Total duration: 1:05:43.
[Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing From New England]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sharity Bassett
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 27, no. 2, Summer, 2015, pp. 106-108
Description
Book review of: Dawnland Voices edited by Siobhan Senier.
Developing Identity as a Light-Skinned Aboriginal Person with Little or No Community and/or Kinship Ties
Theses
Author/Creator
Bindi Bennett
Description
Health Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian Catholic University, 2015.
Diary of Lieutenant R. Lyndhurst Wadmore, Infantry School Corps, April 8, 1885 to July 20, 1885, N.W. Campaign.
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
R. Lyndhurst Wadmore
Description
Original diary and various papers of R. Lyndhurst Wadmore, Lieutenant of the Royal Canadian Regiment during the Northwest Resistance, covering from 8 April to 20 July 1885. Included in diary pocket is a requisition for short boots that was signed by Wadmore on May 1885, lyrics of the Infantry School Corps fight song, and a Victoria Daily Times article from 23 June 1944 about the remaining members of the Northwest Field Force and their experiences.
Digital Storytelling: A Tool for Health Promotion and Cancer Awareness in Rural Alaskan Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melany Cueva
Regina Kuhnley
Laura Revels
Nancy E. Schoenberg
Mark Dignan
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 74, 2015, p. article no. 28781
Description
Participants reported digital stories as an acceptable and emotionally engaging way to increase their cancer awareness.
Dishinikawshon Jesse: A Life Transformed
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jesse Adrian Thistle
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2015, pp. 69-93
Description
Autobiographical sketch of Jesse Thistle, who overcame addiction and homelessness and obtained a post-secondary education.
Drawn from the Ground: Sound, Sign and Inscription in Central Australian Sand Stories
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Murray Garde
Aboriginal History, vol. 39, 2015, pp. 263-265
Description
Book review of Drawn from the Ground by Jennifer Green.
Duke: A Novel
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kevin Kennedy
The Northern Review, no. 40, 2015, pp. 101-103
Description
Book review of: Duke by Sara Tilley.
The Duration of the Land: The Queerness of Spacetime in Sundown
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark Rifkin
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 27, no. 1, Spring, 2015, pp. 33-69
Description
Looks at the novel Sundown by John Joseph Mathews about the Osage and the imposed allotment system.
Early American Literature as a Networked Field: Mary Rowlandson, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wai Chee Dimock
Early American Literature, vol. 50, no. 1, 2015, pp. 103-124
Description
Looks at networking traffic patterns as being "downstream" and "upstream" and how it applies to literary studies.
The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir
E-Books
Author/Creator
Joseph Auguste Merasty
The Elder Project: A Way Toward Knowledge
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wendy Morton
English Practice, vol. 57, no. 1, Starting a Circle: Exploring Aboriginal Education, Fall, 2015, pp. 21-[23]
Description
Elders tell life stories which students turn into poetry.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 21.
Emil Wings
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Emil Wings
John Hellson
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview about the origin of the Pigeon Society of the Blood Indians as well as the Ghost Dance and Big Smoke ceremonies.
Encountering the K'I's A'ums: Reinterpretations of the Spirit Quest in Three 21st-Century Kwakwaka'Wakw Narratives
Theses
Author/Creator
Daniel Joseph Frim
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2015.
"The End of the Natchez"? A Genealogy of Historical, Literary and Anthropological Thought About the Natchez Indians Since the Eighteenth Century
Alternate Title
Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Noel Edward Smyth
Description
Looks how European and American writers, anthropologists and historians have misconstrued and misrepresented the history of the Natchez people for the last 250 years.
Presented at the Tenth Native American Symposium, November 14-15, 2013.
Chapter from Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs edited by Mark B. Spencer.
Energy Uncertainty: The Effects of Oil Extraction on the Woodland Cree First Nation
Theses
Author/Creator
Jennifer Gerbrandt
Description
Archaeology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2015.
Environmental Scan: Aboriginal Homelessness in Saskatchewan: Off-reserve and Outside Saskatoon and Regina
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Prairie Wild Consulting
Description
Reports results of interviews with service providers, Elders, community members, and people experiencing homelessness in 11 Saskatchewan communities and one in Manitoba.
The Erotic in Contemporary Native Women's Poetry in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Andrews
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 2, no. 2, 2015, pp. 134-156
Description
Arguments made regarding the need to "bring the erotic back into Indigenous arts".
"The Eskimos Knew Better": Representations of Arctic Whaling in Charles Brower's Fifty Years Below Zero
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Schell
The Northern Review, no. 40, 2015, pp. 63-85
Description
Compares the role of Indigenous hunters as portrayed in the novels Pursuing the Whale by John A. Cook, and Chasing the Bowhead by Hartson H. Bodfish to Brower's Fifty Years Below Zero
An Ethnozooarchaeological Study of Land Otters and People at Kit'N'Kaboodle (49-DIX-46), Dall Island, Alaska
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Madonna L. Moss
BC Studies, no. 187, These Outer Shores, Autumn, 2015, pp. 21-50
Description
Looks at area where people and land otters lived over the past fifty-five hundred years and explains why Tlingit have a cultural tie to the land otter.
An Evaluation of Aboriginal, Government, and Mining Industry Relationships and Policies in Manitoba: Accessing Land for Mineral Exploration and Mine Development
Theses
Author/Creator
Gail Ferguson
Description
Environment, Earth and Resources Thesis (M.N.R.M.)--University of Manitoba, 2015.
Exploring the Concepts of Traditional Inuit Leadership and Effective School Leadership in Nunavut (Canada)
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jane P. Preston
Tim R. Claypool
William Rowluck
Brenda Green
Comparative and International Education, vol. 44, no. 2, December 2015, p. article 2
Description
Qualitative study reveals that traditional Inuit leadership is about promoting the personal leadership skills, interests and abilities of each community member. Study involved 24 semi-structured interviews with 14 educators
Fānanaua: Ethics Education in an Indigenous Solomon Islands Clan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kabini Sanga
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2015, pp. 17-31
Description
Discusses the focus of four topic areas: the goal of ethics education, the teaching of ethics, the ethics curriculum, and a suggested framework for ethics education.
Finding One's Own Voice as an Indigenous Filmmaker
Theses
Author/Creator
Itandehui E. E. Jansen
Description
Humanities Thesis (Ph.D.)--Universiteit Leiden, 2015.
First Territory: A Novel
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sue Ellis
Whispering Wind, vol. 43, no. 4, Issue 296, February 2015, pp. 33-35
Description
Book review of: First Territory: A Novel by Richie Swanson.
Scroll down to page 34 to read review.
Fistfighting "Super Injun": Reinscribing Native American Literature in the English Classroom.
Theses
Author/Creator
Marianne Frantzen
Description
English and Education Thesis (M.A.)--Arctic University of Norway, 2015.
Focuses on Sherman Alexie's short storiesThis Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona and Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock, and the movies Pocahontas and Smoke Signals.
Fly Society Children
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Medicine Pipe, Stone Amulets, Personal History
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
George First Rider
John Hellson
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview that tells of the origin of the Fly Society.
Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Curtis F. Foxley
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 2, no. 2, 2015, pp. 176-177
Description
Book review of: Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education by Diane Glancy.
Forward Motion: Cultural Memory and Continuity in Mi'gmaq Literature
Theses
Author/Creator
Blair Alicia Metallic
Description
Comparative Canadian Literature Thesis (M.A.)--Université de Sherbrooke, 2015.
Forward With The Road Forward: A Conversation With Marie Clements
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter Dickinson
Marie Clements
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 164, 2015, pp. 36-43
Description
Interview with the writer, director and producer of the film at the closing performance at the Aboriginal Pavilion of the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.
Fox Society
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
George First Rider
John Hellson
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview that tells of the origin of the Fox Society.
Freedom to Engage: An Indigenous Approach to Ways of Being, Knowing, and Doing in the Performing Arts
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brittany Ryan
Description
Describes and reports the results of the consultation process for developing an agreement, similar those of ACTRA and Equity, specifically tailored to the needs of the Indigenous creators, performers and productions.
From Poisson Road to Poison Road: Mapping the Toxic Trail of Windigo Capital in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Desiree Hellegers
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 27, no. 2, Summer, 2015, pp. 1-28
Description
Looks at fictionalized representation of the James Bay hydroelectric project through the use of Algonquin windigo stories.