Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Shaun T. Griffin
[Weber Studies], vol. 12, no. 3, Native American Special Issue, Fall, 1995, p. [?]
Description
Book review of: Blood Thirsty Savages by Adrian C. Louis.
Click on link to read review.
The Book of Jessica: The Healing Circle of a Woman's Autobiography
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susanna Egan
Canadian Literature, no. 144, Native, Individual, State, Spring, 1995, pp. 10 - 26
Description
Discusses a play, The Book of Jessica, that illustrates the struggle women have in understanding what being "a woman" means, including across the barriers of race, culture, privilege and age.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jean Friesen
K. Wilson
Scott Clark
Ken Hanly
George F. G. Stanley
et al.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1981, pp. 217-257
Description
Book reviews of 23 books:
The Forces Which Shaped Them: A History of the Education of Minority Group Children in British Columbia by Mary Ashworth.
Forty Years a Chief by George Barker.
A History of Native Claims Processes in Canada, 1867-1979 by Richard C. Daniel.
The Metaphysics of Modern Existence by Vine Deloria
The Covenant Chain: Indian Ceremonial and Indian Trade Silver by N.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Various authors
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1981, pp. 363-375
Description
Book reviews of 6 books:
Urban Indians: The Strangers in Canada's Cities by Larry Krotz.
Report of the Indian Child Welfare Sub-Committee Manitoba.
Inuit Songs from Eskimo Point [edited] by Ramon Pellinski, Luk Suluk and Lucy Amarook.
Song of Sedna by Robert D. San Souci.
Gathering What the Great Nature Provided: Food Traditions of the Gitksan by the People of 'Ksan.
Pitseolak, A Canadian Tragedy by David F. Raine.
Borderland Voices in Contemporary Native American Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robin Riley Fast
Contemporary Literature, vol. 36, no. 3, Autumn, 1995, pp. [508]-536
Description
Discusses the many "borders", e.g. between the traditional and the modern, that inform the work of Native American poets.
c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city: A Conversation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leona Sparrow
Jordan Wilson
Susan Rowley
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 45-52
Description
Excerpt from a conversation between the authors about the exhibition c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city. Discussion includes exhibit process and impact, and the role of museums in supporting and consulting with Indigenous communities,
Campaigning in the North West Territories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Mortimer Austin
Description
A write up on the experiences of James Austin, a member of the Ontarian Midland Battalion involved in the suppression of the 1885 uprising. Austin relates the story of his trek west from Ontario, but missed all major actions. Austin later became a Presbyterian minister.
The Care-Takers: The Re-Emergence of the Saanich Indian Map
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Philip Kevin Paul
Description
Looks at preserving history orally and with the written word.
Caring Is the Universal Language
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jody Nyasha Warner
Description
Three stories about bullying prevention, justice and belonging told in English, Cree, Inuktitut, Michif, Mohawk, Oji-Cree, Ojibwe, and Oneida.
Catholic Nuns and Ojibwa Shamans: Pauline and Fleur in Loise Erdrich's Tracks
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle R. Hessler
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 11, no. 1, Spring, 1995, pp. 40-45
Description
Discusses two women characters Pauline Puyat, a nun who denies her Native American heritage and Fleur Pillager, a shaman, in the novel Tracks.
Cattle Camp, Murrie Drovers and Their Stories ; Auntie Rita
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Peter Read
Aboriginal History, vol. 19, 1995, pp. 211-213
Description
Book reviews of:
Cattle Camp, Murrie Drovers and Their Stories by Herb Wharton.
Auntie Rita by Rita Huggins and Jackie Huggins.
Review located by scrolling to page 211.
Changing Debates in Museum Studies since NAGPRA
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Max Carocci
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018, pp. 127-132
Description
Review Essay which examines the ways that three different titles, Naamiwan’s Drum: the Story of a Contested Repatriation of Anishinabe Artefacts (Maureen Matthews), The Changing Presentation of the American Indian: Museums and Native Cultures (National Museum of the American Indian), and Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture (Chip Colwell) describe, interpret and relate to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).
The Changing Face of Storytelling in the Indigenous 21st World
Alternate Title
Lougheed College Lectures
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Drew Hayden Taylor
Description
Noted playwright, journalist, filmmaker and novelist discusses his artistic journey. Duration: 1:17:07.
Chiwid
Alternate Title
Canadian Electronic Library. Books Collection
Transmontanus
E-Books
Author/Creator
Sage Birchwater
p. 126
Co-Editor's Note : Editor's Note
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Scott P. Sanders
Neila C. Seshachari
[Weber Studies], vol. 12, no. 3, Native American Special Issue, Fall, 1995, p. [?]
Description
Introduction to special issue on Native Americans.
A Collaborative Sharing of Stories on a Journey toward Reconciliation: “Belonging to This Place and Time”
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kauʻi Keliipio
Kim Perry
Colleen Elderton
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 53, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 350-361
Description
Three non-Indigenous teacher-educators reflect on the ways their responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action and the corresponding provincial mandates have been positively and constructively influenced by their professional relationships with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people.
A Collection of Tłı̨chǫ Stories from Long Ago = Tłı̨chǫ Whaèhdǫǫ̀ Godıı̀ Ełexè Whela
Alternate Title
A Collection of Tlicho Stories from Long Ago Book 1
E-Books
Description
Traditional stories written in English and Tłı̨chǫ.
Coming Into Wisdom: Community, Family, Land, & Love
Alternate Title
Coming Into Wisdom: Community, Family, Land, and Love
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 6, no. Special Issue 1, The Pan-Territorial on-the-Land Summit, July 2018, pp. 12-17
Description
Simpson uses traditional stories and teachings to talk about traditional knowledge systems, ways of knowing and learning, and the interconnectedness of ecosystems and of generations.
Video of Conference Presentation: Freedom Sings: Indigenous Brilliance on the Land
Duration: 42:29
The Communicative Difficulties of Integrating Traditional Environmental Knowledge Through Wildlife and Resource Co-Management
Theses
Author/Creator
Stella Spak
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1995.
Community Based Participatory Research as a Long-Term Process: Reflections on Becoming Partners in Understanding Social Dimensions of Mining in the Yukon
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gertrude Saxinger
First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun
Northern Review, no. 47, Dealing with Resource Development in Canada's North, August 03, 2018, pp. 187-207
Description
Based on the Labour Mobility And Community Participation in the Extractive industries (LACE) research project, this article outlines the key elements of CBPR (community based participatory research): establishing partnerships, knowledge sharing and co-production, and data and research-product ownership.
Contemporary Reinvention of Chief Seattle: Variant Texts of Chief Seattle's 1854 Speech
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Denise Low
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 3, Summer, 1995, pp. 407-421
Description
Author critically examines printed text versions of Chief Seattle’s speech, considers how factors of historical context, translation from oral performance to written text, and intended audience might influence the retelling and meaning of the speech.
Conversations With Ricardo's Daughter: The Minority Experience at the University of Arizona Between 1925 and 1994 From a Critical Race Theory Perspective
Theses
Author/Creator
Jay Michael Rochlin
Description
Higher Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1995.
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]
Cora Sanderson Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Cora Sanderson
Janet R. Fietz
Archdeacon J.E. McKay
Indian History Film Project
Description
Cora Sanderson and Archdeacon J.E. McKay tell of their lives in the bush and in La Ronge.
The Country of Wolves: Graphic Novel Study
Alternate Title
Inuktut Titiqqiriniq
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Inhabit Education
Description
Geared toward students in Grades 7 to 10. Novel is based on the animated film Amaqqut Nunaat: The Country of Wolves.
Coyote and the Stars
Alternate Title
The Indian Reading Series: Stories and Legends of the Northwest ; Level 1, Book 1
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Members of the Warm Springs Reservation Committee
Description
Coyote: Polymorphous But Not always Perverse
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Dell Hymes
[Weber Studies], vol. 12, no. 3, Native American Special Issue, Fall, 1995, p. [?]
Description
Examines various re-tellings of the tale of Coyote, the best known Native American trickster.
Coyote's Food Medicines
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jean William
Cecelia de Rose
Clara Camille
Description
Developed to encourage Elders and their caregivers to ask health care providers about medications they are taking.
Cree Legends and Narratives from the West Coast of James Bay
Alternate Title
Âtalôhkâna Nêsta Tipâcimôwina
Âtalôhkâna Nêsta Tipâcimôwina = Cree Legends and Narratives from the West Coast of James Bay
E-Books
Author/Creator
Simeon Scott
Description
Second Edition
The Critical Collaboration: Introductions as a Gateway to the Study of Native American Bi-Autobiography
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
R. D. Theisz
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 5, no. 1, 1981, pp. 65-80
Description
Presents method of analysis which can be applied to the introductions of a literary genre consisting of an individual's personal narrative being recorded/edited by a non-Indigenous person.
Cross-Cultural Reading and Generic Transformations: The Chronotope of the Road in Erdrich's Love Medicine
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara L. Pittman
American Literature, vol. 67, no. 4, December 1995, pp. 777-792
Description
Examines the concept of the road as a conduit for encounters, which Montana Ojibwa author Louise Erdrich uses to represent chance meetings between characters in the opening and closing portions of her novel.
Cultural Collision and Magical Transformation: The Plays of Tomson Highway
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Nothof
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 20, no. 2, 1995, pp. 34-43
Description
Argues that Highway's plays have succeeded in bridging the gap between cultures through dramatizing the collision of feelings of hope and despair, comedy and tragedy, order and chaos and social issues like poverty, crime and abuse. Looks at The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing.
Curators Talk: A Conversation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jisgang Nika Collison
Nicola Levell
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 53-79
Description
Levell interviews Jisgang, discussing his work and experiences working in museums and galleries; Jisgang gives an account of his learning and his path to his current work.
Current Memories: Robert Henderson Stories
Alternate Title
Anishinabe Story of the Deluge
Famous Old Boss Packer Recalls Construction Days
Henderson Memoir
E-Books
Author/Creator
Robert Henderson
Description
Compilation of three stories originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press in 1930.
The Dakota Access Pipeline Educational Experience: Embracing Visionary Pragmatism
Alternate Title
Native American Symposium; 12th, 2017
Representations and Realities
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Michael W. Taylor
Description
Author combines academic theory and personal experience at the Oceti Sakowin, Standing Rock water protectors' camp to discuss the phenomenon of protest camps and their social, political and educational characteristics.
Dealing With Bears
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clyde L. Hodge
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1995, p. 26
Description
Poem.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Decolonizing Methodologies: A Transformation from Science Oriented Researcher to Relational/Participant-Oriented Researcher
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ranjan Datta
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 42, no. 1, 2018, pp. 115-130
Description
Discusses decolonizing the research process, beginning with how researchers engage with Indigenous communities; challenges the mainstream scientific idea that there is a “single truth to be discovered and that scientific knowledge is far more valuable than subjective or experiential knowledge.”
The Delivery of Power: Reading American Indian Childbirth Narratives
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan L. Rockwell
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 3, 1995, pp. 71-85
Description
Compares and contrasts childbirth narratives of Aboriginal women and ethnographers.
Dene and Western Medicine Meet in Image-based Storytelling
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alison Crawford
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 190, no. 36, September 10, 2018, pp. E1085-E1086
Description
This personal essay describes the author’s experience and learning which resulted from co-teaching about narrative medicine with a Dene colleague. Discusses issues of consent, colonialism and Indigenous world-views.
Determinants of Indigenous Peoples' Health: Beyond the Social
E-Books
Author/Creator
Charlotte Reading
Liz Howard
Sarah Hunt
Nadine Caron
Murdena Marshall
Albert Marshall ...
Marlene Brant Castellano
Madeleine Dian Stout
Roberta Kennedy (Kung Jaadee)
Diana Steinhauer
James Lamouche ...
Marilyn Iwama
Margo Greenwood ...
Brenda Macdougall ...
Richard Van Camp
Chantelle Richmond ...
Terry Teegee
Helen Knott
Patricia Makokis
James Makokis
Warren Adam
Karen Isaac ...
Sherri Pooyak ...
Leah May Walker
Danièle Behn-Smith
Description
2nd Edition
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.
A Digital Bundle : Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jennifer Wemigwans
Discovering the Order and Structure of Things: A Conversive Approach to Contemporary Navajo Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan B. Brill
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 3, Series 2: Contemporary American Indian Poetry, Fall, 1995, pp. 51-70
Description
Looks at alternative critical strategies, in contemporary Navajo poetry, which enable readers and critics in consciously interactive and intersubjective engagements with the poems.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Dispossessed Indigeneity: Literary Excavations of Internalized Colonialism
Theses
Author/Creator
Natalie Knight
Description
English Thesis (PhD) -- Simon Fraser University, 2018.
Do Some Work for Me: Settler Colonialism, Professional Communication, and Representations of Indigenous Water.
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jane Griffith
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 132-157
Description
Analyzes content of New Reclamation Era and Reclamation Era magazines published by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation between 1924 and 1942 to show how it promoted settler narratives around waterways, their damming and diversion, and completely ignored the presence of the Indigenous population. Contrasts this to treatment of the subject in Lawney L. Reyes’ B Street and James Welch’s Winter in the Blood.
“A Dreadful Little Glutton Always Telling You about Food”: The Epistolary Everyday and the Making of Settler Colonial British Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Ishiguro
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 99, no. 2, Summer, May 2018, pp. 258-283
Description
Article examines communications between settlers in British Columbia and the United Kingdom highlighting the ways that settlers aligned themselves with metropolitan Europeans and disregarded local Indigenous and other racialized peoples in a way that reflected a broader politics of daily life that underpinned the settler colonial project.
Dwellings
Alternate Title
Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Linda Hogan
Description
Author explores her lifelong love of the living world and all its inhabitants.
Chapter from Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World by Linda Hogan.
Easter Sunday : Late Summer in the Sierra : Your Least Good Lover
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Janice Gould
[Weber Studies], vol. 12, no. 3, Native American Special Issue, Fall, 1995, p. [?]
Description
Three poems.
Editorial [International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 13, no. 2, 2018]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Suzanne Stewart
Angela Mashford-Pringle
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 13, no. 2, Death and Dying, December 2018, pp. 3-7
Description
Editorial introduction to themed issue: " Death and Dying: Healing and Supporting Journeys."
The Education of an Indigenous Woman: The Pursuit of Truth, Social Justice and Healthy Relationships in a Coast Salish Community Context
Theses
Author/Creator
Mavis Kathleen Underwood
Description
Indigenous Governance Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2018.