Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 51, no. 1, 2012, pp. 45-66
Description
Looks at the implementation of Project Inquiry-Based Math in the Great Plains City school district in order to decrease achievement gaps between American Indian and non-Indian students.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 24, no. 3, Fall, 2012, pp. 53-70
Description
Looks at a prolific author who used his wilderness experience to write about the Native American experience in the United States.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 53.
Website for the art and creative writing competition for Indigenous youth. Includes links to past winners' submissions, guidelines for submissions, information about prizing, and section for teachers.
Article explores the prevalence of content of the Indigenous-Australian people’s beliefs about little people. Findings show that many people believe in and encounter little people in contemporary contexts and that perceptions of their presence range from potentially frightening to seeing them as protectors of the land.
Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, vol. 11, no. 1, Summer, 2019, pp. i-xxxvi
Description
Focuses on material with self-identified Indigenous creators and publishers published as of March 2019. Divided into anthologies, series, and individual works.
Lists works written by Indigenous authors published between 2000 and 2018. Focuses on substantial books, articles and book chapters on original primary historical research, research methodology and historiography.
Recorded lecture delivered at the 2011 Toronto SpecFic Colloquium. Speaker discusses the role that Indigenous writers play in the decolonization by contributing to a body literature(s) that "imagines otherwise."
Duration: 48:42
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 1-35
Description
Author defines and then discusses Indigenous Futurisms as a decolonial aesthetic practice rather than a defined literary genre and explores its power as a reorienting and revisional device.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 135-157
Description
In this literary criticism article, the author deconstructs the colonial narrative practice of portraying a place or space as a wasteland and as uninhabited in order to justify extractive practices and describes Indigenous narrative strategies of resistance.
Book review of: Indigenous Women and Feminism edited by Cheryl Suzack, Shari M. Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, and Jean Barman.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 146.
A typed copy of Inspector Francis Dickens's North West Mounted Police journal from Fort Pitt in 1885. Recounts the events of the Resistance, the skirmish and subsequent abandonment of Fort Pitt by Dickens who was in command of the installation when hostilities broke out.
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 211-224
Description
Review essay which seeks to examine the key themes that appear repeatedly throughout the work of Steven Salaita, and to consider the narratives they might form when considered together.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, 1986, pp. 1-12
Description
Author investigates the "ethnic approach" to literature criticism and concludes that the archetypal approach is transcultural, which improves the accessibility of Native American literature to non-Natives.
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Travelling Exhibition Program
Art Gallery of Alberta
Description
Lesson plans for elementary and secondary school students for exhibition featuring works by Blackfoot artists Kristy North Peigan, Smith Wright, and Lori Scalplock.Topics include survey of First Nations art in the twentieth century, introduction to Blackfoot history and culture, and artist interviews and biographies.
Comments on health promotion efforts related to preventing suicide and attempted suicide, consequences of underage drinking, consequences of adult problem drinking and prescription drug misuse/abuse.