Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 24, no. 4, Winter, 2012, pp. 21-46
Description
Discusses two poems, entitled the same, which target the legacy of the captivity narrative, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God.
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Aboriginal Culture as Intervention: Sharing How Aboriginal Culture is Part of the Healing Journey from Addictions
[Honoring Our Strengths: Aboriginal Culture as Intervention in Addictions]
[Honouring Our Strengths: Aboriginal Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Valerie Dejarlais
Billy Ermine
Gladys Wapass-Greyeyes
Description
Woman discusses the role culture has played in her recovery from alcohol abuse.
Duration: 7:49.
Part of project headed by Dr. Colleen Dell, University of Saskatchewan Research Chair in Substance Abuse.
Aboriginal Culture as Intervention: Sharing How Aboriginal Culture is Part of the Healing Journey from Addictions
[Honoring Our Strengths: Aboriginal Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment]
[Honouring Our Strengths: Aboriginal Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Valerie Dejarlais
Billy Ermine
Gladys Wapass-Greyeyes
Description
Woman discusses the role culture has played in her recovery from alcohol abuse.
Duration: 9:37.
Part of project headed by Dr. Colleen Dell, University of Saskatchewan Research Chair in Substance Abuse.
Documentary looks at two Inuit communities on Baffin Island and Northwest Greenland and how they are connected and adapting to social and environmental changes. Includes English sub-titles.
Duration: 82:23.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 8, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1996, pp. [13]-24
Description
Discusses treatment of these subjects in the work of Ella Doloria, LeAnne Howe, Mary Crow Dog, Louise Erdrich, and Janet Campbell Hale.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3/4, To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality (Parts 1 & 2), Summer/Fall, 1996, pp. 467-[?]
Description
Explains the dialogue between those who know spirituality through direct experience and those whose have written about Native Spirituality from the outside.
Teacher's resource for unit which strengthens students' literacy and communication skills while they learn about local plants, the environment, and their community.
Teacher's resource for use with Grades 3, 4, and 5 primary students. Unit designed to strengthen students' literacy and communication skills while learning about local plants, the environment, and their community.
Excellent teacher resource includes links to information and videos about the following topics: worldviews, oral traditions, Elders, culture and language, kinship, Aboriginal and treaty rights, healing historical trauma, symbolism and traditions, connection to land, Indigenous pedagogy, well-being, and traditional environmental knowledge.
Related material: Talking Together: A Discussion Guide.
Author reads a story he wrote about Aboriginal men conscripted into the British Army followed by a discussion session with the audience.
Duration: 52:11.
Film about the Canadian government's residential school system as experienced by two children, their stories and the lasting after-effects.
WARNING: Contains disturbing content.
Duration: 83:05.
Accompanying Facilitators Guide.
To accompany We Were Children, a film about the damage caused by the residential school system in Canada.
Designed to support delivery of a four-hour workshop and Power Point presentation.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, Winter, 2012, pp. 34-49
Description
Literary criticism of book, Solar Storms by Linda Hogan with a focus on intergenerational trauma and healing in the lives of three women and the pain, suffering, and psychological abuse they underwent.
File contains a photocopy of Arthur O. Wheeler's daily diary from March to July, 1885. Wheeler served in the Survey (scout) Corp for the Government, and was present during some of the battles of the 1885 rebellion.
European Journal of American Culture, vol. 31, no. 3, Native Americans In Europe in the Twentieth Century, October 18, 2012, pp. 187-203
Description
Looks at Buffalo Bills "Wild West" show which travelled across England, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Holland and Belgium between 1886 and 1906.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 8, no. 2, Series 2; Teaching American Indian Literatures, Summer, 1996, pp. [47]-58
Description
Discusses a class in which each lecturer took a different approach to the novel; one from the perspective of Native American literature as unique, the other from the perspective of similarities to any work of great literature.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 8, no. 4, Series 2; European Writings on Native American Literatures, Winter, 1996, pp. [13]-20
Description
Traces the manifestations of power in four generations of fictional women: Pauline Puyat, Marie Lazarre, Zelda Kashpaw and her daughter Albertine.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.