Closure in James Welch's Fools Crow
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bette Weidman
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 3, Fall, 2006, pp. 90-97
Description
Argues that James Welch's work Fools Crow constructs the story of first contact from within Native American subjectivity and redefines the meanings of religion, culture and virtue by exploring the gap that exists between official national histories, early novels by Euroamericans, and the voice of Native Americans.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 90.
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.
Code-Switching in Navajo Orthographic Poetry: On Places, the Mythic, and Mythic Places
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anthony K. Webster
Description
Discusses general language shift from Navajo to English in poetry and where it persists.
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.
Collaborative Game Development with Indigenous Communities: A Theoretical Model for Ethnocultural Empathy
Theses
Author/Creator
Laura K. Horton
Description
New Media Game Design and Production Thesis (M.A.)--Aalto University, 2019.
Looks at Never Alone, Mulaka and the Sámi Game Jam.
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 Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: Leadership and Literature in Eighteenth-Century Native America
E-Books
Author/Creator
Samson Occom
Colonial Violence in Sixties Scoop Narratives: From In Search of April Raintree to A Matter of Conscience
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Petra Fachinger
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 115-135
Description
Author analyzes three different novels in order to provide a complex and nuanced perspective on the different ways that the ‘60’s Scoop has been treated by Indigenous authors over a prolonged period (1983-2018). Includes discussion of Beatrice Mosionier In Search of April Raintree, Robert Arthur Alexie's The Pale Indian, and James Bartleman's A Matter of Conscience.
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.
Communicating Consanguinity: Mediated Identities in Alistair MacLeod's No Great Mischief and Margaret Laurence's The Diviners
Theses
Author/Creator
Joan Leslie Garbutt
Description
English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2006.
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.]
Comparing Stories: Embracing the Circle of Life
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
B. Diane Beck
Roger Spielmann
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, 2006, pp. 185-202
Description
Examines oral tradition of the Anishnaabe and the Irish Celtic.
Composite Indigenous Genre Cheyenne Ledger Art as Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Denise Low
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 83-104
Description
Explains how Cheyenne text-images including glyphs, pictographs, winter counts, and ledger books helped sustain a unique literature form and present a legitimate alternative to European defined literacy.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 83.
Conceptions of Humor: Lakota (Sioux), Koestlerian, and Computational
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Benjamin Grant Purzycki
Nebraska Anthropologist, 2006, pp. 168-188
Description
Looks at western philosophies, Lakota heyoko (sacred clowns) behavior and the clown occurrences in different Aboriginal traditions.
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.
Conference Report: The Path to the Good Life: Aboriginal Women's Conference
Alternate Title
The Path to the Good Life: Conference Report
Documents & Presentations
Description
Goals of the conference were to share stories, discuss what is being done and what can be done in Aboriginal communities and discuss plans and priorities for lasting change with each other and government leaders. Conference held March 13-15, 2006.
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.
Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Mary-Ellen Kelm
BC Studies, no. 151, Autumn, 2006, pp. 102-104
Description
Book review of: Contact Zones edited by Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale.
To access this review, scroll to page 102
Contextualizing the Losses of Allotment Thought Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristen A. Carpenter
North Dakota Law Review, vol. 82, no. 3, The Pedagogy of American Indian Law, 2006, pp. 605-627
Description
Discusses two novels by Louise Erdrich, Lone Wolf and Tracks and Four Souls to show losses in socio-economic, familial, spiritual and tribal life.
A Conversation with Lisa Brooks about Our Beloved Kin
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Matt Cohen
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 157-164
Description
Author, Brooks, discusses new book, Our Beloved Kin, with interviewer, Cohen. Brooks's book offers an Indigenous Perspective on King Philip's War, its scope, and its impact.
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.
Conversations With Ole K. Sara, Retired Head of the Reindeer Administration in Norway
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Paine
Ole K. Sara
Nomadic Peoples, vol. 10, no. 2, 2006, pp. 233-248
Description
Interview with first Sami to head national administration of Norwegian reindeer pastoralism.
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 and Raven Go Canoeing: Coming Home to the Village
Alternate Title
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series ; 42
E-Books
Author/Creator
Peter Cole
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.
Coyote's New Guise
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Michael Harris
Books in Canada, vol. 35, no. 1, January/February 2006, p. 10
Description
Book review of: A Short History of Indians in Canada by Thomas King.
Coyote's Second Cousins
Theses
Author/Creator
V. Blanchard Singingeagle
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of South Dakota, 2006.
Creating an Impact: Community Contexts for the Contemporary Expressions of Indigenous Women Artists
Theses
Author/Creator
Heather M. Mikolaj
Description
Interdisciplinary Program in American Indian Studies (M.A.)--The University of Arizona, 2006.
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.
Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Writings of Thomas King and Colin Johnson (Mudrooroo)
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Clare Archer-Lean
Reference and Research Book News, vol. 21, no. 3, August 2006
Description
Short review of: Cross-cultural Analysis of the Writings of Thomas King and Colin Johnson (Mudrooroo) by Clare Archer-Lean, with particular reference to oral storytelling and magic realism.
Cultural Identity and Financial Literacy: Australian Aboriginal Experiences of Money and Money Management
Alternate Title
Financial Literacy, Banking and Identity Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Catherine Demosthenous
Boni Robertson
Anuja Cabraal
Supriya Singh
Description
Reports results of qualitative study conducted through face-to-face interviews and yarning circles in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Refeered paper presented at the Financial Literacy, Banking and Identity Conference 2006.
Culture and Power in the Workplace: Aboriginal Women's Perspectives on Practices to Increase Aboriginal Inclusion in Forest Processing Mills
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Suzanne Mills
Tyler McCreary
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 5, no. 1, Fall, 2006, pp. 40-50
Description
Results based on interviews with 12 Aboriginal women who worked in five different forest processing mills.
Daddy's Language
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Erin Parker
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 18, no. 1, The Winding Road to Student Success, Fall, 2006, p. 40
Description
Presents a poem titled, Daddy's Language, written by Erin Parker.
[The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest: Inupiaq Narratives of Northwest Alaska]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
William Schneider
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 30, no. 2, The Influence of Marcel Mauss, 2006, pp. 221-222
Description
Book review of: The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest by Wanni W. Anderson.
Dances with Coyote: Narrative Voices in Thomas King's One Good Story, That One
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Maria Truchan-Tataryn
Susan Alison Gingell
Postcolonial Text, vol. 2, no. 4, 2006, pp. 1-23
Description
Examines Thomas King's stylistic as well as thematic narrative voices in his collection One Good Story, That One.
[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.
Deadly Detectives: How Aboriginal Australian Writers are Re-creating Crime Fiction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicole Watson
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 1, March 2019, pp. 75-81
Description
Illustrates the new character tropes being developed by Aboriginal Australian writers to challenge the stereotypical representation of Indigenous peoples in detective fiction.
Death, Dying, Grieving, and End-of-Life Care: Understanding Personal Meanings of Aboriginal Friends
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Angelina Baydala
Mary Hampton
Lionel Kinunwa
Germaine Kinunwa
Leon Kinunwa
The Humanistic Psychologist, vol. 34, no. 2, 2006, pp. 159-176
Description
Looks at storytelling as one form of meaningful caring at end of life to help heal the living and honor the dead.
The Death of a Chief: An Interview with Yvette Nolan
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Yvette Nolan
Sorouja Moll
Description
Playwright discusses The Death of a Chief, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and issues related to power, betrayal and the interconnectedness between languages and politics.
Decolonizing the Classroom: Reading Aboriginal Literature Through the Lenses of Contemporary Literary Theories
Theses
Author/Creator
Geraldine Balzer
Description
Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2006.
Decolonizing the Medium: How Indigenous Creators are Defying "Sidekickery” and Centering Indigenous Stories and Characters in the Comics Landscape
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amanda Morris
Journal of American Culture, vol. 42, no. 4, December 2019, pp. 326-334
Description
Looks at Sixkiller #1 by writer Lee Franics IV and artist Weshoyot Alvitre, Deer Woman Anthology and Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection.
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.