Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Alan Booth
Description
Examines the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) from an Aboriginal perspecitve and a scientific one.
Duration:47:40.
Northern Literature: Look Here, Look Again
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Maureen Long
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 5-8
Description
Introduction to the special literary issue.
Nunatsiaqmiut: People of the Good Land
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Alootook Ipellie
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring, 1992, pp. 14-20
Description
Comments on the changes made to Inuit culture by the arrival of the Europeans.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 14.
"Of Glooskap's Birth, and of His Brother Malsum, the Wolf": The Story of Charles Godfrey Lelands's "Purely American Creation"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas Parkhill
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 1, 1992, pp. 45-69
Description
Studies the way in which a particular "Indian" story came to prominence and the impact it continues to have.
Oh Canada, Whose Home and Native Land? Negotiating Multicultural, Aboriginal and Canadian Identity Narratives
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Momina Khan
Michael Cottrell
Education Matters: The Journal of Teaching and Learning, vol. 5, no. 1, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Discusses the need to restructure the social studies curriculum that allows for more voices and narratives to be heard.
[The Ojibwa of Berens River Manitoba: Ethnography into History]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Richard J. Preston
Native Studies Review, vol. 8, no. 2, 1992, pp. 141-142
Description
Book review of: The Ojibwa of Berens River Manitoba: by A. Irving Hallowell, with Jennifer S.H. Brown.
The Ojibwe Who Slew the Wiindigo
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bradley Shreve
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 28, no. 3, Indigenous Peoples History, Spring, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Discusses colonization, historical trauma and historical loss symptoms.
Okwire’shon:’a, the First Storytellers: Recovering Landed Consciousness in Readings of Trees & Texts
Theses
Author/Creator
Kaitlin Sandra June Debicki
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2017. Refers to the works Power by Linda Hogan, Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson, and Truth and Bright Water by Thomas King.
Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ezekiel Gow
BC Studies, no. 195, Autumn, 2017, pp. 174-175
Description
Book review of Once They Were Hats by Frances Backhouse.
Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 174.
One Writer, Becoming
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy Lord
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 9-17
Description
Author is presented with letters written to a friend 40 years previously and reflects on her younger self.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Seven: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Ten: Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Two: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Nursery/Preschool/Kindergarten. Day 1: : First Nation Creation Stories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
The Opinions of Ambulance Personnel Regarding Using a Heated Mattress for Patients Being Cared for in a Cold Climate - An Intervention Study in Ambulance Care
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jonas Aléx
Tom Uppstu
Britt-Inger Saveman
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 76, 2017, p. article no. 1379305
Description
Ambulance personnel from northern Sweden rate their experiences as being positive for patient comfort.
Our Chiefs and Elders: Words and Photographs of Native Leaders
E-Books
Author/Creator
David Neel
Catherine Adams
Agnes Alfred
Alvin Alfred
Ethel Alfred ... [et al.]
Our Stolen Grandmother: The Entanglement of Slavery and Colonization in Anna Lee Walters's Ghost Singer
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reid Gómez
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 70-90
Description
This literary criticism article examines the intersections and lasting consequences of settler colonialism and the chattel enslavement of African people on North American lands, cultures and identities in the context of the novel.
Our Stories: First Peoples in Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Jodie Adams
Liz Clarke
Dani Kwan-Lafond
Meera Mather
Natalie Thornhill ... [et al.]]
Description
eTextbook is a multi-media resource developed in collaboration with Indigenous peoples from across Canada. Covers both historical and contemporary topics.
Can be downloaded as iBook, ePub, or PDF.
Our Stories: First Peoples in Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Jodie Adams
Liz Clarke
Dani Kwan-Lafond
Meera Mather
Natalie Thornhill ... [et al.]]
Description
eTextbook is a multi-media resource developed in collaboration with Indigenous peoples from across Canada. Covers both historical and contemporary topics.
Can be downloaded as iBook, ePub, or PDF.
Our Women and Girls Are Sacred: Interim Report: The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
E-Books
Author/Creator
Marion Buller
Michèle Audette
Brian Eyolfson
Qajaq Robinson
Out of the North: The Subarctic Collection of the Halfenreffer Museum of Anthropology
Alternate Title
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology Studies in Anthropology and Material Culture ; v. 5
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David R. Yesner
Arctic, vol. 45, no. 1, 1992, pp. 101-102
Description
Book review of: Out of the North by Barbara A. Hail and Kate C.Duncan.
Outsourcing Reconciliation: The Government of Canada's #IndigenousReads Campaign and the Appropriation of Indigenous Intellectual Labor
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pauline Wakeham
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 1-30
Description
Author examines the #IndigenousReads campaign, considering it as a case study of reconciliatory gestures made by the Canadian Government; points out that reconciliation projects rely too heavily on the work of Indigenous writers and scholars, and fail to build cross-cultural relationships.
"The Past of My Place": Western Canadian Artists and The Uses of History
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeremy Mouat
Prairie Forum, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring, 1992, pp. 79-96
Description
Examines the role three popular artists (a folk singer, a film maker and a novelist) have played to recreate historical perspectives of the prairie region.
Patterns in Contemporary Canadian Picture Books: Radical Change in Action
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Beverley Brenna
Shuwen Sun
Yina Liu
In Education, vol. 23, no. 2, Autumn, 2017, pp. 43-70
Description
Study examined two groups of books, 57 titles published 2005 and 120 published in 2015 in terms of authors, illustrators, characterization, genre, and audiences.
Paul Boyer on the New Information Age
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bradley Shreve
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 31, no. 1, The New Information Age, Spring-Summer, Aug 11, 2019
Description
Interview with the founding editor of Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education; Boyer reflects on the journal and on the new challenges that tribal communities face in the new information age.
Paved Trails: Crip Poetics as an Approach Towards Decolonizing Accessibility
Theses
Author/Creator
Aimee Louw
Description
Media Studies Thesis (MA) -- Concordia University, 2019
Permafrost
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Thaler
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 67-83
Description
Short story.
Photo Vignette – Whale Watching, Salish Style
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lee Maracle
BC Studies , no. 200, 50th Anniversary, Winter, 2019, pp. 27-29
Description
Author shares a personal story as a means of teaching about cross-cultural relationships.
Piapot: Man and Myth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Lee
Prairie Forum, vol. 17, no. 2, Native Studies, Fall, 1992, pp. 251-262
Description
Explores the popular myth that Plains Cree chief Piapot tried to halt construction of the Canadian Pacific Railroad by pitching tipis along the construction route.
Plains Indian Native Literatures
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Douglas R. Parks
Raymond J. DeMallie
boundary 2, vol. 19, no. 3, 1492-1992: American Indian Persistence and Resurgence, Autumn, 1992, pp. 105-147
Description
Comments on two collections of Native American literature that developed due to contact between Native Americans and anthropologists.
Poems [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, vol.4 no.4, Winter 1992]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sherman Alexie
Charles Ballard
Kimberly M. Blaeser
R.M. Caudell
Norla Chee
Woesha Cloud North
Karen Coody Cooper
Charlotte DeClue
RoseMary Diaz
Rex Jim
Mazii Dineltsoi
Della Frank
Diane Glancy
Dorys Crow Grover
McArthur Gunter/Tashunka Rave
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1992, pp. 1-80
Description
Poems:
Portrait of the Indian as a Young Man by Sherman Alexie
Hypothesis by Sherman Alexie
Going on the Wagon by Sherman Alexie
Outdoor Cafe by Charles Ballard
Kamchatka by Charles Ballard
Trailing You by Kimberly M. Blaeser
Grandmom Used to Say by R.M. Caudell
Beneath the Shield by R.M.
Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, 2017, pp. 133-138
Description
Three poems: Selling Cigars on a Coral Gables Corner 1987, Into the Red Devil's Horn, and For a Good Boy We'll Break All the Rules.
Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jake Skeets
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 123-124
Description
Three poems:
Native American Poem
Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
Comma
“Poetry [Film] = Anger × Imagination”: Intermediality, the Synthesis of Poetry and Film, and Cross- Cultural Belonging in Sherman Alexie’s The Business of Fancydancing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sabine N. Meyer
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter , 2019, pp. 36-73
Description
Cultural and artistic criticism piece; considers Alexie’s film as an adaptation and as a poetry film. Discusses artistic tools of referencing, trans media adaptation, and genre defiance; and considers the social and political statements made about identity formation, cross cultural relationships, and the centering of Indigenous narratives.
Post-High School Adjustments of Special Education and Regular Education Students From the Apache Reservation: A Five Year Follow-Up Study
Theses
Author/Creator
Ramasamy Rangasamy
Description
Special Education and Rehabilitation Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1992.
Practicing Sovereignty: Colonial Temporalities, Cherokee Justice, and the "Socrates" Writings of John Ridge
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kelly Wisecup
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 30-60
Description
"This article shows that Ridge's Socrates articles provided a public venue in which to define relationships among the Cherokees, the states, and the federal government".
"Pray Sir, Consider a LIttle": Rituals of Subordination and Strategies of Resistance in the Letters of Hezekiah Calvin and David Fowler to Eleazar Wheelock, 1764-1768
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Murray
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 2/3, Series 2 , Summer/Fall, 1992, pp. 48-74
Description
Looks at letters from two of Wheelock's students that give insight into the nature of his relationships with his students and the role of writing within those relationships.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
The Problem(atics) of Post-Colonisation: The Subject in Settler Post-Colonial Discourse
Alternate Title
The Problem(atics) of Post-Colonization: The Subject in Settler Post-Colonial Discourse
Theses
Author/Creator
Christine A. Prentice
Description
[English] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Canterbury, 1992.
Focusess on fiction by Kate Grenville, Elizabeth Jolley, and Sally Morgan, from Australia; Alice Munro, Audrey Thomas, Aritha Van Herk and Rudy Wiebe, from Canada; and Stevan Eldred-Grig, Patricia Grace, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera and Ian Wedde, from New Zealand.
Promises of the "Vanishing" Worlds: Re-Storying "Civilization" in the Philippine National Imaginary
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
S Lily Mendoza
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, 2019, pp. 119-143
Description
Using the literary work of Filipino author Nick Joaquin to examine the Philippine discursive between the "normal" civilized and the defined "primitive" Indigenous populations.
Qualifying Margins: The Discourse of Death in Native and African American Women's Fiction
Theses
Author/Creator
Sharon Patricia Holland
Description
English Language and Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Michigan, 1992.
Quaslametko and Yetko: Two Grandmother Models for Contemporary Native Education Pedagogy
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shirley Sterling
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 19, no. 2, 1992, pp. 165-174
Description
Discusses the importance of oral stories for Indigenous education.
Queensland Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Worker Education Program
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Janie Smith
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 16, no. 3, May/June 1992, pp. 6-9
Description
Provides student review of program.
Questions of the Spirit: Bloodlines in Louise Erdrich's Chippewa Landscape
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Annette Van Dyke
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1992, pp. 15-27
Description
Explores the inspiration of the symbols of water and the water god shown in Erdrich's Love Medicine and Tracks.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
The Quinzhee
Alternate Title
The Cantilevered Universe
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kirsten Madsen
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 121-136
Description
Excerpt from the novel Cantilevered Universe.
Racism Experiences of Urban Indigenous Women in Ontario, Canada: “We All Have That Story That Will Break Your Heart”
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anita C Benoit
Jasmine Cotnam
Doe O'Brien-Teengs
Saara Green
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, June 18, 2019
Description
Mixed methods research study explores how Indigenous women in two Canadian urban centers experience racism. Findings indicate that participants experience racism in ways that can be classified as individual, collective or institutional, and cultural and rage from historical events to contemporary manifestations.
Raven Tales: Traditional Quileute Stories of Bayak, the Trickster
Documents & Presentations
Description
Includes five stories: Raven and Bear; Raven and Fishduck; Raven and Mole; Raven and Skatefish; and Raven and Eagle.
(Re)claiming History and Visibility Through Rhetorical Sovereignty: The Power of Diné Rhetorics in the Works of Laura Tohe
Theses
Author/Creator
Jessica Marie Safran Hoover
Description
[English] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Illinois State University, 2017.
Re-Visions: An Early Version of The Surrounded
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Birgit Hans
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 2/3, Series 2, Summer/Fall, 1992, pp. 181-195
Description
Provides a brief biography of Darcy McNickle and discusses the manuscript and published version of The Surrounded.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Reading American Indian Intellectual Traditions
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Allen Warrior
World Literature Today, vol. 66, no. 2, From This World: Contemporary American Indian Literature, Spring, 1992, pp. 236-240
Description
Contends that despite interest in American Indian intellectual history, gaps in research and critical writing still exist.