Book review of: Country of the Heart by Deborah Bird Rose with Nancy Daiyi, Kawthy Deveraux, Margaret Daiyi, Linda Ford and April Bright.
Scroll down to page 193 to read review.
Geared toward Grades 7 and 8. Designed to improve literacy and communications skills while learning about Inuit traditional beliefs, shamanism and the traditional relationship with the environment.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 3, Fall, 2014, pp. 41-61
Description
Analysis of genre which manipulates Japanese manga and Haida art to reflect a balance in both art and life.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 41.
Canadian Journal of Law and Society/Revue Canadienne Droit et Societe, vol. 27, no. 2, 2012, pp. 231-247
Description
Advocates for the use of intercultural dispute-resolution principles to be used in courts in order to facilitate a better relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
Comments on three aspects to the act of witnessing: an effective response, an intellectual engagement, and an ethical responsibility to the narrative and its narrator.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 7.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 36, no. 3, 2012, pp. 1-18
Description
Findings of the interview study included the view that research is a necessary source of health care and a mistrust regarding research due to past historical issues.
MELUS, vol. 7, no. 1, The Need for Choice, Spring, 1980, pp. 61-78
Description
Contends that James Welch's novel is strongly influenced by the Gros Ventre and Arapaho cultures, especially the themes of spirituality and commitment to insight.
Book review of Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada edited by Christine Kim, Sophie McCall, and Melina Baum Singer.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 139.
Research Report (Correctional Service of Canada) ; no. R-319
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Janelle N. Beaudette
Amanda Nolan
Jenelle Power
David D. Varis
Mary B. Ritchie
Description
Study group consisted of nine men and four women recruited from two minimum security healing lodges, a psychiatric treatment centre, and a medium security institution, who took part in focus groups or individual interviews. All had decreased or ceased engaging in self-harming behavior.
[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
Cynthia Shorting
Russell Bone
Description
Two individuals describe their experiences with addiction at a STREAM (Saskatchewan Team for Research and Evaluation of Addictions Treatment and Mental Health Services) meeting. Followed by a question and answer period.
Duration: 59:25.
Presented as part of project headed by Dr. Colleen Dell, University of Saskatchewan Research Chair in Substance Abuse.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 66, no. 1, Spring, 2014, pp. 18-19
Description
Author recounts her family’s relationship with a man named “Ou-qui-chass” or Squirrel [possibly Ankwacas, Squirrel in Cree], whom the children in her family called Nicotash, from Nut Lake [now Yellow Quill First Nation].
Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 18.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 38, no. 3, 2014, pp. 164-167
Description
Book review of: The Dakota Prisoner of War Letters: Dakota Kaŝkapi Okicze Wowapi by Clifford Canku and Michael Simon.
Scroll down to page 164 to read review.
[Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence]
[First Voices! First Women Speak! A Teach-in & Community Gathering]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Leanne Simpson
Description
Talks about rebuilding nations from inside out as sovereign beings as indigenous women have been doing for centuries.
Book launch and reading presented at First Voices! First Women Speak! A Teach-in and Community Gathering
Duration: 35:08.
Discussion on the performance-based budgeting process for tribal administration and program service delivery that focuses on strategic planning.
Duration: 23:19. Includes textual transcript.
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