Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Mary Ann (Mrs.) Ross
Janet R. Fietz
Indian History Film Project
Description
She gives a brief account of her childhood living in the bush while her father trapped for a living.
"The Muppets" Among the Cree of Manitoba
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gary Granzberg
Christopher Hanks
Prairie Forum, vol. 6, no. 2, Fall, 1981, pp. 207-210
Description
Looks at a study of Cree children showing their aversion to the television show The Muppets. Two reasons that the Cree dislike the program are their beliefs towards the shaman's relationship to certain animals and the tendency of First Nations to seek out practical applications instead of fantasy in dealing with issues.
Muriel Ross Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Muriel Ross
Janet R. Fietz
Indian History Film Project
Description
Muriel Ross shares her experiences of her childhood in the bush and at the residential school.
Muscogee Nation Indian Territory: From Oral History to Found Poetry
Articles » General
Author/Creator
James Treat
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 28, no. 3, Indigenous Peoples History, Spring, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Presents three poems that address key moments in Muscogee history: origins, removal and statehood.
Mushrooms
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Leslie Baird
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 9, no. 3, September 1985, p. 57
Description
Poem describes the risks undertaken by consumers of Australian mind-altering mushrooms.
My Sobriety: Chapter 13: Driven Wild
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Koorie Dhoulagarle
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 5, no. 2, June 1981, pp. 29-36
Description
Continuing series excerpted from the book, My Sobriety which was written at the time the author had given up drinking for the previous 18 months.
My Sobriety: Chapter 14 - Don't Forgive an Alcoholic
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Koorie Dhoulagarle
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 6, no. 3, September 1981, pp. 50-59
Description
Continuing series excerpted from the book, My Sobriety which was written at the time the author had given up drinking for the previous 18 months.
My Testimony
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Wayne Connolly
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, June 1985, pp. 46-49
Description
Australian Aboriginal describes experiences with alcohol abuse and his transformation to working as a priest among his own people.
Narrating Intimate Partner Violence: Reclaiming Indigenous Women's Voices
Theses
Author/Creator
Chen Vu
Description
Counselling Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2017.
Narrative Possession in Stephen Graham Jones's Ledfeather
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leah Pennywark
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 3, Fall, 2017, pp. [89]-110
Description
Looks at themes of possession and history in the frontier gothic novel.
"National Memory" and Its Remainders: Labrador Inuit Counterhistories of Residential Schooling
Alternate Title
Power through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Arie Molema
Description
Draws on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork, including participant observation at Truth and Reconciliation Commission national events and 50 interviews with former students who have been denied recognition and compensation under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.
Chapter from Power through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation edited by Brieg Capitaine and Karine Vanthuyne.
Native American Literature
Alternate Title
Twayne's United States Author Series ; 467
E-Books
Author/Creator
Andrew Wiget
Native American Mystery, Crime and Detective Fiction
Theses
Author/Creator
Mary Stoecklein
Description
American Indian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2017.
Looks at novels by Linda Hogan, Tom Holm, Frances Washburn, Louise Erdrich, Louis Owens, and Tony Hillerman, and films by Chris Eyre.
Native American Women: Our Voice, the Air
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Linda Hogan
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, Autumn, 1981, pp. 1-4
Description
Discusses the ways in which Native American women influence their communities and the larger Euro-American society.
[Native Education Resource LIst]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Education and Aboriginal Services
SD #78 (Fraser-Cascade)
Description
Extensive list of storybooks and novels, colour-coded for grade level and annotated.
[Native Voices in the City]
Alternate Title
[Chicago American Indian Oral History Pilot Project]
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Chicago American Indian Oral History Pilot Project]
Description
Unpublished transcript of excerpts from interviews with 23 Indian residents of Chicago.
Never Alone: The Art and the People of the Story
Alternate Title
Game Development Conference ; 2015
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Dima Veryovka
Description
A Discussion on the visual style, cultural infusion and impact of the 2014 video game Never Alone. The game is based off the Iñupiat legend of Kanuk Sayuka and was created in cooperation with elders, storytellers, and artists from the Cook Inlet Tribal Council.
Duration: 50:01.
Ngapartji Ngapartji: Finding Ethical Approaches to Research Involving Indigenous Peoples, Australian Perspectives
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gina Louise Hawkes
David Pollock
Barry Judd
Peter Phipps
Elinor Assoulin
ab-Original, vol. 1, no. 1, 2017, pp. 17-41
Description
Article explores the process of integrating ethical research frameworks for engaging Indigenous communities into academic institutions. Authors use five personal vignettes to examine the potential pitfalls related to integrating Indigenous values knowledge systems with Western legal practices.
Nilliajut 2: Inuit Perspectives on the Northwest Passage Shipping and Marine Issues
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Aqqaluk Lynge
Robert Comeau
Mary Simon
Nancy Karetak-Lindell
Alfred E. R. Jakobsen
Zebedee Nungak
Silas Elytuk Arngna’naaq
Peter F. K. Ittinuar
Kuupik Vandersee Kleist
Okalik Eegeesiak]
Description
Essays by authors from across Inuit Nunangat and Greenland discuss the possible impacts of the opening of the Passage due to climate change.
Nipi and Mother Earth
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Saskatchewan
Description
Primary reading level storybook.
No Takebacks
Alternate Title
No take backs
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stephen Graham Jones
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 139-169
Description
Short fiction piece. When two friends develop an app for mobile devices the results are much different than they expect.
The "Noble Savage" in American Music and Literature, 1790-1855
Theses
Author/Creator
Jacob Mathew Somers
Description
Music History and Literature Thesis (M.A.)--Marshall University, 2017
Refers to James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Henry Russell's "The Indian Hunter", and Henry Woodsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha .
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.
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 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.
Oral Tradition as History
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jan Vansina
Our Mother Corn
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sherry Mathers
Description
Looks at the central role of corn in the cultures of the Hopi, Pawnee and Seneca peoples.
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 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
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.
Permafrost
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Thaler
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 67-83
Description
Short story.
Pigeon the Outlaw: History as Texts
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephen Muecke
Alan Rumsey
Banjo Wirrunmarra
Aboriginal History, vol. 9, no. 1, 1985, pp. 81-100
Description
Presents two texts, that were recorded seven years apart, to illustrate the continuity of an Aboriginal oral tradition as held by a particular story-teller.
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
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".
The Primitive Mystique: Romance and Realism in the Depiction of the Native Indian in English-Canadian Fiction
Theses
Author/Creator
Marjorie Anne Gilbart Retzleff
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1981.
The Provenance of Story in Rudy Wiebe's "Where is the Voice Coming From"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Arnold E. Davidson
Studies in Short Fiction, vol. 22, no. 2, Spring , 1985, pp. 189-193
Description
Looks at two historical novels by one of Canada's most accomplished novelists, The Temptations of Big Bear and The Scorched-Wood People.
Pueblos, Poets and Painters: The Role of the Pueblos Indians in the Development of the Santa Fe-Taos Region as an American Cultural Center
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kay A. Reeve
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 5, no. 4, 1981, pp. 1-19
Description
Discusses Pueblo culture's central role in the establishment of the internationally known artist and writer colony established in the area.
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.
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.
Reading for Reconciliation? Indigenous Literatures in a Post-TRC Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aubrey Jean Hanson
English Studies in Canada, vol. 43, no. 2-3, Special Issue: Transition, June/September 2017, pp. 69-90
Description
Also available Open Access here.
Article examines the ways in which Indigenous writers and scholars interrogate the framework of Reconciliation by creating a narrative of resurgence. Author additionally argues for the need to examine the pedagogy and process when including Indigenous literatures in educational settings.