Theses
Author/Creator
Dale J. Young
Description
[Theatre and Film] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Bowling Green State University, 2005.
Buffalo Boy's Heart On: Buffalo Boy's 100 Years of Wearing His Heart on His Sleeve
Theses
Author/Creator
Adrian A. Stimson
Description
Art and Art History Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2005.
Can Text-Relevant Motor Activity Improve the Recall of Native American Children? Testing Predictions Derived From Glenberg's "Indexical Hypothesis"
Theses
Author/Creator
Scott Christopher Marley
Description
Educational Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2005.
Canadian Studies News and Notes
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, Winter, 2005, pp. 204-209
Description
Lists relevant conferences for 2005 including: "Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Theory, Practice, and Ethics" held in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
CANDO Economic Developer of the Year Awards 2003: Utilizing Traditional Knowledge to Strive Towards Unity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cheryl Cardinal
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 4, no. 2, Special Edition: The State of the Aboriginal Economy: 10 Years After RCAP, Fall, 2005, pp. 13-20
Description
Presents interviews with award winners on their strategies concerning economic development.
CANDO Economic Developer of the Year Awards 2004
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Teresa Callihoo
Sara Cardinal
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 4, no. 2, Special Edition: The State of the Aboriginal Economy: 10 Years After RCAP, Fall, 2005, pp. 21-25
Description
Looks at interviews with award winners on economic initiatives and the importance of capitalizing on resources found in the community.
The Canoe Is the People: Indigenous Navigation in the Pacific
Alternate Title
LiNKS (Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems)
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Canoe Is the People Project Team]
Description
Accompanying Materials: Teacher's Guide; Learner's Text; Pacific Map; Navigation
Carol Couchie
Articles » General
Windspeaker, vol. 23, no. 8, November 2005, p. 16
Description
Interview with the chair of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada's Aboriginal Health Issues Committee who helped create the Association of Aboriginal Midwifes and Aboriginal Midwifery Education Program.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.20.
"Catching the Tide"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeane Breinig
Atlantis, vol. 29, no. 2, [Indigenous Women: The State of Our Nations], 2005, p. 96
Description
Presents a poem.
Catharsis vis-à-vis Oppression: Contemporary Native American Political Humor
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce E. Johansen
SIMILE, vol. 5, no. 2, May 2005, pp. 1-9
Description
Provides examples of American Indian humor.
Caught Between Two Worlds: An Aboriginal Researcher's Experience Researching in Her Home Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rose Roberts
Pimatisiwin, vol. 3, no. 2, Winter, 2005, pp. 101-108
Description
Discussion of why research investigations are resisted even if the researcher is from the community.
Ceremonial Tradition as Form and Theme in Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven: A Performance-Based Approach to Native American Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathleen L. Carroll
Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, vol. 38, no. 1, Special Convention Issue: Performance, Spring, 2005, pp. 74-84
Description
Introduces undergraduate students to the storytelling tradition as a means to analyze how writers translate oral forms to written ones.
Changing Women: The Cross-Currents of American Indian Feminine Identity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rebecca Tsosie
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 1988, pp. 1-37
Description
Discusses how female Native American authors are starting to change Euro-American perceptions.
Changing Women: The Cross-Currents of American Indian Feminine Identity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rebecca Tsosie
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 1988, pp. 1-37
Description
Excerpt from an essay that examines the themes in Maria Campbell's Halfbreed.
Chi Ka Sha Goes to Washington: Chickasaw Narratives on the NMAI
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joshua Don Hinson
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3/4, Special Issue: The National Museum of the American Indian, Summer - Autumn , 2005, pp. 491-495
Description
Author discusses their experience of visiting the National Museum of the American Indian during its inaugural week.
Chinook Sad Song in Alaska
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leonard Shotridge
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 3, Fall, 2005, p. 115
Description
Poetry by Alaskan Tlingit poet and graduate of Haskell Indian Nations University.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access issue, scroll to page 115.
Choosing America's Heroes and Villains: Lessons Learned from the Execution of Silon Lewis
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Devon A. Mihesuah
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 29, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 2005, pp. 239-262
Description
Editorial article examines how the execution of the Choctaw man Silon Lewis is framed in the social narrative which surrounds it and how that framing allows Lewis to be seen as a “savage” or villain rather that a hero protecting his people and culture.
Close, Very Close, a B'gwus Howls": The Contingency of Execution in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rob Appleford
Canadian Literature, no. 184, Spring, 2005, pp. 85-101
Description
Argues that the limitations of the medium or cultural materials and the offered resistance fuel the creative tension in the novel.
Colonization as Subtext in James Welch's Winter in the Blood
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sidner Larson
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 29, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 2005, pp. 274-280
Description
Literary criticism article examines different manifestations of colonialism and the effects thereof on and for Indigenous peoples in Welch’s novel.
Commemorating LIA Agreement at ITK
Articles » General
Inuktitut, no. 96, Spring, 2005, pp. S7-9
Description
Brief article about the signing ceremony which included stories regarding the meaning of the land claims agreement.
Completing the Circle
Alternate Title
Digital Stories of Caregiving from Kahnawake
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
[University of Ottawa
Canadian Partnership for Cancer
Kateri Memorial Hospital
First Nations University
Centre for Research on Aging & Health
Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada
Chiefs of Ontario]
Description
Contains links to a series of 24 videos in which Elders, family members and health professions discuss death and end of life care from an Indigenous perspective.
Complicating Discontinuity: What About Poverty?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Hermes
Curriculum Inquiry, vol. 35, no. 1, March 2005, pp. 9-26
Description
Looks at the experiences of two science teachers at tribal schools in the United States, and outlines their struggle with the contradictions of oppression.
Conquering the Dream Killers: Fear, Doubt, Worry, and Guilt
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Mary Ellen Ryall
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 17, no. 1, Telling Our Stories, Fall, 2005, pp. 35-38
Description
Author recounts her personal journey to receiving an education in ethnobotany at a tribal college.
Constructions and Contestations of the Authoritative Voice: Native American Communities and the Federal Writers' Project, 1935-41
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mindy J. Morgan
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 29, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 2005, pp. 56-83
Description
Article examines the work of Fred Gone and Mark “Rex” Flying and their use of the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) to collect and share the stories of the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine communities in Montana in order to tell the histories of their peoples.
Contemporary Native American Autobiography: N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hertha D. Wong
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, 1988, pp. 15-31
Description
Analyzes the attempt by Momaday to combine traditional Native American personal narratives with contemporary versions from their white education.
Contradictions and Celebrations: A Hawaiian Reflection on the Opening of the NMAI
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui
(J. Kehaulani Kauanui)
(J. Kehaulani Kauanui)
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3/4, Special Issue: The National Museum of the American Indian, Summer - Autumn, 2005, pp. 496-504
Description
Author discusses their political concerns and the realities of attending the celebrations of the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian as a member of the Kanaka Maoli (Indigenous Hawaiian) independence movement.
Cora Sanderson Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Cora Sanderson
Janet R. Fietz
Archdeacon J.E. McKay
Indian History Film Project
Description
Cora Sanderson and Archdeacon J.E. McKay tell of their lives in the bush and in La Ronge.
Counselling First Nations: Experiences of How Aboriginal Clients Develop, Experience, and Maintain Successful Healing Relationships with Non-Aboriginal Counsellors in Mainstream Mental Health Settings, A Narrative Study
Theses
Author/Creator
Gail E. Howell-Jones
Description
Education and Counselling Psychology and Special Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2005.
Coyote and the Stars
Alternate Title
The Indian Reading Series: Stories and Legends of the Northwest ; Level 1, Book 1
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Members of the Warm Springs Reservation Committee
Description
Coyote's New Suit
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Nancy Ryan
Resource Links, vol. 10, no. 4, April 2005, pp. 4-6
Description
Book review of: Coyote's New Suit written by Thomas King and illustrated by Johnny Walcs. It is a children's book for Grades 2-6 about wanting more than you need.
Crazy Man and the Plums
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jack Heriard
Whispering Wind, vol. 35, no. 1, January-February 2005, p. 40
Description
Book review of: Crazy Man and the Plums by William C'Hair.
A Creek Warrior For the Confederacy: The Autobiography of Chief George Washington Grayson
Alternate Title
The Civilization of the American Indian Series; v.189
[North American Indian Thought and Culture]
E-Books
Author/Creator
G. W. Grayson
The Critical Collaboration: Introductions as a Gateway to the Study of Native American Bi-Autobiography
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
R. D. Theisz
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 5, no. 1, 1981, pp. 65-80
Description
Presents method of analysis which can be applied to the introductions of a literary genre consisting of an individual's personal narrative being recorded/edited by a non-Indigenous person.
Crow Is My Boss: The Oral Life History of a Tamacross Athabaskan Elder
Alternate Title
Crow is My Boss: Taatsáa' Shaa K' exathet: The Oral Life History of a Tanacross Athabaskan Elder
The Civilization of the American Indian series; v. 250
[North American Indian Thought and Culture]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Kenny Thomas
The Cry of the Chickadee
Alternate Title
[Gift of Language and Culture Project: Stories, Legends and Chants]
E-Books
Author/Creator
James Ratt
Ida Ratt
Cultural Appropriations and Identificatory Practices in Emily Carr's "Indian Stories"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janice Stewart
Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, 2005, pp. 59-72
Description
Examines Carr's writing and the way she depicts the First Nation peoples of the northwest coast.
"Dance Your Style!": Towards Understanding Some Cultural Significances of Pow Wow References in First Nations' Literatures
Theses
Author/Creator
Denise Suzanne McConney
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Saskatchewan, 2005.
Includes analysis of works by Susan Power, Drew Taylor, Joy Harjo, Beth Cuthand, Louise Halfe, Patricia Monture-Angus, and Annharte.
Daughters of Indian Residential School Survivors: Healing Stories
Theses
Author/Creator
Heidi Rae Meseyton
Description
Social Work Thesis (M.S.W.)--The University of British Columbia, 2005.
Dear LaVonne
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Rose Dominguez
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 2, Special Issue: Honoring A. Lavonne Brown, Summer, 2005, p. 83
Description
A thank-you note to A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, Dean of Native American Literary Studies.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 83.
Decolonizing the American Empire: Native American Literatures of Resistance and Presence
Theses
Author/Creator
Carrie Louise Sheffield
Description
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Purdue University, 2005.
Includes critical look at the works of Leslie Marmon Silko, James Welch, Linda Hogan, Luci Tapahonso and Diane Glancy.
Deloria was the Voice for a Generation of Indians
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, November 18, 2005, p. A13
Description
Comments on how the late Vine Deloria Jr's books, which articulated the relationship between America and its First Peoples, still ring true today. One of Deloria books was Custer Died for Your Sins.
Detecting Colonialism: Detective Fiction in Native American and Sardinian Literatures
Theses
Author/Creator
Antonio Giovanni Idini
Description
Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Arizona, 1998.
Detecting Indianness: Gertrude Bonnin's Investigation of Native American Identity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cari Carpenter
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 139-159
Description
Discusses the complexities in determining identity , as revealed in personal correspondence of Chinquilla, Jones and Bonin regarding Native American organizations in the 1920s.
Developing and Expanding Aboriginal Mental Health Services
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Graham Skinner
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 12, no. 4, December 1988, pp. 43-45
Description
Employee at the Lismore Base Hospital in Northern New South Wales discusses his role within the Richmond Clinic assisting Aboriginal clients and being their advocate.
The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab: Text and Context
E-Books
Author/Creator
Abraham Ulrikab
Hartmut Lutz
Description
Includes English translation of article originally written in German: "Eskimos at the Berlin Zoo" by Dr. Rudolf Virchow.
Do My Literacies Count as Literacy? An Inquiry into Inuinnaqtun Literacies in the Canadian North
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Helen Balanoff
Cynthia Chambers
Literacies, no. 6, Fall, 2005, pp. 18-20
Description
Discusses the inadequacies of the predominant model of literacy in the context of Aboriginal language groups of the Northwest Territories.
The Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Program: Gathering the "Raw Material of History"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dianna Repp
Journal of the Southwest, vol. 47, no. 1, Oral History Remembered: Native Americans, Doris Duke, and the Young Anthropologists, Spring, 2005, pp. 11-28
Description
Provides overview of the program and goals which included documentation of the history of Native Americans in their own voices and from their own perspectives.
Double-Voice and Double-Consciousness in Native American Literature
Theses
Author/Creator
Shelley Stigter
Description
English Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Lethbridge, 2005. Author includes analyses of works of Pauline Johnson, Leslie Marmon Silko and Thomas King.
Dreaming Through Disenchantment: Reappraising Canadian and Postcolonial Literary Studies.
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lily Cho
English Studies in Canada, vol. 31, no. 4, December 2005, pp. 177-195
Description
Looks at tensions and contradictions that haunt post-colonial literary studies.