Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frank Kelderman
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 58-83
Description
Author discusses the 1846 translation and annotation of Black Hawk’s autobiography by the Dutch pastor Rinse Posthumus; offers critical commentary on Posthumus’ station and politics as an influencing factor in his additions to and translation of the text.
Body Image Dissatisfaction (BID) from an Indigenous Alaska Native Female Perspective: A Pilot Study
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karaline Naegele
Christine R. Cook
Northern Review, no. 45, Innovation in the Circumpolar North, June 2017, pp. 141-160
Description
Researchers interviewed female participants between the ages of 18 and 23 and found that all participants experienced BID as young adults. Participants provided suggestions for working with Indigenous Alaska females who suffer from BID.
Book Guide for How Raven Got His Crooked Nose: An Alaskan Dena'ina Fable Retold by Barbara J. Atwater and Ethan J. Atwater, Illustrated by Mindy Dwyer
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
West Margin Press
Description
Recommended for Grade 3 students.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Mary J. Monette
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 4, Fall, 1992, pp. 600-602
Description
Book review of 2 books:
The Power of Horses and Other Stories by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.
Beyond Values and Ideology: Tales from Six North American Indian Peoples by Guy Lanoue.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jean Friesen
K. Wilson
Scott Clark
Ken Hanly
George F. G. Stanley
et al.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1981, pp. 217-257
Description
Book reviews of 23 books:
The Forces Which Shaped Them: A History of the Education of Minority Group Children in British Columbia by Mary Ashworth.
Forty Years a Chief by George Barker.
A History of Native Claims Processes in Canada, 1867-1979 by Richard C. Daniel.
The Metaphysics of Modern Existence by Vine Deloria
The Covenant Chain: Indian Ceremonial and Indian Trade Silver by N.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Various authors
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1981, pp. 363-375
Description
Book reviews of 6 books:
Urban Indians: The Strangers in Canada's Cities by Larry Krotz.
Report of the Indian Child Welfare Sub-Committee Manitoba.
Inuit Songs from Eskimo Point [edited] by Ramon Pellinski, Luk Suluk and Lucy Amarook.
Song of Sedna by Robert D. San Souci.
Gathering What the Great Nature Provided: Food Traditions of the Gitksan by the People of 'Ksan.
Pitseolak, A Canadian Tragedy by David F. Raine.
Breaking Away: The Novels of Gerald Vizenor
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wolfgang Hochbruck
World Literature Today, vol. 66, no. 2, From This World: Contemporary American Indian Literature, Spring, 1992, pp. 274-278
Description
Comments on one of the most prolific Native American authors and the trademarks of his narrative fiction.
Briefly Noted [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, vol.4 no.1]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William Bright
Helen Jaskoski
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1992, pp. 83-84
Description
Looks at a number of noteworthy books and articles that were not reviewed in the issue.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
The Buffalo, the Chickadee, and the Eagle: A Multispecies Textual History of Plenty Coups’s Multivocal Autobiography
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jasmine Spencer
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2, Spring, 2019, pp. 168-203
Description
Critical essay in which the author argues that Coups’s autobiography, originally published in 1930 as American: The Life Story of a Great Indian, Plenty- coups, Chief of the Crows is best read as multivocal text that presents both human and more-than-human voices and perspectives.
But I Was Wearing a Suit
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Continuing Legal Education Society of BC
Description
Indigenous lawyers and law students from British Columbia recount their experiences with stereotyping, race-based assumptions, and discrimination within the legal profession and while practicing in the justice system.
Duration: 25:43.
Related material: Part 2.
[California Through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Terria Smith
Studies in American Indian Literature, vol. 29, no. 2, Summer, 2017, pp. 98-101
Description
Book review of: California Through Native Eyes by William J. Bauer.
Canada's Dark Secret
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Bud Whiteye
Roberta Hill
Ron Shortt
Rania El Rafei
Description
Primary focus is the personal narratives of two survivors of the Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School, with some general information of the school system and the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Duration: 47:30.
Canadian Indigenous Books for Schools: Selected and Evaluated by Teacher-Librarians: 2017-2018
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia
Description
Annotated list organized into elementary, secondary, and cross-grades, then alphabetically by title. Subject and curriculum areas included.
Canadian Indigenous Books for Schools: Selected and Evaluated by Teacher-Librarians and Educators: 2019/20
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia
Description
Lists recently released works which have been evaluated for representing an "authentic voice" and annotations are written by Indigenous educators. Organized by elementary (K-7), cross-grade (suitable for all levels) and secondary (8-12) levels, then alphabetically by title.
Canadian Indigenous Books for Schools: Selected & Evaluated by Teacher-Librarians and Educators, 2018/19
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia
Description
Annotated list divided into elementary (K-7), cross-grade (suitable for all levels) and secondary (8-12) then alphabetically by title. Subject and curriculum areas included.
Canadian Indigenous Children's Books through the Lense of Truth and Reconciliation
Alternate Title
Canadian Indigenous Children's Books through the Lens of Truth and Reconciliation
Polar Libraries Colloquy 2018: Developing Polar Networks: Ideas & Possibilities for the Future
Polar Libraries Colloquy 2018 Proceedings
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Sarah Campbell
Maria Tan
Andrea Quatattini
Description
Primary source for titles was Amazon Best Sellers in Children’s Native Canadian Story Books, as well as publishers' web pages, and library and authors' lists. Objective was to identify fiction books for ages 0-18 written by Indigenous authors that contained reconciliation-related themes. More than 150 books met the inclusion criteria.
Canadian Indigenous Writers Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[NWT Literacy Council]
Description
Material divided into seven categories: graphic novel, nonfiction, novel, play, poetry, short stories, and stories. Each entry contains summary, information about the author and list of titles also written by them.
Celebrating Indigenous Languages
Web Sites » Virtual Exhibits
Author/Creator
Google Earth
Description
This interactive Google Earth project is a guided tour that introduces the user to over 80 Indigenous languages from around the globe. At each point on the map the user can view a photo and bio of an Indigenous language speaker from that region and listen to clips of them speaking their language.
A Change of Subject: Perspectivism and Multinaturalism in Inuit Depictions of Interspecies Transformation
Alternate Title
Un changement de sujet : Perspectivisme et multinaturalisme dans les représentations inuit des transformations interespèces
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sean P.A. Desjardins
Études Inuit Studies , vol. 41, no. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 101-124
Description
Article argues that two pre-contact Inuit artifacts, recovered from the Pingiqqalik site, depict interspecies transformation; author argues that this is evidence that interspecies relations were influenced by a cosmology rooted in multinaturalism.
Chiefly Feasts
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Allen Wardwell
Art Journal, vol. 51, no. 4, Winter, 1992, pp. 91-93
Description
Book review of: Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlach edited by Aldona Jonaitis.
Child-Targeted Assimilation: An Oral History of Indian Day School Education in Kahnawà:ke
Theses
Author/Creator
Wahéhshon Shiann Whitebean
Description
Individualized Program Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2019.
Christmas in the 1940’s
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gary Arcand
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 21, no. 9, December 1992, p. 19
Description
Maria Linklater from Thunderchild First Nation recalls Christmas as a student at the Onion Lake Residential School and suggests how it should be celebrated.
Citizen of the Year: An Inspiration To All
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lorie-Ann LaRocque
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 21, no. 3, May 1992, p. 1
Description
Freda Ahenakew of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation named Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations' Citizen of the Year.
Claims to Native Identity in Children’s Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Debbie Reese
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 123-132
Description
Discusses successful children's writers that falsely claim Indigenous ancestry and the effect their success had on maintaining stereotypes that fit the popular conception of what constitutes an Indigenous person. The four of the writers profiled are: Jamake Highwater Anpao, Paul Goble, Sharon Creech, and Asa Carter.
The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River
Alternate Title
Critical Studies in Native History ; 20
E-Books
Author/Creator
Susan M. Hill
Critical Studies in Native History
Closed Stranger Adoption, Māori and Race Relations in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1955-1985
Alternate Title
Closed Stranger Adoption, Maori and Race Relations in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1955-1985
Theses
Author/Creator
Maria Haenga-Collins
Description
[Indigenous History] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian National University, 2017.
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.
Collective and Individual Memories: Narrations about the
Transformations in the Nenets Society
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roza Laptander
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 54, no. 1, 2017, pp. 22-31
Description
Discussion of how members of this Russian group choose to relay stories about events surrounding Soviet confiscation of reindeer herds during the collectivization period.
The College on the Hill
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Margaret Harry
Oral History Forum, vol. 12, 1992
Description
Book review of: Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi'kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia by Isabelle Knockwood, with Gillian Thomas.
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.
Colonialism and Race Relations in Remote Inland Australia: Observations from the Field of Australian Indigenous Studies
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Barry Judd
ab-Original, vol. 1, no. 2, 2017, pp. 214-242
Description
Opinion piece in which the author works to document their efforts to close the spatial distance between researcher and researched through a series of vignettes, and later reflects on the results of their work.
Columbus, Indians, and American Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert L. Berner
World Literature Today, vol. 66, no. 2, From This World: Contemporary American Indian Literature, Spring, 1992, pp. 292-296
Description
Comments on Native American writers and the crossover of Native America literature with the American culture.
Coming Out Stories: Two Spirit Narratives in Atlantic Canada: Final Report
Alternate Title
Research Project Report (Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network) ; 2017
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John R. Sylliboy
Tuma Young
Description
Through 20 in-depth interviews project gathered information on socio-cultural context, state of mental health and well-being during process, and supports which were relied upon.
Commentary [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, vol.4 no.1]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Franchot Ballinger
Helen Jaskoski
Robert M. Nelson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1992, pp. 65-71
Description
Commentary includes:
ASAIL at MLA 1991 by Franchot Ballinger
From the Editors by Helen Jaskoski and Robert M.
Commentary [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, vol.4 no.2/3]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George Copway
Marie Annharte Baker
Helen Jaskoski
Robert M. Nelson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 2/3, Series 2, Summer/Fall, 1992, pp. 196-202
Description
Commentary includes:
Copway on Cooper by George Copway
According to Iktomi by Marie Annharte Baker
From the Editors by Helen Jaskoski, Robert M. Nelson
SAIL Receives NEA Grant
Call for Papers on Critical Approaches
Call for Papers on Feminist and Post-Colonial Approaches to American Indian Literatures
Call for Papers: New Directions in Contemporary American Indian Film, Drama, and Theatre
The Four Directions
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Commentary [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, vol.4, no.4, Winter, 1992]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Helen Jaskoski
Bob Nelson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1992, pp. 89-91
Description
Commentary includes:
From the Editors by Helen Jaskoski and Bob Nelson
MLA Division in American Indian Literatures
Deadline Extended for Critical Approaches Issue
Call for Papers on Feminist and Post-Colonial Approaches to American Indian Literatures
Call for Papers: New Directions in Contemporary American Indian Film, Drama, and Theater
Call for Papers and Panels at ALA
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
“Common Disaster”?!: Three Works Revealing the Importance of Inuit Presence and Inuit Oral History [On the Writings about the Man in Charge / the Men Aboard / the Unceasing Searching for the Erebus and Terror]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah Stiles
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 2, Spring, 2017, pp. 520-532
Description
Article examines non-fiction texts about the search for the Northwest Passage to illustrate the contributions of Inuit people and communities to Arctic exploration.
Communicating Effectively with Indigenous Clients: An Aboriginal Legal Services Publication
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lorna Fadden
Description
Reports on issues raised by Indigenous clients themselves and discusses features of Aboriginal varieties of English and how linguistic prejudice may affect interactions between lawyer and client and court outcomes.
Companion to James Welch's "The Heartsong of Charging Elk"
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lydia R. Cooper
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 2, Spring, 2017, pp. 182-185
Description
Book review of Companion to James Welch's "The Heartsong of Charging Elk" edited by Arnold Krupat.
A Comparison of the English Translations of a Mayan Text, The Popol Vuh
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Denise Low
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 2/3, Series 2, Summer/Fall, 1992, pp. 13-34
Description
Explains the process of translating the book Popol Vuh into English and the difficulties with cultural content and language.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.
The Concept of Duality in Culture and Myths of Lakota Indians
Theses
Author/Creator
Klára Perlíková
Description
[Ethnology] Thesis (Ph.D)--Univerzita Karlova [Charles University], 2017
Consuming, Incarcerating, and “Transmoting” Misery: Border Practice in Vizenor’s Bearheart and Jones’s The Fast Red Road
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cathy Covell Waegner
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 1-29
Description
Literary criticism article discusses themes of survivance and transmotion in Vizenor’s (1978) and Jones’ (2000) debut novels, considers contexts of postmodernism and carceral theory, and the generational difference between the two authors.
Continuity and Connection: Characters in Louis Erdrich's Fiction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margie Towery
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 4, 1992, pp. 99-122
Description
Character analysis reflects the author's interest in the continuing struggle of Native Americans to survive and maintain their culture.
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.
Coping With Powerful People: A Hudson's Bay Company "Boss" and the Albany River Cree, 1862-1875
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John S. Long
Native Studies Review, vol. 8, no. 1, 1992, pp. 1-21
Description
Compares Cree Elder James Wesley's narrative account of Alexander Macdonald, HBC trader with documents from the Church Missionary Society and Hudson's Bay Company archive.
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.
Cornus versus dentus et autres modalités d’association des animaux dans l’imaginaire inuit
Alternate Title
Horned versus Teethed and Other Modalities of Animal Association in the Inuit Imagination
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vladimir Randa
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 41, no. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 51-71
Description
Author explores Inuit ontologies or knowledge systems around non-human members of their ecosystem; discuss how Inuit ways of knowing the animals are rooted in social and cultural factors of relationality.
Text in French.
The Cosmological Liveliness of Terril Calder's The Lodge: Animating Our Relations and Unsettling Our Cinematic Spaces
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Salma Monani
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 4, Winter, 2017, pp. 1-28
Description
Examines Calder’s stop-frame animated feature film in the context of animation, ecocinema, and Indigenous studies; focuses on theme of hybridity and métissage.
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 Places the Stars [by] Harriet Peck Taylor
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Erie District
Description
Designed to accompany retelling of traditional Wasco story about how stars came to be arranged in the shapes of animals. Recommended for use with Grade 3 students.