E-Books
Author/Creator
Gary Geddes
Medicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 4, August-September 2017, pp. 54-55
Description
Book review of Medicine Unbundled by Gary Geddes.
Meeting Halfway: Reassessing “Cognizable to the Canadian Legal and Constitutional Structure”
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julia Tousaw
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 16/17, no. 1, 2018, pp. 85-129
Description
Argues that because Canadian courts harbor two misconceptions about Indigenous laws (that they are facts and that they are excessively general) they reject them on the basis that they are not clearly identifiable. Author suggests that analogical reasoning, similar to that used in the application of Common law, with its emphasis relevance would be a more appropriate approach.
The Mentoring of Miss Deloria: Poetics, Politics, and the Test of Tradition
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah L. Bonnie
Susan H. Krook
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 3, Summer, 2018, pp. 281-305
Description
Article examines Ella Cara Deloria’s life and career as an anthropologist in the context of her relationship with her mentors, relationship with the discipline of anthropology, and personal and community life.
[Michif Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography]
Alternate Title
Anishinaabe / Chippewa / Ojibwe Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lawrence Barkwell
Norman Fleury
Description
Material on: culture, history, mythology and language as well as separate sections for scholarly articles and theses, children's books, films, internet resources, music, recordings, curriculum materials, and textbooks.
Mind, Memory, and the Five-Year-Old
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gary F. Dorr
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 2, Genocide Special Issue, December 30, 2018, pp. 132-135
Description
Creative non-fiction piece in which the Indigenous author reflects on the process of becoming a member of their white adoptive family.
Minogondaagan: The Good Voice
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Elissa Black Wolf Kixen
Sasha Mark
Tim Fontaine
Description
Series of twelve podcasts (approx. 45 min. each) in which Indigenous and non-Indigenous people share stories, ideas and expertise in pursuit of reconciliation. Topics include literature, identity, media, the entertainment industry, comedy, music, and education.
Mite Achimowin (Heart Talk): First Nations Women Expressions of Heart Health Study
Alternate Title
Voices from the Field Podcast Series ; 4
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lorena Fontaine
Annette Schultz
Lisa Forbes
Description
Transcript of podcast series, Voices from the Field, Episode 4.
Provides perspectives of First Nations women regarding heart health.
Full podcast.
Mite Achimowin (Heart Talk): [First Nations Women Expressions of Heart Health Study]
Alternate Title
Voices From the Field Series ; 4
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Lorena Fontaine
Annette Schultz
Lisa Forbes
Description
Podcast provides perspectives of First Nations women regarding heart health.
Duration: 14:35.
Full Transcript.
Mnisose / the Missouri River: A Comparative Literary Analysis of River Stories from the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the #NoDAPL Movement
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah Hernandez
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 72-95
Description
Examines multiple narratives—historical and contemporary—relating to the river and discusses how those narratives in combination with the privileging of text-based have been used alternately to empower and disempower Indigenous communities and nations.
The Moccasin Project: Understanding a Sense of Place through Indigenous Art Making and Storytelling
Theses
Author/Creator
Colleen 'Co' M. Carew
Description
[Expressive Therapies] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Lesley University, 2018.
Monahsetah, Resistance, and Other Markings on Turtle’s Back: A Lyric History in Poems and Essays (Maurice Kenny) and The Homing Place: Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic (Rachel Bryant)
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Siobhan Senier
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018, pp. 121-126
Description
Literary Criticism Article which describes and compares the ways the author of each text uses their work to participate in contemporary discussions of “sovereignty and survivance, territoriality and land.”
Monique Verdin's Louisiana Love: An Interview
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kirstin L. Squint
Monique Verdin
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 117-133
Description
Interview with co-producer and co-writer of My Louisiana Love, a documentary which details the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the BP oil spills on her family and community.
Mothers of Corn: Wixárika Women, Verbal Performances, and Ontology
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cyndy Margarita García-Weyandt
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 2, June 2018, pp. 113-120
Description
Discusses the active role of Maize within Wixáritari ceremony from cultivation to harvesting, emphasizing the role of women in preparing Corn-based substances for ceremonial offerings. Through storytelling and performative practices women are active in transmitting the relationships between corn and community.
Mrs. Mary Ann Ross Interview
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.
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.
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.
The Narrative and Poetical Role of a Polynesian Literary Myth: Canoes of the Origins in Contemporary Texts from French Polynesia, New Zealand, and Samoa
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Chloé Angué [Chloe Angue]
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 1, 2018, pp. 97-109
Description
Article examines the way that contemporary Polynesian writers are reimagining the Polynesian migration in their works and how the rewriting of the migration narrative is a form of post-colonial resistance, and an active imagining of more equitable futures.
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 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 Narratives, Mystery Writing, and the Osage Oil Murders: Examining Mean Spirit and The Osage Rose
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Stoecklein
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 3, Native Narratives of Indigenous History and Culture, 2018, pp. 137-154
Description
Literary criticism piece which argues that Indigenous authors Linda Hogan and Tom Holm make use of the mystery fiction genre to present Indigenous narratives about the historic Osage oil murders, thereby allowing them a wide breadth of exposure.
Navajo Code Talker
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Peter MacDonald
Description
World War II veteran shares his experiences as part of the code talker program.
Duration: 1:35:07.
Nemuel Island
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Tommy Orange
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018, pp. 110-113
Description
Creative prose piece which contemplates the perception of reality by describing the thoughts and deed of a man named Nemuel Island.
Neoliberal Biopolitics in Michel Noël's Nipishish: Market Logic and Indigenous Resistance
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Boucher
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 2, Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways, 2018, pp. 77-96
Description
Literary criticism article explores the intersections of history, fiction and biopolitics in a variety of specific confrontations between the Canadian state and the Anishnaabeg in Michel Noël's teen novel Nipishish (2004).
Neoliberal Earthworks
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Stewart
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 2, Summer, 2018, pp. 56-78
Description
Discusses texts by Thomas King, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silko and the way in which they engage the practices and results of neoliberalism, globalization, and extractive resource-based economies.
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
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK)
[Aqqaluk Lynge
Robert Comeau
Mary Simon
Nancy Karetak-Lindell
Alfred E.R. Jakobsen … [et al.]]
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 .
Nokaa-Zagaakwa’on Gaawiin Zagaakwasiiaag: Tender Buttons Unfastened
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Margaret Noodin
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018 , pp. 11-24
Description
Author uses translation to Anishinaabemowin, word play, and close readings to examine a different way of making meaning in and from Gertrude Stein’s cubist poetry.
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.
On the Mysterious 1831 Cherokee Manuscript or Jisdu Fixes John Locke’s Two Treatises of Civil Government
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Brian Burkhart
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018 , pp. 40-76
Description
Creative piece which imagines what Two Treatises of Civil Government would look like if it had been written by the Cherokee Rabbit Trickster, Jisdu.
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