Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julian Rice
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 4, Autumn, 1983, pp. 37-55
Description
A discussion on the role of oral traditions in Lakota culture and the certain patterns and styles used to engage listeners.
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
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.
Order Up! The Decolonizing Politics of Howard Adams and Maria Campbell with a Side of Imagining Otherwise
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel Voth
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 2, Fall, 2018, pp. 16-36
Description
Discusses the texts Halfbreed (Campbell, 1973) and Prison of Grass (Adams, 1975), contrasting their treatments of gender in the discussion of colonial violence; calls on contemporary scholars to consider in their works “the way gender is animated in a decolonizing political movement.”
Otter's Journey through Indigenous Language and Law
E-Books
Author/Creator
Lindsay Keegitah Borrows
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 Stories: First Peoples in Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Jodie Adams
Liz Clarke
Dani Kwan-Lafond
Meera Mather
Natalie Thornhill ... [et al.]]
Description
eTextbook is a multi-media resource developed in collaboration with Indigenous peoples from across Canada. Covers both historical and contemporary topics.
Can be downloaded as iBook, ePub, or PDF.
Our Stories: First Peoples in Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Jodie Adams
Liz Clarke
Dani Kwan-Lafond
Meera Mather
Natalie Thornhill ... [et al.]]
Description
eTextbook is a multi-media resource developed in collaboration with Indigenous peoples from across Canada. Covers both historical and contemporary topics.
Can be downloaded as iBook, ePub, or PDF.
Our War Paint Is Writers' Ink: Anishinaabe Literary Transnationalism
Alternate Title
Native Traces
E-Books
Author/Creator
Adam Spry
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
Outsourcing Reconciliation: The Government of Canada's #IndigenousReads Campaign and the Appropriation of Indigenous Intellectual Labor
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pauline Wakeham
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 1-30
Description
Author examines the #IndigenousReads campaign, considering it as a case study of reconciliatory gestures made by the Canadian Government; points out that reconciliation projects rely too heavily on the work of Indigenous writers and scholars, and fail to build cross-cultural relationships.
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.
Paul Boyer on the New Information Age
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bradley Shreve
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 31, no. 1, The New Information Age, Spring-Summer, Aug 11, 2019
Description
Interview with the founding editor of Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education; Boyer reflects on the journal and on the new challenges that tribal communities face in the new information age.
Paula Gunn Allen and Joy Harjo: Closing the Distance between Personal and Mythic Space
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jim Ruppert
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, 1983, pp. 27-40
Description
Discusses and compares the literary methods of two Indigenous writers to encourage readers to perceive their own connection between personal and mythic space in their own lives.
Paved Trails: Crip Poetics as an Approach Towards Decolonizing Accessibility
Theses
Author/Creator
Aimee Louw
Description
Media Studies Thesis (MA) -- Concordia University, 2019
Permafrost
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Thaler
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 67-83
Description
Short story.
"Personal Totems": The Poetics of the Popular in Contemporary Indigenous Popular Culture in North America
Theses
Author/Creator
Svetlana Seibel
Description
[English, American and Anglophone Cultures] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Saarland University, 2018.
Peter Lavallee Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Peter Lavallee
Sharon Gaddie
Indian History Film Project
Description
Interviewee gives a general description of his life. No index terms are provided.
Photo Vignette – Whale Watching, Salish Style
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lee Maracle
BC Studies , no. 200, 50th Anniversary, Winter, 2019, pp. 27-29
Description
Author shares a personal story as a means of teaching about cross-cultural relationships.
Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Carey Newman
Media One
Cody Graham
Graem Millala
Adam Blakesley
Description
Documentary about artist Carey Newman's large-scale art installation made from artifacts from residential schools, churches, government buildings and traditional and cultural structures. Commemoration project was commissioned by The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
Duration: 1:26:52.
pîsim pimâcihowin
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jesse Archibald-Barber
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2018, pp. 209-210
Description
Poetry (in Cree and English).
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
Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Heather Cahoon
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 42, no. 1, 2018, pp. 131-133
Description
Three Poems:
Ode to Pulia (Mole), Every Mother
Shelter
Peregrine
Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah Miranda
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 2, Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways, 2018, pp. 119-130
Description
Five Poems: Raised by Humans; Indian Country; The Language of Truth; When My Body is the Archive; Indigenous Physics: The Element Colonizantium
“Poetry [Film] = Anger × Imagination”: Intermediality, the Synthesis of Poetry and Film, and Cross- Cultural Belonging in Sherman Alexie’s The Business of Fancydancing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sabine N. Meyer
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter , 2019, pp. 36-73
Description
Cultural and artistic criticism piece; considers Alexie’s film as an adaptation and as a poetry film. Discusses artistic tools of referencing, trans media adaptation, and genre defiance; and considers the social and political statements made about identity formation, cross cultural relationships, and the centering of Indigenous narratives.
"The Poetry Is Enough": The Curious Publication History of Marnie Walsh's "Indian Poems"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frank Kelderman
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 4, Summer, November 9, 2018, pp. 387-406
Description
Article examines the work of Marnie Walsh, a writer from South Dakota, who was frequently anthologized as a Sioux author, in spite of her not claiming to be so; discusses the way that the mistaken identity of Walsh has led to misrepresentations of Indigenous voices and lives.
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".
Pre-Occupied
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Heid Erdrich
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018
Description
An experimental video/art poem and accompanying text that examines issues including land rights, resource extraction, environmentalism, the Occupy Movement and the activism of Indigenous peoples.
Promises of the "Vanishing" Worlds: Re-Storying "Civilization" in the Philippine National Imaginary
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
S Lily Mendoza
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, 2019, pp. 119-143
Description
Using the literary work of Filipino author Nick Joaquin to examine the Philippine discursive between the "normal" civilized and the defined "primitive" Indigenous populations.
Pulling Together: A Guide for Indigenization of Post-Secondary Institutions: Teachers and Instructors
Alternate Title
Professional Learning Series
[BCcampus Indigenization Project]
[Indigenization] Professional Learning Series
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bruce Allan
Amy Perreault
John Chenoweth
Dianne Biin
Sharon Hobenshield … [et al.]
Description
Explores topics such as locating self and practice, Indigenous worldviews and pedagogies, ethical approach and relational protocols, colonization framework in Canada, and building an Indigenous practice.
Related material:
Foundations.
Guides for:
Leaders and Administrators.
Curr
Queer Desires and Destroyer Identities in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathleen Champlin
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 2, Summer, 2018, pp. 34-55
Description
Article seeks to disrupt the critical discussion surrounding Silko’s novel and the narratives it contains, asserting that the text demonstrates that mainstream culture forces people with divergent traits to choose between acceptance of their own difference and membership in the majority culture.
Questions of Privacy and Confidentiality after Atrocity: Collecting and Retaining Records of the Residential School System in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tricia Logan
Genocide Studies International, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. [92]-102
Description
Looks at the challenges accessing Canadian residential school records and how the decision to destroy certain survivor accounts regarding abuse in residential schools is a threat to the memory of cultural genocide in Canada.
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.
Rachel Robinson Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Rachel Robinson
Evelyn Sit
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview where she gives an account of a wolf killing the pet dog when she was a child.
Racism Experiences of Urban Indigenous Women in Ontario, Canada: “We All Have That Story That Will Break Your Heart”
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anita C Benoit
Jasmine Cotnam
Doe O'Brien-Teengs
Saara Green
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, June 18, 2019
Description
Mixed methods research study explores how Indigenous women in two Canadian urban centers experience racism. Findings indicate that participants experience racism in ways that can be classified as individual, collective or institutional, and cultural and rage from historical events to contemporary manifestations.
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.
"Re-Creation Stories": Re-Presencing, Re-Embodiment, and Repatriation Practices in Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's "How to Steal a Canoe"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brenda Vellino
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2018, pp. 129-152
Description
Article offers artistic/literary criticism of Simpson’s video poem; discusses new possibilities for human relationships with our more-than-human relations, and calls on settlers to take up “intergenerational responsibility” for settler colonial violence.
Reading Bodies, Writing Blackness: Anti-/Blackness and Nineteenth-Century Kanaka Maoli Literary Nationalism
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joyce Pualani Warren
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 2, [Rethinking Blackness and Indigeneity in the Light of Settler Colonial Theory], 2019, pp. 49-72
Description
Uses the writings of historical Hawaiian leaders to analyze how they embraced their blackness to challenge settler-colonial ideology that their perceived blackness made them unfit for sovereignty. Maoli literature used includes: Prince Alexander Liholiho, Samuel Kamakau, King Kalakaua, and Queen Lili‘uokalani.
Reading for Land Susan Hill's The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Audra Simpson
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 149-156
Description
Literary criticism article, discusses how in this narrative “the ethics of land” is the central focus of The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River; notes that this focus on land and ethics presents a different historical narrative than we are generally taught about Six Nations
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.