Based on papers presented at the conference: The West and Beyond : Historians Past, Present and Future, held at the University of Alberta, 19–21 June, 2008.
Report, based on five years of research into missing and murdered Aboriginal females in Canada, explores circumstances, root causes and trends of violence, numbers of missing/murdered women, and questions why this is occurring.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 22, no. 1, Native Activism, Fall, 2010, pp. 46-47
Description
Presents the short story, Where Are We Going by Brian Sloan, that discusses the viewpoint that each generation seems to be moving further away from nature.
Kevin Loring discusses the evolution of his play, which was featured at the National Arts Centre's English Theatre. Play focuses on the effects of residential schools.
Duration: 28:11.
Book review of: Whiskey Bullets by Garry Gottfriedson. The book has a stereotypical cover, but is intended as a tribute to First Nation and Metis cowboys who herd, observe council politics, lecture on alternate histories, speak of love and write poetry.
To access this review, scroll to page 157.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 2, Our Story, Our Way, Winter, 2007
Description
Describes stories told to the author by her mother and father in Diné and English and comments on the necessity of preserving both languages and stories.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 2, Summer, 2007, pp. 83-103
Description
Contends that humorist Will Rogers, who was a member of the Cherokee Nation, was appropriated and mainstreamed as a mythic American figure and consequently has been denied a prominent place in Native American literary history.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 83.
British Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, May 2007, pp. 168-169
Description
Two Book reviews: Will the Circle be Unbroken? by J. Dickson-Gilmore and C. La Prairie.
First and Other Nations edited by M. Shackleton and V. Supinen.
Mrs. Trudeau talks about being adopted and the schooling she received as a child. Mr. Trudeau talks about growing up on the farm, and later working in the lumber and fishing industries. Interpreter : Ernest Debassigae ; transcriber : Joanne Greenwood.
William and Helen Trudeau discuss the traditional ways of gathering, preserving and storing food. They also talk about the origins of some traditional stories. Interpreter : E. Debassigae ; transcribed by J. Greenwood.
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, Proceedings of the 2010 Western Social Science Association American Indian Studies Section, Summer, 2010, pp. 1-6
Description
Comments on the objections to use artificial snow made from reclaimed treated sewage water, due to the sacred nature of the peaks.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 103-120
Description
Argues that there is a turning away from Western theories that have often been used to determine the social, psychological or cultural meanings of Indigenous literature from the outside.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 103.
Mosaic : A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol. 40, no. 3, September 2007, pp. 123-137
Description
Argues that Thomas King draws on connections between orality, mother tongue and maternity, and between written language and paternity; also notes that King writes to encourage readers to question what they "think they know about history" and to consider whose history is being questioned.
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 144, Theatre in an Age of Eco-Crisis, Fall, 2010, pp. 42-47
Description
Interview in which the artist discusses the development of her kinetic performance sculpture which won the “Best Western Entry” in the Calgary Stampede parade.
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2010, pp. 37-50
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Comments on the usefulness of applying yarning as a research method for the gathering of data in Indigenous research using results from an Indigenous group in Australia and and in Botswana.
Video includes a compilation of conversations on the strength and resilience of Métis peoples in the context of the residential school experience and its after-effects.
Duration: 9:54.
Theatre Research in Canada, vol. 31, no. 2, 2010, pp. 182-192
Description
Discusses the adaptation of the Clements' play regarding the hybrid character representing First Nations women and fulfills the role of mythological prophet.