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.
A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
E. Brian Titley
"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.
[The Native American Renaissance: Literary Imagination and Achievement]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Geoff Hamilton
The American Indian Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 2, Spring, 2016, pp. 179-181
Description
Book review of: The Native American Renaissanceedited by Alan R. Velie and A. Robert Lee.
Native American Whalemen and the World: Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Edward D. Melillo
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 40, no. 1, 2016, pp. 218-220
Description
Book review of: Native American Whalemen and the World by Nancy Shoemaker.
Native Americans
Alternate Title
Native Americans Teacher Guide
Core Knowledge History and Geography
Core Knowledge Curriculum Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Rosie McCormick
Description
Five stories intended for use with Kindergarten students.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Guide.
Native Americans in Basal Reading Textbooks: Are There Enough?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Reyhner
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 26, no. 1, October 1986, pp. [14-22]
Description
Study surveyed a number of stories with Native American characters, how they are portrayed and extent of realism in stories.
[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 Women and Land: Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence by Stephanie J. Fitzgerald
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David J. Carlson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 2, Summer, 2016, pp. 109-113
Description
Book review of Native Women and Land by Stephanie J. Fitzgerald.
The Nature of the 'Gin': A Note on 'Whirlwinds in the Plain'
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
B. J. Dalton
Aboriginal History, vol. 10, no. 2, 1986, pp. 152-156
Description
Comments on the false inference made by the author of Whirlwinds in the Plain.
Navajo and Hopi Art in Arizona: Continuing Traditions
E-Books
Author/Creator
Rory O'Neill Schmitt
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.
The New People: Reading for Peoplehood in Métis Literatures
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Adese
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 4, Winter, 2016, pp. 53-79
Description
" ... this article proceeds by charting the valuable contribution of new shifts in the field of Métis studies to readings of Métis life stories ... "
Nga Reanga O Nga Tapuhi: Generations of Maori Nurses
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leonie Walker
Jill Clendon
Leanne Manson
Kerri Nuku
AlternNative, vol. 12, no. 4, 2016, pp. 356-368
Description
Looks at nurses and student nurses in Aotearoa New Zealand using the Kaupapa Máori methodology (Māori principles and values).
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.
Night Moves
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
John D. Kalb
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 3, Fall, 2016, pp. 119-122
Description
Book review of Night Moves by Richard Van Camp.
Niitsitapiisini: Our Way of Life: The Story of the Blackfoot People
Web Sites » Virtual Exhibits
Author/Creator
Glenbow Museum
Description
Virtual exhibition divided into six sections: how we lived with the buffalo; how we lived with the land; how we lived with other people; our world; and traditional stories.
Includes link to teacher toolkit.
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 .
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.
Not Primitive Enough to Be Considered Modern: Ethnographers, Editors, and the Indigenous Poets of the American Indian Magazine
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael P. Taylor
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 1, Spring, 2016, pp. 45-72
Description
Discusses works by Arthur C. Parker, E. Pauline Johnson, and Zitkala- Ša.
Numbers in American Indian Mythology
Alternate Title
Native American Leadership: Past, Present and Future
Native American Symposium; 11th, 2015
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Oksana Y. Danchevskaya
Description
Considers the meaning and significance of numbers between one and ten in Indigenous North American philosophies and beliefs.
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.
The Old People
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Eliana Ramage
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 3, no. 1, 2016, pp. 158-159
Description
Book review of: The Old People by A. J. Perry.
Old Song, Rough Music: The Shivoree Politics of Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jenna Hunnef
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 3, Fall, 2016, pp. 1-22
Description
Discusses the play's treatment of lawlessness and racial violence in Oklahoma prior to it achieving statehood as expressed in the ritual of the shivoree, which was used to show community disapproval of an inappropriate marriage.
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 Good Story, That One]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Anne Mai Yee Jansen
The American Indian Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 1, Winter, 2016, pp. 74-76
Description
Book review of: One Good Story, That One by Thomas King.
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.
Oskisihcikêwak / New Traditions in Cree Two -Spirit, Gay and Queer Narratives
Theses
Author/Creator
June Scudeler
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2016.
Our People's Stories
Alternate Title
Nobody Wants to Die. They Want the Pain to Stop: The Mushkegowuk Inquiry into Our Suicide Pandemic
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mushkegowuk Council
Description
Personal narratives gathered during a First Nations' inquiry into high number of suicides in Northern Ontario.
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 Time to Dance
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Celeste Pedri-Spade
The First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 11, no. 2, Special Issue: Sixties Scoop And Indigenous Child Welfare, 2016, pp. [43]-44
Description
A poem.
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.
Palliating Inside the Line: The Effects of Borders and Boundaries on Palliative Care in Rural Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melissa Giesbrecht
Valorie A. Crooks
Heather Castleden
Nadine Schuurman
Mark Skinner
Allison Williams
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 168, November 2016, pp. 273-282
Description
Examines the everyday lived experiences of those giving and receiving rural palliative care.
Pan- Maya and “Trans- Indigenous”: The Living Voice of the Chilam Balam in Victor Montejo and Leslie Marmon Silko
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Worley
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 1, Spring, 2016, pp. 1-20
Description
Analyzes the presence of prophetic books by Yucatec Mayan "Jaguar Prophet" in Oxlanh b'aqtun and Almanac of the Dead, both works by non-Yucatec Indigenous authors.
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.