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.
Original Sin, or, The Last of the First Ancestors: Michael Crummey's River Thieves
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cynthia Sugars
English Studies in Canada, vol. 31, no. 4, December 2005, pp. 147-175
Description
Looks at a novel about the massacre of the Beothuk First Nations in Newfoundland
Os-sa-pah-chi-kan / Shapeshifting in the Matrices
Articles » General
Author/Creator
James Nicholas
ConunDrumOnline, vol. 2, September 2005, p. [?]
Description
Introduces shamans and shamanism followed by the first of a series of eight short stories.
The Other Side of the Story: The Importance of James Welch’s Fools Crow Novel
Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 5th, 2003
Native Being -- Being Native: Identity and Difference : Proceedings of the Fifth Native American Symposium
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Patricia DiMond
Description
Discusses the realistic portrayal of Native American life and culture during the period of initial westward expansion.
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 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.
Oyate Resource List
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Oyate
Description
Annotated bibliography of books suitable for teaching various grade levels. Current as of 2005.
Part of the Land, Part of the Water: A History of the Yukon Indians
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
William R. Morrison
Arctic , vol. 41, no. 3, September 1988, pp. 241-242
Description
Book review of: Part of the Land, Part of the Water by Catharine McClellan.
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.
Paved Trails: Crip Poetics as an Approach Towards Decolonizing Accessibility
Theses
Author/Creator
Aimee Louw
Description
Media Studies Thesis (MA) -- Concordia University, 2019
Pedagogical Gothic: Education and National Identity in Early American Sensational Fiction, 1790-1830
Theses
Author/Creator
Alison Tracy Hale
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2005.
The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction
Alternate Title
Indigenous Americas
E-Books
Author/Creator
Robert Warrior
Permafrost
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Thaler
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 67-83
Description
Short story.
Phenomenological Research Among Canadian and United States Indigenous Populations: Oral Tradition and Quintessence of Time
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roxanne Struthers
Cynthia Peden-McAlpine
Qualitative Health Research, vol. 15, no. 9, 2005, pp. 1264-1276
Description
Argues that there is a link between phenomenology, the study of structures of consciousness, and Indigenous oral traditions.
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.
"Planting the Seeds of Revolution": An Interview with Poet Esther Belin (Diné)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeff Berglund
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 62-72
Description
Interview with a Navajo (Diné) poet who uses her writing as a tool for activism.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 62.
Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Nancy Cooper
Atlantis, vol. 29, no. 2, [Indigenous Women: The State of Our Nations], 2005, pp. 151-152
Description
Book review of: Pocahontas by Paula Gunn Allen.
The Poetics of History: An Interview with Rebecca Belmore
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Robert Enright
Border Crossings, vol. 24, no. 3, August 2005, pp. 63-70
Description
Introductory biographical article followed by a interview conducted on June 8, 2005.
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 [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.
Postcolonial Imagination and Postcolonial Theory: Indigenous Canadian and Australian Literature Fighting for (Postcolonial) Space
Alternate Title
Theory and Practice in English Studies 4 (2005): Proceedings from the Eighth Conference of British, American and Canadian Studies
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Iva Polak
Description
Discusses the term "postcolonial literature" when applied to Indigenous writing in Canada and Australia.
Postindian Survivance and the Trickster Condition of In-Betweenness: Reading Sherman Alexie and Gerald Vizenor in the World of Postmodernism
Theses
Author/Creator
Manuela Ruxandra Rădulescu
Description
English Thesis (M.A.)--Emporia State University, 2005.
Poverty, Racism Obstacles Overcome
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Deirdre Tombs
Windspeaker, vol. 23, no. 2, May 2005, p. 19
Description
Focuses on the achievements of Emma LaRocque, a winner of the National Aboriginal Achievement Award in the education category, and describes how she overcame many obstacles to achieve her goals.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.33.
The Power of Story
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sam Gill
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, 1988, pp. 69-84
Description
Author of Mother Earth responds to a review done by Ward Churchill of his work.
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".
Premonition
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Foerster
Atlantis, vol. 29, no. 2, [Indigenous Women: The State of Our Nations], 2005, pp. 93-95
Description
Presents a poem.
Primitive Echoes: The Capturing and Conjuring of Native American Music
Theses
Author/Creator
Christopher R. Geyer
Description
Folklore and Ethnomusicology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2005.
Profiles of Métis Elders
Alternate Title
Métis Perspectives and Traditional Health Knowledge Series
Documents & Presentations
Description
Highlights the profiles of 14 Métis Elders who are committed to protecting traditional health knowledge and healing practices.
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.
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.
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 America: Ortiz's After and Before the Lightning
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robin Riley Fast
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 3, Fall, 2005, pp. 27-47
Description
Places the writing and issues in the context of mental, physical and historical challenges of colonization and the effects on individuals and entire commmunities.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 27.
(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-Constructing the Colonizer: Self-representation by First Nations Artists
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shandra Spears
Atlantis, vol. 29, no. 2, [Indigenous Women: The State of Our Nations], 2005, pp. 1-18
Description
Examines how women artists resist the colonial perspective to produce social change in educational ways.
Re-Imagining the Contact Zone: Ethnic Theory and the Friction of Clarence Major, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ana Castillo, and Gerald Vizenor
Theses
Author/Creator
Benjamin D. Carson
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska, 2005.
Reading Beyond Words: Contexts For Native History
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Roger Carpenter
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 35, no. 4, Winter, 2005, pp. 754-756
Description
Book review of: Reading Beyond Words: Contexts for Native History edited by Jennifer S. H. Brown and Elizabeth Vibert.
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.