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Author/Creator
David Groulx
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 161-167
Description
Poetry, excerpt from Always a Broken Sleep: in the days I was known as Papillon.
Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream
Alternate Title
[North American Indian Thought and Culture]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Greg Sarris
"Mami To Nit Hi Tam O Win": "Reminiscing"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Juanita Linklater
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, 2017, pp. 237-239
Description
Poem translated into Woods Cree.
Māori as "Warriors" and "Locals" in the Private Military Industry
Alternate Title
Maori as "Warriors" and "Locals" in the Private Military Industry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Maria Bargh
Quentin Whanau
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 102-117
Description
Comments on how Māori are not predominantly seen and do not predominantly speak about themselves as "warriors".
Māori Nurses' Experiences of the Nursing Entry to Practice Transition Programme
Alternate Title
Maori Nurses' Experiences of the Nursing Entry to Practice Transition Programme
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donna Foxall
Rachel Forrest
Salome Meyer
AlterNative, vol. 13, no. 4, December 2017, pp. 246-255
Description
Discusses themes which emerged under work environment and experiences in the program categories.
Marketing Desire: The "Normative/Other" Male Body and the "Pure" White Female Body on the Cover Art of Cassie Edwards' Savage Dream (1990), Savage Persuasion (1991), and Savage Mists (1992)
Theses
Author/Creator
Victoria Lessard
Description
Art History Thesis (MA) -- McGill University, 2017.
Mary TallMountain's Writing: Healing the Heart--Going Home
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gabrielle Welford
ARIEL, vol. 25, no. 1, [Critical Visions: Contemporary North American Native Writing], January 1994, pp. 136-154
Description
Discusses the author's writing as a way of going home and reclaiming her ancestry, her family and her homeland.
The Meaning of Written English: A Place to Dream as One Pleases
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reid Gómez
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 93-114
Description
Compares two different editions of Emerson Blackhorse Mitchell’s book Miracle Hill: The Story of a Navajo Boy (1967 and 2004) and discusses how the readers' perceptions of the same text can be influenced by introductions and forewords.
Medicine Lines: The Doctoring of Story and Self
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marie Annharte Baker
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, Racism and Gender, Spring, 1994, p. 114
Description
Author discusses the influence of oral traditions, storytelling, and the "grandmother's voice" on her work, with emphasis on characters Coyote Girl and Rat Lady in the play Albeit Aboriginal.
Medicine River
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Marybeth Westman
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 14, no. 4, Women of the North, Fall, 1994, pp. 115-116
Description
Book review of: Medicine River by Thomas King.
Medicine through Comics: Wheels Are Turning on the Road to Healing: Native Americans through the Lens of Francophone Graphic Novels
Theses
Author/Creator
Nathalie Bleser
Description
Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of New Mexico, 2017.
Medicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care
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.
Memories and Moments: Conversations and Re-collections: Report to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Life History Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tammy Anderson Blumhagen
Description
Reminiscences of relatives, friends and acquaintances of Louisa Anderson, a Tsimshian Elder from Hartley Bay, British Columbia. Supplemented by contextual information.
"A Menace Among the Words": Women in the Novels of N.
Scott Momaday
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathleen Donovan
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 4, Series 2. Critical Approaches, Winter, 1994, pp. 51-76
Description
Looks at how the negative representations of women in N. Scott Momaday’s novels demonstrates a lack of harmony and balance, and an underlying of dislike, or mistrust of women.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
[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.
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.
Modern Poetry in the Classroom: Hands, Feet, and Soul: Linda Hogan's "The Truth Is"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
T. J. Arant
English Journal, vol. 83, no. 3, March 1994, pp. 100-101
Description
Poem and analysis of a Chickasaw author.
Morphological Analysis of the Story, Ne'e Thiyoriwa Ne'Yah Nonwa Onen Teshatahsehs Ne Ohkwari'
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sue-Ann McGeragle
Totem, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring, 1994, pp. 68-74
Description
Analyzes the story, How the Bear Lost Its Tail, to show the textual arrangement of written Mohawk.
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.
Mutuka Nyakunytja - Seeing a Motorcar: A Pitjantjatjara Text, Jacky Tjupurulu Wangkanytja
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jacky Tjupuru
Aboriginal History, vol. 18, 1994, pp. 145-158
Description
Presents the story of a young man seeing a car for the first time.
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.
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 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 Writers of Canada: A Photographic Portrait of 12 Contemporary Authors
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas King
Greg Staats
Books in Canada, vol. 23, no. 5, Summer, 1994, pp. 12-18
Description
Illustrates the authors in black and white drawings.
Navajo Poetry in a Changing World: What the Diné Can
Teach Us
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Zolbrod
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 4, Series 2. Critical Approaches, Winter, 1994, pp. 77-93
Description
Looks at how Navajo poetry integrative themes and poetic practices can be used to help us to look at ancient classics. The article also finds, in American Indian novels, what is missing in contemporary Western culture for true cultural and environmental restoration to take place.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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.
Night Village and the Coming of Men of the Word: The Supernatural as a Source of Meaning among Coastal Saami
Alternate Title
Night Village and the Coming of Men of the Word: The Supernatural as a Source of Meaning among Coastal Sami
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Paine
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 107, no. 425, Summer, 1994, pp. 343-363
Description
Discusses a village situated between the nomadic culture of the interior and Norwegian culture of the coast and effects living on that boundary has had on beliefs about supernatural beings.
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.
Nothing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Linda Hogan
Callaloo, vol. 17, no. 1, Native America Literatures, Winter, 1994, p. 24
Description
Poem titled Nothing by Linda Hogan. This poem was originally published in The Book of Medicines.
"Nothing But the Truth": Discursive Transparency in Beatrice Culleton
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Helen Hoy
ARIEL, vol. 25, no. 1, [Critical Visions: Contemporary North American Native Writing], January 1994, pp. 155-184
Description
Book review of In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Culleton.
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.
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 with the Watershed: A Story-based Curriculum for Primary Environmental Education
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tom Heidlebaugh
Description
Uses traditional stories about the Salmon people as a starting point to talk about environmental health and caretaking.
"A Salmon Homecoming Production."
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.