Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Albert Braz
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 26, no. 2, 2001, pp. [91]-106
Description
Looks at a series of works by Rudy Wiebe by discussing the importance of a narrator.
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 Successful Aboriginal Health Worker: A Case Study
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Terrence Ritharrmiwuy Guyula
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 6, November-December 2001, pp. 3-6
Description
Autobiographical article of Aboriginal health worker in Northern Territory, Australia and how he has made a positive impact in his community.
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.
Only A Working Girl: The Story of Marie Joussaye Fotheringham
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carole Gerson
The Northern Review, no. 19, Special Klondike Issue, Winter, 1998, pp. 141-160
Description
Researches political activity and poetry.
The Only Real Indian is a Dead Indian: The Desire for Authenticity in James Welch’s The Death of Jim Loney
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ernest Stromberg
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1998, pp. 32-52
Description
Contends that although the novel is not overtly about the conflict the main character experiences between the outwardly imposed concept of "Indianess" and his search for his own personal identity, it does involve the parallel debates over the issue of authenticity in the greater community.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
"Onward ever, backward never": Student Life and Students' Lives at Haskell Institute, 1884-1920s
Theses
Author/Creator
Myriam Vuckovic
Description
American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, [2001]
"Open Containers": Sherman Alexie's Drunken Indians
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephen F. Evans
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1, Winter, 2001, pp. 46-72
Description
Illustrates that works by Sherman Alexie, both poems and stories, use stereotypical and conventional character types to construct a realistic literary document.
[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.
Oral Histories: [Personal Histories of Some Mi'kmaq People]
Alternate Title
Oral Histories: Personal Histories of Some Micmac People
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Kevin Sack
William G. Paul
Cecile Marr
Wilfred Prosper
Daniel J. Stevens
Annie Claire Googoo
Florence Dennis
Description
Elders of various Mi'kmaq communities share their stories and history.
"The Original in Ourselves": Native American Women Writers and the Construction on Indian Women's Identity
Theses
Author/Creator
Andrea Millenson Penner
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2001.
Other Narratives: Representations of History in Four Postcolonial Native American Novels
Theses
Author/Creator
Mubarak Rashed AL-Khaldi
Description
Looks at four novels: Tsali by Denton R. Bedford, Fools Crow by James Welch, Tracks by Louise Erdrich and Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 1998.
The Other Proletarians: Native American Literature and Class Struggle
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tim Libretti
MFS Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 47, no. 1, Spring, 2001, pp. 164-189
Description
Argues that the literature presents an anticapitalist perspective and looks at issues of work and alienation in the larger context of genocide by colonization.
Our Experience With Research
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shane John Merritt
Patricia King
John Wayne Parsons
Alison Cragie-Huggins
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 22, no. 6, November/December 1998, pp. 8-9
Description
Interview with several members of the workshop from the Centre of Indigenous Health Studies, Sydney (Australia) University describing how it changed their perceptions of research and what insights were gained.
"Our Mountains Are Our Pillows": An Ethnographic Overview of Glacier Nations Park
E-Books
Author/Creator
Brian Reeves
Sandy Peacock
Description
Focuses on the K'tunaxa and Piikáni, and draws on documentary research and consultation with Piikáni Elders.
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 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
Overturning the (New World) Order: Of Space, Time, Writing, and Prophecy in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Yvonne Reineke
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 3, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Almanac of the Dead, Fall, 1998, pp. 65-83
Description
Explores how the writer replaces the European linear thinking about time and replaces it with the indigenous viewpoint of circularity.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Paper Yabber: The Messenger and the Message
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rob Foster
Aboriginal History, vol. 22, 1998, pp. [105]-115
Description
Comments on a popular anecdote and the prejudice it portrays.
The Parents Have to Do Their Part: A Tohono O'odham Language Autobiography
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel Lopez
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, no. 132, 1998, pp. 43-45
Description
Comments from a bilingual teacher about his experiences and concerns.
The Path to the Milky Way Leads through Los Angeles
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joy Harjo
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, Special Issue on American Indians and the Urban Experience, 1998, p. 441
Description
Poem about how the city named for angels appears naked and stripped of anything resembling the shaking of turtle shells or the songs of human voices.
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.
Patterns of Physical Activity Among American Indian Children: An Assessment of Barriers and Support
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janice L. Thompson
Sally M. Davis
Joel Gittelsohn
Scott Going
Alberta Becenti ... [et al.]
Journal of Community Health, vol. 26, no. 6, December 2001, pp. 423-445
Description
Comments on a study to develop and test a school-based obesity prevention program in Native American schoolchildren in grades three through five.
Performing Pauline Johnson: Representations of "the Indian Poetess" in the Periodical Press, 1892-95
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Elizabeth Leighton
Essays on Canadian Writing, no. 65, 1998, pp. 141-164
Description
Discusses aspects of the works of Pauline Johnson that illustrate an interrelationship between issues of identity, Indigenous peoples and legislative amendments.
Permafrost
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Thaler
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 67-83
Description
Short story.
Placing the Ancestors: Postmodernism, "Realism", and American Indian Identity in James Welch's Winter in the Blood
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sean Teuton
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 4, Fall, September 1, 2001, pp. 626-650
Description
Discusses the recovery of Native American cultural identity by looking to the past as found in Welch's book.
The Plains Cree Grotowski
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Forsythe
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, 2001, pp. 355-366
Description
Reviews the creation of a theatre training methodology that uses the principles rooted in storytelling, sign language, pictographs and oral language.
Playing Indian: A Consideration of Children's Books by Native North Americans, 1900-1940
Theses
Author/Creator
Deirdre Marisa Kwiatek
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 1998.
Playing Indian: A Consideration of Children's Books by Native North Americans, 1900-1940
Theses
Author/Creator
Deirdre Marisa Kwiatek
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 1998. Explores Indigenous writings and collections; analysis of works including Mourning Dove, E-Yeh-Shure, Zitkala-Sa, Luther Standing Bear, Charles Eastman, Arthur Parker, Francis LaFlesche.
The Poetics of Self, Body and World: A Phenomenological Reinterpretation of B.C. Ethnography of Aboriginal Peoples
Theses
Author/Creator
J. Christine Elsey
Description
Sociological and Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Simon Fraser University, 2001.
Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Romy Shinn
Eric Gansworth
Jo Lynne Harline
Toni McNeilly
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 1, 1998, pp. 233-247
Description
Poetry which includes, "Blackwater Draw; 8,900 B.C.", "A Scorpion Danced in Mud", "A Southwestern Paleoindian Cuts a Blade Behind Yucca", "Mystic Powers (II)", "Iroquois Backboard Rebound Song(I)" and (II), and others.
Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roberta Hill
Karenne Wood
Colerus
Rawdon Tomlinson
Mike Catalano
Joan Wiese Johannes
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 25, no. 2, 2001, pp. 137-155
Description
Contains the poems: "Planting", "At Lame Deer, Montana", "Heat", "Mother’s Only Daughter", "Cicada", "Smoke Dancers", "Cactus Song", "Something Is Always Taking Us Away", "Amoroleck’s Words", "James Don Santiago Kirker, King of New Mexico: His Vision". "The Fish Dancers", "Gray Wolf", "On the Other Side", "Take It to the Cedar" and "Since Carving the Flute".
Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Cherríe Moraga
Renée Bartocquteh
Edward Henry
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 25, no. 4, 2001, pp. 99-107
Description
Contains the poems: "Map of My Homecoming", "Accented with Memories", "Galoni", "Tales in the Wind", "No Snow", and "Voices of the Stones".
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
Political Ramifications of Gender Complementarity for Women in Native American Literature
Theses
Author/Creator
Patrice Eunice Marie Hollrah
Description
Examines works by Zitkala-Ša, Silko, Erdrich, and Alexie.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2001.
The Politics of Children
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Drew Hayden Taylor
Windspeaker, vol. 18, no. 10, February 2001, p. 5
Description
Humorous look at the pitfalls involved when writing for children's educational television programming and explains how it differs from writing plays for the same audience.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.5.
Politics of Cursing: Imagining Human Difference in a BC Mining Town
Theses
Author/Creator
Leslie Anne Robertson
Description
Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 2001.
"The Poor Indians": Native Americans in Eighteenth-Century Missionary Writings
Theses
Author/Creator
Laura Marie Stevens
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 1998.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptomatology Among American Indian Vietnam Veterans: Mediators and Moderators of the Stress-Illness Relationship
Theses
Author/Creator
Catherine Lisle Dempsey
Description
Health and Behavioral Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Denver, 2001.
Postmodernism and the English-Canadian Meta-Narrative
Theses
Author/Creator
Kim S. Wilson
Description
English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alaska Anchorage, 1998.
Examines Disappearing Moon Café by SKY Lee, Away by Jan Urquhart and Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King.
Postmodernism, Native American Literature and the Real: The Silko-Erdrich Controversy
Alternate Title
Nothing But the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Susan Pérez Castillo
Description
Presents analysis of Silko's review of The Beet Queen by Erdrich.
Chapter in book: Nothing But the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature edited by John L. Purdy and James Ruppert.
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".
The Predicament of Identity
Alternate Title
Review Essay: The Predicament of Identity
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Liza Black
Ethnohistory, vol. 48, no. 1/2, Winter/Spring, 2001, pp. 337-350
Description
Review essay of:
Weaving Ourselves into the Land: Charles Godfrey Leland, "Indians" and the Study of Native American Religions by Thomas C. Parkhill.
Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated by Mike Gidley.
Imagining Indians in the Southwest: Persistent Visions of a Primitive Past by Leah Dilworth.
Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883-1933. by L. G. Moses.
Preface [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, Vol. 10, No.2, Summer, 1998]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chris LaLonde
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 2, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Louis Owens, Summer, 1998, pp. 1-5
Description
Introduction to the special issue on Louis Owens.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
The Princess and the Prostitute: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Representations of Native American Women
Theses
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Abigail Dillard Russell
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D)--Auburn University, 2001.