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.
Orality & Literacy: Reflections Across Disciplines
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Peter Cole
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, 2012, pp. 213-214
Description
Book review of: Orality & Literacy edited by Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, Natalia Khanenko-Friesen.
[The Orders of the Dreamed: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Olive Dickason
Native Studies Review, vol. 21, no. 2, Special Issue, 2012, pp. 129-131
Description
Book review of: The Orders of the Dreamed by Jennifer S. H. Brown and Robert Brightman.
"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.
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 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 Stories: How We Became Doctors
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Evan Adams
Marci Anderson-DeCoteau
Cheryl Barnabe
Judith G. Bartlett
Nadine Caron
Nichelle Desilets
Thomas Dignan
Michael Dumont
Peter Eppinga
Latisha Hewton-Backfat
Karen Hill
Darlene Kitty
Alika Lafontaine
Barry Lavallee
Rose Lesner
James Makokis
David Marsh
Veronica McKinney
Lisa Monkman
Janet Smylie
Denis Wardman
Sarah Williams
Jay Wortman
Description
Brief personal narratives of 23 physicians practicing across Canada.
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
Out in the Cold: Rebecca Belmore on Blankets and Aboriginal History
Alternate Title
Out in the Cold: An Interview With Rebecca Belmore
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lee-Ann Martin
Rebecca Belmore
Canadian Art, vol. 29, no. 1, Spring, 2012, pp. 78-81
Description
In interview, artist discusses the theme of freezing in performance pieces such as The Indian Factory, Artifact 671B, and blood on the snow.
The Outsiders in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature: C.D. Payne's and Sherman Alexie's Heros in Pursuit of Ethnic Identity
Theses
Author/Creator
Viktória Collier
Description
English Language and Literature Thesis (M.A.)--Masaryk University, 2012.
Patricia Grace's Potiki: A Case Study for the Adaptability of Postcolonial Theory to Indigenous Literature
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Karim Abuawad
The Word Hoard, vol. 1, no. 1, Community and Dissent, June 2012, pp. 81-89
Description
Analyses the novel Potiki, the story of a family living in a Maori community that is facing corporate land development.
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.
The Pedagogy of Translation: Learning From Innu Activist Elizabeth Penashue's Diaries
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Yeoman
Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, 2012, pp. 36-69
Description
Looks at translating, editing and illustrating the diaries and preparing them for publication for various audiences.
[People of the Middle Fraser Canyon: An Archaeological History]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Stanley A. Copp
Native Studies Review, vol. 21, no. 1, 2012, pp. 151-152
Description
Book review of: People of the Middle Fraser Canyon by Anna Marie Prentiss and Ian Kuijt.
The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Melanie Benson Taylor
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, Winter, 2012, pp. 105-107
Description
Book review of: The People Who Stayed edited by Geary Hobson, Janet McAdams, Kathryn Walkiewicz.
Permafrost
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Thaler
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 67-83
Description
Short story.
A Personal Struggle to Preserve Sugpiaq Language and Culture in the 21st Century
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sally Ash
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, Special Issue of Indigenous Policy: Anthropology, Archaeology and Litigation - Alaska Style, Spring, 2012, pp. 1-3
Description
Comments on the Exxon Valdez oil spill, a village school, and language preservation.
The Pipe at the Post: An Examination of Municipal-First Nation Collaborative Intergovernmental Bodies
Theses
Author/Creator
Megan Gayda
Description
Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--Wilfrid Laurier University, 2012.
Case study of Serpent River First Nation and the City of Elliot Lake.
Placing Joseph Bruchac: Native Literary Networks and Cultural Transmission in the Contemporary Northeast
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christine M. Delucia
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 24, no. 3, 2012, pp. 71-96
Description
Looks at the contributions made by Bruchac to the small-press publishing industry.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 71.
Placing Knowledge as Resurgence
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Damien Lee
InTensions , no. 6, The Resurgence of Indigenous Womens Knowledge and Resistance in Relation to Land and Territoriality, Fall/Winter, 2012, pp. 1-27
Description
Looks at decolonization by renewing relationships with place and Indigenous knowledge.
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.
The Pleiades and the Dreamtime: An Aboriginal Women's Story and Other Ancient World Traditions
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Antonella Riem Natale
Coolabah, vol. 9, 2012, pp. 113-127
Description
Examines symbolic and archetypal features of stories.
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
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.
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, 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.
[The Power of Place, The Problem of Time: Aboriginal Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Christine Elsey
Native Studies Review, vol. 21, no. 1, 2012, pp. 160-161
Description
Book review of: The Power of Place, The Problem of Time by Keith Thor Carlson.
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.
Primary Elements of American Indian Spirituality
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Thomas J. Hoffman
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, Proceedings of the 2011 Western Social Science Association American Indian Studies Section, Fall, 2012, pp. 1-8
Description
Comments on each of the six elements; land, relationships with living things, family, healing, ceremony and storytelling.
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.
[Priscilla Settee]
Alternate Title
TEDx Talks : U of S (University of Saskatchewan)
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Priscilla Settee
Description
Priscilla Settee talks about her book, Strength of Women: Ahkamlyimowak. A collection of powerful stories about the resilience of women.
Duration: 17:20.
Profile of Substance Use and Perspectives on Substance Use Pathways Among Incarcerated Aboriginal Women
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chantal Plourde
Annie Gendron
Natacha Brunelle
Pimatisiwin, vol. 10, no. 1, Summer, 2012, pp. 83-95
Description
Looks at the results of interviews with thirty-nine women and discusses their history of use with psychoactive substances.
Protecting Creation: The Twilight Series, Creation Stories, and the Conversion of Intangible Cultural Property
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Leidy
Southwestern Law Review, vol. 41, no. 3, Spring, 2012, pp. 509-532
Description
Discusses the unauthorized use of the the Quileute Tribe name and creation story in the movie and the lack of copyright protection for creation stories.
Protecting Ingenious Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Nerida Blair
Indigenous Law Bulletin, vol. 8, no. 15, 2001, p. [?]
Description
Book review of: Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage by Marie Battiste and James (Sa'Ke'j) Youngblood Henderson.
Puaxant Tuvip: Powerlands Southern Paiute Cultural Landscapes and Pilgrimage Trails
Theses
Author/Creator
Kathleen A. Van Vlack
Description
American Indian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2012.
Puritan Daughters and "Wild" Indians: Elizabeth Oakes Smith's Narratives of Domestic Captivity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Caroline M. Woidat
Legacy, vol. 18, no. 1, 2001, pp. 21-34
Description
Examines how Smith's novels have reversed the imagery of captivitiy narratives.
Putting on "the Helmet of Salvation" and Wielding "the Sword of the Spirit": Joseph Johnson, Moses Paul, and the Word of God
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Leblanc
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 24, no. 3, Fall, 2012, pp. 26-52
Description
Looks at the sermon delivered at the execution of Moses Paul.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 26.