American Indian Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, Winter, 2013, pp. 34-76
Description
Looks at the contributions and documented responses of Native American students to the institutional practices and the cultural guidelines introduced to them.
Explains the need for a theatre where youth could tell their stories and develop their skills and how this became a reality with the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 1, Spring, 2013, pp. 27-52
Description
Discusses how the author uses storytelling as a method of decolonization and for preserving culture.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 27.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 3, Fall, 2006, pp. 82-89
Description
Discusses the poetry within Blackfeet author James Welch's work Riding the Earthboy 40 as an influential American Indian literary work more than three decades after its publication.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 82.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 4, Animal Studies, Winter, 2013, pp. [11]-27
Description
Examines the significance of hunting scenes in D'arcy McNickle's The Surrounded and Gerald Vizenor's Interior Landscapes.
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Keynote speaker discusses the importance of knowing how to live off the land and the confidence these skills give you in other aspects of life.
Duration: 38:23.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1/2, Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Literature, Winter - Spring, 2006, pp. 153-165
Description
Memoir piece in which the author describes the process of learning Tuscarora as a child, relearning it as an adult, and the choices they continue to make around language use and cultural survivance.
Author of Green Grass, Running Water, and A Coyote Columbus Story, discusses his non-fiction book An Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, government policies and movements like Idle No More.
Duration: 48:17.
American Antiquity, vol. 78, no. 1, January 2013, pp. 3-23
Description
Looks at Tlingit oral accounts that reference the 850 year old fort at Glacier Bay to understand the history and environmental change during that period.
Towards Mauri Ora: Examining the Potential Relationship Between Indigenous-Centric Entrepreneurship Education and Maori Suicide Prevention in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Catherine Love
Keri Lawson-Te Aho
Shamia Shariff
Jan McPherson
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing - Te Mauri: Pimatisiwin, vol. 2, no. 2, September 2017, pp. 116-128
Description
Participants of the Ahikaa programme shared stories of hope and reported the programme as both life-changing and healing.
Author briefly describes how participating in University of British Columbia's Humanities 101 Community Programme has educated her about residential schools and their impact.
Looks at traditional foods programs in six culturally and geographically diverse American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Includes a recipe section.
Indian Review of World Literature in English, vol. 2, no. 1, January 2006, p. [?]
Description
Focuses on the trepidations of Native Women writers and their appreciation of the cultures and traditions of their People, including the role of mother earth, hunting and fishing traditions, the peoples and the wars, and the waters and fires.
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 89-108
Description
Author describes the intent and process of designing We Sing for Healing, a musical choose-your-own adventure text game that mimics traditional storytelling and teaching styles with the way that the circular or looping narrative encourages a player to listen, choose, and revisit as a game-play strategy.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 4, Winter, 2006, pp. 43-63
Description
Examines the translation of a legend from Dakota to English as a dynamic and complex process that extends beyond literal translation to understanding the context of both cultures and languages.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 43.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 3, Fall, 2006, pp. 67-81
Description
Argues that James Welch's novel The Death of Jim Loney presents a way to understand how genocide is represented as a catastrophic event and a recurrent condition and denial as a culturally specific response to trauma.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 67.