Looks at the significance of the Truth and Reconciliation report, the major findings and recommendations, and the potential impacts on government policy, First Nations, and Canadians as a result of this report.
Duration: 3:00:00
Website deals with the misappropriation of a Quileute legend by Stephanie Meyer, the author of the Twilight series.
Contains links to Quileute culture, twilight misconceptions, imaginary indians, and resources.
Information gathered from four individuals who attended the "A Window to Seeing the World Differently, National Symposium of Aboriginal Special Education". Objective was to explore possibilities for incorporating Aboriginal attitudes into the education of special needs children.
Film depicts the family’s progress from a proud Chiricahua Apache family of storytellers in Oklahoma to a multi-talented artistic family in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Duration: 32:17.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 2, Summer, 2010, pp. 1-21
Description
Looks at Choctaw mythology involving self-discovery and the false divisions between this world and the spirit world in Louis Owens’s The Sharpest Sight.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 29, no. 1/2, 2009, pp. 165-182
Description
Examines how storytelling in theater, by the representation of past and present, history and myth and through the performance of the rituals of sacrifice, can perform a humanistic healing act.
The author describes the concept of Transmotion and how it relates to Indigenous literatures, worldviews and systems of knowledge. Discusses how the concept became central to his work and scholarship.
Survivors of the Thomas Indian School in New York state and the Mohawk Institute (The Mush Hole) of southern Ontario relate their experiences.
Duration: 29:50.
Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 2009, pp. [24]-57
Description
Looks at the importance of Indigenous stories for children, raises issues with the process of sharing cultural stories from around the world, comments on trickster stories, and critiques the book Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest.
[A National Conversation among Aboriginal Canadians Living in the Cities]
[Canadian Public Opinion and the Policy Agenda]
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
[Indian Communication Arts (INCA)
First Nations University]
Paul Francis James
Geoffrey Prantau
Tina Pisuktie
Kenneth Chakasim
Collin Graham ... [et al.]
Description
In interviews, thirty-three individuals from across Canada discuss living in urban centres, identity, and contemporary issues they consider to be important.
Each interview is approximately 30 min. long.
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Paul Berger
Description
Comments on the findings from interviews with 74 Inuit adults regarding what they like about schooling and what they would like to see change.
Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 16, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 157-181
Description
Discusses the construction of two-spirit identities, and the theme of division in three contemporary narrative films, showing how they continue to mirror the ongoing legacy of settler colonialism.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 35, no. 1, 2015, pp. 83-100
Description
Describes how the Dene in the Northwest Territories uses storytelling to reaffirm their historical roots in relation to 3 significant historical events.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 27, no. 1, Spring, 2015, pp. 1-32
Description
Looks at recognition of life within human remains and objects through the writings of Heid Erdrich, LeAnne Howe, and Allison Adelle Hedge Coke in the context of the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 34, no. 2, 2009, pp. [5]-21
Description
Comments on an award winning novel by Jacques Poulin that tells the story of a writer who takes a road trip to look for his brother and to overcome his writer's block.
Podcast of interview with author about his book The Reason You Walk, the story of his father Tobasonakwut Kinew, and their relationship.
Duration: 17:49.