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Othering, Power Relations, and Indigenous Tourism: Experiences in Australia's Northern Territory
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katie Bresner
PlatForum, vol. 11, 2010, pp. 10-26
Description
Describes personal tourist experiences in Kakadu National Park, Alice Springs, and Ulura-Kata Tjuta National Park.
Paitarkiutenka: My Legacy to You (Book Review)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Meagan Gough
Oral History Review, vol. 37, no. 1, Winter/Spring, 2010, pp. 102-104
Description
Book Review of Paitarkiutenka: My Legacy to You by Frank "Miisaq" Andrew Sr.
Pan-Territorial Report: A Study of Women's Homelessness North of 60
Alternate Title
Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Judie Bobb
Rian van Bruggen
Shylah Elliott
Lyda Fuller
Mira Hache ... [et al.]
Description
Results of interviews or focus group sessions with 205 women (66 in the Northwest Territories, 66 in Yukon and 73 in Nunavut). Fifty-three percent were Inuit, 30 percent First Nations, 10 percent Caucasian, 5 percent Inuvialuit, 1 percent Métis, and 1 percent immigrant.
Chapter 4.5 of Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada edited by J. David Hulchanski, Phillippa Campsie, Shirley B.Y. Chau ... [et al.].
Patterson's Life; Black Hawk's Story; Native American Elegy
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Arnold Krupat
American Literary History, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 527-552
Description
Discussion on Black Hawk's autobiography, a national rather than a personal story of what it means to be a Sauk.
People From Our Side: A Life Story with Photographs and Oral Biography
E-Books
Author/Creator
Peter Pitseolak
Dorothy Harley Eber
The Perfect Recipe
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Chamisa Edmo
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 22, no. 1, Native Activism, Fall, 2010, p. 48
Description
Presents the short story, The Perfect Recipe, written by Chamisa Edmo.
A Photonarrative of Living with HIV: A Métis Woman's Experience
Graduate Research Projects & Papers
Author/Creator
José Pruden
Description
Applied Psychology Project (M.C.)--Athabasca University, 2010.
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Places Important to Navajo People
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Klara Kelley and Harris Francis
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 2, Spring, 1993, pp. 151-169
Description
Study conducted in 1986 & ‘87 interviews participants in 13 Navajo communities about spaces that are sacred or important to the people in those communities. Research was done to determine which sites should be the focus of the Navajo Nation’s Historic Preservation Department.
"Planting the Seeds of Revolution": An Interview with Poet Esther Belin (Diné)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeff Berglund
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 62-72
Description
Interview with a Navajo (Diné) poet who uses her writing as a tool for activism.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 62.
The Poetics of History: An Interview with Rebecca Belmore
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Robert Enright
Border Crossings, vol. 24, no. 3, August 2005, pp. 63-70
Description
Introductory biographical article followed by a interview conducted on June 8, 2005.
Powered by a Higher Power: A Conversation with HvnSent
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
HvsSent
Honey Dawn Karima Pettigrew
Whispering Wind, vol. 39, no. 4, Issue 272, September-October 2010, pp. 28-[?]
Description
Interview with singer Wesley Royce Stops also known as HvnSent.
Prescription Medicines Lead to Lives with Addictions
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jennifer Hansford
Windspeaker, vol. 27, no. 10, January 2010, p. 24
Description
Three Aboriginal people talk about their experiences with misusing prescription drugs.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.24.
Problems American Indian/Alaska Native Adult Patients Face When Attemting [sic] the Long Term Self Management of Their Type II Diabetes Disease Process
Alternate Title
Problems American Indian/Alaska Native Adult Patients Face When Attempting the Long Term Self Management of Their Type II Diabetes Disease Process
Theses
Author/Creator
Nicole Dawn Merchant
Description
Family Nurse Practitioner Thesis (M.N.)--Montana State University, 2010.
Profiles of Métis Elders
Alternate Title
Métis Perspectives and Traditional Health Knowledge Series
Documents & Presentations
Description
Highlights the profiles of 14 Métis Elders who are committed to protecting traditional health knowledge and healing practices.
Promoting From Within the Community: Employing Local Residents in Culture-Based Inner-City Family Services Organizations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jason Brown
Cheryl Fraehlich
Pimatisiwin, vol. 8, no. 3, Winter, 2010, pp. 85-101
Description
Studies the responses of forty-four staff members to the question "How did you get connected to the agency?"
A Puritan Woman's Perspective: The Captivity Narrative of Mary Rowlandson
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah Jane Andrews
Etudes Historiques, vol. 2, no. 1, 2010, pp. 1-21
Description
Looks at how the book A Narrative of Captivity, Sufferings, and Removes, of Mary Rowlandson gave Puritan women a voice in the early 1700's.
Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Igloolik Isuma Productions
Kunuk Cohn Productions
Zacharias Kunuk
Ian Mauro
Norman Cohn
Stéphane Rituit ... [et al.]
Description
Leaders, Elders and hunters speak about the social and ecological impact of warming in the Arctic. In Inuktitut with English subtitles.
Duration: 54:07.
QTC Final Report: Achieving Saimaqatigiingniq
Alternate Title
Qikiqtani Truth Commission Final Report: Achieving Saimaqatigiingniq
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Qikiqtani Truth Commission
Description
Commission was established to create a record of how government policies between 1950 and 1975 affected the Inuit living in the Baffin region. Report based testimonies and interviews, and archival research. Includes recommendations.
Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family
Alternate Title
Aboriginal History Monograph ; 20
E-Books
Author/Creator
Gordon Briscoe
Aboriginal History Monograph
Rainy River Lives: Stories Told by Maggie Wilson
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jennifer S. H. Brown
Collaborative Anthropologies, vol. 3, 2010, pp. 155-159
Description
Book review of: Rainy River Lives: Stories Told by Maggie Wilson compiled and edited by Sally Cole.
Re-Searching Métis Identity: My Métis Family Story
Theses
Author/Creator
Tara J. Turner
Description
Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2010.
Reading Guides: Three Day Road
Alternate Title
A Conversation with Joseph Boyden
Articles » General
Description
Introduction to Joseph Boyden's novel, and brief biography and interview with the author.
The Real Thing: Identity and Cultural Authenticity are Drama Fodder for William S. Yellow Robe Jr.
Articles » General
Author/Creator
David Rooks
William S. Yellow Robe
American Theatre, vol. 22, no. 6, July/August 2005, pp. 20-23, 80
Description
Interview with William S. Yellow Robe Jr., an Assiniboine playwright, who wrote Better-n-Indians, Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers and The Independence of Eddie Rose.
[Recensions/Book Reviews]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Élise Dubuc
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, Technologies Créatives / Creative Technologies, 2010, pp. 199-203
Description
Review of: Le Monde de Tivi Etok: La Vie et l'Art d'un Aîné Inuit by Joby Weetaluktuk and Robert Bryant.
Review in French.
The Reception of Indigenous Life Stories: The Case of The Days of Augusta
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Linda Warley
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 45-71
Description
Discussses the ethical, political, and aesthetic issues surrounding the narrative exchange and the writing and editing process of Indigenous life stories.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 45.
Reclamations of the 'Dis-Possessed': Narratives of Survivance by Indigenous Survivors of Canada's Residential Schools
Theses
Author/Creator
Sam Walker McKegney
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen's University, 2005.
Recommendations from Research Into What Aboriginal Students Say Affects Their Social and Emotional Wellbeing While at University
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Maree Toombs
Don Gorman
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 34, no. 6, November/December 2010, pp. 22-24
Description
Interviews with students from seven different universities revealed insight into what strategies could be implemented to make their experience at university more positive.
Reconstructing Australia’s Shameful Past: The Stolen Generations in Life-Writing, Fiction and Film
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Susan Barrett
Lignes, no. 2, 2005, pp. 1-13
Description
Discusses how Indigenous authors narrate personal experiences to document the removal of Aboriginal children from their parents.
[Red: A Haida Manga]
Alternate Title
[Robson Reading Series]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Michael Yahgulanaas
Description
Question and answer period with the artist who combines Haida artist conventions with Japanese animation and Chinese brush-painting techniques to tell traditional stories.
Duration: 46:15.
Red Circles, White Boxes: How Wolastoq Women Understand the Processes of Their Own Learning
Theses
Author/Creator
J. Leigh Gillis
Description
Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of New Bruswick, 2005.
Remember This! : Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives
Alternate Title
Contemporary Indigenous Issues
E-Books
Author/Creator
Waziyatawin Angela Wilson
Eli Taylor
Remembering the Storm: Indigenous People's Remembrances of Cyclone Tracy Explored Through the Medium of Radio Documentary
Theses
Author/Creator
Naomi Carolin
Description
Media Thesis (M.A.)--University of Adelaide, 2010.
Resilience: (A True Story With Some Fiction Mixed In)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lee Deranger
Critical Social Work, vol. 11, no. 1, Special Indigenous Issue, 2010, pp. 2-4
Description
A story of resiliency by a residential school survivor involving crosses disappearing then reappearing several decades later.
A Retrospective Study of School Success: Voices of Successful Aboriginal Professionals
Theses
Author/Creator
Jason Young
Description
Educational Administration Thesis ( M.Ed.) -- University of Saskatchewan, 2005.
The Return of the Native: Recent Scholarship in the Literature of Christianization and Contact
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Phillip H. Round
Early American Literature , vol. 40, no. 2, 2005, pp. 375-385
Description
Book reviews of seven books:
American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of
African-American and Native American Literatures by Joanne Brooks.
Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America by Kristina Bross.
The Eliot Tracts: With Letters from John Eliot to Thomas Thorowgood and Richard Baxter Edited by Michael Clark.
Les Sauvages Americains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature by Gordon Sayre.
The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility by Laura M.
Reunited We Stand
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jeela Palluq
Inuktitut, no. 95, Winter, 2005, pp. 37-45
Description
Recollections from the first high school reunion of former students of Gordon Robertson Education Center (GREC) in Iqaluit.
Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Bruce E. Johansen
Joshua Piker
H. Wolcott Toll
Benjamin R. Kracht
Andrew Denson
Jennifer L. L. Carroll
Michael H. Horn
Mark A. Nicholas
Mark Tveskov
Naomi R. Caldwell
Philip Heldrich
Dorothy A. Nason
Raymond Bucko
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 4, 2005, pp. 121-172
Description
Book reviews of:
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann.
American Indian Themes in Young Adult Literature by Paulette F. Molin.
Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family by Claudio Saunt.
Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society by Brian Fagan.
Cherokee Medicine Man: The Life and Work of a Modern-Day Healer by Robert J. Conley.
The Cherokee Nation: A History by Robert J.
Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Christine Gray
Tol Foster
Patricia Penn Hilden
Donald A. Grinde
D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark
Michael S. Nassaney
Amelia V. Katanski
Bradley J. Gills
Dorothy A. Nason
G. L. Worthington
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 3, 2005, pp. 125-178
Description
Book review of:
Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations by Charles Wilkinson.
Chinnubbie and the Owl: Muscogee (Creek) Stories, Orations and Traditions by Alexander Posey.
Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast by Michelene E. Pesantubbee.
A Colonial Complex: South Carolina’s Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War 1680–1730 by Steven J.
Revive Original Relationship With First Nations
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, September 2, 2005, p. A11
Description
Recollections of the past one hundred years of Aboriginal history on the eve of Saskatchewan's centennial.
[Roland Cotton's Interview on the Unique History of Blackfoot Dance]
Alternate Title
Blackfoot Digital Libary
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Roland Cotton
Description
Interview with Roland Cotton about different kinds of dances and Blackfoot traditions.
Duration: 59:55.
The Role of Inuit Languages in Nunavut Schooling: Nunavut Teachers Talk About Bilingual Education
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
M. Lynn Aylward
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 33, no. 2, Language, Identity, and Educational Policies, 2010, pp. 295-328
Description
Analysis of interview transcripts from 10 Nunavut teachers regarding the role of Inuit languages in Nunavut schooling.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 168: Special Consultation via telephone between Nick Schultz and Ross Gibson, Ottawa, Ontario
Alternate Title
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ross Gibson
Nick Schultz
Description
RCAP 168 contains a transcript of a telephone consultation between Counsel for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People, Nick Schultz and retired RCMP officer Ross Gibson who had been a witness to the relocation of Inuit to the High Arctic. The conversation focuses on the Gibson's recollection of events and their portrayal currently.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Rheeno Diabo, Shakotiia'Takehanes Community Services
Alternate Title
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rheeno Diabo
Description
The file contains a presentation by Rheeno Diabo, Shakottia Takehanes Community Services. Diabo, a Mohawk woman, discusses her experiences with post-trauma and other types of community social work, and the personal impact of working with people she knows. Roda Grey and Marlene Castalano discuss some of the issues raised with Diabo.
Rural Mental Health Crying Out For More Support
Articles » General
Author/Creator
National Rural Health Alliance Inc.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 29, no. 5, September/October 2005, p. 29
Description
Brief article advocates for more resources to be spent on mental health from 7% to 12%.
Sami School History 1
E-Books
Author/Creator
Henry Minde
Hans Lindkjølen
Edel Hætta Eriksen
Inger Seierstad
Svien Lund ... [et al.]
Description
Presents portions that are available in English.
The Scalping of the Great Sioux Nation: A Review of My Life on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Greg Gagnon
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 30, no. 2, 2010, pp. 418-419
Description
Book review of: The Scalping of the Great Sioux Nation by Philip E. Davis.
Schools as Protectorates: Stories Two Mi'kmaq Mothers Tell
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Debbie Pushor
Bill Murphy
Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, no. 114, December 2, 2010, pp. [25]-46
Description
Looks into the experiences of two mothers with their children's educators.
Setting Terms of Inclusion: Storytelling as a Narrative Technique and Theme in the Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Leslie Marmon Silko and Maxine Hong Kingston
Theses
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Ann McHenry
Description
English and Humanities Thesis--(Ph.D.) Stanford University, 1993.