Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Linc Kesler
Larry Grant
Coll Thrush
Neil Safier
Shaunee Casavant
Nika Collison
Tirso Gonzaez
Sheryl Lightfoot
Description
Webcast of Global Encounters Initiative Symposium called Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame held at the University of British Columbia, March 4-6, 2010. Panel discussion begins at 36:41.
Duration: 2:24:18.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, 2000, pp. 23-48
Description
Attempts to describe structural patterns in Lakota calendar (lunar) system pictographic records and argues they are inherently more of a sacred text than actual historic texts.
Publication of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation aimed at residential school survivors. Contains letters, pictures, and articles including Healing Within the Circle by Gloria Durnmitt.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 34, no. 1, January/February 2010, pp. 30-35
Description
Presents a speech given at the Garma Festival of Traditional Culture in 2009 by singer, writer, director, Robyn Archer regarding the things she learned about indigenous Australian culture.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010, pp. 137-155
Description
Explores the writer's use of narrative inquiry, autoethnography, and Indigenous research paradigms to address her research on Indigenous spirituality and her journey with learning the Cree language.
'I Honored Him Until the End': Storytelling of Indigenous Female Caregivers and Care Providers Focused on Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias (ADOD)
Article explores the prevalence of content of the Indigenous-Australian people’s beliefs about little people. Findings show that many people believe in and encounter little people in contemporary contexts and that perceptions of their presence range from potentially frightening to seeing them as protectors of the land.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 96-106
Description
The author examines his life-work of community development and healing work in northern Aboriginal communities of Ontario in a reflective and narrative way.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 7, Promising Practices in Mental Health: Emerging Paradigms for Aboriginal Social Work Practices, November 2010, pp. 63-85
Description
Presents a study that looks at links between personal homelessness and intergenerational trauma through a series of interviews with Aboriginal men.
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Travelling Exhibition Program
Art Gallery of Alberta
Description
Lesson plans for elementary and secondary school students for exhibition featuring works by Blackfoot artists Kristy North Peigan, Smith Wright, and Lori Scalplock.Topics include survey of First Nations art in the twentieth century, introduction to Blackfoot history and culture, and artist interviews and biographies.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring, 2000, pp. 264-278
Description
Article details the contents of an interview conducted by Devon A. Mihesuah with Denise and Deborah Maloney-Pictou, the daughters of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, an American Indian Movement (AIM) activist and a Mi'kmaq-Canadian who was found murdered in 1976 on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The has been much speculation surrounding her death and in relation to the 1972-73 Takeover of Wounded Knee, FBI/AIM involvement, and the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 4, Winter, 2000, pp. 30-37
Description
Looks at research and collaboration between author and curator for an exhibition involving a stay in Cape Dorset working with the featured women artists.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 30.