Triptych Case Framing: Economics, Social-cultural and Political Frames
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Shalin Hai-Jew
[Alan Parker]
Description
Brief discussion of American legislation, tribal sovereignty, and financial, social, and ethical issues. Includes interview with Alan Walker, Commissioner with Washington State Gambling Commission.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2003, pp. 84-86
Description
Book review of: The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge edited by Wayne R. Kime.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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.
Interview with Daniel David Moses to discuss the historical drama that recounts the survival of an Ojibway community that fled across the Canadian Shield, in 1649, in order to escape the Iroquois. Some critics call the play a Shakespearean adaptation, but the author prefers to classify it as being "influenced by Shakespeare".
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.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue in Honor of Carter Revard], Spring, 2003, pp. [22]-25
Description
Interview with renowned poet Carter Revard, conducted at the Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 28, 1995.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 40, no. 2, 2003, pp. 75-83
Description
Discusses "The People Awakening Project", a University of Alaska Fairbanks project interested in sobriety and stories of personal suffering from alcohol abuse.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 27, no. 3, p. 33
Description
Aboriginal Liaison Officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in the Sydney (Australia) area recounts the circumstances which led to him occupying his current position.
This documentary reflects on Kainai (Blood tribe) history, governance, survival, and living culture as it explores the repatriation of artifacts from Europeans.
Duration: 1:9:39.
Listening to First Nations Women’s Expressions of Heart Health: ‘mite achimowin’ Digital Storytelling
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine
Sarah Wood
Lisa Forbes
Annette S. H. Schultz
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Article examines a digital storytelling study which collaborated with First Nations (FN) Women in Manitoba to discuss many of the issues surrounding heart health management including: the relationship between FN and Western Medical knowledges, diet and lifestyle, related health conditions, experiences with healthcare system, residential schools, and relationships with children and grandchildren.
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 14, no. 2, Growing Roots of Indigenous Wellbeing, October 2019, pp. 276-292
Description
Author discusses their own experience as a kidney donor and with supporting family and community members with Chronic Kidney Disease, and how the experiences helped to shape their feelings about relational research.
The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative. Pt. 4
[2003 CBC Massey Lectures]
[Ideas with Paul Kennedy]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Thomas King
Description
In speech, noted author discusses Louis Owens' I Hear the Train, M. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, Robert Alexie's Porcupines and China Dolls, and the works of other contemporary Native writers. To listen to this audio, scroll down to Part 4.
Duration: 54:22.
Journal of Indigenous Research, vol. 7, no. 1, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women , 2019, p. Article 2
Description
Profiles activities of two post-secondary students. The discussion includes motivations, tactics and what can be learned by other Indigenous student activists.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 26, no. 2, The Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health’s Partnership River of Life, 2019, pp. 172-176
Description
In this editorial article the author discusses Indigenous rights and Indigenous resistance to colonization and considers the other articles in this journal issue in the context of resistance and sovereignty.
BC Studies , no. 200, 50th Anniversary, Winter, 2019, pp. 19-26
Description
Armstrong gives her personal account of the Indigenous rights movements that took place in British Columbia and across Canada, connecting the events and attitudes of the time to the larger Civil Rights Movement taking place across the continent and to other contemporary social/cultural shifts.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 1-30
Description
Author examines the #IndigenousReads campaign, considering it as a case study of reconciliatory gestures made by the Canadian Government; points out that reconciliation projects rely too heavily on the work of Indigenous writers and scholars, and fail to build cross-cultural relationships.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 31, no. 1, The New Information Age, Spring-Summer, Aug 11, 2019
Description
Interview with the founding editor of Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education; Boyer reflects on the journal and on the new challenges that tribal communities face in the new information age.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, June 18, 2019
Description
Mixed methods research study explores how Indigenous women in two Canadian urban centers experience racism. Findings indicate that participants experience racism in ways that can be classified as individual, collective or institutional, and cultural and rage from historical events to contemporary manifestations.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 429-432
Description
Using an example in which she challenged a newspaper story claiming that that there was no written Lakota language the author talks about the way that Indigenous people are often not considered to be knowledgeable about their own languages and cultures in the academy.
Argues that the relationality of Indigenous and non-Indigenous constituencies within the postcolonial nation in Australia has always been mediated by the discourse of race.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
Entire book on one pdf. To access paper, scroll to p. 75.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 2, [Rethinking Blackness and Indigeneity in the Light of Settler Colonial Theory], 2019, pp. 49-72
Description
Uses the writings of historical Hawaiian leaders to analyze how they embraced their blackness to challenge settler-colonial ideology that their perceived blackness made them unfit for sovereignty. Maoli literature used includes: Prince Alexander Liholiho, Samuel Kamakau, King Kalakaua, and Queen Lili‘uokalani.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Architecture Paléoesquimaude / Palaeoeskimo Architecture, 2003, pp. 549-552
Description
Review of: Saqiyuq, Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women by Nancy Wachowich, in collaboration with Apphia Agalakti Awa, Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak, and Sandra Pikujak Katsak.
A comprehensive report on the participatory research project funded by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG, MMIW) facilitated through the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC). Project engaged 113 Indigenous and 15 non-Indigenous women drawing on their experience and expertise as survivors of gendered colonial violence.
Circle of Goods: Women, Work, and Welfare in a Reservation Community
SUNY Series in Anthropological Studies of Contemporary Issues
SUNY Series in Anthropology of Work
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Tressa Berman
Description
Looks at women's role to maintain economy and culture of reservation life.
Chapter one from, Circle of Goods: Women, Work, and Welfare in a Reservation Community by Tressa Berman.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 38, no. 1, 2003, pp. 116-134
Description
Discusses successful writing project of grade five students in Winnipeg who collaborated with parents to write about the parent's life experiences in a positive way.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 2, [Rethinking Blackness and Indigeneity in the Light of Settler Colonial Theory], 2019, pp. 135-156
Description
The authors suggest that a coalition of different methodologies can be used to unify Black and Indigenous colonial experiences regarding land. The coalition provide the opportunity to connect both experiences as they overlap and diverge from another.