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.
Our Women and Girls Are Sacred: Interim Report: The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
E-Books
Author/Creator
Marion Buller
Michèle Audette
Brian Eyolfson
Qajaq Robinson
Outsourcing Reconciliation: The Government of Canada's #IndigenousReads Campaign and the Appropriation of Indigenous Intellectual Labor
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pauline Wakeham
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.
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.].
Participatory Action Research: Exploring Indigenous Youth Perspectives and Experiences
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Suzanne L. Stewart
Yellowknife Dene
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, Fall, 2009
Description
Looks at data from a participatory action research project to identify and analyze current and future ethical needs associated with conducting psychological research with Aboriginal youth.
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.
Paul Boyer on the New Information Age
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bradley Shreve
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.
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.
Photo Vignette – Whale Watching, Salish Style
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lee Maracle
BC Studies , no. 200, 50th Anniversary, Winter, 2019, pp. 27-29
Description
Author shares a personal story as a means of teaching about cross-cultural relationships.
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.
Please Note: Must be viewed in Firefox browser.
[Portraits by Aboriginal Artists: Jeff Thomas]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Jeff Thomas
Description
Talk by photographer given in conjunction with the exhibition Steeling the Gaze. Transcript also available.
Duration: 56:11.
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.
A Practical Guide to Photovoice: Sharing Pictures, Telling Stories and Changing Communities
Alternate Title
(Project) Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence ; no. 157
E-Books
Author/Creator
Beverly Palibroda
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.
Pro-Choice
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Alf H. Walle
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 1, A Celebration of Pacific Culture, Spring, 2009
Description
Discussion of economic development, including tourism, and tribal management at a seminar held at Point Hope, Alaska.
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.
Productive Dissonance: Classical Music in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah Wylie Krotz
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 34, no. 1, 2009, pp. [182]-203
Description
Discusses how the centrality of classical music, both structurally and thematically, provides an index of the challenges of transculturation.
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.
Q and A: Richard Wagamese on Being Homeless
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jeremy Klaszus
Richard Wagamese
Fast Forward Weekly, July 16, 2009, p. [?]
Description
Interview with the Ojibway columnist / novelist about his autobiographical work One Native Life.
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
Racism Experiences of Urban Indigenous Women in Ontario, Canada: “We All Have That Story That Will Break Your Heart”
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anita C Benoit
Jasmine Cotnam
Doe O'Brien-Teengs
Saara Green
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.
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.
[Re]Weaving the Fabric of Kinship: An Analysis of the Role of Names in the Narration of Family History
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Stephanie Danyluk
Description
Field school paper which discusses the family history of the Aleck family of Cheam Reserve in Stó:lō Territory.
Reading Acts of Narrative Appropriation: Four Instances of Fraudulent Memoir
Theses
Author/Creator
Amber Laine Baillie
Description
English Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen Mary, University of London, 2009.
Reading Bodies, Writing Blackness: Anti-/Blackness and Nineteenth-Century Kanaka Maoli Literary Nationalism
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joyce Pualani Warren
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.
Reading for Reconciliation? Indigenous Literatures in a Post-TRC Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aubrey Jean Hanson
English Studies in Canada, vol. 43, no. 2-3, Special Issue: Transition, June/September 2017, pp. 69-90
Description
Also available Open Access here.
Article examines the ways in which Indigenous writers and scholars interrogate the framework of Reconciliation by creating a narrative of resurgence. Author additionally argues for the need to examine the pedagogy and process when including Indigenous literatures in educational settings.
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.
Rebecca Belmore: Fiercely Political Politically Fierce
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shannon Bell
Canadian Dimension, vol. 43, no. 1, January-February 2009, pp. 35-[?]
Description
Interview with Anishinabekwe performance and installation artist, Rebecca Belmore
[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.
Reclaiming Territories through Indigenous Performance
Theses
Author/Creator
Francine Burning
Description
Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2017Focusess on experiences of Madelaine McCallum, Mike Dengeli, Mique'l Dangeli, Leela Gilday, and Ronnie Dean Harris.
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.
[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 Pens, White Paper: Wider Implications of Coulthard’s Call to Sovereignty
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Brian Burkhart
David J. Carlson
Billy J. Stratton
Theodore C. Van Alst
Carol Edelman Warrior
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 111-128
Description
Article is the transcript of a round table discussion the authors participated in at the Native American Literature Symposium at the Isleta Resort and Casino in Albuquerque, NM, on Thursday March 17, 2016. Panelists were discussing Glen Sean Coulthard's Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition.
Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Carol Muree Martin
Harsha Walia
Description
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.
Reflections on Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. E. Michael Kew
BC Studies, no. 193, 2017, pp. 163-185
Description
Former professor at the University recounts his education, career, and work and relationships with Indigenous peoples.
Rekindling the Sacred Fire: Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Blanca Tovías
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 2, Spring, 2017, p. 146
Description
Book review of: Rekindling the Sacred Fire by Chantal Fiola.
Relationships: A Study of Memory, Change, and Identity at a Place Called I:yem
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amanda Fehr
University of the Fraser Valley Research Review, vol. 2, no. 2, Through Students Eyes: Selected Papers From the Stó:lō Ethnohistory Field School, Spring, 2009, pp. 9-35
Description
Explores ways the Aboriginal people of the Fraser Canyon and Valley understand I:yem and its memorial today.
Looks at significance of ancient memorial site for Stó:lō people.
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.
Remembrances: Interviews with Métis Veterans
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Description
Stories from interviews with Métis war veterans, many who have passed on, regarding their experiences in World War I, World War II or the Korean Conflict.
Remix: Artists in Conversation
Alternate Title
AGO Podcasts
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Kent Monkman
Franco Mondini-Ruiz
Gerald McMaster
Richard Hill
Description
Franco Mondini-Ruiz and Kent Monkman discuss their work; presented in conjunction with the exhibition Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World.
Duration: 1:09:06.
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.
The Resilience of Native American Elders
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donna M. Grandbois
Gregory F. Sanders
Issues in Mental Health Nursing, vol. 30, no. 9, 2009, p. 569–580
Description
Examines how American Indian elders have been able to adapt and overcome adversities to achieve well-being.