Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Diana M. Lawrence
Brian M. Kemp
Jason Eshleman
Richard L. Jantz
Meradeth Snow
Debra George
David Glenn Smith
Human Biology, vol. 82, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 157-178
Description
Looks at data collected on Macro-Siouan hypothesis and the relationship of the language spoken by the Sahnish to other languages.
A Mixed Methods Study of Disaster Case Managers on Issues Related to Diversity in Practice with Hurricane Katrina Victims
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Martell L. Teasley
James A. Moore
Journal of Indigenous Voices in Social Work, vol. 1, no. 1, February 2010, pp. 1-18
Description
Study examines issues of diversity disaster relief, recovery and the need to develop culturally appropriate methods for future training and preparation.
Money Can't Trump Environmental Change, Says Minister
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Isha Thompson
Windspeaker, vol. 27, no. 11, February 2010, p. 9
Description
Discusses the need for alternative energy initiatives to help preserve the environment, including the Northwest Territories initiatives of harnessing the wind's energy and upgrading building standards for increased efficiency.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.9.
Mother Earth and "Living Well": New Paradigms For Indigenous Struggles?
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Efrain Jaramillo Jaramillo
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, Development and Customary Law, 2010, pp. 60-63
Description
Discusses and summarizes new movement in Indigenous communities that presents as an alternative to the global crisis.
To access this article, scroll down to page 60.
Motivating American Indian Students in Science and Math
Alternate Title
ERIC Digest ; 296812
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Gregory A. Cajete
Description
Looks at reasons for under achievement, how learning styles affect motivation, the role of cultural systems of knowledge and of teachers.
Multicultural Multimedia Learning for Sustainability: A Narrative Case Study of Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective
Theses
Author/Creator
Jason N. Corwin
Description
[Natural Resources and Conservation?] Thesis (M.Sc.)--Cornell University, 2010.
Multimedia Technology and Indigenous Language Revitalization: Practical Education Tools and Applications Used Within Native Communities
Theses
Author/Creator
Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu Galla
Description
Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2010.
Murray River Country: An Ecological Dialogue With the Traditional Owners
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Mary-Anne Gale
Aboriginal History, vol. 34, 2010, pp. 293-295
Description
Book review of: Murray River Country by Jessica K. Weir.
Review located by scrolling to page 295.
Muskwa: Fearless Defender of Natural Law
Alternate Title
Bear Paw Legal Education and Resource Centre Comics; no. 2
E-Books
Author/Creator
Greg Miller
Description
Comic book tells the story of three youth encountering Muskwa the Bear and learning about natural laws and respect for the natural world.
Muslims, Navajos, and Peaches
Articles » General
Author/Creator
George H. Junne
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Summer, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Looks at how an Asian fruit was cultivated by Navajo Indians in the Chelly Canyon.
NAAA Honors Worme at Regina Ceremony
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jennifer Dubois
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 4, April 2010, p. 13
Description
Comments on the fourteen award recipients and the work they have done in their communities.
Article found by scrolling to page 13.
Nadlok and Its Unusual Antler Dwellings
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bryan C. Gordon
Arctic, vol. 41, no. 2, June 1988, pp. 160-161
Description
Looks at stone and antler winter dwellings as well as artifacts found that were used by the Copper Inuit located 100 miles south of Bathurst Inlet in the Northwest Territories.
Nastawgan: The Canadian North by Canoe & Snowshoe
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Richard C. Davis
Arctic, vol. 41, no. 3, September 1988, pp. 246-247
Description
Book review of: Nastawgan edited by Bruce W. Hodgins and Margaret Hobbs.
Nation Takes Initiative to Battle Climate Change
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Isha Thompson
Windspeaker, vol. 27, no. 11, February 2010, p. 8
Description
Discusses the energy conservation program and sustainable food project created by the T'Sou-ke Nation in Sooke, B.C. to combat climate change.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
"Native" Advertising: An Evaluation of Nike's N7 Social Media Campaign
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
W. Scott Sanders
Selene G. Phillips
Cecelia Alexander
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 2, 2017, pp. 43-63
Description
Evaluates the success of the campaign in the context of targeted marketing to ethnic minorities and representation of Native Americans in advertisements, and presents two case studies which assess whether the company successfully engaged with youth via Twitter.
Native American Scientist Dicovers Ancient Stress Hormone
Articles » General
Windspeaker, vol. 28, no. 6, September 2010, p. 20
Description
Explains the finding, by University of British Columbia Professor David Close, of a steroid hormone in the Pacific lamprey (an eel-like fish) that will help in its conservation and control.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.20.
Native Peoples and Water Rights: Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jenny Clayton
BC Studies, no. 167, Autumn, 2010, pp. 138-139
Description
Book review of: Native Peoples and Water Rights: Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada by Kenichi Matsui.
Scroll down to page 138 to read review.
Native Rights and Environmental Sustainability: Lessons from the British Columbia Wilderness
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
R. Michael M'Gonigle
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 1988, pp. 107-130
Description
Reviews land use disputes in Stein River Valley, British Columbia and offers an assessment of some of the larger lessons to be learned from this forestry/wilderness conflict.
Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism
Alternate Title
First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Natchee Blu Bard
First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies Series
Nauyalik Fish Camp: An Ethnoarchaeological Study in Activity-Area Formation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Claudia Chang
American Antiquity, vol. 53, no. 1, January 1988, pp. 145-157
Description
Time-motion study of an Inupiat fish camp during the summer of 1982.
Negotiating Life Within the City: Social Geographies and Lived Experiences of Urban Metis Peoples in Ottawa
Theses
Author/Creator
Daniel Dumas
Description
Geography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2017.
Negotiating Turnour Island: Diaspora, Memories and Contemporary Land Claims in British Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Corbett
Zach Romano
Shima, vol. 4, no. 2, 2010, pp. 48-66
Description
Looks at the Tlowitsis Nation before contact and conditions that let to their dispersement in the 1960s and efforts to reclaim territories.
Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet across Indian Country
Alternate Title
Indigenous Confluences
E-Books
Author/Creator
Marisa Elena Duarte
Never Alone: (Re)Coding the Comic Holotrope of Survivance
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Michelle Lee Brown
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 22-44
Description
Article examines the use of gaming and other communication technologies as strategies for resistance, survivance and cultural resurgence; discusses practices of re/mapping, kinship-making and relationality.
Never Alone: The Art and the People of the Story
Alternate Title
Game Development Conference ; 2015
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Dima Veryovka
Description
A Discussion on the visual style, cultural infusion and impact of the 2014 video game Never Alone. The game is based off the Iñupiat legend of Kanuk Sayuka and was created in cooperation with elders, storytellers, and artists from the Cook Inlet Tribal Council.
Duration: 50:01.
"Never Say Die": An Ethnohistorical Review of Health and Healing in Aklavik, NWT, Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Cooper
Description
Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2010.
A New Landscape: Changing Iroquois Settlement Patterns, Subsistence Strategies, and Environmental Use, 1630-1783
Theses
Author/Creator
Kelly Yvonne Hopkins
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2010.
A New Model for Sustainable Development: A Case Study
of The Great Bear Rainforest Regional Plan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gordon McGee
Andrea Cullen
Thomas Gunton
Environment, Development and Sustainability, vol. 12, no. 5, October 2010, p. 745–762
Description
Examines a model of sustainable development planning based on a case study of a successful planning process that balances social, economic, and environmental values.
New Perspectives on California Indian Research: Introduction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Imre Sutton
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 2, 1988, pp. 1-7
Description
Re-studies land claims registers from a geographic perspective.
A New Shared Arctic Leadership Model
E-Books
Author/Creator
Mary Simon
New World of Indigenous Resistance: Noam Chomsky and Voices from North, South and Central America
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Shannon Speed
AlterNative, vol. 6, no. 3, 2010, pp. 283-284
Description
Book review of: New World of Indigenous Resistance: Noam Chomsky and Voices from North, South and Central America by Lois Meyer and Benjamín Maldonado Alvarado.
Nilliajut 2: Inuit Perspectives on the Northwest Passage Shipping and Marine Issues
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Aqqaluk Lynge
Robert Comeau
Mary Simon
Nancy Karetak-Lindell
Alfred E. R. Jakobsen
Zebedee Nungak
Silas Elytuk Arngna’naaq
Peter F. K. Ittinuar
Kuupik Vandersee Kleist
Okalik Eegeesiak]
Description
Essays by authors from across Inuit Nunangat and Greenland discuss the possible impacts of the opening of the Passage due to climate change.
NITS-STI-TA-PII: The Real People
Alternate Title
Imataa Manistsi: Blackfoot Dog Travois
[Kaahsinnooniksi Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mari King
Description
Lesson plan for constructing a dog travois developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta.
No Takebacks
Alternate Title
No take backs
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stephen Graham Jones
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 139-169
Description
Short fiction piece. When two friends develop an app for mobile devices the results are much different than they expect.
The Noble Savage and Ecological Indian: Cultural Dissonance and Representations of Native Americans in Literature
Alternate Title
Undergraduate Honors Theses (Utah State University) ; paper 70
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brooke D. McNaughton
Description
Evaluates two novels which address identity issues: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko and Wolfsong by Louis Owens.
American Studies Honors Thesis--Utah State University, 2010.
Non-Timber Forest Products: Indigenous Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Livelihood Security in West Suriname
Theses
Author/Creator
Tim van den Boog
Description
Forestry Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of British Columbia, 2017.
North End Food Assessment Report Winnipeg
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Margo Malabar
Kaye Grant
Description
Assessment focuses on developing a community profile of the local food system in order to provide a base for capacity building for food related security initiatives.
Related material: Appendices.
Northern Checkup
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Dominique Forget
Canadian Geographic, January/February 2010, pp. 1-4
Description
Discusses the International Polar Year Health Survey, a mass checkup to assess the health status of the Inuit people.
Not Your Grandfather's Horse: Automobiles Performing the Trickster in Modern and Contemporary Work by Artists from Plains Cultures
Theses
Author/Creator
Aaron Moses
Description
Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Oklahoma State University, 2017
Refers to the works of Horace Poolaw, Dallin Maybee, Arthur Amiotte, Jay Polite Labor, and Wendy Red Star
Notes from a Miner's Canary: Essays on the State of Native America
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jace Weaver
Nunatsiavut Land Use Planning: Structural and Political Issues
Alternate Title
Inuit Studies Conference ; 17th, 2010
[Inuit People and the Aboriginal World]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Andrea Procter
Keith Chaulk
Description
Looks at the development of a land use plan between the Nunatsiavut government and the Newfoundland and Labrador governments.
Nutrition North Canada: Real Change is Yet to Come
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Michael Fitzgerald
Fred Hill
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 1, Food (In)security in Northern Canada, April 2017, pp. 44-48
Description
Examines what the Liberal government has done since coming into power, in October 2015, for the Nutrition North Canada program.
Nyungar of Southwestern Australia and Flinders: A Dialogue on Using Nyungar Intelligence to Better Understand Coastal Exploration
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Len Collard
Clint Bracknell
David Palmer
ab-Original, vol. 1, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1-16
Description
Authors revisit archival records relating to the exploration of what is now Western Australia, with a focus on drawing out the places where the record shows the role of the Nyungar people in the exploration of the coast, and the Indigenous Knowledge share with explorers.
Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in Northern Canada's Remote First Nations Communities: The Dietary Dilemma
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
F. Haman
B. Fontaine-Bisson
M. Batal
P. Imbeault
J. M. Blais ... [et al.]
International Journal of Obesity, vol. 34, no. S2, Supplement 2, December 2010, pp. [S24]-S31
Description
Explores the biological predispositions and potential environmental factors that contribute to the high incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Oil and the Iñupiaq: Linking Industry and Education at Iļisaġvik College
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Pearl Kiyawn Brower
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 28, no. 4, Oil and Indian Country, Summer, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Comments on college programming designed to support industry jobs.
On the Front Lines of Canada's Northern Strategy
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ken Coates
Greg Poelzer
Description
Compares Canada's northern strategy compared to other arctic regions.
Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ezekiel Gow
BC Studies, no. 195, Autumn, 2017, pp. 174-175
Description
Book review of Once They Were Hats by Frances Backhouse.
Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 174.
One Flea-Bitten Gray Horse: Women, Horses, and Economy on the Yakama Reservation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clifford E. Trafzer
T. Robert Przeklasa
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 5-29
Description
Authors use bills of sale for horses from 1909-12 as primary documents to explore the roles women on the Yakima reservation played in their nation’s economy and their resistance to conforming to Western or Christian gender roles.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade 5: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Eleven: Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation