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Book Reviews
Author/Creator
William Huggins
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 93-97
Description
Book reviews of:
Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian edited by Michael E. Harkin and David Rich Lewis
Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters With the Land by Rinda West.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 93.
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
Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness
Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
National Library of Medicine [U.S.]
Description
Website with links to: exhibition, interviews, timeline, lesson plans and other resources.
Natural Resources, Local Development and Social Enterprise: Examining the Connection Between Sustainable Rural Development and the Social Economy in British Columbia and Alberta
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Andre Vallillee
Description
Examines the connection between sustainable rural development and the social economy; and looks at the role of social enterprises in key natural resource sectors, including non-timber forest products, local and organic agriculture, fisheries and shellfish, renewable energy, and ecotourism.
Naturopathic Medicine for Improved Health Care within Canadian Aboriginal Communities
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dugald Seely
Deborah Kennedy
Sigrid Brobys
Johanne McCarthy
Rishma Walji
Kieran Cooley ... [et al.]
Description
Discusses results of four investigations: systematic review of literature on use of naturopathic or complementary medicine; qualitative study on impact and conduct of naturopathic medicine at an Aboriginal community clinic; telephone survey of Aboriginal Health Centres across Ontario; and comparative assessment of approaches used in naturopathic and traditional Aboriginal medicine.
Negotiated Spaces: Work, Home and Relationships in the Dene Diamond Economy
Theses
Author/Creator
Virginia Valerie Gibson
Description
Mining Engineering Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2008.
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.
Nêhiyawin (Cree Worldview)
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Daina Warren
ConunDrumOnline, vol. 5, June 2008, p. [?]
Description
Discusses Cheryl L'Hirondelle's ability to link older generations to younger generations, both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, through art and the internet.
Nemestake: An Ehlieweuk Approach to Forest Sustainability
Theses
Author/Creator
Jocelyn Cheechoo
Description
Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2008
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.
New Caledonian Development and the Kanak Voice
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne-Marie D'Hauteserre
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 3, 2008, pp. 29-49
Description
Author researches tourism in the Kanak areas of New Caledonia.
A New Shared Arctic Leadership Model
E-Books
Author/Creator
Mary Simon
Nihl Adagwiy T'gun Adaawaks GalksiGabin: (Here Is the Story of GalksiGabin): A Modern Auto-Ethnography of a Nisga'a Man
Theses
Author/Creator
Andrew Robinson
Description
First Nations Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Northern British Columbia, 2008.
Nilliajut 2: Inuit Perspectives on the Northwest Passage Shipping and Marine Issues
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK)
[Aqqaluk Lynge
Robert Comeau
Mary Simon
Nancy Karetak-Lindell
Alfred E.R. Jakobsen … [et al.]]
Description
Essays by authors from across Inuit Nunangat and Greenland discuss the possible impacts of the opening of the Passage due to climate change.
Nipiy Wasekimew / Clear Water: The Meaning of Water, From the Words of the Elders; The Interconnections of Health, Education, Law and the Environment
Theses
Author/Creator
Cheryl Darlene Sanderson
Description
Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Simon Fraser University, 2008.
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.
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.
Northern Archaic Settlement and Subsistence Patterns at Agiak Lake, Brooks Range, Alaska
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aaron K. Wilson
Jeffrey T. Rasic
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 45, no. 2, 2008, pp. 128-145
Description
Looks at the unique perspective of Northern Archaic settlement patterns, land use and the large number of prehistoric tent ring sites in the central Brooks Range, Alaska.
Northern Archaic Tradition Forty Years Later: Comments
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Douglas D. Anderson
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 45, no. 2, 2008, pp. 169-178
Description
Discusses that more findings of notched points have demonstrated a more complex prehistory than was originally believed.
The Northern Research Endowment Fund and Fellowship Grants, 1992-2007: Reflections on the Initiative for Northern Studies in the Yukon
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Stager
Northern Review, no. 29, Northern Research Institute: Fifteen Years of Building Yukon Research Capacity, Fall, 2008, pp. 159-166
Description
Provides a history of the fund and fellowship grants established to stimulate "scholarly research in the humanities, social, pure and applied sciences that is directly relevant to Yukon".
Norway House Residential School and Tuberculosis, 1900-1946
Alternate Title
Multiplying and Dividing: Tuberculosis in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand
RAL-e ; no.3, 2008
Research in Anthropology & Linguistics-e ; no. 3, 2008
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Melissa Stoops
Description
Looks at TB impact in one residential school.
Chapter 12 from: Multiplying and Dividing: Tuberculosis in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Judith Littleton, Julie Park, Ann Herring and Tracy Farmer.
Scroll down to page 149 to read chapter.
"Not the Almighty": Evaluating Aboriginal Influence in Northern Land-Claim Boards
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Graham White
Arctic, vol. 61, no. 5, Supplement 1, December 2008, pp. 71-85
Description
Looks at the importance of Aboriginal involvement with land-claim boards, and their influence over government decisions affecting the wildlife and environment of traditional aboriginal lands.
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
Nutrition and Food Consumption Among the Inuit of Nunavik
Alternate Title
Qanuippitaa? How are We?
[Nunavik Inuit Health Survey 2004]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Carole Blanchet
Lois Rochette
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.
Nutrition Positive: An Incentive Program in Saskatoon Elementary Schools: A Case Study & Preliminary Process Evaluation
Theses
Author/Creator
Brenda E. Thompson
Description
Pharmacy and Nutrition Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2008.
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.
Of Ice and Men
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cameron M. Smith
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2, Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples, Summer, 2008
Description
Discusses the opposition, by the Arctic indigenous peoples, towards the United States government's decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species.
Oil and Gas and the Inuvialuit People of the Western Arctic
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leo-Paul Dana
Aldene Meis-Mason
Robert B. Anderson
Journal of Enterprising Communities, vol. 2, no. 2, 2008, pp. 151-167
Description
Presents a research paper that illustrates how oil and gas activities on Inuvialuit land will transform the lives of the people.
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.
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.
Ontologies of Cree Hydrology: Formalization and Realization
Theses
Author/Creator
Christopher Wellen
Description
Geography Thesis (M.Sc.)--McGill University, 2008.
[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
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Nine: Introduction and Directions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Seven: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Two: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Nursery/Preschool/Kindergarten. Day 1: : First Nation Creation Stories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
The Opinions of Ambulance Personnel Regarding Using a Heated Mattress for Patients Being Cared for in a Cold Climate - An Intervention Study in Ambulance Care
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jonas Aléx
Tom Uppstu
Britt-Inger Saveman
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 76, 2017, p. article no. 1379305
Description
Ambulance personnel from northern Sweden rate their experiences as being positive for patient comfort.
Opportunities and Challenges: What Does the New Economy Have to Offer Aboriginal Economic Development?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Lamb
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 6, no. 1, Fall, 2008, pp. 44-60
Description
Examines how information and communication technology has made outsourcing certain functions to remote locations possible and whether this is a viable source of employment for Aboriginal communities. Specifically looks at call centres.
The Oral Tradition is Like the Mackenzie Delta
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Kroetsch
Northern Review, no. 28, Spring, 2008, pp. 181-186
Description
Argues that the oral story is part of our bodies, not part of a book, and each story tells the story of all of us.
Ordinary and Extraordinary Trauma: Race, Indigeneity, and Hurricane Katrina in Tunica-Biloxi History
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brian Klopotek
Brenda Lintinger
John Barbry
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, Special Issue: Indigenous Locations Post-Katrina: Beyond Invisibility and Disaster, 2008, pp. 55-77
Description
Describes how some individuals, of theTunica-Biloxi tribe, came to terms with their feelings of grief and rage after hurricane Katrina.
The Organic Citizen: Reimagining Democratic Participation and Indigeneity in U.S. Late 19th and 20th Century Eco-Narratives
Theses
Author/Creator
Melinda DiStefano
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2008.
The Original Journal of Charles Larpenteur: My Travels to the Rocky Mountains Between 1833 and 1872
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lynn C. Shannon
Whispering Wind, vol. 37, no. 4, Issue 260, March-April 2008, pp. 28-29
Description
Book review: The Original Journal of Charles Larpenteur by Charles Larpenteur, transcribed and annotated by Erwin N. Thompson and edited by Michael M. Casler.
Our Identities as Civic Power
Alternate Title
2017 State of Native Youth Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute
[Erik R. Stegman
Amber Richardson
Josie Raphaelito
Aaron Slater
Bettina Gonzalez]
Description
Reports on the results of the Generation Indigenous (Gen-I) Online Roundtable Survey of Native American youth between the ages 18-24. Respondents were asked about their three top priorities, what they are doing to tackle their challenges, and some of the ways they are partnering with their community to build resilience.
"Our Legacy": University of Saskatchewan Aboriginal Archival Digitization Project
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Cheryl Avery
Deborah Lee
Description
Discusses how respectful collaborations are required to provide digital access to Indigenous materials.
Chapter in Preserving Aboriginal Heritage: Technical and Traditional Approaches edited by Carole Dignard, Kate Helwig, Janet Masory
Kathy Nanowin, and Thomas Stone. To view article scroll down to page 133 (159).