Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Craig Bain
Crystal Ballentine
Anil DeSouza
Lisa Majure
Dean Howard
Jill Turek
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, 2004, pp. 67-79
Description
Authors explain how a solar power program could stimulate a move toward true self-determination and self-sufficiency for the Navajo Nation.
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.
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 Aboriginal Health Course Increases Awareness
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ken Kilpatrick
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 170, no. 12, June 8, 2004, p. 1780
Description
Discusses a research project by two McMaster medical school students that turned into a five month course.
A New Shared Arctic Leadership Model
E-Books
Author/Creator
Mary Simon
New www.cuzcongress.com Website Targets Aboriginal Youth Seeking Help Online
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Colin Cowell
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 28, no. 4, July/August 2004, p. 18
Description
Looks at online services aimed at youth.
Nga Puni Whakapiri: Indigenous Struggle and Genetic Engineering
Theses
Author/Creator
Paul F.A. Reynolds
Description
Communication Thesis (Ph.D.)--Simon Fraser University, 2004.
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.
Nisga'a Architecture and Landscapes: Ecological Wisdom and Community-Led Design
Theses
Author/Creator
Nancy Patricia Mackin
Description
Interdisciplinary Studies (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, First Nations Studies) Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 2004.
No Past, No Name, No Place? Urban Sámi Invisibility and Visibility in the Past and Present
Alternate Title
No Past, No Name, No Place? Urban Sami Invisibility and Visibility in the Past and Present
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mikkel Berg-Nordlie
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 9, no. 2, 2021, pp. 96-113
Description
Discussion of Sami urbanization, urbanity, and their absence in the local culture in Scandinavia. Focuses on resistance to including Sami place names on signage and lack of public monuments which acknowledge their existence and contributions to society.
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 Lights Against POPs. Combatting Toxic Threats in the Arctic
Alternate Title
Northern Lights Against POPs. Combating Toxic Threats in the Arctic
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ewa Dabrowska
Canadian Geographer, vol. 48, no. 2, Summer, 2004, pp. 242-243
Description
Book review of: Northern Lights Against POPs. Combatting Toxic Threats in the Arctic by David Leonard Downie and Terry Fenge.
Northern Tsimshian Elderberry Use in the Late Pre-Contact to Post-Contact Era
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrew Martindale
Irena Jurakic
Canadian Journal of Archaeology, vol. 28, no. 2, 2004, pp. 254-280
Description
Argues data collected from the late 18th through early 20th century shows correlation between spatial and social organization of households and presents evidence of changes in subsistence economics.
Northern Wildlife, Northern People: Native Hunters and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories, 1894--1970
Theses
Author/Creator
John Kurt Sandlos
Description
Environmental Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2004.
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
“Nothing about us, without us”: An Investigation into the Justification for Indigenous Peoples to be Involved in Every Step of Indigenous Digital Product Design
Alternate Title
SIGDOC '21: The 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Charly Harbord
Patrick Hung
Ruth Falconer
Description
Discusses how a study on digital design technology may help Indigenous communities address issues of the loss of their cultural knowledge.
Chapter from SIGDOC '21: The 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication.
Nova Scotia Moose Mystery - A Moose Sickness Related to Cobalt- and Vitamin B12 Deficiency
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adrian Frank
Joe McPartlin
Rolf Danielsson
The Science of the Total Environment, vol. 318, no. 1-3, January 5, 2004, pp. 89-100
Description
Inconclusive findings make a specific diagnosis difficult, but providing Co-containing salt licks is suggested as a means of counteracting moose diet deficiencies.
NSW Health Celebrates Aboriginal Environmental Health Graduate
Articles » General
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 28, no. 6, November/December 2004, p. 13
Description
Brief notice celebrates the successful graduation of a student who participated in an exchange program at the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College at the University of Regina.
Number of Long-Term Drinking Water Advisories on Public Systems on Reserve
Alternate Title
Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators
E-Books
Author/Creator
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Nunavik Country Foods...They're Our Way of Life
Articles » General
Inuktitut, no. 94, 2004
Description
Briefly describes some of the organizations that study issues related to food, contaminants, the environment and health.
Nunavut Country Foods...Our Way of Survival
Articles » General
Inuktitut, no. 94, 2004, p. Insert
Description
Describes the interaction between researchers and local hunters that assists in determining the risks and benefits of eating country foods.
Nutrition and Food Security in Fort Severn, Ontario: Baseline Survey for the Food Mail Pilot Project
E-Books
Author/Creator
Judith Lawn
Dan Harvey
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.
Off-Reserve Aboriginal Internet Users
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Susan Crompton
Canadian Social Trends, no. 75, Winter, 2004, pp. 8-15
Description
Indicates off-reserve First Nations people are as likely to use the internet as non-Aboriginal people. Uses data from the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) and the 2000 General Social Survey.
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.
Ojibwa Fishing Grounds: A History of Ontario Fisheries Law, Science, and the Sportsmen's Challenge to Aboriginal Treaty Rights, 1650--1900
Theses
Author/Creator
J. Michael Thoms
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2004.
Ojibway Nature Center Colouring Book
Alternate Title
[Healthy Headwaters Lab Publication ; 3]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mariah Alexander
Ojibway Nature Centre
Description
Each picture is introduced with a story which includes words in the Anishinaabemowin (Ojibway) language.
Ojibwe Women and Maple Sugar Production in Anishinaabewakiing and the Red River Region, 1670-1873
Theses
Author/Creator
Susan Deborah Wade
Description
History Thesis (PhD) -- University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 2021.
Old Cuts and Scrapes: Composite Chipped Stone Knives on the Canadian Plateau
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mike K. Rousseau
Canadian Journal of Archaeology, vol. 28, no. 1, 2004, pp. 1-31
Description
Discusses stone knives involving both bifacial blades and unifacial scrapers and implications for their use.
On Being Late: Cruising Mauna Kea and Unsettling Technoscientific Conquest in Hawai‘i
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Uahikeaikalei‘ohu Maile
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 45, no. 1, Settler Science, Alien Contact, and Searches for Intelligence, 2021, pp. 95-122
Description
Looks at the Kānaka Maol demonstration at the Mauna Kea Access Road protesting the construction of Thirty Meter Telescope and how its construction represents continued colonialism over Indigenous groups.
On Domestication, Permanent and Temporary: Qoranje, Elwelu, and Akweqor
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nikolai Vakhtin
Description
An analysis of two Yupik traditional stories and what they teach about Indigenous beliefs and connections to both tame and wild animals.
On the Frontier of Redefining “Intelligent Life” in Settler Science
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Delgado Shorter
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 45, no. 1, Settler Science, Alien Contact, and Searches for Intelligence, 2021, pp. 19-44
Description
Using the Breakthrough Listen project to discuss the erasure of Indigenous people due to colonial practices.
On the Streets and in the State House: American Indian and Hispanic Women and Environmental Policymaking in New Mexico
Alternate Title
Indigenous Peoples and Politics
E-Books
Author/Creator
Diane-Michele Prindleville
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.
"Only the Home Can Found a State": Gender, Labor, and the United States Indian Service, 1869-1928, Volume One
Theses
Author/Creator
Cathleen D. Cahill
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2004.
[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.
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 National Competitiveness and Canada's Territories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Description
Discusses the adaptability of businesses in Canada's territories and the necessity of the federal and territorial governments to do the same.