Outlines the history of alcoholism in Aboriginal communities, and looks at combining western medicine and traditional healing methods to help Aboriginal people rebuild and sustain a healthy lifestyle.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 131-134
Description
Argues that the occupation of Alcatraz Island set the stage for Native American peoples spiritual rebirth and was the beginning of the reclaiming of pride and dignity for all Indian nations.
Looks at the fundamental elements of Iroquois society, and the founding constitution of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, which provides an efficient institution of democratic governance, social and economic stability, and a moral equation to achieve peace.
Mamow Na-nan-da-we-ki-ken-chi-kay-win: Searching Together Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mamow Sha-way-gi-kay-win North South Partnership for Children
Description
Assessment focuses on six key areas: livelihoods, infrastructure, community participation, education/recreation, children and parents and mental and physical health.
Children and Youth Services Review, vol. 31, no. 9, 2009, pp. 1019-1024
Description
Results based on interviews with 61 foster parents in Manitoba to examine value-based and practical benefits of having a shared cultural background with foster children.
"Body-snatching": Changes to Coroners Legislation and Possible Maori Responses
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carl Mika
AlterNative, vol. 5, no. 1, 2009, pp. 26-41
Description
Examines cultural issues associated with Māori funeral practices, and burial laws that are needed to address the conflicts with post-mortem examinations.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 2, 2009, pp. 113-163
Description
Book reviews of 22 books:
African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizen by Celia E. Naylor.
American Indian Education: Counternarratives in Racism, Struggle and the Law by Matthew L. M. Fletcher.
Born of Fire: The Life and Pottery of Margaret Tafoya by Charles S. King.
Brothers Among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580-1660 by Cynthia J.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, 2009, pp. 143-192
Description
Book reviews of 20 books:
American Indians and State Law: Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790-1880 by Deborah A. Rosen.
Architectural Variability in the Southeast edited by Cameron H. Lacquement.
Art from Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection by Joyce M.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 1994, pp. 395-434
Description
Book review of 14 books:
Drum Songs: Glimpses of Dene History by Kerry Abel.
Names, Numbers, and Northern Policy by Valerie Alia.
Sacred Stories of the Sweet Grass Cree by Leonard Bloomfield.
Guide to Oral History Collections in Canada/Guide des fonds d'histoire orale au Canada by Normand Fortier.
The Mohicans of Stockbridge by Patrick Frazier.
500 Jahre danach: Zur heutigen Lage der indigenen Volker beider Amerika (500 Years Thereafter: The Present Day Situation of the Indigenous Peoples of Both Americas) edited by Peter R.
SA-eDUC Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, Special Edition on Education and Ethnicity, November 2009, pp. 100-116
Description
Supports the need to understand First Nations history from an Aboriginal perspective and the effects the Indian Act and residential school systems had on First Nations people in Canada.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, Winter, 1994, pp. 61-70
Description
Discusses the role of reoccurring themes and metaphors in the traditional stories of the Yup’ik people by comparing two different narratives “The Boy Who Went to Live with the Seals” and “The Girl Who Returned from the Dead.”
Dynamics of Canada: Studying Canada's Past and Current Realities
European Seminar for Graduate Students in Canadian Studies ; 16th
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Rose Álamo
Description
Focuses on the story Ucluelet and the painting Indian Church.
Excerpt from Dynamics of Canada: Studying Canada's Past and Current Realities edited by Keith Battarbee and Mélanie Buchart.
Entire volume on one pdf. To access this paper scroll to p. 139.
Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 69, no. 2, Negotiating the culture of Indigenous Schools, Winter, 1994, pp. 172-185
Description
Reviews articles in the special issue, Negotiating the Culture of Indigenous Schools, discusses barriers to careers in teaching, expanding knowledge base of Indigenous education and the relationship between school change, culture, power and control.
One participant was Aboriginal hunter, one was a French Canadian farmer, and one was an immigrant from England. Focus was on six characteristics: language, religion, social relations, family, intergenerational links, and rites of passage.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 2, Spring, 2009, pp. 230-252
Description
Cultural conflicts between Southeast Alaska's Tlingit Indians and Europeans from the viewpoint of three cultural systems: cosmology, jurisprudence and religion.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 75, no. 4, December 1994, pp. 543-557
Description
Discusses the development of Aboriginal rights from the outlawing of the potlatch to the rejection of anthropological evidence given at the Gitksan Wet'suwet'en land claim.
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Guy Bordin
Description
Examines relationship between dreams and collective oral discourse and the attempts to re-invigorate the practice.
Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 2, Spring, 1994, pp. 215-228
Description
Article examines the interaction between Moravian missionaries and Lenape people; describes similarities and differences in spiritual beliefs and practices.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 61, no. 2, Glimpses of Métis Society and History in Northwest Saskatchewan, Fall, 2009, pp. 29-40
Description
Study uses oral interviews to engage Métis understandings of Marian apparitions and shrines in and surrounding Sakitawak (Île-à-la-Crosse); authors work to discuss Métis spirituality in a way that makes sense to community members and that also challenges outsiders presumptions about the relationship between the Métis and Mary.
Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 29.
Resource offers information on cultural understanding, how culture might conflict with environmental emergencies, relationship building, emergency planning and emergency response phase.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 2, Summer, 2009, pp. 50-70
Description
Discusses mourning feast customs in the novel and how the author changes several of them.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to page 50.
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 19, no. 2, Culture and Education: Aboriginal Settings, Concerns, and Insights, Spring, 1994, pp. 194-196
Description
Review of: First Nations: The Circle Unbroken by Geraldine Bob, Gary Marcuse, Denna Nyce, Lorna Williams. Four video cassettes plus Teachers' Guide and Implementation Workshop for Teachers: A Guide.
Looks at a research network developed through the collaboration of universities, agencies and communities in British Columbia to provide research training and resources for Indigenous people working in Indigenous child well-being and research.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, 1994, pp. 67-93
Description
Focuses on the Kumivit, or Gabrielino, Indians and documents the resistance and responses of women to the new colonial order. The time period covered for this topic includes Toypurina’s revolt and Bartolomea’s bitter recollections of the destruction of her culture.
Distinctive Art of Haida Villages: The Northern Villages
Preserving the Past, Inspiring the Future Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
George MacDonald
Description
Discusses the architecture of houses and design styles of totems poles in the villages of Kaigani, Klinkwan, Kassan.
Part 1: Duration: 34:20.
Access to Part 2.