Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vivian J. Rohrl
American Anthropologist, vol. 72, no. 1, New Series, February 1970, pp. 97-101
Description
Argues that there may be a nutritional component to windigo in that the "cure" involved the ingestion of fatty meat.
“Nya Anghuwa Che” (Our Food Gives Us Life): Exploring Indigenous Perspectives on Traditional Food Gathering and Foraging in an Irigwe Community from Nigeria
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Majing Oloko
Shailesh Shukla
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 1, 2018, pp. 1-22
Description
Study uses participatory research tools to explore and document the cultural meanings of food within Irigwe Indigenous food system and their relationship to Indigenous food-production practices such as food foraging.
Of Metaphors and Learning: Navajo Teachings for Today's Youth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert S. McPherson
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 4, Autumn, 1998, pp. 457-468
Description
Author draws on different interviews he has conducted with Diné (Navajo) to discuss metaphors used by elders to make traditional values accessible to contemporary youth.
On the Mysterious 1831 Cherokee Manuscript or Jisdu Fixes John Locke’s Two Treatises of Civil Government
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Brian Burkhart
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018 , pp. 40-76
Description
Creative piece which imagines what Two Treatises of Civil Government would look like if it had been written by the Cherokee Rabbit Trickster, Jisdu.
Ornate Telephone Booth
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Institute for Northern Studies
Description
An ornately decorated telephone booth. Victoria, B.C. On booth: "B.C. TEL 806, 000 TELEPHONE INSTALLATIONS OCT. 20/67 VICTORIA B.C."
Our Sacred Water: Theorizing Kuuyam as a Decolonial Possibility
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charles Sepulveda
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 40-58
Description
Describes the polluted state of the Santa Ana River in southern California and how it came to be so. Considers traditional perspectives of the Acjachemen and Tongva tribes regarding "guests" as a way to re-center a Indigenous view of the land.
Overturning the (New World) Order: Of Space, Time, Writing, and Prophecy in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Yvonne Reineke
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 3, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Almanac of the Dead, Fall, 1998, pp. 65-83
Description
Explores how the writer replaces the European linear thinking about time and replaces it with the indigenous viewpoint of circularity.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Parliament of Religions on the Prairie: Standing Rock as Interreligious Event
Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 12th, 2017
Representations and Realities
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Peter A. Huff
Description
Examines the Oceti Sakowin water protectors’ camp as an Indigenous-led interreligious meeting and criticizes media representation of the water protectors as “protesters” while ignoring the religious and interfaith elements of the movement.
A Place to Call Home: Studying the Indian Placement Program
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tona J. Hangen
Dialogue, vol. 30, no. 1, Spring, 1998, pp. 53-69
Description
Interviews Navajos who were involved in a voluntary foster-care program sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah which placed Native American Mormon children into white Mormon homes for the school year.
The Plains Indian Powwow: Cultural Integration in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Samuel W. Corrigan
Anthropologica, vol. 12, no. 2, New Series, January 1, 1970, pp. 253-277
Description
Distinguishes three basic types of powwows and concentrates on the third type, the annual summer powwow.
Potlatch 67-67: Then and Now
Alternate Title
Potlatch 67-67 Lesson Series
Hiłt̕sist̕a'a̱m: The Copper Will Be Fixed
E-Books
Author/Creator
Kumugwe Cultural Society
Comox Valley Art Gallery
Description
Catalogue for exhibition held to mark the 67th anniversary of the lifting of the Potlatch ban.
Related material: Lesson Plan.
Pre-Christian Inuit Mortuary Practices: A Compendium of Archaeological and Ethnographic Sources
Theses
Author/Creator
Barbara a. Crass
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1998.
The Psychotherapeutic Effects of American Indian Traditions Such as Singing, Drumming, Dancing and Storytelling
Theses
Author/Creator
Susan Georgina Stevens
Description
American Indian Studies (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1998.
Pulling Together: A Guide for Indigenization of Post-Secondary Institutions: Curriculum Developers
Alternate Title
Professional Learning Series
[BCcampus Indigenization Project]
[Indigenization] Professional Learning Series
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Asma-na-hi Antoine
Rachel Mason
Roberta Mason
Sophia Palahicky
Carmen Rodriguez de France
Description
Related material:
Foundations.
Guides for:
Leaders and Administrators.
Front-line Staff, Student Services, and Advisors.
Teachers and Instructors.
Pulling Together: A Guide for Indigenization of Post-Secondary Institutions: Foundations
Alternate Title
Professional Learning Series
[BCcampus Indigenization Project]
[Indigenization] Professional Learning Series
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kory Wilson
Description
Guide discusses Indigenous-Canadian relationships from contact to the present, historical and contemporary context, and the diversity of Indigenous peoples.
Related material for:
Leaders and Administrators.
Curriculum Developers.
Front-Line Staff, Student Services, and Advisors
Pulling Together: A Guide for Indigenization of Post-Secondary Institutions: Front-Line Staff, Student Services, and Advisors
Alternate Title
Professional Learning Series
[BCcampus Indigenization Project]
[Indigenization] Professional Learning Series
Pulling Together: A Guide for Front-Line Staff, Student Services, and Advisors
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ian Cull
Robert L. A. Hancock
Stephanie McKeown
Michelle Pidgeon
Adrienne Vedan
Description
Related material: Foundations. Guides for: Leaders and Administrators.
Pulling Together: A Guide for Indigenization of Post-Secondary Institutions: Leaders and Administrators
Alternate Title
Professional Learning Series
[BCcampus Indigenization Project]
[Indigenization] Professional Learning Series
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sybil Harrison
Janice Simcoe
Dawn Smith
Jennifer Stein
Description
Related material:
Foundations.
Guides for:
Curriculum Developers.
Front-Line Staff, Student Services, and Advisors.
Teachers and Instructors.
Pulling Together: A Guide for Indigenization of Post-Secondary Institutions: Teachers and Instructors
Alternate Title
Professional Learning Series
[BCcampus Indigenization Project]
[Indigenization] Professional Learning Series
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bruce Allan
Amy Perreault
John Chenoweth
Dianne Biin
Sharon Hobenshield
Todd Ormiston
Shirley Anne Hardman
Louise Lacerte ... [et al.]
Description
Explores topics such as locating self and practice, Indigenous worldviews and pedagogies, ethical approach and relational protocols, colonization framework in Canada, and building an Indigenous practice.
Related material:
Foundations.
Guides for:
Leaders and Administrators.
Curr
Quebec First Nations Regional Health Survey [2015]: Language and Culture
Alternate Title
First Nations Regional Health Survey (RHS): Phase 3
Sociodemographic and Socioeconomic Conditions
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Mathieu-Olivier Côté]
Raising a Child with Early Childhood Dis-ability Supports Shakonehyra:ra's ne shakoyen'okon:'a
Alternate Title
Raising a Child with Early Childhood Disability Supports
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicole Ineese-Nash
Yvonne Bomberry
Kathryn Underwood
Arlene Hache
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, Winter, 2018, pp. 1-14
Description
Presents findings from Indigenous participants in the Early Childhood Service System Project.
"Reasonable Amusements": Connecting the Strands of Physical Culture in Native Lives
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Victoria Paraschak
Sport History Review, vol. 29, no. 1, May 1998, pp. 121-131
Description
Explores the history of organized physical leisure practices of Native North Americans.
A Recipe for Change: Reclamation of Indigenous Food Sovereignty in O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation
Theses
Author/Creator
Asfia Gulrukh Kamal
Description
[Environment and Geography?] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2018.
[Reclaiming Native American Cultures: Proceedings of the Native American Symposium], Part Five: Oral History and Tradition
Alternate Title
Chahta-Immataha and the Choctaw Bible
Native American Symposium ; 2nd, 1997
The King of the Waters: Legend of the Horned Water Serpent
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Deborah Mitchell
Jerry Bryan Lincecum
Description
The King of the Waters: Legend of the Horned Water Serpent by Deborah Mitchell examines the rare legend of a "snake-man".
Chahta-Immataha and the Choctaw Bible by Jerry Bryan Lincecum discusses the oral tradition of the Choctaw people.
[Reclaiming Native American Cultures: Proceedings of the Native American Symposium], Part Four: Native American Languages
Alternate Title
Language in Mari Sandoz’s Crazy Horse: Strange Man of the Oglalas
Native American Symposium ; 2nd, 1997
Sam Kenoi’s “Coyote and the Whitemen”: Contact in and out of a Chiricahua Narrative
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Anthony K. Webster
Kimberli Lee
Description
Sam Kenoi’s “Coyote and the Whitemen”: Contact in and out of a Chiricahua Narrative by Anthony K. Webster examines specific narration by placing it within the context of received standards for a Coyote narrative.
Language in Mari Sandoz’s Crazy Horse: Strange Man of the Oglalas by Kimberli Lee discusses the Indian perspectives used in Mari Sandoz’s work.
[Reclaiming Native American Cultures: Proceedings of the Native American Symposium]: Part Three: Native American History and Mythology
Alternate Title
John Collier and the Controversial Resignation of Indian Commissioner Charles Burke, 1921-1929
Native American Symposium ; 2nd, 1997
Reclaiming the Feminine in the Chitimacha Creation Myth
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Ginger R. Davis
Carlon Andre
Carole McAllister
Description
John Collier and the Controversial Resignation of Indian Commissioner Charles Burke, 1921-1929 by Ginger R. Davis examines the federal Native American policy, and Burke's assimilationist policy and the end of his administration.
Reclaiming the Feminine in the Chitimacha Creation Myth by Carlon Andre and Carole McAllister discusses ways in which French influence altered and disturbed Chitimacha of Louisiana's oral traditions.
[Reclaiming Native American Cultures: Proceedings of the Native American Symposium], Part Two: Native American Literature
Alternate Title
Ephanie’s Vision Quest: Blending Native American and Feminist Elements
Life Stories by a Cherokee Dreamer: John Oskison’s Historical Writings
Native American Symposium ; 2nd, 1997
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Barbara Jean Cook
Melissa Hearn
Description
Ephanie’s Vision Quest: Blending Native American and Feminist Elements by Barbara Jean Cook examines the differences between Indian feminism and "mainstream theoretical feminism" for Indian women.
Life Stories by a Cherokee Dreamer: John Oskison’s Historical Writings by Melissa Hearn discusses the cultural complexity of the Cherokee Nation.
Reconciliation and Canada’s Overdose Crisis: Responding to the Needs of Indigenous Peoples
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Lavalley
Shelda Kastor
Jenna Valleriani
Ryan McNeil
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 190, no. 50, December 17, 2018, pp. E1466-E1467
Description
Authors note that the current drug overdose crisis disproportionately affects Indigenous people as a result of a legacy of colonialism, racism and intergenerational trauma; argue that reconciliation with First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples must include dismantling structural conditions which produce drug-related harms, and that current harm-reduction models must integrate Indigenous cultural values.
Reconsidering Confederation: Canada's Founding Debates, 1864 - 1999
Alternate Title
Compact, Contract, Covenant: The Evolution of First Nations Treaty-Making
Resisting Canada’s Will: Manitoba’s Entry into Confederation
“A More Accurate Face on Canada to the World”: The Creation of Nunavut
E-Books
Author/Creator
J. R. Miller
Daniel Heidt
Marcel Martel
Colin M. Coates
Martin Pâquet
... [et al.]
Description
See:
Chapter Two: Compact, Contract, Covenant: The Evolution of First Nations Treaty-Making by J.R. Miller.
Chapter Six: Resisting Canada’s Will: Manitoba’s Entry into Confederation by Robert Wardhaugh and Barry Ferguson.
Chapter Eleven: “A More Accurate Face on Canada to the World”: The Creation of Nunavut by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Andr&ecaute Légaré.
Rediscovering the First Nations of Canada
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jennifer Pettit
Prairie Forum, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring, 1998, pp. 136-138
Description
Book review of: Rediscovering the First Nations of Canada by John W. Friesen.
Refracting the State through Human-Fish Relations: Fishing, Indigenous Legal Orders and Colonialism in North/Western Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Zoe Todd
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 60-75
Description
Considers Aboriginal worldviews around the relationships humans have with, and the responsibilities they have to non- or more-than-human entities as a framework for environmental activism, opposition to resource extraction, and government regulation. Asserts that a re-examination of the way that humans connect to our non-human relations is necessary for survivance.
"Rekindled Spirit": Research Project in Preparation for the Law Commission of Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Beverley K. Jacobs
Description
Discusses Haudenosaunee customary law and how legislation and residential schools disrupted traditional practices.
Rekindling the Sacred Fire for Children and Families = Giitwaami-zaka'aman Manidookaadeg Ishkode: Giniijaanisimaanig zhigwa Gidinawenaaganag onji
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sun Lodge Village
Peguis Child and Family Services
Garry McCorrister (Ogimaa Kinew)
Dwayne McCorrister (Giizis Ininew)
Louise McCorrister (Piitwan Aki Doog)
Maurice Brubacher (Mkode-Binesi-Nini) ... [et al.]
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 13, no. 2, Special Audiovisual Edition, 2018, p. 4
Description
Links to a video that describes the programming which creates opportunities for families to participate in ceremonial and land-based ways of knowing and healing.
Rekindling the Sacred Fire...
Duration: 21:19
Response to Eric M. Riggs
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steve Pavlik
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 1, 1998, pp. 227-232
Description
Reaction to comments on the article, "American Indian Spirituality, Traditional Knowledge, and the 'Demon-Haunted' World of Western Science", including areas agreed and disagreed upon.
Restorying Indigenous–Settler Relations in Canada: Taking a Decolonial Turn toward a Settler Theology of Liberation
Theses
Author/Creator
Joëlle M. Morgan
Description
Theology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Saint Paul University, 2018.
Resurging through Kishiichiwan: The Spatial Politics of Indigenous Water Relations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle Daigle
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 159-172
Description
Discusses the Mushkegowuk people’s relationship to water and how it has been ruptured in the interests of extractive industries and economic development. Also discusses efforts to reconnect with and protect waterways.
Rethinking Environmental Science Education from Indigenous Knowledge Perspectives: An Experience with a Dene First Nation Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ranjan Kumar Datta
Environmental Education Research, vol. 24, no. 1, 2018, pp. 50-66
Description
Examines the importance and implications of land-based approach and discusses how this particular community has taken control of programs, gained leadership in wisdom traditions and taught respect for the land and its inhabitants.
Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Phyllis Morrow
Gina Lola Worthington
Toni A. Culjak
Thomas W. Cowger
Helen M. Bannan
Philip G. Terrie
Marvin Cohodas
Karsten Fitz
Donna B. Gerdts
Dennis R. Hoilman
Linc Kesler
Derek Milne
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 1, 1998, pp. 249-323
Description
Book review of:
Agayuliyararput: Kegginaqut, Kangiit-llu/Our Way of Making Prayer: Yup’ik Masks and the Stories They Tell by Marie Meade.
American Indians in World War I, at War and at Home by Thomas A. Britten.
Blue Dawn, Red Earth: New Native American Storytellers edited and with an introduction by Clifford E. Trafzer.
The Caddos, the Wichitas, and the United States, 1846-1901 by F. Todd Smith.
Dahcotah: Life and Legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling by Mary Henderson Eastman.
Reviews [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring, 1998]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
James Treat
Amy Greenwood Baria
Craig Womack
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1998, pp. 86-95
Description
Book reviews of:
Reuben Snake, Your Humble Serpent: Indian Visionary and Activist edited, with introduction and epilogue by Jay C. Fikes; foreword by James Botsford; afterword by Walter Echo-Hawk.
Solar Storms by Linda Hogan.
Red Earth: Two Novellas by Philip H. Red Eagle.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Revitalizing Indigenous Law for Land, Air and Water: St’át’imc Legal Traditions Report
Alternate Title
RELAW Project
E-Books
Author/Creator
Dean Billy
Lindsay Borrows
Jessica Clogg
Helen Copeland
St’át’imc Elders
Ritual Knowledge in Hopi Tradition
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Maria Danuta Glowacka
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 386-392
Description
Author describes the process of gaining and using ritual knowledge in a Hopi context; examines some of the misunderstandings created by anthropologists about those who hold ritual knowledge.
The Role of Meta-Stereotypes in Intergroup Negotiations
Theses
Author/Creator
Kelley J. Main
Description
Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 1998.
Sacred Ceremonies in Unsacred Places
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Michael Waasegiizhig Price
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education , vol. 30, no. 2, The Spiritual Foundation of Tribal Colleges, Winter, October 29, 2018, p. [?]
Description
Article discusses the role of ceremony in spaces that have not traditionally been ceremonial—conferences, classrooms and other gatherings. Stresses the role and responsibility of the ceremony leader in keeping participants safe, and encourages people to make careful decisions around their attendance and participation. Author shares own experiences with ceremonies.
Sacred Lands: Aboriginal World Views, Claims, and Conflicts
Alternate Title
Occasional Publication Series (Canadian Circumpolar Institute) ; no. 43
E-Books
Author/Creator
Bryan Cummins
Kirby Whiteduck
Leroy Little Bear
Peter Kulchyski
Patricia McCormack ... [et al.]
Sacred Songs of the Sundance
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
George First Rider
Dave Melting Tallow
Joanne Greenwood
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview in which George First Rider describes various ceremonial songs
sâkîyıso: Understanding and Building Health Relationships: A First Nations Violence Prevention Teacher Guide
E-Books
Author/Creator
Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN)
Description
Uses Cree/Nêhiyaw cultural teachings to support development of healthy relationships with peers, dating partners, family and community. Designed for Grade 9 students.
Sami Potatoes: Living with Reindeer and Perestroika
E-Books
Author/Creator
Michael P. Robinson
Karim-Aly S. Kassam
Secwépemc: Lands and Resources Law Research Project
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jessica Asch
Kirsty Broadhead
Georgia Lloyd-Smith
Adrienne Macmillan
Simon Owen
Description
Analyzes 30 stories and conversations with community members to articulate the First Nation's legal principles with respect to: territorial and harvesting protocols and practices; establishing and maintaining agreements and conflict resolution; decision making; relationships, responsibilities and rights; and consequences, enforcement and teaching. Uses individual traditional stories as a foundation for case briefings.
Serving the Ties that Bond: Government Repression of Indigenous Religious Ceremonies on the Prairies
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
J. R. Miller
Religious Studies and Theology, vol. 17, no. 2, December 1998, pp. 87-89
Description
Book review of: Severing the Ties that Bind by Katherine Pettipas.
Shamanism (2) : the Abilities of a Shaman Named Bear Hat
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
George First Rider
John Hellson
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he tells the story of a medicine man named Bear Hat (later renamed Curlew). He tells how Bear Hat was revived after serious injury and how Bear Hat healed a young man wounded in a battle.
Shamanism and Music: A Comparative-historical Study of Shamanic Rites using Music in the Cordilleras, Philippines and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Ching Blas Muego
Description
Master of Music Therapy Thesis, Arts and Science (M.A.)--British Columbia Open University, Burnaby, 1998.