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Author/Creator
Loretta Sarah Todd
Description
This documentary reflects on Kainai (Blood tribe) history, governance, survival, and living culture as it explores the repatriation of artifacts from Europeans.
Duration: 1:9:39.
Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Barbara Graymont
American Historical Review, vol. 84, no. 2, April 1979, pp. 537-538
Description
Book review of: Keepers of the Game by Calvin Martin.
Kihcitwâw Kîkway Meskocipayiwin (Sacred Changes): Transforming Gendered Protocols in Cree Ceremonies through Cree Law
Theses
Author/Creator
Darcy Lindberg
Description
Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Victoria, 2017.
Kinaaldá: Diné Women Knowledge
Theses
Author/Creator
Eulynda Toledo-Benalli
Description
Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2003.
Kiya Waneekah: (Don't Forget)
Theses
Author/Creator
Dennis Davey
Description
Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2017.
Labrador Inuit on the Hunt: Seasonal Patterns, Techniques, and Animals as They Appear in the Early Moravian Diaries
Alternate Title
Les Inuit du Labrador à la chasse : Modèles saisonniers, techniques et animaux tels qu’ils apparaissent dans les carnets anciens des frères Moraves
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thea Olsthoorn
Études Inuit Studies , vol. 41, no. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 125-149
Description
Author gathers and studies accounts from the journals of Moravian settlers in Labrador; written between 1771 and 1778 these accounts contain depictions of seal and caribou as prey animals, information on when the Inuit hunted these animals and the techniques they used, and clues that suggest transformation between human and nonhuman beings.
Land-Based Learning: A Case Study Report for Educators Tasked with Integrating Indigenous Worldviews into Classrooms
Alternate Title
2016 Indigenous Innovation That Works
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
André Rebeiz and Max Cooke
Max Cooke
Description
Looks at the H’a H’a Tumxulaux Outdoor Education Program located in Trail, British Columbia which is targeted at 12-15 year-olds.
Law, Theory and Aboriginal Peoples
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gordon Christie
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, Fall, 2003, pp. 67-115
Description
Argues that since the theoretical underpinings of Canadian law are Western liberalism, there is a fundamental conflict with the viewpoint of Aboriginal people.
Layers of Meaning in a Kwakiutl Potlatch Figure
Theses
Author/Creator
Anne Gossen
Description
Early American Culture Thesis (M.A.)--University of Delaware, Winterthur Program 2003.
Leadership: Aboriginal Perspectives and Challenges
Alternate Title
Briefing (Conference Board of Canada) ; June 2003
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 451-03
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Stelios Loizides
Wanda Wuttunee]
Leadership Capacity and Cultural Landscape Management: An Aboriginal Case Study From Canada's Subarctic
Theses
Author/Creator
Anne Jane Grieve
Description
Leadership and Training Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2003.
Learning from Country
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Nadia Wheatley
ab-Original, vol. 1, no. 2, 2017, pp. 243-256
Description
Article describes the author’s experience of learning Indigenous principles of education and adapting them for use with student living in different environments; advocates for a wholistic pedagogical approach to education.
Legislative Ambiguity and Ontological Hierarchy in US Sacred Land Law
Alternate Title
Legislative Ambiguity and Ontological Hierarchy in United States Sacred Land Law
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adam Dunstan
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 23-43
Description
Uses two court cases involving protection of the sacred San Francisco Peaks from ski-resort development to highlight how phrases in the American Indian Religious Freedom Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act lend themselves to judicial interpretations which undermine protection of sacred sites.
Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony as a Viable Path of Resistance and Agency
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dafer Yousif Sarairah
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University (Humanities and Management Sciences), vol. 4, no. 2, 2003, pp. 155-168
Description
Looks at the main character's fight against the evils of imperialism and racism and search for identify.
Living and Writing Indigenous Spiritual Resistance
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Judy Iseke-Barnes
Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol. 24, no. 3, December 2003, pp. 211-38
Description
Explores the importance of the inclusion of Indigenous knowledge in academic institutions through three stories.
Living Tradition: The Kwakwaka'wakw Potlatch on the Northwest Coast
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
U'Mista Cultural Society
Description
Website provides links to introduction to Potlatch, people, lands, history, language, educational resources, and a virtual tour.
"The Lord Will Provide": The History and Role of Episcopalian Christianity in Nets'aii Gwich'in Social Development--Arctic Village Alaska
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steven C. Dinero
Indigenous Nations Studies Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2003, pp. 3-28
Description
Discusses Gwich'in Reverend Albert E. Tritt's role in the development of Bishop Rowe Chapel and the combining of spirituality and Christianity.
Louis 'David' Riel: "Prophet of the New World"
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
André Lalonde
Prairie Forum, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 1979, pp. 149-151
Description
Book review of: Louis 'David' Riel: "Prophet of the New World" by Thomas Flanagan.
Māori Men, Relationships, and Everyday Practices: Towards Broadening Domestic Violence Research
Alternate Title
Maori Men, Relationships, and Everyday Practices: Towards Broadening Domestic Violence Research
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pita King
Neville Robertson
AlterNative, vol. 13, no. 4, December 2017, pp. 210-217
Description
Study focused on five men's experiences with intimate relationships and extended family life and how they draw on traditional ways-of-being to maintain and enhance those relationships.
Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers, a Boxed Set of Three Volumes: A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World/Nine Visits to the Mythworld/Being in Being: The Collected Works of a Master Haida Mythteller
Book Reviews
BC Studies, no. 138/139, Native Geographies, Summer/Autumn, 2003, pp. 181-184
Description
Book reviews of: A Story Sharp as a Knife by Robert Bringhurst, Nine Visits to the Mythworld by Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas and Being in Being by Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay.
The Meaning of Place at Blackrock: Change and Identity on the Zuni Indian Reservation
Theses
Author/Creator
William A. Dodge
Description
American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 2003.
The Medicine Way: Native American Women's Understanding and "Doing" of Medicine
Theses
Author/Creator
Doreen Elizabeth Martinez
Description
Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Syracuse University, 2003.
Memory as Medicine: The Power of Recollection in "Ceremony"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan J. Scarberry
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 1, A Special Symposium Issue on Leslie Marmon Silko's , 1979, pp. 19-26
Description
An examination of the use of memory in the novel Ceremony. The main character Tayo has painful memories he is trying to forget but as the novel progresses he learns to embrace memories of his Indigenous traditions as a way to control his own life.
Memory, History, and Contested Pasts: Re-imagining Sacagawea/Sacajawea
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sally McBeth
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, 2003, pp. 1-32
Description
An investigation into Native Americans worldviews in relation to many versions of the life and death of Sacajawea, the interpreter who accompanied Lewis and Clark.
“The Men in the Bar Feared Her”: The Power of Ayah in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Lullaby
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patrice Hollrah
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2003, pp. 1-38
Description
Examines how the author's knowledge of the Navajo culture and the concept hozho allow her to transform a character who could be viewed as victim into a powerful individual.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Métis Environmental Knowledge: La Tayr Pi Tout Li Moond
Theses
Author/Creator
Carol Leclair
Description
Environmental Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2003.
Métis Spiritualism
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Darren R. Préfontaine
Todd Paquin
Patrick Young
Description
Discusses the traditional spiritual beliefs of the Métis, which include influences from both their First Nation and the European ancestral roots.
[Michif Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography]
Alternate Title
Anishinaabe / Chippewa / Ojibwe Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lawrence Barkwell
Norman Fleury
Description
Material on: culture, history, mythology and language as well as separate sections for scholarly articles and theses, children's books, films, internet resources, music, recordings, curriculum materials, and textbooks.
Miracles at Little No Horse: Louise Erdrich's Answer to Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas Matchie
North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 2, March 2003, pp. 151-162
Description
Discusses two books that are thematically both about music.
Mirror Writing: (Re-) Constructions of Native American Identity / Contemporary American Indian Writing: Unsettling Literature / The Mythology of Native North America
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Alison Calder
Canadian Literature, no. 178, Autumn, 2003, pp. 111-113
Description
Comparative review of essay collections in three interdisciplinary books:
Contemporary American Indian Writing: Unsettling Literature by Dee Home
The Mythology of Native North America by David Leeming and Jake Page
Mirror Writing: (Re-)Constructions of Native American Identity edited by Thomas Claviez and Maria Moss.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access reviews, scroll to page 111.
A Missing Link: Between Traditional Aboriginal Education and the Western System of Education
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lynda A. Curwen Doige
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 27, no. 2, 2003, pp. 144-160
Description
Examines spirituality in learning and culturally appropriate education from three different perspectives.
Missionaries and American Indian Languages
Alternate Title
Nurturing Native Languages
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Evangeline Parsons Yazzie
Description
Chapter 14 from Nurturing Native Languages edited by J. Reyhner, O. Trujillo, R. L. Carrasco, L. Lockard.
More Than a Façade: The Kenekuk Religion Revisited
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Matthew Garrett
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 4, Fall, 2017, pp. 293-310
Description
Discusses what the Prophet's spiritual teachings may have meant to his Kickapoo followers.
More Than Words - Mohawk Language and Cultural Revitalization in New York
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lisa Matthews
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 4, Indigenous Education and the Prospects for Cultural Survival, Winter, 2003
Description
Interview with Kay Olan, that discusses the mission, main focus, future goals and programs offered at Kanatsiohareke.
Mother Earth
Alternate Title
CBC Ideas
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Phil Lane
Stan Cuthand
Paul Kennedy
John Snow
Art Shofley ... [et al.]
Description
Transcript of panel discussion about the concept and its significance in Aboriginal culture.
Music as Knowledge in Shamanism and Other Healing Traditions of Siberia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marilyn Walker
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 40, no. 2, 2003, pp. 40-49
Description
Discusses aspects of shamanism, music and dance as aspects of healing.
N. Scott Momaday: Towards an Indian Identity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thekla Zachrau
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, 1979, pp. 39-56
Description
Looks at themes of alienation and loss of culture associated with the urban environment, and search for an authentic identity rooted in Indigenous culture in the novel House Made of Dawn.
Native American Healing and Counseling: Cantadora
Theses
Author/Creator
Dana Lee Fuchs
Description
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Connecticut, 2003.
Native Life
Alternate Title
CANADIANHISTORY.CA: The Many Histories of Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
J .R. Miller
Description
Overview of Aboriginal history from the 1850s to 2000. Could be used as an educational resource for high school students.
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 Angles of Vision on the Cherokee Ghost Dance Movement of 1811-1812
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William G. McLoughlin
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 4, 1979, pp. 317-345
Description
Using primary sources to examine the various factors and historical moments that led to the rise of the Ghost Dance in the Cherokee Nation.
New Light on Black Elk and The Sacred Pipe
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Fitzgerald
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 71-91
Description
Uses correspondence to and from Joseph Brown to explore his personal philosophy and his process of transcribing and editing The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
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
Of the Heart: Scoping Review of Indigenous Youth Suicide and Prevention
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rita Henderson
Lindsay Crowshoe
Brittany Johnson
Naomi Parker
Stephanie Perrin ... [et al.]
Description
Sources of data: Indigenous advisors, academic and grey literature review, and environmental scan. Includes information on general context, promising practices, and knowledge gaps around service provision.
Okwire’shon:’a, the First Storytellers: Recovering Landed Consciousness in Readings of Trees & Texts
Theses
Author/Creator
Kaitlin Sandra June Debicki
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2017. Refers to the works Power by Linda Hogan, Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson, and Truth and Bright Water by Thomas King.
One Hundred Years of Old Man Sage: An Arapaho Life
Alternate Title
Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jeffrey D. Anderson
[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 Seven: 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