Origins of the Jingle Dress Dance
Alternate Title
Glimpses: Origins of the Jingle Dress Dance
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark Thiel
Whispering Wind, vol. 36, no. 5, [March/April] 2007, pp. 14-18
Description
Explores the origin of various jingle dances and the traditions behind them.
Osage Gender: Continuity, Change and Colonialzation, 1720s-1870s
Theses
Author/Creator
Tai S. Edwards
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2010.
Our Generation
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Sinem Saban
Damien Curtis
Description
Award-winning documentary about Aboriginal rights and the response to the Australian Federal Government's Northern Territory Intervention which exerts compulsory control over 73 communities.
Duration: 1:13:42.
Accompanied by Study Guide
Our Life Among the Iroquois Indians
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Laurence M. Hauptman
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, Summer, 2010, pp. 401-402
Description
Book review of: Our Life Among the Iroquois Indians by Harriet S. Clark Caswell, reprinted with a new introduction by Joy Bilharz.
"Our Struggle Goes Beyond Democracy"
Articles » General
Author/Creator
David Choquehuanca
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, First Year of Evo Morales Presidency, June 2007, pp. 80-81
Description
Bolivian Minister of Foreign Affairs talks about harmony, vision and way of life.
To access this article, scroll down to page 80.
Out of the Classroom and Into the Canyons: An American Indian Travel Course in Theory and Practice
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Conrad Shumaker
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 1, Special Issue, Spring, 2007, pp. 32-48
Description
Examines a University of Central Arkansas Native American Literature course providing experiential learning about traditions.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 32.
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.
Payepot and His People
Alternate Title
Canadian Plains Reprint Series, 14
E-Books
Author/Creator
Abel Watetch
The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Patrice Hollrah
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 128-131
Description
Book review of: The People Have Never Stopped Dancing by Jacqueline Shea Murphy.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 128.
The Performance of Body, Space, and Place: Creating Indigenous Performance
Alternate Title
Healing Collective Trauma: Using Sociodrama and Drama Therapy
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Thomas Riccio
Description
Discusses strategies and exercises used to promote individual and community healing.
Chapter seven from Healing Collective Trauma: Using Sociodrama and Drama Therapy edited by Eva Leveton.
The Peyote Road: Religious Freedom and the Native American Church
Alternate Title
Civilization of the American Indian Series; v. 265
E-Books
Author/Creator
Thomas Constantine Maroukis
Civilization of the American Indian Series
Physical Activity and Healing through the Medicine Wheel
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lynn F. Lavallée
Pimatisiwin, vol. 5, no. 1, 2007, pp. 127-153
Description
Looks at the impact of a martial arts program, and identifies the interconnection to mental, emotional and spiritual well-being of Aboriginal adults.
Pipeline Dreams: People, Environment, and the Arctic Energy Frontier
Alternate Title
IWGIA Document ; 126
E-Books
Author/Creator
Mark Nuttall
Pivotal Protocols: The Spirit Dimension in Indigenous and Western Psychologies
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Suzan McVicker
Communique, Special Section: Indigenous Peoples: Promoting Psychological Healing and Well-Being, August 2010, pp. xxxv-xl
Description
Looks at the overlapping relationship between humans and forces in the spirit world.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page xxxv.
A Place of Serenity
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rachel Hanon
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 1, Tribal College Students Today, Fall, 2007, p. 43
Description
Personal narrative about a visit St. John's Episcopal Church on a cold winter day.
Place, Performance, and Social Memory in the 1890s Ghost Dance
Theses
Author/Creator
Kristen Jean Carroll
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2007.
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 Clowns, Their Contraries and Related Phenomena
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John Plant
Description
Looks at historical information on ceremonial clowns, individual contraries, Reverse Reaction Warriors and the Ceremonial Fool of the Mandan.
Potlatch and Powwow: Dynamics of Culture through Lives Lived Dancing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tracy J. Andrews
Jon Olney
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, 2007, pp. 63-108
Description
Looks at the Kwakwaka'wakw potlatch participants' perpspectives and Nez Perce dancers' roles and experience and finds commonalities amid the differences.
Powered by a Higher Power: A Conversation with HvnSent
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
HvsSent
Honey Dawn Karima Pettigrew
Whispering Wind, vol. 39, no. 4, Issue 272, September-October 2010, pp. 28-[?]
Description
Interview with singer Wesley Royce Stops also known as HvnSent.
Powwow
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
John W. Troutman
The Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 1, Spring, 2007, p. 72
Description
Book review of: Powwow edited by Clyde Ellis, Luke Eric Lassiter and Gary H. Dunham.
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 Pre-competition and Competition Practices of Canadian Aboriginal Elite Athletes
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert J. Schinke
Stephanie Hanrahan
Duke Peltier
Ginette Michel
Richard Danielson ... [et al.]
Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology, vol. 1, 2007, pp. 147-165
Description
Discusses spiritual and motivational competition practice tactics.
Precedent and the Aboriginal Response to Global
Incursions: Smallpox and Identity Reformation
Among the Coast Salish
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Keith Thor Carlson
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 18, no. 2, Global Histories / Histoires mondiales, 2007, pp. 165-201
Description
Examines the contact-era epidemics among the Salish as an expression of globalism.
Preserving Tradition and Understanding the Past: Papers From the Conference on Iroquois Research, 2001-2005
Alternate Title
New York State Museum Record
E-Books
Author/Creator
Christine Sternberg Patrick
Barbara Graymont
Christina B. Rieth
Elizabeth Horton
Anthony Wonderley ... [et al.]
The "Priests" of East Cape: A Religious Movement on the Chukchi Peninsula During the 1920s and 1930s
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter P. Schweitzer
Evgeniy V. Golovko
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Tchoukotka / Chukotka, 2007, pp. 39-58
Description
Article describes the movement in the Siberian Yupik village of Naukan in its cultural and political contexts.
Proceed with Caution: Using Native American Folktales in the Classroom
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Debbie Reese
Language Arts, vol. 84, no. 3, January 2007, pp. 245-256
Description
Examines the cultural and social accuracy of two Native American picture-books.
Protecting Sacred Sites on Public Land: Religion and Alliances in the Mato Tipila-Devils Tower Litigation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eric Freedman
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter, 2007, pp. 1-22
Description
Case study examines the alliance between Indigenous nations and organizations, the National Parks Service, and various religious organizations during the litigation surrounding the use of the Devil’s Tower formation during the Sun Dance season.
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.
Puo'winue'l Prayers: Readings from North America's First Transtextual Script
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Louis Esme Cruz
Qwo-Li Driskill
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 16, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 243-252
Description
Examines some of the issues related to "coming home" to ourselves, our land, and our people from a multiracial, visual-textual, Two-Spirit perspective.
A Radiant Curve: Poems and Stories
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Esther Belin
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 125-128
Description
Book review of: A Radiant Curve by Luci Tapahonso.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 125.
Randomised Clinical Trial of a Group Parent Education Programme For Australian Indigenous Families
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karen Turner
Mary Richards
Matthew R. Sanders
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, vol. 43, no. 6, 2007, pp. 429-437
Description
Looks at the impact and cultural appropriateness of program concluding with decreased rates of behaviour problems and dysfunctional parenting practices.
Raven Imagery in Northwest Coast Indian Art
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jessica Finch
Description
Discusses the importance of the Raven image in art to Native American Indian cultural groups of the Northwest Coast.
Re-conceptualizing Anishinaabe Mino-Bimaadiziwin (the Good Life) as Research Methodology: A Spirit-centered Way in Anishinaabe Research
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brent Debassige
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010, pp. 11-28, 154
Description
Discusses Indigenous approaches to knowledge concerning ethical and spiritual ways of knowing and being.
Re-imagining Ethics, Rethinking Rights, and Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare: Daniel David Moses's Brébeuf's Ghost and the Specters of the Human
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Don Moore
Borrowers and Lenders, vol. 3, no. 1, Fall/Winter 2007
Description
Interrogates how play adapts Shakespeare as a strategy for renewal of First Nation Canadian history, culture and human rights.
Re-indigenizing Curriculum: An Eco-hermeneutic Approach to Learning
Alternate Title
Re-indigenizing Curriculum
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrejs Kulnieks
Dan Roronhiakewen Longboat
Kelly Young
AlterNative, vol. 6, no. 1, 2010, pp. 15-24
Description
Discusses how eco-hermeneutics that places a priority on oral tradition is needed to reform the academic curriculum for a deeper understanding of the relationship between place and language.
"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.
[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.
Redefining How Success is Measured in First Nations, Inuit and Métis Learning
Alternate Title
Report on Learning in Canada 2007
E-Books
Author/Creator
Canadian Council on Learning
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.
Reflections on C.G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Thomas J. Hoffman
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, Proceedings of the 2010 Western Social Science Association American Indian Studies Section, Summer, 2010, pp. 1-5
Description
Manuscript review of: C.G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions by Vine Deloria.
Regional Practitioners Colloquium
Alternate Title
Indigenous Architecture Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Description
Presentations and roundtable discussion by several different professionals including architects and interior designers; Beverly J. Diddy, Paul Fragua, Tamara Gay, Michelle Pfeiffer.
Duration: 58:26.
"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.
The Religion of Nature: Evangelical Perspectives on the Environment
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frédéric Laugrand
Jarich Oosten
Études/Inuit/Studies, vol. 34, no. 1, Les Inuit et le Changement Climatique / The Inuit and Climate Change, 2010, pp. 71-91
Description
Reports on recent developments regarding Canada Awakening Ministries (CAM), an Evangelical movement with the Inuit in Canada's Eastern Arctic.
Religious Experience and Symbols of Presence amongst the People of Eastern James Bay
Theses
Author/Creator
Jennifer Mary Davis
Description
Religious Studies Thesis (PhD) -- McGill University, 2007.
Remapping Indian Country in Louise Erdrich’s The Antelope Wife
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura M. Furlan
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 4, Winter, 2007, pp. 54-76
Description
Examines the interworkings of the Shawano and Roy families living in cultural conflict, while simultaneously depicting the universal issues of family life that cross cultural boundaries.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 54.