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 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
"Night Flying Woman": Sacred Stories of the Ojibway
Theses
Author/Creator
Pauline Brunette Danforth
Description
Graduate School Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2002.
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
Nourishing the Learning Spirit: Living Our Way to New Thinking
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marie Battiste
Education Canada, vol. 50, no. 1, Winter, 2010, pp. 14-18
Description
Looks at the erosion of spirit, the Indigenous renaissance, and the potential of Indigenous knowledge.
La Nuit Inuit: Éléments de Réflexion
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Guy Bordin
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, Inuit and Qallunaaq Perspectives: Interacting points of view, 2002, pp. [45]-70
Description
Compares historical writings about the Inuit and the effect of the long periods of darkness and the actual Inuit attitudes and perceptions.
Text in French.
O'odham Himdag as a Source of Strength and Wellness Among the Tohono O'odham of Southern Arizona and Northern Sonora, Mexico
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Teri Knutson Woods
Karen Blaine
Lauri Francisco
Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, vol. 29, no. 1, Symposium of Native American Wellness, March 2002, pp. 35-51
Description
Looks at the history of the tribe and the concept of O'odham Himdag linking to wellness and way of life.
Objects of Purpose - Objects of Prayer: Peyote Boxes of the Native American Church
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel C. Swan
Museum Anthropology Review, vol. 4, no. 2, 2010, pp. 156-189
Description
Discusses boxes used to store and transport objects and items used in ceremonies of the Peyote religion. Includes images of examples.
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.
On Critical Frameworks for Analyzing Indigenous Literature: The Case of Monkey Beach
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michèle Lacombe
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 41, Representations of First Nations and Métis / Les représentations des Premiéres nations et des Métis, 2010, pp. 253-276
Description
Focuses on ways to examine author Eden Robinson’s novel using approaches based on creation stories and urban "post-Indian" perspectives.
On Our Way to Healing: Stories from the Oldest Living Generation of the File Hills Indian Residential School
Theses
Author/Creator
Ann Blair Callahan
Ann Blair Thomas Callahan
Description
Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Manitoba, 2002.
One Native Life: Recapitulating Anishnaabeg Identity and Spirituality in a Global Village
Graduate Research Projects & Papers
Author/Creator
Christopher N. Waite
Description
Integrated Studies Project (M.A.)--Athabasca University, 2010.
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One Story of a Spiritual Research Journey
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ross Hoffman
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010, pp. 122-136,155
Description
Looks at two forms of learning, a traditional community-based spiritual journey, and the academic pursuit of the knowledge related to Indigenous research.
[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
Opikinawasowin: The Life Long Process of Growing Cree and Metis Children
Graduate Research Projects & Papers
Author/Creator
Leah Marie Dorion
Description
Integrated Studies Project (M.A.)--Athabasca University, 2010.
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Opioid Use in Pregnancy and Parenting: An Indigenous-Based Collaborative Framework for Northwestern Ontario
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Naana Afua Jumah
Lisa Bishop
Mike Franklyn
Janet Gordon
Len Kelly ... [et al.]
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 108, no. 5-6, 2017, pp. e616-e620
Description
Describes two workshops that looked at issues from the perspectives of research, health care, social service provision and supportive care.
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 Hope and Our Protection": Misko-biiwaabik (Copper) and Tribal Sovereignty in Michigan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Erik M. Redix
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 3, Summer, 2017, pp. 224-249
Description
Argues that the Smithsonian's refusal to repatriate a sacred boulder illustrates how the Lake Superior Ojibwe experienced colonialism in that its removal was part of the exploitation of rich copper deposits in the area.
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.
An Overview of Case Studies of Contemporary Native American Music in Canada, the United States of America and on the Web
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karl Neuenfeldt
The World of Music, vol. 44, no. 1, Indigenous Popular Music in North America: Conditions and Innovations, 2002, pp. 7-10
Description
Looks at adaptation and transculturation of Indigenous music.
Owls: Images and Voices in the Ojibwa and Midewiwin Worlds
Alternate Title
Owls: Images and Voices in the Ojibwe and Midewin Worlds
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael M. Pomedli
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 26, no. 2, 2002, pp. 45-62
Description
Examines stories, images, and voices of the owl in Anishinaabe culture and how these teachings (owl) influenced the signatories of Treaty Three.
A Pedagogy of the Land: Dreams of Respectful Relations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kaaren Dannenmann
Celia Haig-Brown
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 37, no. 3, Special Issue: Indigenous Education: Ways of Knowing, Thinking, and Doing, 2002, pp. 451-468
Description
Looks at the development of an Indigenous Knowledge Instructors Program.
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.
"People Speaking Silently to Themselves": An Examination of Keith Basso's Philosophical Speculations on "Sense of Place" in Apache Cultures
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Martin W. Ball
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3, Summer, 2002, pp. 460-478
Description
Author critiques the theory presented in Basso’s book, Wisdom sits in Places, which argues that the voice of a place is nothing more than the projection of human imagination; article contextualize the critique in the within Apache cultural and spiritual practice.
La perception du carcajou/glouton par les Inuit du Nord canadien: Du passé au present
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frédéric Laugrand
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 41, no. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 243-263
Description
Author describes the different perceptions of the wolverine in Dené and Gwich’in culture both as a presence that people must be wary of in the bush and status as a powerful tuurngaq (totem or spirit guide).
Text in French.
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.
Performing Musqueam Culture and History at British Columbia's 1966 Centennial Celebrations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Roy
BC Studies, no. 135, Perspectives on Aboriginal Culture, Autumn, 2002, pp. 55-90
Description
Examines how cultural displays for non-Aboriginal audiences, which were sometimes revised for public presentation, were used as a method to increase political legitimacy.
Perspectives on Wellness: Journey on the Red Road
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hilary N. Weaver
Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, vol. 29, no. 1, Symposium of Native American Wellness, March 2002, pp. 5-15
Description
Looks at the path to wellness and balance in First Nations/Native American communities, using a holistic concept.
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
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.
Place Psychological Experience: A Native American Perspective
Theses
Author/Creator
Rand West
Description
Clinical Psychology Thesis (Psy.D.)--Antioch University, 2003.
Placing The Sacred Pipe: A Fractal Model for Lakota Ritual
Theses
Author/Creator
Stephen Oyer-Owens
Description
Humanities Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Dallas, 2002.
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.
Plants and Connection to Place
Alternate Title
Yukon Grade 8 Cross-Curricular Unit
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alyce Johnson
Liz Woods
Description
Focuses on Yukon First Nations Traditional Knowledge.
Plants & Connection to Place
Alternate Title
Plants and Connection to Place
Yukon Grade 8 Cross-Curricular Unit
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Yukon First Nations Curriculum Working Group
Alyce Johnson
Liz Woods
Description
Teacher's guide.
Postmodern Bears in the Texts of Gerald Vizenor
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nora Baker Barry
MELUS, vol. 27, no. 3, Native American Literature, Autumn, September 2002, pp. [93]-112
Description
Discusses how author Gerald Vizenor's emphasis on the bear is explained by the animal's role as the renewer of Ojibwe life in Midewiwin ceremony.
The Power of Song in the Missions of Northern New Spain
Theses
Author/Creator
Kristin Dutcher Mann
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northern Arizona University, 2002.
[The Power of the Spirit: American Indian Worldview and Successful Community Development Among the Oglala Lakota]
Theses
Author/Creator
Patricia Wells Burdette
Description
American Indian Peace Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Union Institute Graduate College, 2002.
The Power of the Spirit: American Indian Worldview and Successful Community Development among the Oglala Lakota
Theses
Author/Creator
Patricia Wells Burdette
Description
Interdisciplinary Studies and American Indian Peace Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Union Institute and University, 2002.
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.
The Powwow Trail
Alternate Title
Floating In Land
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Heather Elton
Description
Discusses the social and spiritual power of traditional and contemporary dance.
Preparing To Teach Our Children the Foundations For An Anishinaabe Curriculum
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David B. Anderson
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 37, no. 3, Special Issue: Indigenous Education: Ways of Knowing, Thinking, and Doing, 2002, pp. 293-308
Description
Looks at the lessons of seven generations.