Alternate Title
Seven Grandfather Teachings
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Theresa Sims
Description
Brief description of the qualities essential to living a good life: love bravery, truth, humility, respect, honesty and wisdom.
Activating the Heart : Storytelling, Knowledge Sharing, and Relationship
Alternate Title
Educator's Guude Activating the Heart: Storytelling Knowledge Sharing and Relationships
Indigenous Studies Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Leonie Sandercock
Christine Steward
Jacquie Leggatt
Patrick Moore
Kendra Mitchell-Foster ...
Bren Kolson
Zoe Todd ... [et al.]
Indigenous Studies Series
Description
To access Educator's Guide click the following link:
Educator's Guide.
Adawx, Spanaxnox, and the Geopolitics of the Tsimshian
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Marsden
BC Studies, no. 135, Perspectives on Aboriginal Culture, Autumn, 2002, pp. 101-135
Description
Discussion of two strains of oral history and how the combination relates to tribal territory and political association among tribes.
Campfire Stories with George Catlin: an Encounter of Two Cultures
E-Books
Author/Creator
Smithsonian Institution American Art Museum
A Collection of Tłı̨chǫ Stories from Long Ago = Tłı̨chǫ Whaèhdǫǫ̀ Godıı̀ Ełexè Whela
Alternate Title
A Collection of Tlicho Stories from Long Ago Book 1
E-Books
Description
Traditional stories written in English and Tłı̨chǫ.
The Comic Vision of Anishinaabe Culture and Religion
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lawrence W. Gross
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3, Summer, 2002, pp. 436-459
Description
Author considers the way that worldviews are constructed; examines the way that humour and comedy contribute to the Anishinaabe worldview, and to the resilience of the Anishinaabe people.
Coming Into Wisdom: Community, Family, Land, & Love
Alternate Title
Coming Into Wisdom: Community, Family, Land, and Love
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 6, no. Special Issue 1, The Pan-Territorial on-the-Land Summit, July 2018, pp. 12-17
Description
Simpson uses traditional stories and teachings to talk about traditional knowledge systems, ways of knowing and learning, and the interconnectedness of ecosystems and of generations.
Video of Conference Presentation: Freedom Sings: Indigenous Brilliance on the Land
Duration: 42:29
Creation Myths and Legends of the Creek Indians
E-Books
Author/Creator
Bill Grantham
Cultural Awareness Through the Arts: The Success of an Aboriginal Antibias Program for Intermediate Students
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Carol Butler
William J. Egnatoff
Education Canada, vol. 42, no. 2, 2002, pp. 40-42
Description
Discusses an arts unit designed to help students develop positive attitudes towards First Nations people.
Current Memories: Robert Henderson Stories
Alternate Title
Anishinabe Story of the Deluge
Famous Old Boss Packer Recalls Construction Days
Henderson Memoir
E-Books
Author/Creator
Robert Henderson
Description
Compilation of three stories originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press in 1930.
A Digital Bundle : Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jennifer Wemigwans
Diné Bahane': The Navajo Creation Story
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Charlote J. Frisbie
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 3, Summer, 1986, pp. 259-261
Description
Book review of: Diné Bahane' by Paul Zolbrod.
Dispossessed Indigeneity: Literary Excavations of Internalized Colonialism
Theses
Author/Creator
Natalie Knight
Description
English Thesis (PhD) -- Simon Fraser University, 2018.
Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems, and The Sun Dance Opera; Native American Women's Writing, 1800-1924: An Anthology; Sarah Winnemucca
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Margo Lukens
Legacy, vol. 19, no. 2, 2002, pp. 265-268
Description
Book review of:
Dreams and Thunder by Zitkala-Sa.
Native American Women's Writing 1800-1924 edited by Karen L. Kilcup.
Sarah Winnemucca by Sally Zanjani.
The Education of an Indigenous Woman: The Pursuit of Truth, Social Justice and Healthy Relationships in a Coast Salish Community Context
Theses
Author/Creator
Mavis Kathleen Underwood
Description
Indigenous Governance Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2018.
English First Peoples: Grade 10-12 Resource Guide
Alternate Title
FNESC/FNSA English First Peoples 10, 11, and 12 Teacher Resource Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Education Steering Committee (FNESC)
First Nations Schools Association (FNSA)
Description
Includes advice for non-Indigenous teachers teaching the class, list of recommended texts, and instruction and assessment units. Course conforms to the British Columbia curriculum, but incorporates literature from across Canada and the United States.
Exploring Digital Literacy Learning with the Gwich’in Tribal Council
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rob McMahon
Michael McNally
Crystal Gail Fraser
Hanne Pearce
Trish Fontaine
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 6, no. Special Issue 2, Connectivity in Northern and Indigenous Communities, October 2018, pp. 54-60
Description
Discusses infrastructure challenges surrounding internet connectivity in NWT, strategies for meeting these challenges, and how increased connectivity requires increased digital literacy. Stresses that increased competency with digital technologies allows for them to be used as methods of cultural preservation.
Form, Content, and Cultural Values in Three Inuit (Eskimo) Survival Stories
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jon C. Stott
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 3, Summer, 1986, pp. 213-226
Description
Looks at Inuit narratives to determine if the literary form from one culture can be used in a narrative dealing with another culture.
[Fort Alexander Stories and Legends]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jeanette Courchene
Harry Courchene
Beatrice Guimond
Peter Sinclair
Isabelle Courchene
Description
Compilation of 15 short stores originally published in 1976.
The Gnawer of Rocks: Graphic Novel Study
Alternate Title
Inuktut Titiqqiriniq
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Inhabit Media
Description
Designed for Grades 8 to 12. Adaptation of a traditional Inuit story about two girls to are captured by a mythical creature called Mangittatuarjuk.
Governor of the Dew by Floyd Favel and The Velvet Devil by Andrea Menard: Study Guide
Alternate Title
National Arts Centre English Theatre Programmes for Student Audiences
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Deborah James
Description
Guide includes: synopses, production who's who, forms and facts, interviews with playwright/performers, themes, set design and extension activities.
The Great Winter Dance
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Patrick Finley-Bragg Marich
Lynn E. Bragg
Description
Primarily the story Lake Tribe's Song of Today. Suitable for use with elementary school students.
The Gwich'in Boy in the Moon and Babylonian Astronomy
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wayne Horowitz
Alestine Andre
and Ingrid Kritsch
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 55, no. 1, 2018, pp. 91-104
Description
Using evidence ranging from cuneiform tablets the contemporary anthropological writings this study examines and compares different cultural explanations for the face in the moon.
Historical and Contemporary Realities: Movement Towards Reconciliation: The Traditional and Cultural Significance of the Lands Encompassing the District of Greater Sudbury and Area
E-Books
Author/Creator
Susan Manitowabi
How Raven Found the Daylight and Other American Indian Stories by Paul M. Levitt and Elissa S. Guralnick
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Larissa Petrillo
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 14, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 2002, pp. 68-69
Description
Book review of: How Raven Found the Daylight and Other American Indian Stories by Paul M. Levitt and Elissa S. Guralnick.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
How Squire Coyote Brought Fire to the Cahrocs
Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Vance Cheney
[The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine], vol. [29], no. [3], [January] [1885], pp. [393-376]
Description
Poem.
Indian Legends: Nanabush, the Ojibbeway Saviour. Moosh-Kuh-Ung, or, The Flood
Alternate Title
Moosh-Kuh-Ung, or, The Flood
E-Books
Interior and Exterior Landscapes: The Pueblo Migration Stories
Alternate Title
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Leslie Marmon Silko
Description
Explores Pueblo oral traditions. Excerpt from: Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit. Originally published in Antaeus, no. 57 (Autumn) 1986.
Keeveeok, Awake!: Mamnguqsualuk and the Rebirth of Legend at Baker Lake: An Exhibition Held at the Ring House Gallery, November 20,1986 to January 11, 1987 ...
Alternate Title
Occasional Publication (Boreal Institute for Northern Studies) ; no. 9
E-Books
Author/Creator
Victoria Mamnguqsualuk
Charles Moore
K.J. Butler
Occasional Publication (Boreal Institute for Northern Studies)
Kiviuq's Journey: Traditional Story Study
Alternate Title
Inuktut Titiqqiriniq
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Inhabit Media
Description
Students follow the adventures of an Inuit hunter who is swept out to sea in a storm and must find his way home. Geared toward Grades 10 to 12.
Learning about Walking in Beauty: Placing Aboriginal Perspectives in Canadian Classrooms
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Renee Abram
Nora Allingham
David Anderson
Robin Buyers
Jacqueline Moore Daigle .... et al.]
The Lenâpé and Their Legends; With the Complete Texts and Symbols of the Walam Olum: A New Translation, and an Inquiry into Its Authenticity
Alternate Title
Briton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature ; Number 5
E-Books
Author/Creator
Daniel G. Brinton
Listening to the Trickster Voice in Walter Dyk's Navajo Ethnography Son of Old Man Hat
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Susan Brill de Ramírez
Trickster's Way, vol. 1, no. 2, 2002, p. Article 2
Description
Looks at the character of Navajo storyteller, Left Handed, who assumes the role of a trickster figure in the Son of Old Man Hat.
Louise Erdrich’s The Round House, the Wiindigoo, and Star Trek: The Next Generation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jacob Bender
Lydia Maunz- Breese
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 141-161
Description
Relates thematic content of the novel to that of series' episodes which give the novel its chapter titles; examines both works in the context of the Anishinaabe Wiindigoo stories, discussing interpretations of the concepts of lawlessness, justice and vigilantism.
The Many Lives of Justiniano Roxas: The Centenarian Fantasy in American History and Memory
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Boyd Cothran
Martin Rizzo
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 168-204
Description
Authors document the life the Californian Indigenous man purported to be 121 years old and "last of his race" in 1873 and contemplate what can be learned from investigating the true stories of Indigenous centenarians; discusses the discourse of extinction surrounding centenarians, and the role it plays in the imagination of settler culture.
"Monster Slayer" among the Upland Yumans: A Folk Theory on the Evolution of Hunting Cultures
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
C. Patrick Morris
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 3, Summer, 1986, pp. 199-211
Description
Looks into the mythical hero of the "Monster Slayer" from Athabascan folklore and how it reflect the evolution of Indigenous hunting culture.
National Experiences With the Protection of Expressions of Folklore/Traditional Cultural Expressions: India, Indonesia and the Philippines
Alternate Title
Study (World Intellectual Property Organization) no. 2
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
P. V. Valsala G. Kutty
Description
Study on the protection of rights for folklore holders.
Obviation in Two Innu-Aimun Atanukana
Theses
Author/Creator
Laurel Anne Hasler
Description
Linguistics Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2002.
Ohito Ashoona
Articles » General
Author/Creator
[Sandra Tenus]
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 2, Summer, 2002, pp. 38-39
Description
Profile of an Inuit artist who usually carves animal figures.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 38.
Raven Makes Drum: Taken from Skokomish Stories as Told by Bruce Miller
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Roy Deboer
Bruce Miller
Description
Northwest Coast traditional story. For use with primary school students.
Related Material:
Re-inscribing Mythopoetic Vision in Native American Studies
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kelley E. Rowley
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3, Summer, 2002, pp. 491-500
Description
Article describes different frameworks for the study of traditional Indigenous stories as "myths."
[Recensions/Book Reviews]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Virginie Vaté
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, Populations et Migrations / Populations and Migrations, 2002, pp. 204-207
Description
Book review of: The Flying Tiger: Women Shamans and Storytellers of the Amur by Kira Van Deusen.
Review in French.
Red Mysteries: "Indian" Spirits and the Sacred Landscapes of American Spiritualism
Theses
Author/Creator
Stephen Connor Wehmeyer
Description
Folklore and Mythology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California Los Angeles, 2002.
Remembering the Trickster in Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lina Perkins
Modern Drama, vol. 45, no. 2, Summer, 2002, pp. 259-269
Description
Argues that the character of Nanabush is not identical to the figure found in traditional stories, and discusses his role in underlying temporal theme of the play.
Rethinking the Paratext: Digital Story-Mapping E. Pauline Johnson’s and Chief Joe & Mary Capilano’s Legends of Vancouver (1911)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alix Shield
BC Studies, no. 197, Spring, April 24, 2018, pp. 107-121
Description
Discusses the text and its critical framework—title page, introduction, and other framing elements. Considers the roles of Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Chief Joe and his wife Mary Capilano as co-authors, and the decolonization of the text by reconnecting it to unceded Coast Salish lands using platform called ArcGIS Story-Map Journals,
Review Essay: American Indian Reference Works of 1986: Some of the Best
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
G. Edward Evans
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, 1986, pp. 43-52
Description
Book reviews of:
Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian edited by Barry T. Klein.
Atlas of Ancient America by Michael Coe, Dean Snow and Elizabeth Benson.
American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1925-1970 edited by Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. and James W. Parins.
American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodical, 1971-1985 edited by Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. and James W.
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
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.
Shared Experience and Magical Death: Chipewyan Explanations of a Prophet's Decline
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Henry S. Sharp
Ethnology, vol. 25, no. 4, October 1986, pp. 257-270
Description
Relates events surrounding the life of Magic Boy, who was viewed as the reincarnation of Lived-with-the-Wolves, possessor of the most powerful indoze (secret way of knowing) by the Chipewyan. These events took place during the 1960s and early 1970s in Canada's North. Includes discussion of the origins and beliefs surrounding the concept of indoze.
A Shared Heritage with Anishinaabe / Ojibway
Alternate Title
A Shared Heritage with Anishinaabe / Ojibwe
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lac du Bonnet & District Historical Society
Description
Topics include seven traditional teachings, explanation of the clan system, and the Wendigo story.