Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert W. Redsteer
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 376-380
Description
Author discusses issues of identity appropriation and identity verification in academic institutions within the United States; provides context of the history of persecution of Indigenous peoples and cultures.
Open History Seminar: Canadian History
E-Books
Author/Creator
Thomas Peace
Sean Kheraj
Description
Collection of primary and secondary sources suitable for use at secondary and post-secondary levels. Can be used to supplement Canadian History: Pre-Confederation and Canadian History: Post-Confederation.
Open Letter to Academic Freedom Fighters: What Part of No Don't You Understand?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fyre Jean Graveline
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 203-227
Description
Narrative poem which describes the author’s experience with their University and their faculty association in grieving an issue of Academic Freedom.
Open Letter to Massachusetts Joint Committee on Education to Ban Native American Mascots
Articles » General
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Summer, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Reprinted from Cultural Survival, June 6, 2017.
Open Professional Learning Resources: Audience Profiles
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
BCcampus
Indigenization Project Steering Committee
Description
Focuses on desired outcomes rather than current practices in the areas of intention, behaviour, community and systems fit in each of six post-secondary staff groups: front line staff / student services / advisors; leaders / administrators; curriculum / educational developers; educators / teachers / instructors; and researchers.
The Opening of the First Nations University of Canada
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bonnie Leask
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 34, no. 1, Summer, 2003, pp. 26-27
Description
Presents the grand opening of the First Nations University of Canada which was formerly the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College.
Operation Water Spirit
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
Description
Collection of K-12 thematic units and lesson plans which focus on Aboriginal culture and perspectives on water and water quality issues faced by reserves.
[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 Eight: Foreigners Invade Your Country Simulation
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 Nine: Introduction and Directions
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]: Grade Ten: Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Two: 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
The Opinions of Ambulance Personnel Regarding Using a Heated Mattress for Patients Being Cared for in a Cold Climate - An Intervention Study in Ambulance Care
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jonas Aléx
Tom Uppstu
Britt-Inger Saveman
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 76, 2017, p. article no. 1379305
Description
Ambulance personnel from northern Sweden rate their experiences as being positive for patient comfort.
Opioid 101: A Guide for Responding to the Opioid Crisis
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Metro Vancouver Aboriginal Executive Council
Description
Designed to educate Indigenous service providers and clients about substance use issues and healing options locatef in Vancouver. Focuses on community strengths and resiliency.
The Opioid Crisis: Impact on Native American Communities
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Albuquerque Area Southwest Tribal Epidemiology Center (AASTEC)
Description
Infographic with statistics on usage of individual drugs and overdose deaths between 2014 and 2016.
Opioid Use among First Nations in Ontario: A Report of Current Findings
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Description
Statistical information on number of prescriptions, number of prescriptions by type, rates of opioid-related hospitalization and emergency department visits, and mortality
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.
Opioids and Substances of Misuse among First Nations People in Alberta
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Analytics and Performance Reporting Branch
Alberta Health
Description
Data for: mortality (apparent accidental deaths from fentanyl/non-fentanyl opioids), confirmed drug and alcohol toxicity deaths (both accidental and suicides), opioid dispensing, emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and emergency medical response.
Opportunities For Co-operative Provision in Rural , Remote and Northern Aboriginal Communities
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Shannon Rohan
Description
Discusses new approach for supplying health care services to rural, remote and northern Aboriginal communities.
Opportunities for Standards to Contribute to Health, Safety, Resiliency, and Environmental Protection in Canada’s North
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Steenhof
Northern Review, no. 48, October 18, 2018, pp. 33-50
Description
Author draws on a white paper published by CSA Group (2017) to focus on four topic areas: provision of clean and accessible water, provision of emergency response, safe and resilient buildings, and environmental protection and management. Identifies 14 different opportunities for standards in those areas.
Opportunity and Transition: Veterans Find Growth and Healing at College of Menominee Nation
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sherrole Benton
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 29, no. 2, Honoring Veterans, Winter, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Profiles three veterans and discusses how the College facilitates transition from the military back into tribal life.
Opposing Views: The Story Of Custer's Defeat Depends On Who Is Telling It
Articles » General
Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 1, February/March 2017, pp. 30-31
Description
Article contains two pieces of art depicting, 'opposing views' of the 1876 Battle of Greasy Grass or the Battle of Little Bighorn involving George Custer.
Opposition Play: Trans-Atlantic Trickstering in Gerald Vizenor's The Heirs of Columbus
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Iping Liang
Concentric, vol. 29, no. 1, January 2003, pp. 121-141
Description
Examines the turn of clash into comedy by using idea of trickster, turning Christopher Columbus into a crossblood Jewish Mayan trickster.
Options for Commercial Enterprises in First Nations
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John Graham
Heather Edwards
Description
Looks at the framework for developing and evaluating options for First Nations to take charge of economic development in the commercial fishing industry. This article also examines five commercial operations to ascertain how some of the principal concepts and ideas actually ‘work’ in practice.
Oral Health Beliefs and Oral Hygiene Behaviours among Parents of Urban Alaska Native Children
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vanessa Y. Hiratsuka
Jamuir M. Robinson
Robert Greenlee
Amany Refaat
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Study of 100 parents of AI/AN children 71 months or younger attending outpatient paediatric primary care appointments found that the odds of regular child toothbrushing were 49.10 times higher when the parent brushed their own teeth regularly.
Oral Patterns of Performance: Story and Song
Alternate Title
Current Arguments in Folklore
The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Barre Toelken
Description
Chapter four from The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West.
Looks at several Navajo oral traditions.
Oranga and Māori Health Inequities, 1769–-1992
E-Books
Author/Creator
Fiona Cram
Beverly Te Huia
Tracee Te Huia
Melissa Matutina Williams
Nathan Williams
Order Up! The Decolonizing Politics of Howard Adams and Maria Campbell with a Side of Imagining Otherwise
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel Voth
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 2, Fall, 2018, pp. 16-36
Description
Discusses the texts Halfbreed (Campbell, 1973) and Prison of Grass (Adams, 1975), contrasting their treatments of gender in the discussion of colonial violence; calls on contemporary scholars to consider in their works “the way gender is animated in a decolonizing political movement.”
The Organization of Production of Chuska Gray Ware Ceramics for Distribution and Consumption in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Theses
Author/Creator
Valerie Claire King
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 2003.
Organochlorine Levels in Maternal and Umbilical Cord Blood Plasma in Arctic Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jody Butler Walker
Laura Seddon
Ed McMullen
Jan Houseman
Karen Tofflemire
André Corriveau
Jean-Phillipe Weber
Carole Mills
Samuel Smith
Jay Van Oostdam
The Science of the Total Environment, vol. 302, no. 1-3, January 20, 2003, pp. 27-52
Description
Discussion of the base line for exposure to organochlorine and metal contaminants, and the higher rates of exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) for Inuit, Dene and Métis.
Other Picture Boards in Van Diemen’s Land: The Recovery of Lost Illustrations Of Frontier Violence and Relationships
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicholas Dean Brodie
Kristyn Harman
Aboriginal History, vol. 41, December 2017, pp. 3-21
Description
Article examines textual descriptions from the letters and journals of Australian settlers of painted story boards depicting colonially prescribed behaviors and threatened consequences for not conforming. The journals and letters also describe how these picture boards were installed in various wilderness locations where known to be frequented by Indigenous peoples.
Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture. Jace Weaver.
Alternate Title
American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series; vol. 39
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sidner Larson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2003, pp. 86-88
Description
Book review of: Other Words by Jace Weaver.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Otter's Journey through Indigenous Language and Law
E-Books
Author/Creator
Lindsay Keegitah Borrows
Our Blood is Sweet: The Wampum Belt Journey
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joe Jacobs
Nancy Gibson
Pimatziwin: A Journal of Indigenous and Aboriginal Community Health, vol. 1, no. 2, Winter, 2003, pp. 59-72
Description
Discussion of the Teiakonekwenhsatsikhe:tare wampum belt, and how it is walked from place to place, to teach the message of living a healthier life style.
Our Bodies, Our Stories: Sexual Violence among Native Women in Seattle, WA
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Abigail Echo-Hawk]
Description
Brief paper reports on results of survey of 148 women and analysis of health outcomes and associations such as suicide attempts or substance misuse among victims of rape and/or coercion.
"Our Healing Starts with Our Women": Wolamsotuwakonol of the Indian Residential School Experience
Theses
Author/Creator
Amanda E. Reid
Description
Nursing Thesis (MN)--University of New Brunswick, 2019.
Our Health Counts London
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
[Michelle Firestone
Raglan Maddox
Kristen O’Brien
Chloé Xavier
Gertie Mai Muise
Brian Dokis
Janet Smylie]
Description
Surveyed over 750 Indigenous people living, working or accessing health/social services in the city. In addition to health questions, respondents were also asked about other topics such as culture and identity, criminal justice, parenting and involvement with child protection agencies, and missing persons.
Our Health Counts: Population-Based Measures of Urban Inuit Health Determinants, Health Status, and Health Care Access
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janet Smylie
Michelle Firestone
Michael W. Spiller
Tungasuvvingat Inuit
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 109, no. 5-6, December 2018, pp. 662-670
Description
Researchers partnered with Tungasuvvingat Inuit (TI), an Ottawa cultural service agency, to study key indicators of health. Found health services poorly rated, multiple barriers to access, elevated rates of emergency room access, and high rates of poverty, unemployment, household crowding and food insecurity.
Our Health Counts Toronto: An Inclusive Community-Driven Health Survey for Indigenous Peoples in Toronto: Draft
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Janet Smylie
Sara Wolfe
Cheryllee Bourgeois]
Description
Survey conducted in 2015-2016 and used Respondent Driven Sampling to achieve sample size of 908. In addition to health questions, participants were asked about other topics such as culture, identity, housing, school experience and parenting.
Our Health Counts Toronto Fact Sheets
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
[Michelle Firestone
Raglan Maddox
Kelly O'Brien
Chloé Xavier
Janet Smylie
Sara Wolfe … [et al.]]
Description
Survey conducted in 2015-2016 used Respondent Driven Sampling to achieve sample size of 908. In addition to health questions respondents were asked about a wide range of topics including culture, identity, housing, school experience, and parenting.
Our Health Counts: Urban Indigenous Health Database Project: Community Report: Inuit Adults, City of Ottawa
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Janet Smylie
Michelle Firestone
Description
Project gathered information on health, well-being and access to health services that would inform policy planning, delivery of programs, and measurement of outcomes.
"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 Identities as Civic Power
Alternate Title
2017 State of Native Youth Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute
[Erik R. Stegman
Amber Richardson
Josie Raphaelito
Aaron Slater
Bettina Gonzalez]
Description
Reports on the results of the Generation Indigenous (Gen-I) Online Roundtable Survey of Native American youth between the ages 18-24. Respondents were asked about their three top priorities, what they are doing to tackle their challenges, and some of the ways they are partnering with their community to build resilience.
Our Interconnected Journey
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lorna Williams
BC Studies , no. 200, 50th Anniversary, Winter, 2019, pp. 53-75
Description
In this personal essay, the author explores issues rooted in the conflicting worldviews of Indigenous and settler society; she further compares the legal traditions rooted in these worldviews and explores concepts surrounding the rule of law and its failure versus unjust laws within the context of her own Jewish heritage and the legacy of Nazi Germany.
Our Languages, Our Stories: Towards the Revitalization and Retention of Indigenous Languages in Urban Environments: Discussion Paper
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Association of Friendship Centres
Description
Reports on National Association of Friendship Centres' Indigenous Language Symposium held in 2018. The symposium was convened in response to the Federal Government's intention to "enact and Indigenous Languages Act" in collaboration with Indigenous peoples.
Our National Competitiveness and Canada's Territories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Description
Discusses the adaptability of businesses in Canada's territories and the necessity of the federal and territorial governments to do the same.