[What Works to Overcome Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Learnings and Gaps in the Evidence, 2009-10]: Appendix B: Summary of Assessed Items
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Closing the Gap Clearinghouse]
Description
Appendix B, Summary of Assessed Items, to accompany What Works to Overcome Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Learnings and Gaps in the Evidence, 2009-10.
Whats In A Name? Can Native Americans Control Outsiders' Use of Their Tribal Names?
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Janet McGowan
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, Geomatics: Who Needs It?, Fall/Winter, 1994
Description
Looks at several trademark laws and their application to companies using Native American names to sell non-Native products.
When Communities Are in Crisis: Planning for Response to Suicides and Suicide Attempts Among American Indian Tribes
Alternate Title
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, [Monograph No. 4, pp. 223-234]
Calling From the Rim: Suicidal Behavior Among American Indian and Alaska Native Adolescents
[Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health] ; Monograph 4
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lemyra DeBruyn
Karen Hymbaugh
Daniel Simpson
Beverly Wilkins
Scott Nelson
Description
Comments on the strategies in place to address suicide and other forms of violence.
When Did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty
E-Books
Author/Creator
Mark Rifkin
When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Clark D. Hafen
The Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 4, Fall, 2011, p. 343
Description
Book review of: When Did Indians Become Straight? by Mark Rifkin.
When Freedom is Lost: The Dark Side of the Relationship Between Government and the Fort Hope Band
E-Books
Author/Creator
Paul Driben
Robert S. Trudeau
When the Other Is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1850-1990
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Victoria Freeman
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 92, no. 2, June 2011, pp. 378-380
Description
Book review of: When the Other Is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1850-1990 by Emma Laroque.
When The Other Is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1850-1990
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jesse Rae Archibald Barber
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 31, no. 1, 2011, p. 214
Description
Book review of: When The Other Is Me by Emma LaRocque.
When the Thieves Became Masters in the Land of the Shamans
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Harald Gaski
Nordlit, no. 15, Special Issue on Northern Minorities, 2004, pp. 35-45
Description
Looks at Sámi yoik poetry.
When the Weather is Uggianaqtuq: Linking Inuit and Scientific Observations of Recent Environmental Change in Nunavut, Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Shari Fox
Description
Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 2004.
Where Are the Children?: Healing the Legacy of Residential Schools
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Simeonie Kunnuk
James Lamouche
Richard Niquay
Madeleine Dion Stout
Jeff Thomas
Gordon Williams
Description
Video produced in conjunction with the exhibition. Primarily personal narratives of survivors of the system.
Duration: 27:50.
Where Mountain and Atom Meet
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marilou Awiakta
Callaloo, vol. 17, no. 1, Native America Literatures , Winter, 1994, p. 29
Description
Poem. Originally published in Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother's Wisdom 1993.
Where the River Flows Fast
Theses
Author/Creator
Andrea Barei
Description
Architecture Thesis (M.A.)--University of Waterloo, 2011.
"Where To From Here?"
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sally Goold Oam
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 28, no. 6, November-December 2004, p. 7
Description
Briefly reports on the proceedings of the 6th Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses (CATSIN) Conference held in September 2004.
Whit
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Orlando White
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 3, 2011, pp. 155-156
Description
Poem by Orlando White.
White Gift: The Potlatch and the Rhetoric of Canadian Colonialism, 1869-1936
Theses
Author/Creator
Christopher Joseph Bracken
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 1994.
The White Man's Gonna Getcha: The Colonial Challenge to the Crees in Quebec
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Caroline Desbiens
Canadian Geographer, vol. 48, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 86-87
Description
Book review of: The White Man's Gonna Getcha by Toby Morantz.
White Man's Water: The Politics of Sobriety in a Native American Community
Alternate Title
First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
E-Books
Author/Creator
Erica Prussing
White Men Can't Teach: Native Authors, White Teachers, and Classroom Authority
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Burns Cooper
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 1, Series 2: Feminist and Post-Colonial Approaches, Spring, 1994, pp. 11-23
Description
Looks at an experimental section of a composition course with a reading list composed almost entirely of American Indian and Alaska Native authors. The article also discusses how the controversies about the readings were attributed to fundamentalist views, lack of experience in reading literature, sensitivity about ethnic issues, and feminism.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lynette Russell
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 71-72
Description
Book review of: White Mother to a Dark Race by Margaret D. Jacobs.
Whitening Race: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism
Alternate Title
UQP Symposium Series ; no. 1.
E-Books
Author/Creator
Alison Ravenscroft
Fiona Nicoll
Toula Nicolacopoulos
George Vassilacopoulos
Jane Haggis ... [et al.]
Whites Singing Red Face in British Columbia in the 1950s
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel Keyes
Theatre Research in Canada, vol. 32, no. 1, 2011, p. [?]
Description
Analyzes two operas, The Lake and Ashnola: A Legend of Sings Water.
Whitewashing History: Social Constructions of Whiteness in Armstrong, B.C., 1890-1930
Theses
Author/Creator
Robyn S. Bourgeois
Description
Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 2004.
Who are Indigenous, and How Should it Matter? Discourses on Indigenous Rights in Norway and Nepal
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Mikkel Berg-Nordlie
Ethnopolitics Papers, no. 13, November 2011, pp. 1-31
Description
Presents a comparative study of similarities and differences regarding conflicts over Indigenous rights in two dissimilar countries.
Who Are the Métis?: Olive Dickason and the Emergence of a Métis Historiography in the 1970s and 1980s
Theses
Author/Creator
Margaret Inoue
Description
History Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2004.
Who Are the Métis?: Olive Dickason and the Emergence of a Métis Historiography in the 1970s and 1980s
Theses
Author/Creator
Margaret Inoue
Description
History Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2004.
Who is Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK)?
Articles » General
Inuktitut, no. 94, 2004, p. Insert
Description
Brief description of the role of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, formerly Inuit Tapiriit of Canada, the national Inuit advocacy group.
Who Joins the Canadian Forces?: Developing a Framework for Analysis Using Bourdieu, Habermas, and Giddens
Theses
Author/Creator
Victoria Rose Mowat
Description
Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2011.
Who Owns Native Culture?
Alternate Title
Heritage Protection: Seeking a Middle Ground
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Stephen B. Brush
Current Anthropology, vol. 45, no. 5, December 2004, pp. 716-718
Description
Book review of: Who Owns Native Culture? by Michael F. Brown.
Who Owns the Arctic?: Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jessica M. Shadian
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 41, no. 2, 2011, pp. 191-193
Description
Book review of: Who Owns the Arctic? by Michael Byers.
Who We Are and What We Do
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jim Barnes
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 67-70
Description
The author recounts how he has become a writer and shares his experience in discovering who he is and what he does.
Whooping Cough Among Western Cree and Ojibwa Fur-Trading Communities in Subarctic Canada: A Mathematical-Modeling Approach
Theses
Author/Creator
Emily G. Williams
Description
Arts Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004.
Whose Agenda is it? Regulating Health Research Ethics in Labrador.
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fern Brunger
Julie Bull
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 35, no. 1-2, Propiété Intellectuelle et Éthique / Intellectual Property and Ethics, 2011, pp. 127-142
Description
Promotes the implementation and employment of community research review committees which are distinct from research ethics boards.
Whose History Is It Anyway?
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Joe Watkins
Current Anthropology, vol. 52, no. 4, August 2011, pp. 611-612
Description
Book review of: Living Histories: Native Americans and Southwestern Archaeology by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh.
Whose "Shared Humanity"?: The Tribal Law and Order Act (2010), Barack Obama, and the Politics of Multiculturalism in Settler Colonial States
Theses
Author/Creator
Liza Drake Minno
Description
American Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of New Mexico, 2011
Why Do I Need to Sign It? Issues in Carrying Out Child Assent in School-Based Prevention Research Within a First Nation Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lola Baydala
Sherry Letendre
Lia Ruttan
Stephanie Worrell
Fay Fletcher
Fay Fletcher
Liz Letendre
Tanja Schramm
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 6, no. 1, 2011, pp. 99-113
Description
Discusses the practice of, procedures for, and the ethics of obtaining a child`s consent when undertaking research that may affect the community. One of the recommendations discussed is that any child who signs should be surrounded by family or other community members.
"Why Don't You Kill Your Baby Brother?" The Dynamics of Peace in Canadian Inuit Camps
Alternate Title
The Anthropology of Peace and Nonviolence
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jean L. Briggs
Description
Chapter six in book: The Anthropology of Peace and Nonviolence edited by Leslie E. Sponsel and Thomas Gregor.
Why Labour Works: The Valuation of Subsistence Economies
Theses
Author/Creator
James N. Tanner
Description
Resources and the Environment Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Calgary, 2004.
Why Many Students Should Begin College Close to Home
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Zolbrod
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 22, no. 4, Honoring Student Success, Summer, 2011, pp. 58-59
Description
Contends that reservation students have an easier time adjusting to college life at a tribal college than a mainstream institution.
Why the 'Native' Fashion Trend is Pissing Off Real Native Americans
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lisa Hix
Description
Comments on representation, appropriation and profit from Native American art and design.
Why They Fought: Native American Involvement in the American Civil War
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph Connole
Whispering Wind, vol. 39, no. 6, Issue 274, January-February 2011, pp. 12-16
Description
Discusses motivations for involvement such as old feuds, loyalty to treaties with the government, and proving patriotism.
A Wichita Migration Tale
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth A. H. John
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 4, Autumn, 1983, pp. 57-63
Description
Highlights the Wichita tribal migration oral history as recorded by Indian Agent Dr. John Sibley in the early nineteenth century.
Wicozani Wakan Ota Akupi (Bringing Back Many Sacred Healings)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George Blue Bird
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 252-257
Description
Author offers some perspective on the process of colonization in the period between 1849 and 1890 and on everything that was lost in in that time to the Sioux peoples; also discusses the current moves towards healing, resurgence and cultural reclamation.
Wigwas: Bark Biting
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Elizabeth McLuhan
Description
Program of exhibition of birch bark bitings made by Angelique Merasty of Beaver Lake, Manitoba. Includes information and a bibliography on birch bark biting.
Historical note:
Wiindigoo Sovereignty and Native Transmotion in Gerald Vizenor’s Bearheart
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher Schedler
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 3, Fall, 2011, pp. [34]-68
Description
Argues that the author uses the theme of cannibalism to critique tribal and state nationalism.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 34.
Wild Food Summit: Anishinaabe Relearning Traditional Gathering Practices
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Barbara Ellen Sorensen
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 22, no. 3, Food Sovereignty, Spring, 2011, pp. 32-34
Description
Comments on a summit developed to give knowledge about edible plants and discusses the advantages of including traditional foods in a healthy diet.
Wild Rice And Ethics
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Winona LaDuke
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3, The International Decade of the Worlds Indigenous People, Fall, 2004, p. [?]
Description
Looks at the Minnesota Anishinaabeg community's objections to genetic research on the plant.
Wildlife Risk Perception and Mitigation at Peavine Métis Settlement
Theses
Author/Creator
Amy Nadine Christianson
Description
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2011.
Willful Blindness About Indigenous Peoples: The Democratic Deficit and Canadian Public Policy Making
Articles » General
Author/Creator
C. J. Alexander
Mallory Crew
Asian Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, Summer, 2011, pp. 47-88
Description
Focus is on two policy fields, health and communications.