Becoming Comfortable With the Uncomfortable: Introducing the Topic of Residential Schools in Kindergarten: Lesson Study
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Norah L'Espérance
Richard Messina
Raadiyah Nazeem
Renée Smith
Krista Spence
Carol Stephenson
Description
Uses two picture books, that focus on the experience, as the basis of the lesson.
Becoming Métis: The Relationship Between the Sense of Métis Self and Cultural Stories
Theses
Author/Creator
Catherine Lynn Richardson
Description
Child and Youth Care Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2004.
Becoming Whole: A Grounded Theory Analysis of Empowerment in Aboriginal Women Leaders and Professionals
Theses
Author/Creator
Kathryn F. M. Ritchot
Description
[Psychology?] Graduate Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Manitoba, 2004.
Bee Nation
Alternate Title
CBC DOCS POV
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Lana Šlezić
Description
Documentary follows three First Nations students as they compete in Saskatchewan's first-ever First Nations Provincial Spelling Bee and their subsequent trip to the National Championships in Toronto.
Duration: 44:08.
Before Qallunaaq: Excerpt From The Idea of God and Morality Among the Ancient Eskimo. Fr. Joseph Buliard, O.M.I. Eskimo Magazine, no. 6a, New Series, Fall/Winter 1973, p.13-14. Revised by Dorothee Kmoangapik, 2004
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joseph Buliard
Inuktitut, no. 94, 2004, pp. 34-[?]
Description
Advice given to an elderly Inuit woman long ago about spirituality and the pre-contact era.
The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jacki Thompson Rand
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 102-103
Description
Book review of: The Beginning and End of Rape by Sarah Deer.
The Beginning and the End: Lewis and Clark among the Upper Missouri River People
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clarissa Confer
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 11-19
Description
Examines how the first contact between the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804 to the upper Missouri River region affected Native Americans.
Behavioral Health Services for American Indians and Alaska Natives: For Behavioral Health Service Providers, Administrators, and Supervisors
Alternate Title
Behavioural Health Services for American Indians and Alaska Natives: For Behavioural Health Service Providers, Administrators, and Supervisors
TIP 61
Treatment Improvement Protocol ; TIP 61
E-Books
Author/Creator
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Behavioural Risk Factors of Arterial Hypertension in the Evenk Population of the Russian Arctic
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Svetlana Semenovna Shadrina
Anna Innokentievna Sivtseva
Elena Nikolaevna Sivtseva
Ara Andreevna Donskaya
Olga Nikolaevna Ivanova
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Article examines the behavioural risk factors for arterial hypertension (AH)—including tobacco use, excessive alcohol use, and a lack of physical activity—among Evenk people. Also notes that incidence of AH is also influenced by marital status, employment, education, and housing conditions.
'Behind Indian Teeth': The Use of Humour in Contemporary Native American Film
Theses
Author/Creator
Geraldine Maynard Eliot
Description
Studies four films; Smoke Signals, Powwow Highway, Medicine River, and Dead Man.
English in American Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Cape Town, 2004.
Behind the Shadows of Wounded Knee: The Slippage of Imagination in Wynema: A Child of the Forest
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa Tatonetti
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 1-31
Description
Contends that the depiction of the 1890 Lakota Ghost Dance and the Wounded Knee massacre in Sophia Alice Callahan's novel, the first known novel by an Native American woman, provides a Native American perspective on self-identity in the late nineteenth century.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
Being a Grandmother in the Tewa World
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sue-Ellen Jacobs
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 2, 1995, pp. 67-83
Description
Discussion of moiety membership (a division of society into two lineal kinship parts or sides) and the concept of both achieved and ascribed "grandmotherhood" at San Juan Pueblo.
"Being a Half-Breed": Discourses of Race and Cultural
Syncreticity in the Works of Three Metis Women Writers
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jodi Lundgren
Canadian Literature, no. 144, Native, Individual, State, Spring, 1995, pp. 82 - 96
Description
Discusses, using the works of Maria Campbell, Beatrice Culleton, and Lee Maracle, how race and culture can become oppressive elements in society.
"Being Alive Well": Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lynne Gehl
Native Studies Review, vol. 15, no. 1, 2004, pp. 107-109
Description
Book review of: Being Alive Well: Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being, by Naomi Adelson.
Being an Indigenous CRC in the Era of the TRC #Notallitscrackeduptobe
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chelsea Gabel
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, January 31, 2019, pp. 88-98
Description
Author discusses their experience as a Canadian Research Chair (CRC) in Indigenous Well-Being, Community-Engagement, and Innovation at McMaster University. Considers the role that Indigenous scholars are currently playing in decolonization and Indigenization efforts in the Canadian academy and the personal cost to those scholars.
Being and Becoming a Helper: Illness Disclosure and Identity Transformations among Indigenous People Living With HIV or AIDS in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrew R. Hatala
Kelley Bird-Naytowhow
Tamara Pearl
Jen Peterson
Sugandhi del Canto ... [et al.]
Qualitative Health Research, vol. 28, no. 7, 2018, pp. 1099-1111
Description
Using interviews from Indigenous people living with HIV and/or AIDS about their experiences and barriers of their disclosures.
Being Indigenous in the Bureaucracy: Narratives of Work and Exit
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie Lahn
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 9, no. 1, January 2018, p. article 3
Description
Study used semi-structured, in-depth interviews with current and former employees of the Australian Public Service to identify factors which contribute to the ongoing problem of lack of retention.
Being Indigenous: Perspectives on Activism, Culture, Language and Identity
E-Books
Author/Creator
Neyooxet Greymorning
Anna Afanasyeva ...
Piita Irniq
Gunvor Guttorm
Arleen Adams
Moana Jackson
Henrietta Mann
James (Sa’ke’j) Youngblood Henderson
Kauanoe Kamanā
Steven Newcomb
Sharon Venne
Jirota Kitahara
Robert Hall
“Being Judged by Its Fruits”: Transforming Indian Land into Orchards along the Arkansas River, 1800–1867
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John J. Buchkoski
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 1, Winter, January 10, 2019, pp. 39-58
Description
Author compares the way in which settlers in the Arkansas River Valley made use of the natural land to cultivate orchards and vineyards to the way local Indigenous nations had lived on the land.
Being Métis in Canada: An Unsettled Identity
Theses
Author/Creator
Sinead O'Sullivan
Description
Social Science Thesis (Ph.D)--University of Manchester, 2017.
Being Neighbourly: Urban Reserves, Treaty Settlement Lands, and the Discursive Construction of Municipal–First Nation Relations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janice Barry
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 5, Special Issue: The Impact of Reserve and Reservation Systems on Indigenous Well-Being, 11 22, 2019
Description
Author offers a critical perspective on the perspectives in discussion papers being released by municipal government agencies in response to reserves being created within and adjacent to urban centers; argues that many of the perspective within these documents reinforce settler colonialism and ignore Indigenous sovereignty.
Being/Nothing: Native Title and Fantasy Fulfilment
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katherine Biber
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, Fall, 2004, pp. 1-18
Description
Author explores the consequences of imaging the nation in a fantasy way by reading the formative Australian cases through which Native jurisprudence developed in Australia.
"The Belly of This Story": Storytelling and Symbolic Birth
in Native American Fiction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Chapman
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1995, pp. 3-16
Description
Looks at how the traditional myths of creation takes place through language and song rather than sexual reproduction. The article also discusses how gender is less important than language.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Bending the Rules: The Montreal Branch of the Woman's Art Association of Canada, 1894-1900
Theses
Author/Creator
Heather Victoria Haskins
Description
Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 1995.
Bending, Turning, and Growing: Cree Language, Laws, and Ceremony in Louise B. Halfe / Sky Dancer's The Crooked Good
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Angela Van Essen
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 71-93
Description
Provides a close reading of Halfe’s third book of poetry, with a focus on the layered meaning in the nêhiyaw (Cree) words used by the author.
Benefits and Risks of Traditional Food for Indigenous Peoples: Focus on Dietary Intakes of Arctic Men
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Harriet V. Kuhnlein
Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, vol. 73, no. 6, 1995, pp. 765-771
Description
Study shows older members of the community consume more traditional food than younger members and men consume more traditional food than do women.
Benefits for Indigenous Peoples (Government of Canada)
Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Description
Website provides information about benefits and programs including education and training, income assistance and more.
Benevolent Benedictines?: Vulnerable Missions and Aboriginal Policy in the Time of A.O. Neville
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elicia Taylor
Aboriginal History, vol. 42, December 2018, pp. 97-124
Description
Author examines the complicated relationship between the New Norcia Mission led by Abbot Anselm Catalan, and its contemporary Aborigines Department headed by Chief Protector of Aborigines, A.O. Neville.
Les besoins en logement des Premières Nations au Québec et au Labrador (2000, 2006, 2012 et 2018) = The Housing Needs of the First Nations in Quebec and Labrador (2000, 2006, 2012 and 2018)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador]
Description
Statistics for population, housing stocks, new dwelling, house transformation, renovation and infrastructure needs, and decontamination for mold and vermiculite.
The Best Kind of Wisdom: Elders as Instructors and Models for the Next Generation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Peacock
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education , vol. 29, no. 4, Wisdom of Elders, Summer, April 24, 2018, p. [?]
Description
Article profiles two Elders, Lorraine Greybear and Vernon Lambert, who are teaching Dakota language and culture to students at Cankdeska Cikana Community College.
Best Part of Life: Subsistence Hunting, Ethnicity, and Economic Adaptation among Young Adult Inuit Males
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard G. Condon
Peter Collings
George Wenzel
Arctic, vol. 48, no. 1, March 1995, pp. 31-[?]
Description
Change in lifestyle in younger generation related to changes in livelihood including hunting and fishing for survival.
Best Practices for Consultation and Accommodation: Moving to Informed Consent
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brian Payer
Michael Bonshor
Description
Practices based on experiences shared by First Nations leaders and managers, lawyers specializing in Indigenous law, and previous reports. Primary focus is British Columbia, but information generally applies across Canada.
Updated version of Best Practices for Consultation and Accommodation by MNP.
Best Practices for Indigenous and Public Engagement
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA)
Description
Guide outlines general considerations, practices and procedures, and provides step-by-step instructions for community engagement sessions. Topics include establishing and earning community support, engagement and consultation activities, communicating with the media, presentation skills, and addressing opposition effectively and respectfully.
Best Practices in Action: Tools for Community-Based Adult Literacy and Basic Education Programs
E-Books
Author/Creator
NWT Literacy Council
Description
Documentation produced to assist teachers to plan, develop and deliver programming for adult learners.
Best Practices in Indigenous Recruitment and Retention: Challenges and Opportunities for the Canadian Coast Guard - Atlantic Region: Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Michael Hennessey
Karen Travers
Description
Identifies systemic and individual barriers and presents a cross-section of qualitative and quantitative research conducted by government, academics, and non-profit organizations, as well as those similar in structure to the Coast Guard. Best practices, trends and key strategies for engaging, attracting, hiring and retaining Indigenous peoples are also discussed.
Betrayals of Justice and Visions Beyond: Indigenous/Other Perspectives
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Arlene Stairs
Native Studies Review, vol. 15, no. 2, 2004, pp. 107-116
Description
Discusses instances of betrayal and gives an assessment of the indigenous communities.
'A Better Chance'?: Sexual Abuse and the Apprenticeship of Aboriginal Girls Under the NSW Aborigines Protection Board
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Victoria Haskins
Aboriginal History, vol. 28, 2004, pp. [33]-58
Description
Discusses the treatment of young aboriginal girls and women removed from their families between the years 1920 and 1934.
Better Medication Management For Aboriginal People
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Inge Kownko
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, March/April 2004, pp. 11-13
Description
Conducts an overview of a research project regarding medication issues for Aboriginal health consumers in South Australia.
Between Cut and Consent: Indigenous Women’s Experiences of Obstetric Violence in Mexico
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mounia El Kotni
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 42, no. 4, 2018, pp. 21-41
Description
Discusses the medicalization of women’s in health in Mexico; articulates considerations of separation from traditional healthcare providers and practices, invasive Western practices surround pregnancy and birth, and discrimination against Indigenous and/or Afro-descendant women. Analyzes the way that poor women use the phrase “being cut” to describe “multiple experiences of frustration, mistreatment, and violence during childbirth.”
Between Heaven and Earth: The Art of Alex Jacobs
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Larry Abbott
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 3, Series 2: Contemporary American Indian Poetry, Fall, 1995, pp. 39-50
Description
Interview with Alex Jacobs on Tribal Dada, his performance band; his poetry and artwork; his series Indian Radio; and other related subjects.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Between Law and Action: Assessing the State of Knowledge on Indigenous Law, UNDRIP, and Free, Prior and Informed Consent with Reference to Fresh Water Resources
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Hannah Askew
Corey Snelgrove
Kelsey R. Wrightson
Don Courturier
Alisa Koebel … [et al.]
Description
Brief discussion of context and implications of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples followed by results of literature review based on research findings and academic literature, primary sources, grey literature, and Indigenous legal orders and case studies of their applications.
Between Modernity and "the Real Thing": Maynard Dixon's Mural for the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Erika Doss
American Art, vol. 18, no. 3, Fall, 2004, pp. 8-31
Description
Looks at the murals officially entitled Themes of the Bureau of Indian Affairs which were installed in the Interior Department building in Washington, D.C.
Between Two Cultures: Discourse Transitions From Home To School For Indigenous Children
Theses
Author/Creator
Farvardin Daliri
Description
Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--James Cook University, 2004.
Between Two Points : Drinking From a Hose
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
G. Barnes
[Weber Studies], vol. 12, no. 3, Native American Special Issue, Fall, 1995, p. [?]
Description
Two poems.
Between Voice and Text: Bicultural Negotiation in the Contemporary Native American Novel
Theses
Author/Creator
James Allison Gray
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995.
Examines a novel by each of the authors: James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Thomas King, and Gerald Vizenor.
Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides and Survivors
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Margaret C. Sharpe
Aboriginal History, vol. 19, no. 2, 1995, pp. 202-204
Description
Book review of: Between Worlds by Frances Karttunen.
Review located by scrolling to page 202-204.
Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors; Between Indian and White Worlds: The Cultural Broker
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Joan Weibel-Orlando
Ethnohistory, vol. 42, no. 4, Fall, 1995, pp. 659-672
Description
Book review of: Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors by Frances E. Karttunen and Between Indian and White Worlds edited by Margaret Connell Szasz.
Beyond 94: Truth and Reconciliation in Canada
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Description
CBC website tracks progress on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 Calls to Action in child welfare, education, language and culture, health, justice and reconciliation.
Beyond a Dreamcatcher: Improving Services for Indigenous Justice-Involved Youth with Substance Use Challenges: A Youth-Led Study
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
McCreary Centre Society
Description
Study cohort consisted of 160 survey respondents and 288 focus group participants. Topics included barriers to accessing and successfully completing treatment, suggestions for overcoming them, and promising practices.