Theses
Author/Creator
Christopher Wellen
Description
Geography Thesis (M.Sc.)--McGill University, 2008.
"Onward ever, backward never": Student Life and Students' Lives at Haskell Institute, 1884-1920s
Theses
Author/Creator
Myriam Vuckovic
Description
American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, [2001]
Oowekyala Segmental Phonology
Theses
Author/Creator
Darin Mathew Howe
Description
Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2001.
"Open Containers": Sherman Alexie's Drunken Indians
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephen F. Evans
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1, Winter, 2001, pp. 46-72
Description
Illustrates that works by Sherman Alexie, both poems and stories, use stereotypical and conventional character types to construct a realistic literary document.
Open for Business: Developing Indigenous Enterprises in Australia
E-Books
Author/Creator
House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs
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.
Opening the Healing Path: The Cultural Basis for a Solvent Abusers Treatment Program for the Attawapiskat First Nation
Theses
Author/Creator
Norbet W. Witt
Description
Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 1998.
[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 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 and Challenges: What Does the New Economy Have to Offer Aboriginal Economic Development?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Lamb
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 6, no. 1, Fall, 2008, pp. 44-60
Description
Examines how information and communication technology has made outsourcing certain functions to remote locations possible and whether this is a viable source of employment for Aboriginal communities. Specifically looks at call centres.
Opportunities for Integrated Management: A Perspective on Inuvialuit Attitudes Towards Development and Subsistence Land Use in the Husky Lakes Area
Theses
Author/Creator
Andrea Johanne Hoyt
Description
Natural Resources Management Thesis (M.N.R.M.)--University of Manitoba, 2001.
Opportunities in Aboriginal Research: Results of SSHRC's Dialogue on Research and Aboriginal Peoples
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Craig McNaughton
Daryl Rock
JustResearch, no. 15, 2008, pp. 27-36
Description
Results from talking with people from Aboriginal, academic, government and non-governmental organizations.
On one pdf. Scroll down to page 27 to read article.
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.
Opportunity for Whom?: Political Opportunity and Critical Events in Canadian Aboriginal Mobilization, 1951-2000
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Howard Ramos
Social Forces, vol. 87, no. 2, December 2008, pp. 795-823
Description
Discusses how structural, signaling and political opportunities influence a wide range of people and organizations.
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.
Options for the Future of Indigenous Australia
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jackie Huggins
Jenny Macklin
Lynette Glendinning
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 32, no. 4, July/August 2008, pp. 21-35
Description
Presents team recommendations on how Australia might achieve fundamental change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait people.
Oral Histories: [Personal Histories of Some Mi'kmaq People]
Alternate Title
Oral Histories: Personal Histories of Some Micmac People
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Kevin Sack
William G. Paul
Cecile Marr
Wilfred Prosper
Daniel J. Stevens
Annie Claire Googoo
Florence Dennis
Description
Elders of various Mi'kmaq communities share their stories and history.
The Oral Tradition is Like the Mackenzie Delta
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Kroetsch
Northern Review, no. 28, Spring, 2008, pp. 181-186
Description
Argues that the oral story is part of our bodies, not part of a book, and each story tells the story of all of us.
Orality in Northern Cree Indigenous Worlds
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cora Weber-Pillwax
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 25, no. 2, 2001, pp. 149-165
Description
Author contextualizes the topic of orality in a discussion of the practice of shared memories and their functions in personal and communal healing among the Northern Cree, in particular as this relates to orality in Indigenous worlds.
Ordinary and Extraordinary Trauma: Race, Indigeneity, and Hurricane Katrina in Tunica-Biloxi History
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brian Klopotek
Brenda Lintinger
John Barbry
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, Special Issue: Indigenous Locations Post-Katrina: Beyond Invisibility and Disaster, 2008, pp. 55-77
Description
Describes how some individuals, of theTunica-Biloxi tribe, came to terms with their feelings of grief and rage after hurricane Katrina.
The Organic Citizen: Reimagining Democratic Participation and Indigeneity in U.S. Late 19th and 20th Century Eco-Narratives
Theses
Author/Creator
Melinda DiStefano
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2008.
Organochlorine and Heavy Metal Contaminants in Wild Mink in Western Northwest Territories, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
K. G. Poole
B. T. Elkin
R. W. Bethke
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol. 34, 1998, pp. 406-413
Description
Study of spatial trends in levels of contaminants as indicators of general ecosystem health.
The Origin of the Wolf Ritual: The Whaling Indians, West Coast Legends and Stories
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Regna Darnell
BC Studies, no. 160, The Middle Fraser, Winter, 2008/2009, pp. 127-128
Description
Book review of: The Origin of the Wolf Ritual: The Whaling Indians, West Coast Legends and Stories by Edward Sapir.
Scroll down to page 127 to read review.
The Original "Free Trade": Exchange of Botanical Products and Associated Plant Knowledge in Northwestern North America
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy J. Turner
Dawn C. Loewen
Anthropologica, vol. 40, no. 1, 1998, p. 49
Description
Discusses trade networks for plants in British Columbia and neighbouring areas from archaeological, historical and ethnographic records, as well as recollections from contemporary people.
"The Original in Ourselves": Native American Women Writers and the Construction on Indian Women's Identity
Theses
Author/Creator
Andrea Millenson Penner
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2001.
The Original Journal of Charles Larpenteur: My Travels to the Rocky Mountains Between 1833 and 1872
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lynn C. Shannon
Whispering Wind, vol. 37, no. 4, Issue 260, March-April 2008, pp. 28-29
Description
Book review: The Original Journal of Charles Larpenteur by Charles Larpenteur, transcribed and annotated by Erwin N. Thompson and edited by Michael M. Casler.
Origins of Persisting Poor Aboriginal Health: An Historical Exploration of the Colonial Relationship as an Explanation of the Persistence of Poor Aboriginal Health
Theses
Author/Creator
Ben Bartlett
Description
Public Health & Community Medicine Thesis (MPH)--University of Sydney, 1998.
The Origins of Pottery Among Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers in California and the Western Great Basin
Theses
Author/Creator
Jelmer W. Eerkens
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California Santa Barbara, 2001.
Orthodontic Treatment in a First Nations Population of Alberta, Canada: A Comparative Study
Theses
Author/Creator
Kirby C. Cadman
p. 120
Description
Dentistry Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alberta, 2001.
Oskayak High School Kickstarts New Tradition
Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Lagimodiere
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 10, October 2008, p. 31
Description
Comments on the first ever soccer team for Oskayak High School and the enthusiasm the players have for the game.
Article located by scrolling to page 31.
Osoyoos Indian Band v. Oliver (Town), [2001] 3 S.C.R. 746, 2001 SCC 85
Alternate Title
Osoyoos Indian Band Appellant v. The Town of Oliver and Her Majesty The Queen in Right of the Province of British Columbia Respondents [...]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Supreme Court of Canada
Description
Dispute involving reserve land taken for the public purpose of an irrigation canal.
The "Other" in Film: Exclusions of Aboriginal Identity from Australian Cinema
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Suneeti Rekhari
Visual Anthropology, vol. 21, no. 2, 2008, pp. 125-135
Description
Discusses Aboriginal representations in Jedda by Charles Chauvel, Walkabout by Nicolas Roeg and Rabbit Proof Fence by Philip Noyce.
Other Names I Have Been Called: Political Resurgence Among Virginia Indians in the Twentieth Century
Theses
Author/Creator
Danielle Moretti-Langholtz
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oklahoma, 1998.
Other Narratives: Representations of History in Four Postcolonial Native American Novels
Theses
Author/Creator
Mubarak Rashed AL-Khaldi
Description
Looks at four novels: Tsali by Denton R. Bedford, Fools Crow by James Welch, Tracks by Louise Erdrich and Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 1998.
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.
The Other Proletarians: Native American Literature and Class Struggle
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tim Libretti
MFS Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 47, no. 1, Spring, 2001, pp. 164-189
Description
Argues that the literature presents an anticapitalist perspective and looks at issues of work and alienation in the larger context of genocide by colonization.
'Other' Voices: Historical Essays on Saskatchewan Women
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kathryn McPherson
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 79, no. 2, June 1998, pp. 376-378
Description
Book review of: 'Other' Voices edited by David Debrou and Aileen Moffatt. Includes work of Miriam McNab discussing colonization influences on the women of Pinehouse Lake.
Othered Women
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Bart Gazzola]
Description
Curatorial essay for an exhibition which examined the history of Métis and First Nations women. Artists featured included Sherry Farrell Racette, Mimi Gellman, Tania Willard, Rosalie Favell, Joi Arcand, and Nadia Myre.
Otitus Media in Greenland: Studies on Historical, Epidemiological, Microbiological, and Immunological Aspects
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Preben Homøe
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 60, Supplement 2, 2001, pp. [1]-54
Description
Exhaustive study on the Inuit and why the rates of ear infection are higher than other population groups.