Conjuring Among the Kiowa

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Donald Collier
Primitive Man, vol. 17, no. 3/4, Jul.-Oct. 1944, pp. 45-49
Description
Looks at conjuring rites among the Kutenai, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, Cheyenne and Plains Cree.
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Connecting and Becoming Culturally Competent: A Lakota Example

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathryn Kavanagh
Kathleen Absalom
William Beil
Lucia Schliessmann
Advances in Nursing Science, vol. 21, no. 3, March 1999, pp. 9-31
Description
Describes research conducted during intercultural immersion of non-native nurses at the Pine Ridge Reservation.
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Conservation Native American Style

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Terry L. Anderson
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 37, no. 4, 1997, pp. 769-785
Description
Looks at the myth of the Native American environmental ethic and the use of traditions, rules, laws and habits to look after natural resources.
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The Constitutional Dimensions of Aboriginal Title

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Brian Slattery
The Supreme Court Law Review, vol. 71, no. 1, 2015, pp. [45]-66
Description
Explains characteristics of Aboriginal Title: collective right, pluralistic, jurisdictional dimension, inalienable, inherent limit, and flows from a special historical relationship between the Crown and Aboriginal people.
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Contemporary & Desired Use of Traditional Resources in a Coast Salish Community: Implications for Food Security and Aboriginal Rights in British Columbia

Alternate Title
Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnobiology ; 26th, 2003
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Karen Fediuk
Brian Thom
Description
Results from survey of 191 households conducted by the Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group (Cowichan, Chemainus, Penelakut, Lyackson, Halalt and Lake Cowichan First Nations) to determine actual and wished for levels of harvesting of traditional foods.
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Contemporary Native American Architecture

Alternate Title
Indigenous Architecture Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
David Sloan
Lewis Weller
Description
Looks at projects by architects John Paul Jones, Douglas Cardinal, Dennis Sun Rhodes, David Sloan, Robert Altman and others. Explains how values and identity are expressed within the designs and defined by existence to the landscape. Duration: 55:18.
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The Contemporary Revival and Diffusion of Indigenous Sovereignty Discourse

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Erich Steinman
American Studies, vol. 46, no. 3-4, Indigeneity at the Crossroads of American Studies, Fall/Winter, 2005, pp. 89-113
Description

Looks at the expanded interest in tribal sovereignty and the reasons for becoming a framework for Indigenous issues. 

Joint issue with: Indigenous Studies Today Issue 1, Spring 2006.

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Contextualizing the Losses of Allotment Thought Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristen A. Carpenter
North Dakota Law Review, vol. 82, no. 3, The Pedagogy of American Indian Law, 2006, pp. 605-627
Description
Discusses two novels by Louise Erdrich, Lone Wolf and Tracks and Four Souls to show losses in socio-economic, familial, spiritual and tribal life.
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Contradictions in Indian Art: Contemporary Native American Arts and the National Museum of the American Indian

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ned Blackhawk
American Quarterly , vol. 62, no. 2, June 2010, pp. 387-394
Description
Book reviews of: The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations edited by Amy Lonetree and Amanda J. Cobb. Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indianedited by Lowery Stokes Sims, Truman T. Lowe and Paul Chaat Smith. George De Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings edited by Nancy K. Anderson.
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The Contrary Behavior Pattern in American Indian Ceremonialism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Verne F. Ray
Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring, 1945, pp. 75-113
Description
Looks at different characteristics of contrary or clown behavior in the Bluejay Character, of the east central Plateau, the Heyoka of the Dakota and Ponca, the Buffoons of the Plains Cree, Ojibwa and Assiniboin, the dog designation in the Mandan, Hidatsa, Blackfoot, Arapaho and Atsina, and the fire ritualism presented in the Hot Dances of the Hidats, Arikara, and Iowa.
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Contributions to the Ethnology of the Haida

Alternate Title
Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History ; v. 8
The Haida of Queen Charlotte Islands
[Publications of] the Jesup North Pacific Expedition ; v. 5, pt. 1
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
John R. Swanton
Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History
Description
Forms part of Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 8 (p. [1]-300).
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A Conversation With Mary Brave Bird

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher Wise
R. Todd Wise
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 3, Summer, June 1, 2000, pp. 482-493
Description
Interview with the author of Lakota Woman and Ohitika Woman.
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A Conversation with Simon Ortiz

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janet McAdams
Simon Ortiz
The Kenyon Review, vol. 32, no. 1, New Series, Winter, 2010, pp. 1-8
Description
Interview with guest editor Simon Ortiz
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Copy of the Treaty made October 31, 1923 between His Majesty the King and the Chippewa Indians of Christian Island, Georgina Island and Rama

Alternate Title
Chippewa Treaty, 1923
Williams Treaty, 1923
Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Description
Concluded in 1923 between the Crown and the members of the Chippewa Nations having claim to lands in the Province of Ontario including fishing, hunting and trapping rights. Also known as one of the Williams Treaties, the other being with Mississauga peoples.
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Cormack's Quest

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephen R. Bown
The Beaver, vol. 80, no. 2, April/May 2000, pp. 34-[?]
Description
Describes explorer William Epps Cormack's walk across the interior of Newfoundland and his attempt to locate any members of Beothuk tribe, who were feared extinct due to the effects of European settlements on the coast.
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