Indigenous Digital Collections

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
N. M. Nakata
Australian Academic & Research Libraries, vol. 38, no. 2, June 2007, pp. 99-110
Description
Discusses some of the key issues in the areas where the library and information services sector intersect with Indigenous knowledge. The article also highlights the efforts of the Northern Territory Library (Australia).
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Indigenous Economies, Theories of Subsistence, and Women: Exploring the Social Economy Model for Indigenous Governance

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rauna Kuokkanen
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, Spring, 2011, pp. 215-240
Description
Discusses definitions and contemporary significance of subsistence and indigenous economies; explores the relationship between subsistence and wage labor, particularly from the perspective of women; looks at the roles of indigenous women in subsistence activities; and examines the indigenous economic systems and the concept of the social economy as a foundation for contemporary indigenous governance.
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Indigenous Ecotourism's Role in Transforming Ecological Consciousness

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Freya Higgins-Desbiolles
Journal of Ecotourism, vol. 8, no. 2, June 2009, p. 144–160
Description
Looks at the critical perspective on the capacity of Indigenous ecotourism to foster more sustainable lifeways in the hope of transforming the destructive nature of the Western environmental paradigm.
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Indigenous Education for All?: A Metaphorical Counterstory

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie Kaomea
International Critical Childhood Policy Studies Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, 2009, pp. 109-121
Description
Discusses the ethical, cultural & political dilemmas that non-Hawaiian students present to open Indigenous education programs.
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Indigenous Engagement in Tropical River Research in Australia: The TRaCK Program

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sue E. Jackson
Michael Douglas
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, The Future of Traditional Knowledge Research: Building Partnership and Capacity, May 2015, pp. 1-23
Description
Reviews the achievements and shortcomings of the Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge (TRaCK) research program and highlights lessons for researchers and organizations contemplating initiatives of this scale and scope.
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Indigenous Entrepreneurship Research: Themes and Variations

Alternate Title
Developmental Entrepreneurship: Adversity, Risk, and Isolation
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Ana María Peredo
Robert W. Anderson
Description
An overview of the current study of Indigenous entrepreneurship, especially the fundamental issue of the relation between entrepreneurship and cultural values. Chapter from Developmental Entrepreneurship: Adversity, Risk, and Isolationedited by Curt Stiles and Craig S Galbraith.
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Indigenous Environmental Education for Cultural Survival

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Leanne Simpson
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring, 2002, pp. 13-25
Description
Outlines necessary components of successful Indigenous environmental education programs within Indigenous knowledge systems at the post-secondary level.
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Indigenous Environmental Laws: First What Are Indigenous Environmental Laws?: An Opinion Paper

Alternate Title
Indigenous Environmental Laws: Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources Research Question:
[Indigenous Environemental Law Papers ; 2007]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Moses Okimaw
December 2006
Description

Discusses environmental laws and the norms and practices that Indigenous people follow in their relationship with other species and the environment.

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An Indigenous Epistemological Approach to Promote Health Through Effective Knowledge Translation

Alternate Title
Indigenous Heuristic for Knowledge Translation
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Selvi Roy
Barbara Campbell
Journal of Indigenous Research, vol. 4, no. 2015, 2014, pp. 1-10
Description
Discusses different models of knowledge translation in an Ingenious setting and looks at the success of the Knaw Chi Ge Win Service system in northern Ontario and the Six Nations Maternal and Child Centre in southern Ontario.
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Indigenous Epistemologies, Worldviews and Theories of Power

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dana Hickey
Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 1, no. 1, Heartwork, October 12, 2020, pp. 14-25
Description
Study of 15 Indigenous participants in the Sudbury and Manitoulin Island areas uses Indigenous research methods and grounded theory to compare Western and Indigenous epistemologies and structures of power. Author argues that a greater understanding of Western and Indigenous power structures can help to build better relations between Indigenous and Settler communities in Canada.
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Indigenous, Ethnic and Cultural Articulations of New Media

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ramesh Srinivasan
International Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 9, no. 4, 2006, p. 497–518
Description
Discusses how Native American communities have appropriated digital networks and databases to achieve their own culturally specific visions.
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Indigenous Evaluation: Respecting and Empowering Indigenous Knowledge

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Richard Nichols
Joan LaFrance
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 18, no. 2, Traditional Wisdom Our Strength, Winter, 2006, pp. 32-35
Description
Presents resource materials that showcase various aspects of Indigenous culture and knowledge.
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Indigenous Governance is an Adaptive Climate Change Strategy

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox
Rachel MacNeill
Northern Review, no. 49, Place-Based Sustainability Research in the Provincial North, February 20, 2020, pp. 271-275
Description
Author argues that Indigenous environmental knowledge is currently only cited as evidence of climate change; asserts that Indigenous knowledges and cultures need to be recognized as holding legitimate, adaptive, and sustainable climate change strategies.
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Indigenous Health Research and the Non-Indigenous Researcher: A Proposed Framework for the Autoethnographic Methodological Approach

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cindy Smithers Graeme
Pimatisiwin, vol. 11, no. 3, 2013, pp. 513-520
Description
Discusses a research methodology that provides opportunity for non-Indigenous researchers to be connected to the cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings of Indigenous knowledge.
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Indigenous Health Research Development Program

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Indigenous Health Research Development Program
Description
Website includes Aboriginal health courses, community-based research funding, graduate student funding, news, IHRDP newsletters, resources, reports, and research links for health research in Ontario.
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Indigenous Health Research: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adele Vukic
David Gregory
Ruth Martin-Misener
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, vol. 44, no. 2, Indigenous Peoples Health and Health-Care Equity, 2012, pp. 147-161
Description
Looks at community-bases participatory research as an approach to Indigenous health research.
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Indigenous Health Values and Principles Statement

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Aboriginal Health Advisory Committee
Office of Health Policy and Communications
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
Description
Overview of strategies and recommendations for action in culturally safe practices to advance Indigenous health.
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The Indigenous Imposition: Settling Expectation, Unsettling Revision, and the Politics of Playing with Familiarity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Darren Edward Lone Fight
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 1-35
Description
Author defines and then discusses Indigenous Futurisms as a decolonial aesthetic practice rather than a defined literary genre and explores its power as a reorienting and revisional device.
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Indigenous Information Literacy

Alternate Title
Elder Citation APA
Elder Citation Chicago
Elder Citation MLA
Elders & Respectful Research
Finding Indigenous Voices
TCPS2 and Indigenous Research
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Rachel Chong
Description
Series of eight brief videos created by Kwantlen Polytechnic University's library to give guidance to their students about: locating Indigenous authors in the library's collection; conducting research in both a good way and in accordance with current Tri-Council Policy Statement (TCPS2) guidelines; source evaluation; engaging respectfully with Elders and Knowledge Keepers; and citing Elders when using the APA, Chicago, and MLA styles. Related Material: Book.
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Indigenous Knowledge and Indigenizing the Academy

Alternate Title
Equity Matters=Questions d'équité
[2011 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences]
[Transforming the Academy: Indigenous Education series]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Shanne McCaffrey
Kiera Ladner
Dwayne Donald
Andrea Bear Nicholas
D’Arcy Vermette
Description
Video of panel discussion which took place at the 2011 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Duration: 01:38:57.
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Indigenous Knowledge and Language: Decolonizing Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in a Mapuche Intercultural Bilingual Education Program in Chile

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricio R. Ortiz
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 32, no. 1, Indigenous Knowledges and Education, 2009, pp. 93-114, 130
Description
Discusses how a Kimche teacher brings Kimün into the classroom, creating a space for dialogues and critical awareness among his students.
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Indigenous Knowledge and Library Work in Sierra Leone

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Abdul Kargbo
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, vol. 38, no. 2, June 2006, pp. 71-78
Description
With particular reference to Sierra Leone, article discusses the role of Indigenous knowledge in sustainability, issues involving intellectual property and the role of librarians in this field.
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Indigenous Knowledge and Prospects for Income and Employment Generation: The Case of Handicraft Production among Rural Women in Tanzania

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Beatrice Kalinda Mkenda
Jehovaness Aikaeli
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 5, June 2019, pp. 76-118
Description
Examines the extent that handicraft products can create income for women in Tanzania; considers issues of seasonal activity, a lack of start-up capital, difficulty obtaining raw materials, and low prices for finished products. Looks at the implications for policy makers wanting to improve the viability of hand crafted products as an income source for rural Tanzanian women.
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Indigenous Knowledge and Science Revisited

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Glen S. Aikenhead
Masakata Ogawa
Description
Provides an understanding of the way three diverse cultural groups (Indigenous, Japanese, and Euro-American) understand nature.
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