Plants and Patents: A Movement is Afoot to Protect the Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous People who have used Plants as Medicines for Generations
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sarah Hilton
Pharmaceutical Executive, vol. 22, no. 9, September 2002, p. 36
Description
World Intellectual Property Organization encourages equitable sharing of benefits derived from local knowledge and practises. Drug companies have frequently exploited Indigenous resources without recognition or compensation.
Plants in Language and Classification among BC First Nations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy J. Turner
Carla Burton
Jan Van Eijk
BC Studies, no. 179, Ethnobotany in BC, Autumn, 2013, pp. [135]-158
Description
Draws on the fields of ethnobotany, linguistics, and anthropology to provide an overview of systems of naming and organizing knowledge about categories of plants.
Plants Used in Basketry by the California Indians
Alternate Title
Phoebe Apperson Hearst Memorial Volume
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.20
E-Books
Author/Creator
Ruth Earl Merrill
Description
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 20 (pp213-242).
Playing Indian: A Consideration of Children's Books by Native North Americans, 1900-1940
Theses
Author/Creator
Deirdre Marisa Kwiatek
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 1998. Explores Indigenous writings and collections; analysis of works including Mourning Dove, E-Yeh-Shure, Zitkala-Sa, Luther Standing Bear, Charles Eastman, Arthur Parker, Francis LaFlesche.
The Plight of Ainu, Indigenous People of Japan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mitsuharu Vincent Okada
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 1, no. 1, January 2012, pp. 1-14
Description
Examines consequences of government assimilation policies and discusses the need for research to promote social justice.
The Policing of Native Bodies and Minds: Perspectives on Schooling From American Indian Youth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia D. Quijada Cerecer
American Journal of Education, vol. 119, no. 4, August 2013, pp. 591-616
Description
Looks at how policy and leadership effects a group of American Indian high school students from the Pueblo Nation. Provides recommendations for research.
'Polishing the Kaswentha': A Haudenosaunee View of Environmental Cooperation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James W. Ransom
Kreg T. Ettenger
Environmental Science & Policy, vol. 4, no. 4-5, August 2001, pp. 219-228
Description
Displays how positive relationships with external parties have been made possible through use of traditional Haudenosaunee concepts and values.
Political Resistance in a Contemporary Hunter-Gatherer Society: More about Bearlake Athapaskan Knowledge and Authority
Alternate Title
Political Resistance in a Contemporary Hunter Gatherer Society: More about Bear Lake Athabaskan Knowledge and Authority
Political Resistance in a Contemporary Hunter-Gatherer Society: More about Bear Lake Athabascan Knowledge and Authority
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Scott Rushforth
American Ethnologist, vol. 21, no. 2, May 1994, pp. 335-352
Description
Bearlake (Bear Lake) belief systems relating to past experiences of the Sahtu Dene and how they react to externally controlled economic proposals.
Politics of Knowledge and Scale: Indigenous Knowledge, Political Change and Local Participation in Resource Management in the Northwest Territories, Canada
Alternate Title
First Nations, First Thoughts [Conference]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Julia Christensen
Description
Overview of the changes regarding involvement of local people in the process of incorporating indigenous knowledge into resource management decision making.
The Politics of Reintegrating Australian Aboriginal and American Indian Indigenous Knowledge into Resource Management: the Dynamics of Resource Appropriation and Cultural Revival
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Ross
Kathleen Pickering.
Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 30, no. 2, June 2002, pp. 187-215
Description
Similar views found between Native American and Australian Aboriginal communities concerning culturally based solutions for sustainable resource management.
Politics, Pain and Pleasure: The Art of Art-Making for ‘Settled’ Aboriginal Australians
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lorraine Gibson
Coolabah, vol. 5, 2011, pp. 119-129
Description
Analyzes the kinds of art that are deemed acceptable as Aboriginal and discusses the ways the Barkindji people in Wilcannia deal with issues pertaining to the politics of culture, cultural subjectivity and identity.
Power Over Discourse: Linguistic Choices in Aboriginal Media Representations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steffi Retzlaff
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, 2006, pp. 25-52
Description
Looks at at strategies used to create a cultural identity and empowerment in Aboriginal newspapers and media. Examples from the First Nations Messenger and the Anishinabek News.
Powwow (Cree) Workshop 2
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
George Morningstar
Joe Armstrong
Tom Crowe
Jim Crowe
Max Bear
Eli Bear
Indian History Film Project
Description
Several speakers voice concerns about changes that have crept in to the ceremonies. Recall how things were done in former times and stress need to return to old ways.
Powwow Workshop 4
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Jim Kanipitetew
Indian History Film Project
Description
Description of traditional Indian ceremonies and the changes which have taken place in them. Mr. Kanipitetew is concernedthat people are no longer following the strict rituals of the past.
Practical Application of an Indigenous Research Framework and Two Qualitative Indigenous Research Methods: Sharing Circles and Anishnaabe Symbol-Based Reflection
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lynn F. Lavallée
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, vol. 8, no. 1, 2009, pp. 21-40
Description
Explores how to apply Indigenous epistemologies and knowledges to research and discusses the issues and lessons learned from two culturally based research methods.
Prairie Fires in the North-West
Articles » General
Author/Creator
S. Raby
Saskatchewan History, vol. 19, no. 3, Autumn, 1966, pp. 81-99
Description
Discusses the causes, management of, and groups responsible for prairie fires; contemporaries asserted that the Métis , halfbreed "bone hunters", and railroaders were primarily responsible.
Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 81.
Predators and Cosmologies
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Natalia Rybczynski
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 103-113
Description
Discusses the differences in the concept of predation between western societies, which regard the predator-prey relationship as antagonistic and the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) viewpoint, which regards this relationship as mutual and interdependent.
Prehistoric Evidence for Pawnee Cosmology
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia J. O'Brien
American Anthropologist, vol. 88, no. 4, New Series, December 1986, pp. 939-946
Description
Argues that archaeological evidence can be used to discover the nature of prehistoric astronomical knowledge and ideas.
Preparing To Teach Our Children the Foundations For An Anishinaabe Curriculum
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David B. Anderson
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 37, no. 3, Special Issue: Indigenous Education: Ways of Knowing, Thinking, and Doing, 2002, pp. 293-308
Description
Looks at the lessons of seven generations.
The Preservation of Indigenous Knowledge in Contemporary Mexico in El Cultivo del Maize en Yojovi by Javier Castellanos
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ida Day
IK: Other Ways Of Knowing, vol. 1, no. 1, 2015, pp. 9-14
Description
Evaluation of book which contains narratives from corn farmers regarding their co-existence with Western concepts of scientific knowledge.
Preserving Old Ways the Modern Way: Red Crow Uses GIS, GPS to Document Traditional Knowledge
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Mary Weasel Fat
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 16, no. 2, Tribal College Research, Winter, 2004
Description
A look at the First Nations' Land Use Certificate Program, a one year certificate program, offered by the Red Crow Community College located on the Blood Reserve in southern Alberta.
Prevalence and Risk Factors of Asthma in First Nations Children Living on Reserves in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ambikaipakan Senthilselvan
Selvanayagam John Niruban
Malcolm King
Carin Majaesic
Paul Veugelers ... [et al.]
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 106, no. 8, November/December 2015, pp. 483-488
Description
Study involved 6,657 children from 238 First Nations in Canada.
Preventing Obesity in Canada's Aboriginal Children: Not Just a Matter of Eating Right and Getting Active
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melanie A. Ferris
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, Health and Well-being, 2011, pp. 1-10
Description
Looks at results from research project, conducted in Ontario, focusing on social determinants of health impacting the health of Aboriginal children.