Prince Max Meets the Mandan: The Story of How a German Prince and a Swiss Artist Saved the Cultural Heritage of the Mandan Indians

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 7th, 2007
Sixty-Seven Nations and Counting: Proceedings of the Seventh Native American Symposium
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Shirley Frey
Description
Reviews the ethnological expedition of Prince Maximilian of Wied, and artist Karl Bodmer, and discusses how both men were crucial to preserving the Mandan tribe’s history, culture, and customs.
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Problems of Defining and Validating Traditional Knowledge: A Historical Approach

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kenichi Matsui
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, The Future of Traditional Knowledge Research: Building Partnership and Capacity, May 2015, pp. 1-25
Description
Defines traditional knowledge, how it can be validated among parties with different interests, and implemented in policy-making arenas.
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[Professor Castellano on Reconciliation. Part 5]

Alternate Title
Symposium on Reconciliation ; Toronto, Ontario February, 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Marlene Brant Castellano
Description
Marlene Brant Castellano, Professor Emeritus at Trent University speaks at the Symposium on Reconciliation in Toronto, Ontario, February, 2011. Duration: 6:09. Part 5 of 5.
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Project Uplift: Managing Stress Through Mind, Body, Heart and Spirit

Alternate Title
Labour Market Development - Strategic Partnership Agreement
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada
Description
Toolkit developed to help manage stress by understanding energy and vibration based on concepts of interconnection and energetic aura that links all living beings to the universe.
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The Promise of Encounter: Recent Research in "Native Studies" from University of British Columbia Press

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kirsten Anker
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 43, no. 3, Fall, 2009, pp. 222-232
Description
Discusses the approach to understanding Indigenous legal traditions in terms of healing, politics, epistemology, and justice in Let Right Be Done: Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights; New Histories for Old: Changing Perspectives on Canada's Native Pasts; and Indigenous Legal Traditions.
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A Proposed Master of Social Work Based in Indigenous Knowledges Program in Manitoba

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kimberly Hart
Gladys Rowe
Michael Anthony Hart
Yvonne Pompana
Deana Halonen ... [et al.]
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 3, no. 2, Indigenous Knowledges: Resurgence, Implementation, and Collaboration in Social Work, December 2014
Description
Overview of program design, foundational themes and description of courses.
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Protecting Cultural Expressions: The Perspective of Law

Alternate Title
Properties of Culture - Culture as Property. Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Silkevon Lewinski
Description
Discusses existing legal protection, copyright and other intellectual property rights Chapter in book: Properties of Culture - Culture as Property. Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia edited by Erich Kasten.
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Protecting Embers to Light the Qulliit of Inuit Learning in Nunavut Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joanne Tompkins
Alexander McAuley
Fiona Walton
Études/Inuit/Studies, vol. 33, no. 1-2, Education and Transmission of Inuit Knowledge in Canada, 2009, pp. 95-113
Description
Reports on the first Inuit women to graduate from Nunavut's graduate degree program, Master of Education in Leadership and Learning.
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Protocols: Meeting the Challenges of Indigenous Information Needs

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alana Garwood-Houng
Australian Academic & Research Libraries , vol. 36, no. 2, June 2005, pp. [149]-157
Description
Discusses the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Protocols for Libraries, Archives and Information Services and discusses areas needing further development.
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Providing Entrepreneurial Training to Native Youth

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert J. Oppenheimer
Thomas O'Connell
The Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 3, no. 2, Fall, 2003, pp. 8-11
Description
Presents the results of a survey conducted to learn the career aspirations/expectations of Aboriginal high school youth in order to foster workplace success.
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Providing Space for Indigenous Knowledge

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tracey Mihinoa Tangihaere
Linda Twiname
Journal of Management Education, vol. 35, no. 1, February 2011, pp. 102-118
Description
Comments on the historical attempts to weaken Mäori leadership and the resilience of Mäori.
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Psychological Services/Therapy in First Nations Populations: A Critical Perspective

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Mike Webster
BC Psychologist, Psychological Services for First Nations, Spring, 2012, pp. [10]-12
Description
Contends that the mental health of Aboriginal communities with more control of local government, renewed cultural practices, and successful land claims, boast overall improved mental health for their constituents. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll to page 10.
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Pulling Together: A Guide for Indigenization of Post-Secondary Institutions: Curriculum Developers

Alternate Title
Professional Learning Series
[BCcampus Indigenization Project]
[Indigenization] Professional Learning Series
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Asma-na-hi Antoine
Rachel Mason
Roberta Mason
Sophia Palahicky
Carmen Rodriguez de France
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Putting Feathers on Our Words: Kaona as a Decolonial Aesthetic Practice in Hawaiian Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brandy Nālani McDougall
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Art, Aesthetics and Decolonial Struggle, 2014, pp. 1-22
Description
Discusses examples of intellectual and aesthetic practices in Hawaiian literature that layer cultural and historic ideologies within deeper meanings and themes important to Hawaiian culture.
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Putting Words into Action: Negotiating Collaborative Research in Gitxaala

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charles R. Menzies
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 28, no. 1/2, Transformative Sites of Indigenous Education, 2004, pp. 15-32
Description
Describes the process required to initiate a research relationship between the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Gitxaala First Nation.
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Qallunology: A Pedagogy for the Oppressor

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Derek Rasmussen
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 25, no. 2, 2001, pp. 105-116
Description
Describes the disintegration of Inuit culture by exposure to Euro-American institutions.
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Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Igloolik Isuma Productions
Kunuk Cohn Productions
Zacharias Kunuk
Ian Mauro
Norman Cohn
Stéphane Rituit ... [et al.]
Description
Leaders, Elders and hunters speak about the social and ecological impact of warming in the Arctic. In Inuktitut with English subtitles. Duration: 54:07.
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Qaujimajatuqangit and Social Problems in Modern Inuit Society. An Elders Workshop on Angakkuuniq

Alternate Title
Qaujimajatuqangit et Problèmes Sociaux dans la Société Inuit Contemporaine. Un Atelier avec des Aînés Concernant l'Angakkuuniq
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jarich Oosten
Frédéric Laugrand
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, Inuit and Qallunaaq perspectives: Interacting points of view, 2002, pp. 17-44
Description
Discussion of a workshop held to record the views of Inuit elders on social control and shamanism.
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Quality Education for Inuit Today? Cultural Strengths, New Things, and Working Out the Unknowns: A Story by An Inuk

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Betsy Annahatak
Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 69, no. 2, Negotiating the Culture of Indigenous Schools, Winter, 1994, pp. 12-18
Description
Author uses personal experiences to explain the stresses involved with understanding two cultures relating to values, activities, obedience, worldview and contemporary cultural tools.
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The Quechua: Guardians of the Potato

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Amanda Stephenson
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, Sacred Places, Sacred Lifeways, March 2012, p. [?]
Description
Discusses the importance of potatoes and how Indigenous farmers strengthen local economies and wellbeing based on cultural traditions and biological diversity.
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Quechuan Voices: The Art of Storytelling Through Song

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah Anderson
IK: Other Ways Of Knowing, vol. 1, no. 1, 2015, pp. 15-20
Description
Presents study of Claudia Llosa's film, The Milk of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada) and how it employs song to express women's rights in Peru.
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