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The Spirit of the Drum

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Pamela Sexsmith
Windspeaker, vol. 21, no. 3, June 2003, p. 29

Drummer, Gerald Okanee, teaches traditional knowledge about the drum. He discusses the drum's use in prayer and healing, to lift spirits of individuals, and bring listeners closer to the Creators, spirits and God.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.57.

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Spirituality for Sale: Sacred Knowledge in the Consumer Age

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher Ronwanièn:te Jocks
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3/4, Special Issue: To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality, Summer - Autumn, 1996, pp. 415-431
Demonstrates how the appropriation of a spiritual system has had political and interpretation failures and, while these issues have become exaggerated almost like a cartoon form by New Age enthusiasts, they have also become embedded subtly into academic research.
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Spirituality, the Hidden Reality: Living and Learning in Anishenabe Country

Alternate Title
Spirituality, the Hidden Reality: Living and Learning in Anishnaabe Country
Spirituality, the Hidden Reality: Living and Learning in Anishnabe Country
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Edward J. Hedican
Canadian Journal of Native Studies , vol. 21, no. 1, 2001, pp. 27-43
Author relates his experiences with spiritual beliefs in a northern Ontario community.
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Spruce Tree = Ts’u

Alternate Title
Nahe Náhodhe – Our Way of Life
Documents & Presentations
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Dehcho First Nations

Brief description of some of the uses of the tree.

Accompanying video.

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Standing Their Ground: The Integration of Community and School in Quinhagak, Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carol Barnhardt
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 23, no. 1, Hands Back, Hands Forward: Revising Aboriginal Voices and Revisioning Aboriginal Research, 1999, pp. 100-116
Description of a research project reveals meaningful community values have been adopted into the formal educational system.
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Stanley Mission's George McKenzie

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gill Gracie (photographer)
Department Of Northern Saskatchewan (photographer)
Trapper, trader, prankster, guide - Stanley Mission's George McKenzie has been all of them. Now he remembers. Page one: one picture of George McKenzie. Page two: two pictures, one of George and Betsy McKenzie, one of George McKenzie. Both taken outside their cabin.
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Starting Fire With Gunpowder Revisited: Inuktitut New Media Content Creation in the Canadian Arctic

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Timothy J. Pasch
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, Technologies Créatives / Creative Technologies, 2010, pp. 61-80
Examines how the creation of Inuktitut media content could be an effective means of creative improvisation, linguistic and cultural preservation. Article also challenges prevailing critical approaches to the Inuit as linguistically and culturally vulnerable.
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State of First Nations Learning

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Marie Battiste
Sheelagh McLean
Identifies factors, issues, challenges and programmes that may enter into discussions about learning priorities among First Nations reserves and communities in order to provide guidance and direct potential actions.
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State of Knowledge on Environmental Health Issues for First Nations

Alternate Title
State of Knowledge on Environmental Health Issues for First Nations: Food Security, Water Quality, Indoor Air Quality, and Knowledge Transfer and Exchange
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tara Marsden
Presents information about the First Nations Environmental Health Innovation Network and discusses issues such as: food security, water quality, indoor air quality, and knowledge transfer and exchange.
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Staying Segeju: Young Activist Researchers from an Indigenous East African People Fight Forced Integration Campaigns among Swahili Coast Communities

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cristina Verán
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 3, The World on Our Shoulders: Cultivating Indigenous Youth Leadership, September 2013, p. [?]
Discusses the project to document customs and traditions of Indigenous people and preservation of the local language.
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Stealing From the Past: Globalisation, Strategic Formation and the Use of Indigenous Intellectual Property in the Biotechnology Industry

Alternate Title
Stealing From the Past: Globalization, Strategic Formation and the Use of Indigenous Intellectual Property in the Biotechnology Industry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
L Ostergard Jr R.
M. Tubin
J. Altman
Third World Quarterly - Journal of Emerging Areas, vol. 22, no. 4, August 1, 2001, pp. 643-657
Argues that globalization has resulted in inclusion of Indigenous knowledge.
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Stepping Up Traditional Knowledge and Technologies for Higher Women Employment and Income: A Case of Women Milk Producers in Arumeru and Hai Districts in Tanzania

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gilliard Loth
Jehovaness Aikaeli
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 4, 2018, pp. 26-67
Compares producers in the two districts, identifies challenges faced by them, and discusses methods by which they could organize to increase value addition and improve traditional selling practices.
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Stitching Tivaevae: A Cook Islands research method

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Debi Futter-Puati
Teremoana Maua-Hodges
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 140-149
Article discusses the use of the Tivaevae research model (which represents Kuki Airani epistemological and ontological worldviews) in a PhD study of youth views of sexuality. Examines the benefits of using Indigenous research methods both for conceptualization and methodology.
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Stitching Together Literacy, Culture & Well-being: The Potential of Non-formal Learning Programs

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shelley Tulloch
Adriana Kusugak
Gloria Uluqsi
Quluaq Pilakapsi
Cayla Chenier
Anna Ziegler
Kim Crockatt
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 2, no. 2, Literacy & Democracy, December 2013, pp. 28-32
Examines innovative culturally-rooted programs that mix traditional academics with life skills and courses to promote economic, social and cultural well-being.
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Stolen Generation Narratives in Local and Global Contexts

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kay Schaffer
Antipodes, vol. 16, no. 1, June 2002, pp. 5-10
Discusses how Aboriginal life narratives, on the removal of Aboriginal children from their families, has impacted Indigenous-settler relations.
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The Stones Shall Cry Out: Consciousness, Rocks, and Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George Tinker
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 19, no. 2, Fall, 2004, pp. 105-125
Osage perspective on the consciousness of rocks and trees and their ability to speak. Comparison of Western scientific thought with the relationship between Native Americans and nature.
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The Stories Hold Water: Learning and Burning in North Fork Mono Homelands

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jared Dahl Aldern
Ron W. Goode
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 3, Indigenous Land-Based Education, 2014, pp. 26-51
Describes the role of narrative and land-based education in an eco-restoration forestry program and negotiations between the North Fork Mono Tribe and U.S. Forestry Service with respect to forest management.
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Stories of Resurfacing: The University and Aboriginal Knowledge

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adam Pulpan
Mina Rumbolt
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 31, no. 1, Indigenous Knowledges and the University, 2008, pp. 214-231, 322
Story surrounding the difficulty experienced by graduate student Adam Pulpan to get permission for Mina Rumbolt to be present at his thesis examination committee meeting.
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Stories That Nourish: Minnesota Anishinaabe Wild Rice Narratives

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amelia V. Katanski
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 71-91
Looks at how works by writers such as Jim Northrup, Heid Erdrich, Linda LeGarde Grover, and Gerald Vizenor illustrate the connection between story, culture, and knowledge.
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Story as Research Methodology

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Devi Dee Mucina
AlterNative, vol. 7, no. 1, 2011, pp. 1-14
Discusses the uses and challenges of Ubuntu storytelling as a teaching tool.
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The Story of the Flinders Ranges Mammals

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David Gibson
Aboriginal History, vol. 16, no. 2, 1992, pp. 149-150
Book review of: The Story of the Flinders Ranges Mammals by Dorothy Tunbridge. Review located by scrolling to page 149.
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Storytelling and Strength: Voices from Indigenous Theatre in Canada

Alternate Title
Big Thinking Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Margo Kane
Sylvia Cloutier
Corey Payette
Panelists discuss theatre as an expression of identity and cultural practice, how personal experience is interwoven in their projects, and how their work manifests their connections to their homelands and ancestral knowledges.
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