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Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Murielle Nagy
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 36, no. 2, Le Tourisme dans lArtique / Tourism in the Arctic, 2012, pp. 230-232
Review of Être Huron, Inuit, Francophone, Vietnamien ... :Propos sur la Langue et sur l'Identité by Louis-Jacques Dorais. Review in French.
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Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Louis-Jacques Dorais
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 33, no. 1-2, Education and Transmission of Inuit Knowledge in Canada, 2009, pp. 261-262
Book reviews of: St. Lawrence Island/Siberian Yupik Eskimo Dictionary edited by Steven A. Jacobson. Forme et Sens Des Mots Du Tunumiisut: Lexique Inuit du Groenland Oriental by Nicole Tersis.
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Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Louis-Jacques Dorais
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Tchoukotka / Chukotka, 2007, pp. 393-394
Review of The Southernmost People of Greenland: Dialects and Memories = Qavaat – Oqalunneri Eqqaamassaallu by Maliâraq Vebæk ; edited by Birgitte Sonne and with a contribution on phonology by Birte H. Christensen. Review in French.
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Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Louis-Jacques Dorais
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Architecture Paléoesquimaude / Palaeoeskimo Architecture, 2003, pp. 535-537
Book review of: [Pt. 2] L'Hiver et le Nord. by Louis-Edmond Hamelin, with the participation of Marie-Claude Lavallé, project supervised by Hélène Cajolet-Laganière and Pierre Martel. Review in French.
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Recent Dissertations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jonathan Erlen
Jay Toth
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter, 2007, pp. 209-212
A list of Indigenous-related theses and dissertations alphabetical by author.
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Receptive and Expressive Vocabularies of Young Indian Children

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James B. Connelly
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 24, no. 1, January 1985, pp. [33-37]
Compared the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised (PPVT-R) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) Vocabulary subtest to evaluate whether cultural factors affect verbal vocabulary test results.
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Reclaiming Māori Education

Alternate Title
Decolonisation in Aotearoa: Education, Research and Practice
Reclaiming Maori Education
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Ranginui Walker
Discusses how the educational system imposed by the British served to create social injustice. Chapter one from Decolonisation in Aotearoa: Education, Research and Practice edited by Jessica Hutchings and Jenny Lee-Morgan.
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Reconciliation is an English Word

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jason Mercredi
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 2, Innovations in Community Health and Wellness, July 2017, pp. 58-61
Comments on the proposed >Indigenous Languages Act
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Reconstituting the Chumash: A Review Essay

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter Nabokov
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4, The California Indians, Autumn, 1989, pp. 535-543
Reviews various scholarly work on the Chumash based on the notes from linguistic-ethnographer John Harrington.
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Red Crow Community College

Web Sites » Organizations
Website for a community college that provides adult, post-secondary, community, vocational, and technical education.
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"Reel Navajo": The Linguistic Creation of Indigenous Screen Memories

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leighton C. Peterson
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, 2011, pp. 111-134
Discusses how Indigenous people are using screen media in the Navajo language to recuperate their own collective stories and histories.
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Reflections from the field: Redefining the Ojibwe Classroom: Indigenous Language Programs within Large Research Universities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mindy J. Morgan
Anthropology & Education Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, Indigenous Epistemologies and Education: Self-Determination, Anthropology and Human Rights, March 2005, pp. 96-103
Uses the example of a program at Michigan State University to explore issues in incorporating heritage languages into the curriculum of post-secondary institutions.
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Reflections on a Northern Ontario Placement Initiative

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Taslim Moosa
Susan Schurr
Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, vol. 35, no. 2, Service Delivery to First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada: Part 1, Summer, 2011, pp. 160-167
"Describes a supervised clinical experience for students in the Speech-Language Pathology program
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"Regardless of History"?: Re-Assessing the Navajo Codetalkers of World War II

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Noah Jed Riseman
Australasian Journal of American Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, December 2007, pp. 48-73
Discusses the experiences of the codetalkers in the broader context of government-Navajo relations, including military opposition, motivations to serve, attitudes toward indigenous knowledge, and post-war discrimination.
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Regional Characteristics of Sápmi and the Sami People

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ándde Sara
Inger Marie G. Eira
John B. Henriksen
Johan Klemet H. Kalstad
Brief overview of four themes: status of language, political empowerment, economy, and higher education and research. Presentation at the Conference: “The Regional Identity of Ethnic Groups in Europe”
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Regulating Multilingualism in the North Calotte: The Case of Kven, Meänkieli and Sámi Languages

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sari Pietikäinen
Leena Huss
Sirkka Laihiala-Kankainen
Ulla Aikio-Puoskari
Pia Lane
Acta Borealis, vol. 27, no. 1, June 2010, pp. 1-23
Studies language relations by looking at the historical, ideological, and political process used in language revitalization focusing on political and legal instruments of change.
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"Removing That Which Was Indian from the Plaintiff": Tort Recovery for Loss of Culture and Language in Residential Schools Litigation

Alternate Title
Removing That Which Was Indian from the Plaintiff: Tort Recovery for Loss of Culture and Language in Residential Schools Litigation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Zoë Oxaal
Saskatchewan Law Review, vol. 68, no. 2, 2005, pp. 367-402
Examines the progress of cultural loss claims and explores tort law's potential to address the issue.
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Renaming the Indians: State-Sponsored Legibility through Permanent Family Surnames among the Sisseton and Wahpeton at Lake Traverse, 1903

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph Paul Brewer
Stephen L. Egbert
Paula I. Smith
Dory Tuininga
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 40, no. 3, 2016, pp. 47-66
Case study describes political figures involved in the movement, their motivations, and how they created the templates used to implement the program.
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Report: Annotated Bibliography of Available Studies on Elders in Nunavik

Alternate Title
Annotated Bibliography of Available Studies on Elders in Nunavik: Research Report Presented to the Kativik Regional Government
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Émanuèle Lapierre-Fortin

Focus is research studies on and consultations done with elders from 1992 to 2012. Sources for list were interviews with scholars and institutions focused on Inuit research and keyword searches in academic journals and databases, as well as non-scientific online sources.

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A Residential School Legacy

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anna Student
Discussion on the loss of language abilities of Indigenous children in the residential school system.
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Resource Database

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Community Based Aboriginal Curriculum Initiatives
Lists over 2300 resources covering a broad spectrum subject areas. Can be sorted by title or author.
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Reverend John Maclean and the Bloods

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Arni Brownstone
American Indian Art Magazine, vol. 33, no. 3, Summer, 2008, pp. 44-57, 106-107
Brief account of the time John Maclean worked among and wrote about the Canadian Blackfoot in the 1880's.
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Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Douglas W. Veltre
Jeffrey D. Anderson
David Reed Miller
Katherine Beaty Chiste
Sean M. Rafferty
Carol Miller
Caskey Russell
Thomas W. Cowger
Hugh Shewell
Alfred Young Man
Michael A. Glassow
Karen J. Travers
Stephen Warren
Ken Coates
et.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, 2011, pp. 183-246
Book reviews of: An Aleutian Ethnography by Lucien M. Turner ; edited by Raymond L. Hudson. The Arapaho Language by Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss Sr. Broken Treaties: United States and Canadian Relations with the Lakotas and Plains Cree, 1868–1885 by Jill St. Germain. Canada’s Indigenous Constitution by John Borrows. Cave Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands: Essays in Honor of Patty Jo Watson edited by David H. Dye. Cherokee Thoughts: Honest and Uncensored by Robert J.
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