Media & Communication

Looks at virtual platform which collects experiences and practices related to food in the North.

Evaluates a model for a culturally appropriate and interactive health program.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2001.

Interviews well-know Inuit leaders about their perceptions on the major cultural changes over the past forty years.

Demonstates how the novel incorporates Natives, soldiers, civilians, and the press into the political process of suppressing the culture and will of Native American people.

Book Review of: The Fourth Eye edited by Brendan Hokowhitu and Vijay Devadas.

Frank McIntyre of Patuanak shares various stories about life in the Patuanak region. Page one, Frank McIntyre and his family in 1935. Page two, Frank McIntyre standing on the grounds of the Patuanak rectory.

John Frazer's Museum in Beauval. Page one: pictures of a ceremonial chair, herb grinder and John Frazer with axe heads. Page two: pictures of outboard motors, learning wood carving, museum visitors, two wheel cart.

A poster of Gabriel Dumont with the slogan "Free the North," and the description "Gabriel Dumont Armed" upon it.

Historical note:

Original photograph from the Public Archives of Canada. Cited as a CUS Poster, 197-. [Possibly a political poster produced by the Canadian Union of Students].

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2001.

Study assessed the impact of technology (specifically telephone service), both positive and negative, on the daily life and traditional ways of the Inuit.

Presents poems that incorporated details of the media coverage of the disappearance of Tamra Keepness.

Organization's submission calls for establishment of a national Indigenous communications body.

Discusses how various influences on the development of broadcasting and cinema in this region have produced work that is both interesting and globally relevant.

Describes Alaska's Southcentral Foundation's Public Relations department and its communication strategies and discusses feedback from attendees to the 2016 Alaska Native Health Research Forum about these methods.

Includes links to program, summary, and audio of three panel discussions. Pt. 1: World-Building in the Dystopian Now: Imagining and Podcasting Indigenous Futures featuring Chelsea Vowel, Molly Swain, and Lauren Crazybull. Review of conversations in Winnipeg and Iqaluit. Pt. 2: Revitalizing Indian Story-telling in the Media featuring Jodi Stonehouse. Discussion on Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CTRC) process and policy. Pt.

Examines Vizenor's trickster myths in Summer in the Spring: Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories which was published in The Progress, the first reservation newspaper published in Minnesota.

Examines possibilities and pitfalls of technological enterprises within Aboriginal cultures.

File contains a copy of the Indian - Eskimo Association of Canada Bulletin from 1970

A telegram from Michael Keewatin of the Native Counselling Service in Lethbridge, Alberta requesting an extension of the Drug and Alcohol Education Program.

Correspondence between Mrs. A. Warner and John Diefenbaker regarding Diefenbaker's remarks at the opening ceremonies at Inuvik and regarding a sculpture there.

George Gwynne Mann was a farm instructor and Indian agent for the government of Canada in Onion Lake, North-West Territories from 1879 to 1900. Mann and his family fled Onion Lake to Fort Pitt after the so-called Frog Lake "massacre," and were later taken as hostages from Fort Pitt and held for two months by Plains Cree warriors. The file contains hand written manuscripts and photocopied documents that detail Mann family's involvement in the 1885 rebellion, and describe aspects of Aboriginal ceremony and culture.

Describes Chippewa writer Gerald Vizenor's move from author to screenplay writer with his film Harold of Orange, which bears obvious imprints of his interests, attitudes and style.

This news release announces that the Glenbow Museum has acquired the archival collection of Oliver B. Buell, a distinguished CPR photographer during the late 19th century. Among the significant documents is an important letter written by Louis Riel on 1 August 1885, at the time of his trial for treason, and photographs taken by Buell at Riel's trial include a courtroom scene and portraits of Riel's defense lawyers.

Book Review: Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics and Politics edited by Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart with articles by Lisa Brooten, Mario Murillo and Faye Ginsburg.

Provincial government site (OAA) providing links to contact information for First Nations, reports on-ongoing negotiations, news releases, business plans (officers goals and objectives for 2004/05), Mi'kmaq history (RealPlayer needed) etc.

Provincial government site providing links to programs and services, publications and documentations, claims and demands under heading Relations to Aboriginal peoples.

Organization based in Quebec. News of interest to Crees, information about Cree Regional Authority, Grand Council, Grand Chief (including speeches). Includes links to Eeyou Eeyou Magazine, Cree communities and other related Cree sites.

Comments on the media coverage of the race between two Native American canoes and two University shells.

A portrait of Isabelle Bishop of Green Lake. Her opinion is expressed on various topics such as poverty, work ethic and trading. One picture of Isabelle.

Results from competitions held at the Green Lake winter festival. Page 1: Two pictures of log cutting contests. Page 2: Flour packing, buckskin parade, trap setting.

Hurricane Stan (2005), which affected mostly poor Indians and left hundreds dead and missing, occurred between two other natural disasters and virtually went unnoticed and poorly reported on.

Author, and guest editor of the section on Critical Engagements with the NMAI (National Museum of the American Indian) discusses the varied response to the museum since its opening two years prior, and introduces the article contained in this section.

Reports on the unique area north of the Australian mainland. Local Torres Strait Islander health workers were considered critical to the success of the study.

Communication Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2005.

Mr. MacDonald worked with the CCF government to help organize the commercial fishing industry in Saskatchewan.

Ethnomusicology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2001.

Discusses the associate degree in Media Communications, including a description of the curriculum, available from Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas.

Poster of sketches of key figures and a partial map relating to the Northwest Resistance.

Presents a letter, protesting the nonrenewal of Morris Swadesh's contract by the City College of New York in 1949, signed by the chief of the Mowachat band. Morris Swadesh, who taught people how to write their language (Nuu-chah-nulth or Nootka), was much appreciated by the Aht people, thus his nonrenewal caused great concern.

Criminology Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2000.

Text in Chinook with chapter headings in English. Includes the first seven chapters of what would later become the New Testament section of Bishop Durieu's Chinook Bible History published in 1899 (pp. 48-51). The text may be identical but this would need to be checked by a translator of Chinook shorthand to be certain.

English headings with Chinook shorthand text. Contains eight chapters and lists dates alongside the various events from Chapter 1 "The Creation of the World" to Chapter 8, "The Tower of Babel." Booklet concludes with the statement, "End of the First Age."

Historical note:

No author is provided but J.C. Pilling's "Bibliography of Chinookan Languages" attributes the text to Louis Napoleon St. Onge.

Brenda Loyie, a Cree Peer Counsellour/ Advocate with AIDS Prince George is one of three Aboriginal women who tell their story in the video Women, HIV and Addictions: Before, During and After.

Communication Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 1998.

Studies 16 digital stories from distinguished Aboriginal elders from the Omushkegowuk area in Ontario.

Short film asks the question, "does the web provide Aboriginal people with a sense of community?" Duration: 6:18.

Discusses first-hand experiences in Fund Du Lac, Saskatchewan and Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh which illustrate how a researcher can move beyond a Western approach to engage participants as co-researchers.