Spirituality

Looks at the marketing of Indigenous spirituality and how it enables the dominant culture to secure political and social control, as well as profiting economically from Aboriginal cultures.

Looks at the need for cultural awareness of the spiritual beliefs of amputee patients for positive care.

Book reviews of: For Joshua: An Ojibway Father Teaches His Son by Richard Wagamese. The Setting Lake Sun by J. R. Lévillé. The Great Gift of Tears by Heather Hodgson.

Study group consisted of nine men and four women recruited from two minimum security healing lodges, a psychiatric treatment centre, and a medium security institution, who took part in focus groups or individual interviews. All had decreased or ceased engaging in self-harming behavior.

"Supplement for the NEARBC Co-sponsored workshop: Culturally Safe and Ethically Relevant, October 28 and 29, 2009, Kamloops, BC." Workshop aims to provide a foundation of skills to create increased capacity in project planning.

One participant was Aboriginal hunter, one was a French Canadian farmer, and one was an immigrant from England. Focus was on six characteristics: language, religion, social relations, family, intergenerational links, and rites of passage.

Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2003.

Book review of: Dakota Women's Work by Colette A. Hyman.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Saskatchewan, 2005. Includes analysis of works by Susan Power, Drew Taylor, Joy Harjo, Beth Cuthand, Louise Halfe, Patricia Monture-Angus, and Annharte.

Chicana and Chicano Studies (M.A.)--California State University, Northridge, 2012.

Canadian Heritage and Development Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 1999. Examines transition of a culturally integrated traditional Ojibwa community in southeastern Ontario to contemporary Ojibwa First Nation of Alderville.

Presents two versions of Dreamer Charlie Yahey's creation story. Preface, introduction and chapter one from Where Happiness Dwells: A History of the Dane-zaa First Nations by Robin Ridington and Jillian Ridington.

Religious Studies Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 1987.

Adult Education and Counselling Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2011.

Comparison and relationship among a 350 year range of documented variations of the Iroquoian creation myths.

Chronicles the life of the author of the first full length autobiography done by a Native American, with special focus on Methodist religious influences and his civil activism efforts.

Determines the usefulness, reliability and validity of enculturation measurements on American Aboriginal peoples.

Outlines the search for the origins of this system of social organization.

Author comments that an effective community worker must establish mutual trust between the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian populations.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2010.

Note: Spine title: Religion of the N.A. Indian Jarvis' discourse begins with an assertion that North American indigenous peoples' religion has been degraded or dismissed by western thinkers. He then goes on to make observations regarding the spiritual idealogies and practices of, primarily, the Iroquois and the Chipewyan and place them into a Christian framework.

Discussion of international legal principle created and justified by ideas of European superiority; doctrine provided newly arrived Europeans with automatic property rights and entitled them to exercise governmental, political, and commercial power over the original inhabitants. Panel discussion at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's closing events. Duration: 1:03:21.

Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2004.

Book review of: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers by Troy R. Johnson.

School of Community and Regional Planning Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 1999.

History and cosmology reflecting ancient and widespread traditions of the Wind River Shoshoni .

Argues that anthropologists may experience dreams and visions similar to those whom they study and that it is useful to incorporate such experiences into ethnographic descriptions.

Examines the evolution of Indigenous substance abuse treatment in Australia.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Montana, 2011.

Author explores her lifelong love of the living world and all its inhabitants. Chapter from Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World by Linda Hogan.

Investigates how early American literature portrayed death of Indigenous leaders and how such portrayals were used as a method of marginalizing the people.

Report investigates demographic challenges and social issues that influence many aspects of Winnipeg, Manitoba. 2nd edition.

Comments on the importance of missionary work of the Oblate Order of Mary Immaculate after 1845 in Western Canada. Oblates were seen as peace makers and educators who contributed to the development of the West.

Book review of: Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology edited by Kristina Bross and Hilary E. Wyss.

Introduction to a themed issue of the same title.

Assesses impact of unfiltered boiled coffee on cholesterol levels in Sami, Kven/Finnish and Norwegian populations.

Web site contains a collection of oral histories, interviews, excerpts, links and village locations.

3rd Edition.

Prayers and Catechism in English Typography; Catechism; Prayers and Catechism in English (Phonography); English Prayers; English Catechism; Chinook Manual; Latin Manual or Hymns and Chants in use by the Indians of British Columbia; and Latin Manual of Hymns and Chants in Use by the Indians of British Columbia.

Historical note:

Attributed to Father LeJeune "With the approbation of Right Rev. P. Durieu" (Bibliography of British Columbia).

Describes the program located in Brisbane which emphasizes the, 'living opportunities' as opposed to dwelling on 'drinking problems'.

Discusses the difficulty the novel's heroine has in reconciling her First Nations and West Coast identities.

Story of creation by the Manitou, Wi'sa'kä.

A group of tattooed Inuit residents of Spence Bay, N.W.T. [NU]. In 1992 the community's name was changed to Taloyoak.

Four leaders: Maniilaq, Punginguhk, Uyagaq and Egaq and their influence on maintaining Inuit cultural patterns through creative accommodation to white contact.

Part of the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 1 (p.145-281).