Spirituality

Love Medicine: A Metaphor for Forgiveness

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lissa Schneider
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 1, Series 2 , Spring, 1992, pp. 1-13
Description
Discusses how Louise Erdrich successfully connects structure and theme, with style and content through a series of narratives in her novel, Love Medicine. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Manitoba First Nations Oral History Survival Booklet

E-Books
Author/Creator
Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre (MFNERC)
Description
Provides guidance to those wishing to record Elders' remembrances including interview tips, and suggested questions about personal information, and home, bush, prairie, social and political, and spiritual-religious life.
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The Mapuche and Climate Change in the Chilean Neoliberal Economic System

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rosamel Millaman Reinao
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples, 2008, pp. 66-71
Description
Discusses the effects of climate change, excessive industrial use of water and forest expansion within the context of traditional Mapuche worldviews of personhood and community.
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Measuring Indigenous Peoples' and Planet's Well-Being

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Mauricio Malanes
Tebtebba, vol. 14, 2013, pp. [4]-13
Description
Looks into the holistic view of life and development shared by Indigenous peoples worldwide. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 4.
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Medicine Keepers: Issues in Indigenous Health

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lori A. Colomeda
Eberhard R. Wenzel
Critical Public Health, vol. 10, no. 2, 2000, pp. 243-256
Description
Examines the holistic and spiritual concepts of health among Indigenous peoples in North America and Australia as opposed to western medicine's linear approach.
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A Message From Dr Bos

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Robert Bos
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, June 1985, pp. 3-5
Description
Brief introduction from guest editor for themed issue on health and religion.
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A Message From Dr Bos

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Robert Bos
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 9, no. 3, September 1985, pp. 3-4
Description
Briefly describes the programing offered at Wontulp-Bi-Buyua which offers instruction for home study.
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Mino-Yaa-Daa: An Urban Community-based Approach

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cyndy Baskin
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, Inaugural Edition, May 1997, pp. 55-67
Description
Looks at a community-based program that provides education, prevention and healing services to those affected by family violence and substance abuse, through circles, ceremonies and workshops.
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Missing Artifacts Lead to Auditor General's Scrutiny

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cheryl Petten
Windspeaker, vol. 20, no. 4, August 2002, p. 7,20
Description

Anthropology Museum of the University of Winnipeg failed to follow appropriate protocols and procedures for repatriation of artifacts.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.7.

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Missionaries and American Indian Languages

Alternate Title
Nurturing Native Languages
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Evangeline Parsons Yazzie
Description
Chapter 14 from Nurturing Native Languages edited by J. Reyhner, O. Trujillo, R. L. Carrasco, L. Lockard.
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Mistusseni Rock

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Gordon Skogland
Description
A photograph of a rock named Mistusseni by Cree people. According to scientists it is a glacial erratic, a large boulder deposited on the open prairie by the last glaciation. It was a subject of great controversy in the 1960s when the lake created by the new South Saskatchewan River Dam project was about to flood over it completely. In the end the rock was blown up.
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Module 3: People of the Coast

Alternate Title
CS 321: Peoples and Cultures of the Circumpolar World I
Module Three: People of the Coast
University of the Arctic – CS 321
[Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies (BCS) 321]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Michel Bouchard
Greg Poelzer
Heather Exner
Ludmilla Zhukova
Jeremei Gabyshev
Ken Coates ... [et al.]]
Description
Overview of traditional livelihoods of the Aleut and Iñupiat of Northern Alaska; the Yupiit and Chukchi of the Russian Far East; the Inuit of Nunavut; the Isertormeeq, Kalaallit and Kujataamiut of Greenland; and the coastal Sami people of the European Far North. Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.
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Monique Verdin's Louisiana Love: An Interview

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kirstin L. Squint
Monique Verdin
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 117-133
Description
Interview with co-producer and co-writer of My Louisiana Love, a documentary which details the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the BP oil spills on her family and community.
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More Than a Façade: The Kenekuk Religion Revisited

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Matthew Garrett
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 4, Fall, 2017, pp. 293-310
Description
Discusses what the Prophet's spiritual teachings may have meant to his Kickapoo followers.
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Mortality of the Sami in Northern Finland 1979-2005

Alternate Title
Sami Mortality in Finland
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leena Soininen
Eero Pukkala
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 67, no. 1, 2008, pp. [44]-57
Description
Findings showed that Sami men had lower disease mortality rates than the overall Finnish population.
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"My Brother": The Recovery of Rocky in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Troy J. Bassett
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Special Issue on Teaching Leslie Marmon Silkos Ceremony, 2004, pp. 35-40
Description
Examines the fictional character, Rocky, who appears only in the memories of the main character, Tayo.
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My Testimony

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Wayne Connolly
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, June 1985, pp. 46-49
Description
Australian Aboriginal describes experiences with alcohol abuse and his transformation to working as a priest among his own people.
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Native American Ceremonial Athletic Games

Alternate Title
Convention of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Wilma J. Pesavento
Description
Data taken from annual reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1881 to 1933 and American Anthropologist volumes published from 1888 to 1974.
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Native American Coppers of the Northwest Coast

Alternate Title
Ethnographic Bibliographies no. 2
Native American Coppers: Indigenous Artifacts from the Northwest Coast
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Don Macnaughtan
Description
Explains what a Northwest Copper is and provides photographs of notable Coppers and their stories.
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