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'Nature's Most Beautiful Models': George Catlin's Choctaw Ball-Play Paintings and the Politics of Indian Removal

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frank H. Goodyear
The International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 23, no. 2, March 2006, pp. 138-153
Comments on a series of ball-play paintings that provide an opportunity to investigate Euro-American perceptions of Native American ball-play or lacrosse in the early nineteenth century.
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Navajo Games

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janet M. Cliff
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 14, no. 3, 1990, pp. 1-81
Article reviews materials on Navajo games, including an annotated bibliography of those materials.
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Nehiyaw Ma Tow We Na: Games of the Plains Cree

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Elliot Bear
Dominic Morgan
Don Selby
Brad Stone
Sheldon Sinclair
Ashley Sylvester
Pat Atimoyoo
Links to games of chance, target, ball, toys and miscellaneous.
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Never Alone = Kisima Ingitchuna: Parent Guide

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Juli James
Michael Garcia
Saska Barab
Betty Gee]
For use with the two-player cooperative video game, developed in collaboration with the Cook Inlet Tribal Council, which incorporates traditional stories along with culture and values of the Iñupiat community. See also:
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Never Alone: (Re)Coding the Comic Holotrope of Survivance

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Michelle Lee Brown
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 22-44
Article examines the use of gaming and other communication technologies as strategies for resistance, survivance and cultural resurgence; discusses practices of re/mapping, kinship-making and relationality.
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Never Alone: The Art and the People of the Story

Alternate Title
Game Development Conference ; 2015
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Dima Veryovka
A Discussion on the visual style, cultural infusion and impact of the 2014 video game Never Alone. The game is based off the Iñupiat legend of Kanuk Sayuka and was created in cooperation with elders, storytellers, and artists from the Cook Inlet Tribal Council. Duration: 50:01.
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New Plan For NAIG Competition

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sam Laskaris
Windspeaker, vol. 28, no. 6, September 2010, p. 21

Describes the changes made to the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) 2012 schedule due to the cancellation of the 2011 games.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.21.

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Newly Re-opened Wanuskewin Welcomes Olympic Torch

Alternate Title
Olympic Torch Ignites Wanuskewin
Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Lagimodiere
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 1, January 2010, p. 1,2
Comments on the Olympic torch passing through Wanuskewin Heritage Park and the re-opening of Wanuskewin after a two year renovation closure. Article found on page 1 and 2.
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Niigaanibatowaad: FrontRunners

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Lori Lewis
Laura Robinson
Presents play FrontRunners by Laura Robinson about segregation and abuse in residential school, the Aboriginal teenage boys selected to run 800 kilometers carrying the torch for the Pan Am Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1967, and the apology by the province thirty-two years later. Duration: 47:27 Niigaanibatowaad: FrontRunner Study Guide. Lesson Plan.
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‘No Olympics on stolen native land’: Contesting Olympic Narratives and Asserting Indigenous Rights Within the Discourse of the 2010 Vancouver Games

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christine M. O’Bonsawin
Sport in Society, vol. 13, no. 1, To Remember is to Resist: 40 Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008, January 2010, pp. 143-156
Discusses contrast between representations of settler-Indigenous relations put forward by countries hosting the games and reality of governments' denial of Aboriginal rights.
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Northern Games

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ken Buck
Documentary looks at skills and traditions behind the Northern Inuit games held on Holman Island. Duration: 25:40.
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Northwest Frontier

Media » Film and Video
Documentary filmed in 1941 gives brief history of the Northwest Territories and describes the situation at that time. Duration: 29:00.
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The Ojibway Moccasin Game

Alternate Title
Moccasin Game Rules and Regulations
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Terrence Nelson

Version of the game as played by members of the Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation.

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The Olympic Land Grab

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Naomi Klein
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3, 2003, pp. 36-38
Examines the impact the 2010 Winter Olympics will have on the First Nations people of British Columbia. To access this article scroll down to page 36.
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'The Only Good Thing That Happened at School': Colonising Narratives of Sport in the Indian School Bulletin

Alternate Title
'The Only Good Thing That Happened at School': Colonizing Narratives of Sport in the Indian School Bulletin
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janice Forsyth
Michael Heine
British Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 30, no. 2, 2017, pp. [205]-225
Challenges the selective representations of sports and recreation in residential schools.
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Oskayak High School Kickstarts New Tradition

Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Lagimodiere
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 10, October 2008, p. 31
Comments on the first ever soccer team for Oskayak High School and the enthusiasm the players have for the game. Article located by scrolling to page 31.
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Our Stories: First Peoples in Canada

E-Books
Author/Creator
[Jodie Adams
Liz Clarke
Dani Kwan-Lafond
Meera Mather
Natalie Thornhill ... [et al.]]
eTextbook is a multi-media resource developed in collaboration with Indigenous peoples from across Canada. Covers both historical and contemporary topics. Can be downloaded as iBook, ePub, or PDF.
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Our Stories: First Peoples in Canada

E-Books
Author/Creator
[Jodie Adams
Liz Clarke
Dani Kwan-Lafond
Meera Mather
Natalie Thornhill ... [et al.]]
eTextbook is a multi-media resource developed in collaboration with Indigenous peoples from across Canada. Covers both historical and contemporary topics. Can be downloaded as iBook, ePub, or PDF.
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Parade Leader: North American Indigenous Games

Images » Photographs
A photograph of the Parade leader for the 1993 North American Indigenous Games held in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The leader is a man in traditional Plains garb on horseback, taken in Prime Minister's Park.
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