Oral Traditions

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1995.

Study probes the importance of kinship relations, with respect to individual and collective identity, for members of the Cowessess First Nation, Saskatchewan.

Team site visits resulted in traditional storytelling sessions. which were enhanced with Power Point presentations.

Biography about a keeper of Inuit Qaujimanituqangit (IQ, Inuit Traditional Knowledge and Wisdom).

Elders tell stories either from their own experience or which have been passed down to them.

Educational Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 2006

Side A of this tape has not been translated into English. Side B is a conference about Ojibway legends of creation, flood and migration and how these compare to the legends of other peoples. Also talks about the origins of the clans and Midewiwin lodge.

Book review of Elements of Indigenous Style by Gregory Younging.

Comments on an education system that combines Western and Yup'ik pedagogical approaches. Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.

Interview includes stories about the origin of the Sioux Dance and tales about the Sliding and Drumming hills.

Interview includes a story of how the Cree acquired horses.

Linguistics Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 1997.

Book review of: Elik and Other Stories of the Mackenzie Eskimos by Herbert T. Schwarz.

Consists of an interview where she tells of a frightening trip through the woods as a child.

Consists of an interview where she gives a brief account of Indian medicine; she mentions accounts she has heard of the War of 1812; and mentions certain superstitions.

Consists of an interview with Eliza Kneller where she discusses her life in the United States. She tells of a premonition of the death of her son.

Consists of an interview with Elmira McLeod where she gives general reminiscences about her childhood as well as recounting stories that she heard as a child.

Consists of an interview where she gives an account of ghost stories and superstitions.

Consists of an interview where she tells of stories for amusement and general reminiscences of her life.

Consists of an interview that gives an account of an earthquake in 1933.

LeAnne Howe discusses the ongoing development and application of tribalography through the relationship between Native baseball, people and land. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 75.

Consists of an interview about the origin of the Pigeon Society of the Blood Indians as well as the Ghost Dance and Big Smoke ceremonies.

Interview describes a chief who led a raid in which many warriors lost their lives.

Discusses how these contemporary authors affirm cultural survival through self-responsibility, adaptability, and oral traditions.

Article examines the journal of a 17th century Andean writer and its appropriation of European literary traditions as a means of subverting settler-imposed notions of history and making visible those histories kept by Indigenous peoples.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2015.

Explores how Aboriginal perspectives / attitudes are made accessible to both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal audiences in the plots of two contemporary novels. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Looks at the revitalization of Inuit culture and oral traditions in the films Before Tomorrow, Uvanga, and Sol.

Provides explanations for the supernatural "bushman" stories of the Mackenzie River Valley.

Includes advice for non-Indigenous teachers teaching the class, list of recommended texts, and instruction and assessment units. Course conforms to the British Columbia curriculum, but incorporates literature from across Canada and the United States.

Inuvialuit fable about a hunter's growing obsession with cannibalism.

Book review of Enough is Enough, by Janet Silman and Spider Woman's Granddaughters, edited by Paula Gunn Allen.

Presents a written version of an academic play in four acts that was performed at the Native American Literature Symposium on November 30, 2000. It begins with historical essays on Lakota oral tradition and ends with discussion on comtemporary Native theater. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to page 32.

Discussion of 10 papers and how they weave together important elements of storytelling and Indigenous knowledge.

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

Historical text discusses the role that language plays in the development of literature unique to a certain nation.

Consists of an interview that includes detailed descriptions of plant remedies; a story of Striped Walker who killed a Cree; the difference between medicines that are discovered and those that are revealed in dreams.

Explores the validity of negative reactions by Indigenous groups to academic interpretations of territorial interests.

Authors discuss how oral histories can influence and change collective memories and memory negotiation; argue that collective memory which includes a diversity of perspective is vital increasing human understanding of the past and a sense of belonging in the present.

Examines the study of ethnographic cultures and Indigenous customs as it developed in the American Indian communities in the era of the Indian Claims Commission.

Sociolinguistics Thesis (M.A.)--University of South Africa, 2008.

Looks at three views of Sister Nations' poetry in the context of continuity, decolonization and dissemination of social discourse.

Discusses star lore of the Pleiades and Sirius.

Influence of cultural experiences in the retelling of stories.

Consists of an interview where she mentions certain stories told to her as a child.

Examines the connections between trauma theory and postcolonial theory in Louise Erdrich's two novels.

Comment on the changes to all aspects of Inuit life and how they are managing to retain their culture.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2002.