Oral Traditions

Book review of: Indigenous Storywork by Jo-ann Archibald (Q’um Q’um Xiiem).

Book review of: Indigenous Storywork by Jo-ann Archibald (Q'um Q'um Xiiem).

Book reviews of: Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body and Spirit by Jo-ann Archibald. Tribal Theory in Native American Literature: Dakota and Haudenosaunee Writing and Indigenous Worldviews by Penelope Myrtle Kelsey. Book reviews found by scrolling to page 880.

Looks at the themes and game mechanics of two of the games created during the 2018 Sami Game Jam and demonstrates how new media development can recenter Indigenous Indigenous knowledge systems and cultural practices. Chapter from FDG'21: The 16th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2021 edited by Allan Fowler and Johanna Pirker.

Consists of an interview with George First Rider as he tells the story of the buffalo stone.

Book review of, Inside Dazzling Mountains: Southwest Native Verbal Arts edited by David L. Kozak.

Explores how the work, regarded by some as the first bicultural Indian/White novel, acts as vehicle to voice resistance to assimilation.

Comments on natural resource management using Native American and Western approaches.

Explores Pueblo oral traditions. Excerpt from: Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit. Originally published in Antaeus, no. 57 (Autumn) 1986.

Booklet relating to the Interior Salish people of coastal BC, describing various aspects of Interior Salish culture such as daily subsistence, spirituality, shamanism, family life and legends.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997.

Interview with the well-known author, interviewer and editor.

Discussion of several topics: taking of Treaty #7, boundaries of Peigan Reserve; permit system; traditional curing practices; obtaining paint forceremonials; significance of rocks in Blackfoot culture; how the Blackfoot learned from the rock spirit how to drivethe buffalo over a cliff.

Video and transcript of interview with the Dogrib author of The Lesser Blessed and Blessing Wendy.

Discussion on the integration of two disparate intellectual trends in the humanities and social sciences, that of “unexpected places” and the work of linguistic anthropology.

Introductory article on themed issued devoted to; Spaces-Places-Names.

Introduction to articles about personal relationships, alternative world views, and personal introspection.

Includes links to list of artists and communities, community map, legends and stories, throat singing and photography.

Discusses the preservation and development of Inuit literature from oral and written traditions.

Website contains links to mythological stories, traditional stories, interviews, and teacher resources.

Comments on people having a physical and spiritual relationship with the environment.

Virtual exhibit of over 300 digitized images and special narratives and interviews of 21 Inuit artists.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Utah, 1986. Focuses on works by N. Scott Momaday, James Welch and Leslie Silko.

Discusses the use of N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain as a model in composition courses. Uses essay by Yukiko Ikeda as an example.

Language and Literacy Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2001.

Discusses an exhibition where youth represent themselves, and tell their own stories to addresses issues of urban Indigeneity and schooling.

Short description of the textile artist's wall hangings which are inspired by traditional Inuit stories.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1991.

Book review of: The Island of the Anishnaabegby Theresa S. Smith. Scroll down to page 82 to read review.

Book review of Isuma by Michael Robert Evans. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to p. 31.

Author discusses different incarnations of the wiindigo narrative ranging from those found in the Anishinaabe oral tradition to those found in the journals of fur traders; examines different potential meanings and teachings of the narrative.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--McMaster University, 2017.

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2013.

An interview with James Simon who talks about some of his paintings and his sources of inspiration which include Indian religion and legends. Transcribed by Joanne Greenwood ; interpreter : Ernest Debassigae.

Consists of an interview where she gives an account of native use of plants for medicine. She tells of prophecies concerning the arrival of the white man and general accounts of her life in the bush.

Article examines the records made by Jesuit missionaries of the oral literary traditions of the Algonquian-speaking First Nations; discusses how these texts have become foundational in the study of Indigenous literatures.

Jim Panamick describes working in a lumber camp, how to play an Indian game with a bat and ball, and tells stories of medicine men and curses. Transcribed by Joanne Greenwood ; interpreter : Ernest Debassigae.

Tells something of life before the taking of treaty, and his interpretation of Treaty #6.

Interview of the grandsons of Little Bear who discuss lifestyle. They tell stories about Cree raids on Blackfoot;the hanging of Little Bear and murder of a storekeeper's son by a medicine man. Interpreter by Alphonse Littlepoplar.

The interview includes a story of the Grandson of Little Bear who was hung for his part in the Frog Lake massacre. Other stories included the tale of Chuh Chuh,a warrior who scalped a Blackfoot Chief; stories of medicine men; a gambling tale involving a Cree and Blackfoot.

Mr. Belly tells four stories during the interview. He first describes the origins of his name. The following two stories are animal tales: the first is about the illegal killing of moose and the second describes how a coyote stole an axe. The last is a christian tale of a man who came to life in a coffin.

Describes how Blood Indians came to have tipis and the various designs they use for them.

Consists of an interview describing how pipes are made and some details of their history; lists some of the Sundance ceremonies; and describes various Tipi designs among the Blood Indians.