Oral Traditions

Consists of an interview the tells the legend of the creation of the moon.

Consists of an interview that mentions how the priests gave the Blackfoot a new calendar as well as discussing how the Indians count.

Searchable digital library includes links to historical field notes, photographs, interviews, documents, photographs, etc.

Describes legends told by Elders, including the creation story, origin of the wind, the Old Man, and the story of Kutoyis, the blood-clot boy.

Describes creation stories told by Chief Men-es-to-kos, an Elder of the Kainai Nation.

Initiated by the Friends of Geographical Names of Alberta, the Aboriginal Talking Dictionary project was a vehicle for the formal recognition of Native values and traditions.

Book review of: Blackfoot Ways of Knowing by Betty Bastien.

Includes stories of how the spirits intervene to help kidnapped persons escape.

Book review of: Blonde Indian by Ernestine Hayes. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 78.

Book review of: Blood on the Wattle by Bruce Elder. Review located by scrolling to page 222.

Book review of: Blood Thirsty Savages by Adrian C. Louis. Click on link to read review.

Humanities Thesis (M.A.)--California State University Dominguez Hills, 1999.

Consists of an interview where he gives the legends behind various geographical features.

Explores the dual and linked themes of stories and community as expressed through the main character, who finds himself isolated from both. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

The book contains the histories, traditions and beliefs of Chipewyan, Dogrib, Slavey, and Loucheux peoples. The Dene told these histories and beliefs to Emile Petitot who wrote the words down in the Dene Language. The stories were compiled by Petitot between 1862 and 1875.

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Book review of: Northern Haida Songs by John Enrico and Wendy Bross Stuart.

Book review of: (Ad)dressing Our Words edited by Armand Garnet Ruffo.

Book review of: The Northern Copper Inuit: A History by Richard G. Condon, Julia Ogina and Holman Elders.

Book review of: Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians by Clark Wissier and D.C. Duvall.

Book review of: nikotwâsik iskwâtêm, pâskihtêpayik!: Studies in Honour of H.C. Wolfart by John D. Nichols and Arden C. Ogg.

Book review of: âtalôhkâna nêsta tipâcimôwina. Cree Legends and Narratives from the West Coast of James Bay told by Simeon Scott and translated by C. Douglas Ellis.

Book review of: An Apache Life-Way: The Economic, Social and Religious Institutions of the Chirichua Indians by Morris Edward Opler.

Book review of: The Bear-Walker and Other Stories by Basil H. Johnston.

Books review of: Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women edited by Paula Gunn Allen. Blood Salt by Doris Seale. Coyote's Journal edited by James Koller, Carroll Arnett, Steve Nemirow, and Peter Blue Cloud. American Indian Autobiography by H. David Brumble.

Reviews of 10 books: Handbook for Aboriginal and Islander History edited by Diane Barwick, Michael Mace and Tom Stannage. The Ballad of Alice of Alice Moonchild...and Others by Aleata E. Blythe. My Spirit Soars by Chief Dan George and Helmut Hirnschall. Indian Healing: Shamanic Ceremonialism in the Pacific Northwest Today by Wolfgang G. Jilek. Métis Land Rights in Alberta: A Political History by Joe Sawchuk, Pat Sawchuk and Theresa Ferguson. Long Lance, The True Story of an Impostor by Donald B.

Book reviews of: Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place by Louis Owens. Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border Crossing, and Loose Canons by Paula Gunn Allen. To Access Reviews, scroll to Page 84-89

Book reviews of 18 books: Before the Country: Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology by Stephanie McKenzie. Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism Since 1900 edited by Daniel M. Cobb and Loretta Fowler. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians by Michale Leroy Oberg. How Choctaws Invented Civilization and Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World by D. L. Birchfield. I Swallow Turquoise For Courage: Poems by Hershman R. John. Long Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians edited by James W.

Book review of: Ke-ma-ha: The Omaha Stories of Francis La Flesche by James Parins and Daniel Littlefield.

Book reviews of 6 books: Your Fyre Shall Burn No More: Iroquois Policy Toward New France and Its Native Allies to 1701 by José Antonio Brandao. Into the Daylight: A Wholistic Approach to Healing by Calvin Morrisseau. Talking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Oral Texts by Laura J. Murray and Keren Rice. "Keeping the Lakes' Way:" Reburial and the Re-creation of a Moral World Among an Invisible People by Paul Pryce. Grandmother's Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life by Alma Hogan Snell. Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism by Craig S. Womack.

Book reviews of 10 books: An Overview of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights and Compensation for their Breach by Robert Mainville. Black Elk Lives: Conversations With the Black Elk Family by Esther Black Elk DeSersa, Olivia Black Elk Pourier, Aaron DeSersa Jr., Clifton DeSersa. Black Elk Speaks, Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux told through John G. Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow) by Nicholas Black Elk. Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timer Region by Sandra Faiman-Silva.

Book review of: Voices Under One Sky: Contemporary Native Literature by Trish Fox Roman (Editor). Reviewer recommends for use in grades 10-12 and introductory Aboriginal Literature at university level.

Book review of: Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians by Morris Edward Opler.

Book review of: Black Elk and Flaming Rainbow: Personal Memoirs of the Lakota Holy Man and John Neihardt by Hilda Neihardt.

Book reviews of 5 books: Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest edited by Katharine Berry Judson. Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843 by Richard S. Mackie. Tribal Boundaries in the Nass Watershed by Neil J. Sterrit et al. The Spirit of the Land: Statements of the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Chiefs in the Supreme Court of British Columbia 1987-1990 by Wa Gisday and Elgam Uukw. Flowers on My Grave: How an Ojibwa Boy's Death Helped Break the Silence on Child Abuse by Ruth Teichroeb.

Book review of: Oral Tradition as History by James Currey.

Book review of: For an Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay on the Foundation of a Social Ethnic by Georges Sioui.

Book review of: The Iroquois in the War of 1812 by Carl Benn. The Lakota Ritual and the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice by Raymond Bucko. The Legacy of Shingwaukonse: A Century of Native Leadership by Janet E. Chute. The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory by Julie Cruikshank. Looking North: Art from the University of Alaska Museum by Aldona Jonaitis (Editor).

Looks at the importance of books and stories in children's lives. Article located by scrolling to page 5.

Looks at current concerns and issues of contemporary Sámi literature regarding active role in the cultural connections of the future.

Book review of Born in the Blood edited by Brian Swann. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 94.

Book review of: The Boy and His Mud Horses and Other Stories From the Tipi by Paul Goble, with foreword by Albert White Hat.

Illustrates converging narratives, oral traditions and dialogues that root Louisiana Creoles to an Indigenous history. The Louisiana Creoles are a métis/mestizo people separate but linked to their land and kinship ties.

Book review of: Braiding Histories by Susan Dion.

Looks at an alternative way to address Aboriginal subject material, shifting the focus from an essentializing or "othering" exploration of the attributes of Aboriginal peoples to a focus on historical experiences that inform our understanding of contemporary relationships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples.

Consists of an interview with George First Rider as he describes the Brave Dog Society.

Consists of an interview with George First Rider on the origin of the Brave Dog Society.

Offers culturally appropriate ways to offer assistance.