Oral Traditions

Native Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Trent University, 2005.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Oklahoma, 2003.

Book review of: We Will Dance Our Truth by David Delgado Shorter. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 85.

Examines the link between environmental injustice, racism and cultural genocide; and discusses the importance of creating a nature based culture that is both environmentally sustainable and socially just.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queensland University of Technology, 2013.

Stephen Augustine tells his family version of the Mi'kmaq Creation Story. Presentation begins at 15:35. Duration: 2:48:54.

Stephen Augustine speak about the seven sacred teachings and medicine wheel concepts used by the Mi'kmaq and relates a story told by his ancestors. Lecture begins at 28:17. Duration: 2:44:51.

Based on papers presented at the conference: The West and Beyond : Historians Past, Present and Future, held at the University of Alberta, 19–21 June, 2008.

Presents six versions of the events preceding and following the massacre to give alternative points of view.

Law Thesis (LLM)--University of Alberta, 2009.

Book review of: The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters by Edward Sapir, et al.

Book review of: The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters by Edward Sapir, Morris Swadish, Alexander Thomas, John Thomas and Frank Williams. Scroll down to page 120 to read review.

Contends that the author's Anishinabe background plays a key role in gaining an understanding of her work.

Short essay on celebrating Bernice Joseph's life, pursuing higher education, writing to remember, and the journey home.

Reviews trends in literature, examines oral traditions, and looks at Euro-American authors in comparison with Indigenous authors.

Looks at several works: Muittalus Samiid Birra by Johan Turi, Terveisiä Lapista by Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Saamelaiset by Kirsti Paltto.

Study involved in-depth interviews with seven teachers from two Saskatchewan school divisions about their classroom practices and experiences.

Discusses a variety of author's short stories.

Book review of: When Our Words Return edited by Phyllis Morrow and William Schneider.

Looks at various Cree dialects and gives examples of sacred stories, myths, and legends told in both Cree and Michif. Scroll down to access article

Comments on two authors' use of the trickster to tackle contemporary problems within hegemonic racist and colonizing contexts.

Canadian Heritage Development Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 1998.

Discusses narrative technology, an adaptive re-creation of the oral tradition of hunter/gatherer stories using different media and settings.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2002.

Book review of, Where the Echo Began and Other Oral Traditions From Southwestern Alaska by Hans Himmelheber.

Looks at the ways place-naming and storytelling work together to create a sense of place.

Studies the religious symbolism in creation stories of the Arikara.

Brief book review of: Whispering in Shadows by Jeanette Armstrong.

Describes a project in which digitally augmented reality (AR) is used to engage people in traditional Māori land-based narratives, values, and storytelling. Argues that Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, a design approach developed to illustrate narratives using contemporary media, helps to promote “bicultural engagement with landscape.”

Explores evidence that suggests that the Teme-Augama Anishnabai did not sign the Robinson Huron Treaty of 1850 and discusses the legal implications .

Book review of: Who Lived in This House? by A. McFadyen Clark.

Book review of: Who Lived In This House? by A. McFadyen Clark.

Suggests that oral sources should be thought of as oral traditions and not as oral histories.

Explores how Erdrich transforms her Chippewa oral traditions to create a female character who is able to transform between human and animal in her novel Tracks. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Describes stories told to the author by her mother and father in Diné and English and comments on the necessity of preserving both languages and stories.

Contains autobiographical information about the storyteller from the Lower Similkameen Indian band in British Columbia and his collaborations with Wendy Wickwire that produced three volumes of stories: Write It on Your Heart, Nature Power, and Living by Stories.

An interview with Wilfred and Harriet Chocan about the joys and challenges in their lives from childbirth to caring for the elderly and death.

William and Helen Trudeau discuss the traditional ways of gathering, preserving and storing food. They also talk about the origins of some traditional stories. Interpreter : E. Debassigae ; transcribed by J. Greenwood.

Discusses various literary works by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal authors that use the Windigo character.

Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he tells Indian stories that attempt to explain seasonal changes and other meteorological phenomena. NOTE: This is the continuation and completion of the story about the thunder (IH-AA.104).

Consists of an interview where she tells the story of the first encounter between Captain James Cook and the Nootka Indians.

Book Reviews of: Wise Words of the Yup'ik People Peopleby Ann Fienup-Riordan. Translations by Alice Rearden. Yupiit Qanruyutaitedited by Ann Fienup-Riordan.

Examines the character of Pauline in Tracks and how the reader discovers how she becomes Sister Leopolda of Love Medicine. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Author examines oral storytelling and the ways that meaning is made in and by the act. Discusses issues of context, timing, cross-cultural engagement, and resistance to colonialism and neocolonialism.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Union Institute, 1993.

Discussion of poems, nonfiction and fiction works by Gerald Vizenor

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian Catholic University, 2016.