Traditional Stories
Indigenous (Re)Memory and Resistance: Video Works By Dana Claxton
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carla Taunton
Post Script, vol. 29, no. 3, Indian Cinema, Summer, 2010, pp. 44-[?]
Description
Explores how filmmaker indigenizes social memory through archival photographs and film, personal interviews, contemporary music and iconic images.
Indigenous Storytelling with Elder Hazel
Alternate Title
How the Dreamcatcher Came to Be
How the Months Came to Be
How the Porcupine Git Its Quills
How the Tipi Got Its Shape
How the Turtle Got Its Shell
I'm a Snake. What Did You Expect?
People of the Buffalo Nation
The Beaver's Tail
The Moose's Loose Coat
The Seven Sisters at Devil's Rock
The Turtle and the Ground Squirrel
Turtle Goes South
Why the Owl Looks the Way It Does
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Hazel Dixon
Joely BigEagle-Kequahtooway
Royal Saskatchewan Museum
Description
Elder Hazel Dixon tells 12 traditional stories. Joely BigEagle-Kequahtooway from the Buffalo People Arts Institute explains the origins of the "Pile of Bones" name, the history of the buffalo and its importance in the culture of Indigenous peoples.
Indigenous Voices, Indigenous Symbols
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rachael Selby
World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium Journal, p. [?]
Description
2009 Edition contains:
Indigenous Voices, Indigenous Symbols by Rachael Selby.
Matariki - A Symbol of Survival by Hohaia Collier.
Windigo Presence in Selected Contemporary Ojibwe Prose and Poetry by Linda LeGarde Grover.
Māori Symbolism - The Enacted Curriculum by Jamie Lambert.
Who Says I Don't Want to Come to School?
Insects Off to War
Alternate Title
The Indian Reading Series: Stories and Legends of the Northwest ; Level 1, Book 5
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Northern Cheyenne Research and Human Development Association
Description
Children's storybook retells the Northern Cheyenne traditional story about insects who go to war because they have nothing to do. Suitable for use with elementary students.
Insider and Outsider: An Inari Saami Case
Alternate Title
Insider and Outsider: An Inari Sami Case
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas A. DuBois
Scandinavian Studies, vol. 67, no. 1, Winter, 1995, pp. 63-76
Description
Article examines the relationship between ethnic identity and land use in Sami legends.
Interior and Exterior Landscapes: The Pueblo Migration Stories
Alternate Title
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Leslie Marmon Silko
Description
Explores Pueblo oral traditions. Excerpt from: Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit. Originally published in Antaeus, no. 57 (Autumn) 1986.
Interior Salish - Booklet. - 1966.
Alternate Title
British Columbia Heritage Series. Series 1, Our Native Peoples ; vol. 3
Social Studies Bulletin
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Provincial Archives [of British Columbia]
Description
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.
Interpreting Pawnee Star Lore: Science or Myth?
Alternate Title
Review Essays: Interpreting Pawnee Star Lore: Science or Myth?
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Douglas R. Parks
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 9, no. 1, 1985, pp. 53-65
Description
Book review of: When Stars Came Down to Earth: Cosomology of the Skidi Pawnee Indians of North American by Vol Del Chamberlain.
Intimate Enemies: Weetigo, Weesageechak, and the Politics of Reconciliation in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen and Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sophie McCall
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 3, Fall, 2013, pp. 57-85
Description
Analysis of the two novels in terms of tensions between post-colonialist and Indigenous nationalist thoughts about what reconciliation means and how it should be achieved.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 57.
Inuit Legends
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Marcel Akadlaka
Helen Pownuk Koogak
Rachael Ottuk
Owbec
Sam Kunuk]
Description
Forty-eight legends as told by members of the Adult Education Center in Eskimo Point, Northwest Territories. Includes a brief history of each legend-teller.
The Inuit Sea Goddess
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Darlene Coward Wight
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 2, Summer, 1999, pp. 34-35
Description
Curatorial notes for exhibition of the same name mounted at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1999.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 34.
Inuit Symbolism of the Bearded Seal
Alternate Title
Symbolisme inuit du phoque barbu
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Birgitte Sonne
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 41, no. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 29-50
Description
Examines traditional Inuit and Yupiit stories, rituals, and colloquial sayings to reveal different meanings associated with the bearded seal in these Indigenous cultures. Finds that bearded seals can impart multiple meanings ranging from monstrous to protection to renewal and reproduction.
An Investigation of the Role of Legends and Storytelling in Early Childhood Practices in a Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) Early Childhood Facility
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sandra Deer
In Education, vol. 22, no. 1, Indigenous Education, Spring, 2016, pp. 110-126
Description
Study finds that cultural legends and stories familiar to historical, ceremonial and spiritual practices are vital to the cultural foundation of the Haudenosaunee.
Is That All There Is? Tribal Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Basil H. Johnston
Canadian Literature, no. 128, Systems of Value, Structures of Belief, Spring, 1991, pp. 54-62
Description
Discussion on stories that make up tribal literature and the fact that all words have three levels of meaning: the surface, the fundamental, and, underlying both, the philosophical meaning.
Entire journal on one pdf. Scroll down to page 128 to read article.
It Consumes What It Forgets
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Carter Meland
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 137-149
Description
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.
Ivory, Antler, Feather and Wood: Material Culture and the Cosmology of the Cumberland Sound Inuit, Baffin Island, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan M. Pearce
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, 1987, pp. 307-321
Description
Suggests that artifacts and other raw materials are equally as important as myths and kinships in delivering social messages within the central Inuit culture.
James Simon
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
James Simon
Tony Snowsill
Christine Welsh
Ernest Debassigae
Indian History Film Project
Description
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.
The Jesuit Foundations of Native North American Literary Studies
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William M. Clements
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, Winter, 1994, pp. 43-59
Description
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.
Joe Gambler
Alternate Title
History of Shaggy Covered and Arapahoe Medicine Pipe and Ring Smoke Ceremony
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Joe Gambler
Diane Hellson
John Hellson
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview explaining the legend of the Shaggy Pipe, the Arapahoe Medicine Pipe, and the Big Smoke Dance.
Joe Gambler 2
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Joe Gambler
John Hellson
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview about the Beaver Bundle origin myth and the Hoof Dance of Beaver Bundle as well as the Tobacco Dance of the North Blackfoot.
Joe Gambler 3
Alternate Title
Fertility Staff for Tabacco Dance, Medicine Pipe Sweat Lodge, Origin Myth of Horn Society
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Joe Gambler
John Hellson
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview about the origin myth of the Horn Society as well as a description of the construction of a sweat lodge.
"A Journey into Sacred Myth"
Alternate Title
Commentary: by E C-L
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Autumn, 1994, pp. 98-99
Description
Excerpt from a public lecture by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn commenting on the use of myths in the Native American story.
See also : Indian Newspapers, or "Say, Ain't You Some Kind of Indians?"