Traditional Stories

Investigates the trickster character in traditional Indigenous storytelling and its reflections on Indigenous social life.

Presents a creation story about how the world was made. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Describes the Anishinaabeg approach to the quest to live a long, healthy life (Medewiwin), how it is connected to the ceremonial lodge and the physical structure of the lodge itself. One of three articles published in the Selkirk Chronicle in 1887 under the title Indian Mythology.

Discusses how tribalography's literary capacity can bridge time, space, and place and be beneficial to tribal peoples and sovereignties. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 40.

Brief rendition of story of a copper artifact with great power and value.

Children's animated short tells the story of what happens when the ecological balance is disturbed. Duration: 13:01.

Book review of: Lost Girls by Andrew Pyper.

Interview with an author at the Words Aloud 4 Spoken Word Festival in Durham, Ontario, November 2007. Duration: 9:37.

Relates thematic content of the novel to that of series' episodes which give the novel its chapter titles; examines both works in the context of the Anishinaabe Wiindigoo stories, discussing interpretations of the concepts of lawlessness, justice and vigilantism.

Part of: University of California Publications in America Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 25, (ppviii -183).

Animated short tells story of a woman who blinds and mistreats her son, a loon that restores his vision, and the act of revenge which turns her into a narwahl. Part of a legend. Accompanying material: Lumaajuuq: Lesson Plan. Duration: 7:36.

Guide to accompany film, Lumaajuuq. Target audience Grades three to six in the subject areas of First Nations, English, and Visual Arts.

Author explores the stories of the Jigonsaseh (Haudenosaunee Clan Mothers), how these women’s stories have been skewed through the Western lens of ethnography, and how reclamation of these narratives is important in the ongoing reevaluation of women’s social roles.

Profiles Inuit hunter and artist Lypa Pitsiulak. Duration: 29:25.

Presents two tales, one on the story of the flood and the creation of the world, the other on the origin of Cree place names in northern Quebec.

Recounts the story of the Yanktonnais Sioux in battle with the Rees and Mandans.

Jokes played on the first whites by Native American Indians living in southwestern Washington State became known as a folkloristic reception and were used by Aboriginal storytellers to translate historical fact into record.

Sums up the tricksters' abilities to adapt and change with the times.

Talks about the cessation and revival of lurugu (circumcision) ceremony on a northern Australian island.

Discussion of the origins of the monster found in legends of various tribes.

Enacted using throat singing. Duration: 07:33.

Brief story about how the spirit went to live with man.

Recounts a mythical tale of love between Bajima, a white skinned man and Tageea, a dark skinned woman.

Book review of: The Man Who Swam With Beavers by Nancy Lord.

Story of Wah-ta-yap and Makoose, originally published in The Manitoban newspaper in 1872.

Book review of: The Many Faces of Edward Sherriff Curtis compiled by Steadman Upham and Nat Zappia. Scroll down to page 113 to read review.

Authors document the life the Californian Indigenous man purported to be 121 years old and "last of his race" in 1873 and contemplate what can be learned from investigating the true stories of Indigenous centenarians; discusses the discourse of extinction surrounding centenarians, and the role it plays in the imagination of settler culture.

Tells the story of an awkward boy's encounter with a supernatural being and his subsequent transformation. Duration: 8:29.

Literary Criticism article in which the author considers different aspects of the novel Harpoon of the Hunter and attempts to classify the text using contemporary Western literary labels. Argues that the novel focuses on community well-being over individuality.

Presents an oral story titled, The Marriage Crow, told my Martha Lamont, transcribed by Thom Hess and Levi Lamont, and translated by Crisca Bierwert. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Highlights works by the textile artist. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 36.

Discusses the dance that presents the Kwakiutl legend of Wiwidi, his undersea adventures, and the associated masks.

Argues that the choice between Caribou antler and walrus ivory for carvings was linked to the Thule world view, mythology and spiritualism. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.

[Education Thesis] (Ph.D.)--University of Auckland, 2009.

Book review of: Mayan Tales From Chiapas, Mexico by Robert M. Laughlin. Translated by Socorro Gómez Hernández and Juan Benito de la Torre.

Book review of: Medicine Boy and Other Cree Tales by Eleanor Brass.

Presents Mi'kmaq story of the ruler of the winds and seas interpreted in mime, dance and narration. Duration: 13:05.

Tahltan sourcebook from exhibition containing archival and contemporary photographs.

Interview with famed author, poet and artist N. Scott Momaday.

Educational Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Lakehead University, 2014.

Examines the symbolism of "Micipijiu", a supernatural being in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine.

Discusses involvement of the integrative science team on the Mi'kmaq night sky story Muin and the Seven Hunters linking astronomy and legend.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Maine, 2014.