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Navajo Texts

Alternate Title
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; v. 34, pt. 1
E-Books
Author/Creator
Pliny Earle Goddard
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v.34 (p.1-179).
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The Navajo Tradition - Transition to the Bahá’í Faith

Alternate Title
Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium
Native American Symposium ; 8th, 2009
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Linda S. Covey
Examines the three reasons behind the conversion of the Navajo, or Diné, to the little-known eastern religion in the early 1960s.
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Never Alone = Kisima Ingitchuna: Parent Guide

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Juli James
Michael Garcia
Saska Barab
Betty Gee]
For use with the two-player cooperative video game, developed in collaboration with the Cook Inlet Tribal Council, which incorporates traditional stories along with culture and values of the Iñupiat community. See also:
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Never Alone: The Art and the People of the Story

Alternate Title
Game Development Conference ; 2015
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Dima Veryovka
A Discussion on the visual style, cultural infusion and impact of the 2014 video game Never Alone. The game is based off the Iñupiat legend of Kanuk Sayuka and was created in cooperation with elders, storytellers, and artists from the Cook Inlet Tribal Council. Duration: 50:01.
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New Wine for Old Wineskins: Storytelling Makes a Comeback

Alternate Title
Proceedings of the Western Social Science Association, American Indian Studies Section, 2OO7
Articles » General
Author/Creator
John W. Friesen
Virginia Lyons Friesen
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer, 2007
Looks at the revival and benefits of storytelling and oral traditions. Scroll down to view article.
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Night Village and the Coming of Men of the Word: The Supernatural as a Source of Meaning among Coastal Saami

Alternate Title
Night Village and the Coming of Men of the Word: The Supernatural as a Source of Meaning among Coastal Sami
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Paine
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 107, no. 425, Summer, 1994, pp. 343-363
Discusses a village situated between the nomadic culture of the interior and Norwegian culture of the coast and effects living on that boundary has had on beliefs about supernatural beings.
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Noah Meets Old Coyote, or Singing in the Rain: Intertextuality in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura E. Donaldson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1995, pp. 27-43
Looks at what is real and what is magical in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water by weaving the traditional world of oral Indigenous story telling with the individualised western written text. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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North American Indian Folklore Studies

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alan Dundes
Journal de la Société des Américanistes, vol. 56, no. 1, 1967, pp. 53-79
Reviews folklore scholarship and the future of research.
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The North and the Depiction of the Finnar in the Icelandic Sagas

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeremy DeAngelo
Scandinavian Studies, vol. 82, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 257-286
Discusses the stereotypical portrayal of the Finnar (the Sami and the Finns) in various stories. The most negative depiction being Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla.
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Northeastern and Western Yavapai

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.34, no.4
E-Books
Author/Creator
E. W. Gifford
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 34, (pp247-354).
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Northern Dene Bibliography

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ed Labenski
Sources are divided by two areas, "Chipewyan" (Northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, North West Territories) and British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon and Northwest Territories, grouped together. Each area is then divided into a social and cultural section and a language section. Bibliography includes citations from the Hearne Bibliography. The article is current as of 1998.
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The Northern Lights

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Alan Booth
Examines the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) from an Aboriginal perspecitve and a scientific one. Duration:47:40.
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Notes on Eskimo Traditions

Alternate Title
Report of Committee on Awards World's Columbian Exposition, 1893
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Harlan I. Smith
Excerpt from the Report of Committee on Awards World's Columbian Exposition, 1893; includes a composite of an often told Inuit story.
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Notes on the Chilula Indians of Northwestern California

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.10, no.6
E-Books
Author/Creator
Pliny Earle Goddard
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 10, (pp265-288).
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Notes on the Tillamook

Alternate Title
Phoebe Apperson Hearst Memorial Volume
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.20
E-Books
Author/Creator
Frank Boas
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 20 (pp1-16).
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The Novel as Performance Communication in Louise Erdrich's Tracks

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Flavin
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 3, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1991, pp. 1-12
Explores oral traditions and their importance to tribal culture in Louise Erdrich's novelTracks. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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The Novels of Louise Erdrich: Stories of Her People. Connie A. Jacobs

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lori Burlingame
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 13, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 2001, pp. 105-110
Book review of: The Novels of Louise Erdrich: Stories of Her People by Connie A. Jacobs. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Numbers in American Indian Mythology

Alternate Title
Native American Leadership: Past, Present and Future
Native American Symposium; 11th, 2015
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Oksana Y. Danchevskaya
Considers the meaning and significance of numbers between one and ten in Indigenous North American philosophies and beliefs.
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Nuu-Chah-Nulth

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council
Website has links to the tribal council business, language instruction, and cultural stories videos and narratives.
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Object Lessons: Wooden Spirits, Wax Voices, and Collecting the Folk

Alternate Title
Properties of Culture - Culture as Property. Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Thomas Ross Miller
Looks at examples of cultural property collected by anthropologists from the North Pacific in the late19th century. Chapter in book: Properties of Culture - Culture as Property. Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia edited by Erich Kasten.
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Oceanal Man: An Aboriginal View of Himself

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Burrumarra
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 1, no. 3, September 1, pp. 52-54
Presents an Australian Aboriginal view of the creation of the human species.
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An Ohunkakan Brings a Virgin Back to Camp

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julian Rice
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 4, Autumn, 1983, pp. 37-55
A discussion on the role of oral traditions in Lakota culture and the certain patterns and styles used to engage listeners.
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Ojibwa Myths and Tales: The Manabozho Cycle

Alternate Title
The Nanabozho Cycle
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Radin
A. B. Reagan
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 41, no. 159, January-March 1928, pp. 61-146
Collection of 42 stories.
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Ojibwa Texts [Part 1]

Alternate Title
Ojibway Texts
Ojibwe Texts
Publications of the American Ethnological Society ; vol. VII, pt. I
Publications oft he American Ethnological Society ; vol. VII, pt. 2
E-Books
Traditional stories with parallel text in Ojibwe and English. Part Two.
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Ojibway: The Man, the Snake and the Fox

Alternate Title
Indian Legends
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Tony Snowsill
Basil Johnston
Traditional Ojibwa legend that delivers the moral, do not make promises you cannot keep. Duration: 11:58.
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The Ojibwe Who Slew the Wiindigo

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bradley Shreve
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 28, no. 3, Indigenous Peoples History, Spring, 2017, p. [?]
Discusses colonization, historical trauma and historical loss symptoms.
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The Old People

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Eliana Ramage
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 3, no. 1, 2016, pp. 158-159
Book review of: The Old People by A. J. Perry.
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The Old Woman: The Mudungkala Myth

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Louis A. Allen
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 11, no. 3, September 1987, pp. 3-6
Discusses the creation story of the Tiwi tribe on Bathurst and Melville Islands.
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On the Paganism of the Civilised Iroquois of Ontario

Articles » General
Author/Creator
David Boyle
Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vol. 30, July-Dec. 1900, pp. 263-273
From the Journal of the Anthropological Institute vol. 30, July - December 1990 at pages 263 to 277?.
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