Perpetuating White Australia: Aboriginal Self-Representation, White Editing and Preferred Stereotypes
Alternate Title
Creating White Australia
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jennifer Jones
Description
Discusses the process of transcription, editorial emendation and re-writing and how it reflects the collaborator's vision of Aboriginality.
Chapter 9 from Creating White Australia edited by Jane Carey and Claire McLisky. Scroll down to read material.
Piapot: Man and Myth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Lee
Prairie Forum, vol. 17, no. 2, Native Studies, Fall, 1992, pp. 251-262
Description
Explores the popular myth that Plains Cree chief Piapot tried to halt construction of the Canadian Pacific Railroad by pitching tipis along the construction route.
Pivut
Alternate Title
Fantastic Beings from Arctic Stories
Two Stories about Arctic Giants & Qallupilluit (Beings of the Ocean Depths)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rachel A. Qitsualik
Sean A. Tinsley
Neil Christopher
Michael Austin
Todd Lockwood
Larry MacDougall
Wayne Reynolds
Description
First issue of graphic magazine designed to support literacy in Inuktitut and English and promote Inuit culture. This issue focuses on supernatural beings from traditional stories.
Places Important to Navajo People
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Klara Kelley and Harris Francis
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 2, Spring, 1993, pp. 151-169
Description
Study conducted in 1986 & ‘87 interviews participants in 13 Navajo communities about spaces that are sacred or important to the people in those communities. Research was done to determine which sites should be the focus of the Navajo Nation’s Historic Preservation Department.
Plains Indian Studies: A Collection of Essays in Honor of John C. Ewers and Waldo R. Wedel
Alternate Title
Plains Indian Studies: A Collection of Essays in Honour of ...
Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology ; no. 30
E-Books
Author/Creator
William N. Fenton
James H. Gunnerson
T.D. Stewart
Douglas R. Parks
Thomas R. Wessel
Loretta Fowler
Hugh A. Dempsey
James A. Hanson
Midred Mott Wedel
David Mayer Gradwohl
Brian Hesse
John A. Hotopp
George C. Frison
Dennis J. Stanford
Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology
Plains Ojibwa Tales
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alanson Skinner
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 32, no. 124, April-June 1919, pp. 280-305
Description
Compilation of stories collected from individuals residing on the Long Plains First Nation, located in Manitoba, between June and July 1913.
Police Zones: Territory and Identity in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karen Piper
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, 1997, pp. 483-497
Description
Literary criticism article in which the author examines the Silko’s novel and its relevance to Laguna narratives of land, territory, resistance, and cultural survivance.
A Popoloc Riddle
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Annette Veerman-Leichsenring
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 8, no. 4, Series 2; European Writings on Native American Literatures, Winter, 1996, pp. [1]-12
Description
Author discusses, and includes transcription of a tribal story, a version of the tale of Oepedius, related to her by a Popoloc storyteller. The tale is a metaphor: a human's life lasts only a day, and they start life as animals.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Pragmatism and American Indian Thought
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sidner Larson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1997, pp. [1]-10
Description
Contends that there are parallels between the Aboriginal philosophy of balancing the world as it is, and maintaining traditions, and the Western concept of pragmatism.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Promoting Healthy Medication Use Through Indigenous Knowledge Sharing: A Coyote Story
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gina Gaspard
Carrie Gadsby
Cindy Preston
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 16, no. 2, Wisdom of the Elders: Honouring Spiritual Laws in Indigenous Knowledge, 2021, pp. 166-176
Description
Looks at the creation of a traditional Coyote story as a strategy to address Polypharmacy, "when multiple medications are being taken and the benefits no longer outweigh the risks", for Indigenous patients.
Protecting Creation: The Twilight Series, Creation Stories, and the Conversion of Intangible Cultural Property
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Leidy
Southwestern Law Review, vol. 41, no. 3, Spring, 2012, pp. 509-532
Description
Discusses the unauthorized use of the the Quileute Tribe name and creation story in the movie and the lack of copyright protection for creation stories.
Qalupalik
Alternate Title
Nunavut Animation Lab
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ame Papatsie
Description
Animated short of legend about a half-human sea monster who traps disobedient children if they venture too close to shore. Accompanying material, Qalupalik: Lesson Plan.
Duration: 5:34.
Qalupalik: Lesson Plan
Alternate Title
[Nunavut Animation Lab]
Documents & Presentations
Description
Target audience Grades three to six in the subject areas of First Nations, English, and Fine Arts. Accompanies animated film of same name.
Questions of the Spirit: Bloodlines in Louise Erdrich's Chippewa Landscape
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Annette Van Dyke
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1992, pp. 15-27
Description
Explores the inspiration of the symbols of water and the water god shown in Erdrich's Love Medicine and Tracks.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.