Parable of the Hummingbird
Alternate Title
Widening Our Lens, Connecting Our Practice
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Description
Uses a story to illustrate that every action counts. Speaker at the 2nd International Conference on Restorative Practices: Widening Our Lens, Connecting Our Practice, May 31st-June 5th, 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Duration: 20:53.
Paradise Revisited: Images of the First Women in the Poetry of Joy Kogawa and the Fiction of Thomas King
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dorata Filipczak
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, no. 43, 2007, pp. [291]-303
Description
Discusses how The Book of Genesis has been reinvented in the poem A Song of Lilith, the short story One Good Story, That One and the novel Green Grass, Running Water.
Part of the Land, Part of the Water: A History of the Yukon Indians
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ken Coates
BC Studies, no. 81, Spring, 1989, pp. 81-83
Description
Book review of: Part of the Land, Part of the Water by Catherine McClellan with Lucie Birckel, Robert Bringhurst, James Fall, Carol McCarthy, Janice Sheppard.
Scroll down to page 81 to read review.
Paula Gunn Allen's Grandmothers: Toward a Responsive Feminist-Tribal Reading of Two Old Women
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Genie Babb
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 299-320
Description
Author examines both the text and its reception to offer a critical analysis of factors that affect the interaction between dominant and marginalized cultures including acts of appropriation on the part of reviewers, and the devaluing of oral literatures.
People of a Feather
Alternate Title
People of a Feather: Educational Package
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
The Arctic Eider Society
Sanikiluaq Running Pictures
Joel Heath
Community of Sanikiluaq
Description
Documentary about the unique relationship between the Inuit of Sanikiluaq, Nunavut and the Hudson Bay Common Eider and how changing sea ice and ocean currents caused by massive hydroelectric dams are threatening both the bird and the traditional way of life. Duration:
Related material: Educational Package by Global Environmental Justice Documentaries.
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.