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Wapos Bay: Tricks n' Treats: Study Guide

Alternate Title
Wapos Bay; episode 12
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Lyn Daniels]
Study guide to accompany film, Wapos Bay: Tricks 'n' Treats. Oriented toward elementary school students; contains episode description, background information, previewing and post-viewing activities and questions which pertain to the key themes.
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Wappo Texts - First Series

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; vol.19, no.1
E-Books
Author/Creator
Paul Radin
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 19, (pp1-147).
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Water Jar Boy: A Petroglyph and Story From La Cienga Pueblo

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carol Patterson-Rudolph
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 14, no. 1, 1990, pp. 1-23
Paper presents a culturally specific perspective, from the aspect of the myth itself, as a guide towards understanding images as metaphors.
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Water Stories from Around the World

Alternate Title
The Hero Twins and the Swallower of Clouds
Koluscap and the Water Monster
Tiddalik the Frog
E-Books
Author/Creator
Deepa Balsavar
Suniti Namjoshi
Mariam Karim-Ahlawat
Zai Whitaker
Sandhya Rao ... [et al.]

See: The Hero Twins and the Swallower of Clouds (North America), p. 10.

Koluscap and the Water Monster (North America), p. 53.

Tiddalik the Frog (Australia), p. 60

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"The Way I Heard It": Autobiography, Tricksters, and Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lynn Domina
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 3, Fall, 2007, pp. 45-67
Explores the book for autobiographical sections and passages that could also be classified as myth, legend or fiction and how this influences the reader's treatment of the work as life writing. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 45.
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[The Way of the Human Being]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Neal McLeod
Native Studies Review, vol. 13, no. 2, 2000, pp. 137-139
Book review of: The Way of the Human Being by Calvin Martin.
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The Way of the Masks

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Marjorie M. Halpin
BC Studies, no. 59, Autumn, 1983, pp. 69-71
Book review of: The Way of the Masks by Claude Lévi-Strauss. Translated from the French by Sylvia Modelski. Scroll down to page 69 to read review.
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Weaving the Story: Northern Paiute Myth and Mary Austin's The Basket Woman

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark T. Hoyer
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, 1995, pp. 133-151
Examines the use in literature of the myth about the white man being a rattlesnake, arguing that opposites, male and female, Christian and Indian, are actually complements of equal value.
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[Week 1: The Mi'kmaq Creation Story: A Philosophy of Life]

Alternate Title
MIKM 2701: Learning From Knowledge Keepers of Mi'kma'ki
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Stephen Augustine
Ashlee Cunsolo Willox
Stephen Augustine tells his family version of the Mi'kmaq Creation Story. Presentation begins at 15:35. Duration: 2:48:54.
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[Week 4: Walking the Medicine Wheel and Four Directions Teachings]

Alternate Title
MIKM 2701: Learning From Knowledge Keepers of Mi'kma'ki
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Stephen Augustine
Ashlee Cunsolo Willox
Stephen Augustine speak about the seven sacred teachings and medicine wheel concepts used by the Mi'kmaq and relates a story told by his ancestors. Lecture begins at 28:17. Duration: 2:44:51.
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[Week 9: Reconnecting Our Youth to Their Traditional Heritage]

Alternate Title
MIKM 2701: Learning From Knowledge Keepers of Mi'kma'ki
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Stephen Augustine
Ashlee Cunsolo Willox
Danny Paul
Elder Danny Paul tells a story about the creation of man and about keeping culture and cultural continuity with Aboriginal youth. Presentation begins at 22:50. Duration: 2:45:16
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Welch's Fools Crow

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce Murphree
Explicator, vol. 52, no. 3, Spring, 1994, pp. 186-187
Looks at the dangers of straying from tribal customs as told in a Pikuni legend and the parallels drawn to character's in Fools Crow.
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The Western Kuksu Cult

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.33, no.1
E-Books
Author/Creator
E. M. Loeb
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 33, (pp1-137).
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Western Literary Canon Revisited in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water

Alternate Title
National Literatures in a Globalized World
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Pavla Buchtová
Describes how King rewrites Euro-American literary classics and biblical stories using Aboriginal worldviews and narrative traditions. Excerpt from National Literatures in a Globalized World edited by Anton Pokrivčák, Simona Hevešiová and Lucia Horňáková . Entire volume on one pdf. To access chapter scroll down to p. 81.
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The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Umeek E. R. Atleo
BC Studies, no. 145, Spring, 2005, pp. 120-122
Book review of: The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters by Edward Sapir, Morris Swadish, Alexander Thomas, John Thomas and Frank Williams. Scroll down to page 120 to read review.
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The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Charlotte Coté
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 177-181
Book review of: The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters by Edward Sapir, et al.
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"When the Stories Disappear, Our People Will Disappear": Notes on Language and Contemporary Literature of the Saskatchewan Plains Cree and Métis

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter Bakker
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 8, no. 4, European Writings on Native American Literatures, Winter, 1996, pp. 30-45
Looks at various Cree dialects and gives examples of sacred stories, myths, and legends told in both Cree and Michif. Scroll down to access article
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Whispering Tales: Using Augmented Reality to Enhance Cultural Landscapes and Indigenous Values

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruno Marques
Jacqueline McIntosh
Hannah Carson
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 3, September 2019, pp. 193-204
Describes a project in which digitally augmented reality (AR) is used to engage people in traditional Māori land-based narratives, values, and storytelling. Argues that Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, a design approach developed to illustrate narratives using contemporary media, helps to promote “bicultural engagement with landscape.”
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White Mountain Apache Texts

Alternate Title
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; v. 24, pt. 4
E-Books
Author/Creator
Pliny Earle Goddard
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
Forms part of the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 24 (p.369-527).
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The Whole Past in a Yavapai Mythology

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donald M. Bahr
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 5, no. 2, 1981, pp. 1-35
Analyzes the myth cycles contained in corpus of 24 texts collected from Jim Stacey by E.W. Gifford.
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Why Bears are Good to Think and Theory Doesn't Have to be Murder: Transformation and Oral Tradition in Louise Erdrich's Tracks

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joni Adamson Clarke
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 1, Series 2 , Spring, 1992, pp. 28-48
Explores how Erdrich transforms her Chippewa oral traditions to create a female character who is able to transform between human and animal in her novel Tracks. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Why Bluejay Hops

Alternate Title
Why Blue Jay Hops
The Indian Reading Series: Stories and Legends of the Northwest ; Level 1, Book 6
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Coast Area Planning Committee

Children's book retells the Skokomish traditional story. Suitable for use with Grades K-5.

Related Material: Lesson Plan.

 

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Why No Iroquois Fiction?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jan Wojcik
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring, 1997, pp. 205-215
Examines the fragmentary nature of Native American literature and argues that the literature represents but a tiny fraction of Indigenous diversity and life.
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