Traditional Stories

Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2004.

Discussion on the origin and authenticity of The Walam Olum which claims to be a pictographic record of the Lenni Lenápe or Delaware Indians.

Looks at Gerald Vizenor's satirical story The Darkness in St. Louis Bearheart and its representation of his Indigenous background and ideals.

Excellent teacher resource includes links to information and videos about the following topics: worldviews, oral traditions, Elders, culture and language, kinship, Aboriginal and treaty rights, healing historical trauma, symbolism and traditions, connection to land, Indigenous pedagogy, well-being, and traditional environmental knowledge. Related material: Talking Together: A Discussion Guide.

Related material: Walking with Miskwaadesi.

Related material: Walking with Ánó:Wara.

Halloween includes a scary story as well as treats in episode 12 of a stop-motion animation series. Accompanying material: Wapos Bay: Tricks 'n' Treats: Study Guide. Duration: 23:59.

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.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 19, (pp1-147).

Looks at two translations of a speech given by the Seminole Chief Neamathla to Florida Governor William P. Duval.

Paper presents a culturally specific perspective, from the aspect of the myth itself, as a guide towards understanding images as metaphors.

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.

Book review of: The Way of the Human Being by Calvin Martin.

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.

Focuses on cultural consequences of the mythical figure of the trickster.

Book review of: We Will Dance Our Truth by David Delgado Shorter. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 85.

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.

Stephen Augustine tells his family version of the Mi'kmaq Creation Story. Presentation begins at 15:35. Duration: 2:48:54.

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.

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

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.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 33, (pp1-137).

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.

English Literary and Cultural Studies Thesis (MA) -- Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España), 2021.

Law Thesis (LLM)--University of Alberta, 2009.

Looks at the Ahousat, a Central Nootkan group and the establishment of a Ahousat chieftainship.

Book review of: The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters by Edward Sapir, et al.

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.

"Part 10 of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka texts told by Tom Sa:ya:ch'apis, William, Dick La:maho:s, Captain Hill, and Tyee Bob"

Contends that the author's Anishinabe background plays a key role in gaining an understanding of her work.

Discusses a variety of author's short stories.

Oral traditions in myth and ceremony examined for evidence of geological events in the Pacific northwest during the Holocene era.

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

Written to accompany My Stories Are My Wealth, a book of traditional stories narrated by Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith, and Rachel Dawson.

Studies the religious symbolism in creation stories of the Arikara.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Oklahoma State University, 2009.

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.”