Traditional Stories

Article explores Eastern Cherokee epistemology; by examining sacred traditional-narratives the authors reveal the cultural meanings, purposes and values that are embodied in different characters and deities within those stories.

Discusses the use of Inuit spatial concepts of the land that postmodern authors sometimes use when writing about the North. Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.

Discusses how Erdrich's literary method gives a critique of the western worldview of the legacy of Euroamerican conquest.

Indigenous Governance Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2018.

Book review of: Eight Inuit Myths/Inuit Unipkaaqtuat Pingasuniarvinilit by Alex Spalding.

Interview includes stories of boys who became rattlesnakes and a woman who was half fish. It also includes a discussion concerning the murder and suicide by Thunder Blanket.

Book review of: Elik and Other Stories of the Mackenzie Eskimos by Herbert T. Schwarz.

Analysis of the folk song shows how irony was used as form of resistance in a rural community in northern Norway.

Literary Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Quebec at Montreal, 2006.

Presents a Kamilaroi traditional story transcribed by an anthropologist and translated into English.

Discusses racism against First Nations peoples and suggests what a new relationship between First Nations peoples and Euro-Canada might look like.

Discusses the emigration of Navajos' to Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

Includes advice for non-Indigenous teachers teaching the class, list of recommended texts, and instruction and assessment units. Course conforms to the British Columbia curriculum, but incorporates literature from across Canada and the United States.

Story of creation by the Manitou, Wi'sa'kä.

Forms part of Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 12 (p. [417]-456). Term Eskimo refers to the Yupik people.

Book reviews of: Eskimokunstler, Ergebnisse Einer Reise in Alaska (Eskimo Artists, Resutls of a Voyage in Alaska) by Hans Himmelheber. Der Gefrorene Pfad, Mythen, Marchen Und Legenden De Eskimo ( The Frozen Path, Myths, Fairy-Tales and Legends of the Eskimo) by Hans Himmelheber.

Visual Arts Thesis, (M.F.A.)--University of Western Ontario, 1997.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 36, (pp301-352).

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 33, (pp233-350).

Looks at area where people and land otters lived over the past fifty-five hundred years and explains why Tlingit have a cultural tie to the land otter.

Discusses the relationship between Mourning Dove and L.V. McWhorter and their commitment to write about the preservation of Indian culture. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Psychological interpretations observed at the retelling of a mythological tale.

Discusses how LeAnne Howe’s writing combines historic and contemporary cross-cultural interactions to bridge the gaps between sovereignty, issues of land and place, history, and culture. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 13.

Education Thesis (EdD)--University of Western Ontario, 2019.

Discusses infrastructure challenges surrounding internet connectivity in NWT, strategies for meeting these challenges, and how increased connectivity requires increased digital literacy. Stresses that increased competency with digital technologies allows for them to be used as methods of cultural preservation.

Argues that most children's folklore books distort the true meaning and style of the original stories and urges educators to teach authentic oral literatures.

Book review of: Family Origin Histories as told by Tyee Bob, Sa:ya:sh'pis, William Qwishanishim et al. and edited by Eugene Arima, Henry Kammler, Terry Klokeid and Katherine Robinson.

Discusses the focus of four topic areas: the goal of ethics education, the teaching of ethics, the ethics curriculum, and a suggested framework for ethics education.

Part of First Voices! First Women Speak! teach-in and gathering hosted by KAIROS Canada and IPSMO. Duration: 54:47.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 1998.

Translation of a Passamaquoddy myth from the Abnaki (Abenaki) people.

Book review of Finding Kluskap by Jennifer Reid.

Comments on the many and various roles Native American women played in their societies. Chapter from Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America by Sara M. Evans.

Article examines different telling of the Hopi origins narrative, discusses the different elements and what they might say about Hopi culture. Considers different characters in the story and explores the cultural understanding of them as heroes/villains.

Book review of: First Fish, First People edited by Judith Roche and Meg McHutchison. River of the Angry Moon by Mark Hume with Harvey Thommasen. Scroll to page 111 to read review.

Focuses on the heritage of First Nations and Metis people, including topics regarding role models, traditional plants, dances, legends and dwellings. Suitable for a variety of settings and grade levels.

Looks at two curators and the films they chose to fit the themes of tragic comedy and traditional storytelling.