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Two Maya Tales from the Mérida Cereso

Alternate Title
Two Maya Tales from the Merida Cereso
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Audrey Adele Harris
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 166-183
Author presents a translation of and critical introduction to two short stories written in prison writing workshops by Yucatecan writers Zindy Abreu Barón and Yesli Dayanili Pech Pech; discusses how each story contains elements of Mayan traditional stories.
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Two Men Walking

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Arnaitok Ipellie
Inuktitut, no. 82, 1997, pp. 68-71
Legend about an encounter with a spirit who attempts to eat one of the men.
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Ululijarnaat or The Entrails Snatcher

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Siporah Inuksuk
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 2, Summer, 1993, pp. 14-15
Presents the story of an abused woman who went to the moon. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 14.
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[Understanding Indigenous Perspectives]: Modules

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
[Jean-Paul Restoule]
Contains links to educational modules on six topics: Indigenous worldviews, Indigenous ways of knowing, stereotypes, history of Indigenous education, reconciliation, and treaties. Intended for a post-secondary audience.
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Underwater Panthers, Thunderbirds, and Anishinaabe Star Knowledge

Alternate Title
Stellar Connections: Explorations in Cultural Astronomy
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Michael Wassegijig Price

Speaker relates seven star stories: Ojiig - The Fisher which encompasses the Big Dipper; Maang - The Loon, the inverted Little Dipper; Bishi Bizhiw - the Great Underwater Panther whose tail is the head of the Leo and its head which is the head of Hydra;  Animikii Binesii  - Thunderbird, the constellation Cignus; Nanboozhoo or Nanabush, the constellation Orion; Gwiingwa'aage "The One who Came from a Falling Star" - Wolverine which refers to a meteor striking the Earth and creating a lake; and No'aachige'anang - the Prophecy Star which refers to Halley's Comet.

Duration: 26:20.

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Unearthing the Chumash Presence in The Sharpest Sight

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melody Graulich
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 2, Summer, 2010, pp. 1-21
Looks at Choctaw mythology involving self-discovery and the false divisions between this world and the spirit world in Louis Owens’s The Sharpest Sight. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
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[Ungipaghaghlanga: Let Me Tell You a Story. Quutmiit Yupigita Unigpaghaatangit. Legends of the Siberian Eskimos]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Willem J. de Reuse
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 29, no. 1-2, Préserver la langue et les savoirs / Preserving Language and Knowledge, 2005, pp. 360-363
Book review of: Ungipaghaghlanga. Let Me Tell You a Story. Quutmiit Yupigita Unigpaghaatangit. Legends of the Siberian Eskimos transliterated and translated by Christopher Patuwaq Koonooka from Stories Told By Ayveghhaq, Asuya, Alghalek, Nanughhaq, Wiri by G. A. Menovshchikov.
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Unikkausivut: Sharing Our Stories

Alternate Title
AtuKatigennik Unikkausittinuk: Transmettre nos Histories
An Interdisciplinary Educational Resource to Accompany the Uniikausivut: Sharing Our Stories Initiative
AtuKatigennik Unikkausittinuk
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
National Film Board (NFB)

Selection of 83 films from the National Film Board's collection that represent the regions of Nunatsiavut, Nunavik, Nunavut and Inuvialuit.

Related Material: Interdisciplinary Educational Resource.

 

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The Unmissable: Transmotion in Native Stories and Literature

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gerald Vizenor
Transmotion, vol. 1, no. 1, 2015, pp. 63-75
The author describes the concept of Transmotion and how it relates to Indigenous literatures, worldviews and systems of knowledge. Discusses how the concept became central to his work and scholarship.
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Unpacking Pimachesowin as a Framing Concept for Indigenous Self-Determination + Eyapachitayak Pimachesowin ta Othastamasoyak Nehithaw tipethimisowin

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bonita Beatty
Northern Review, vol. 53, Indigenous Self-Determination through Mitho Pimachesowin: Perspectives from Northern Saskatchewan, 2022, pp. 7-23

Discusses how traditional Cree stories and lessons reflect the traditional Cree world view of pimatsiwin (life) and how pimatsiwin itself can better help the understanding Indigenous self-determination.

 

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Unsettling Fictions: Disrupting Popular Discourses and Trickster Tales In Books for Children

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Judy Iseke-Barnes
Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 2009, pp. [24]-57
Looks at the importance of Indigenous stories for children, raises issues with the process of sharing cultural stories from around the world, comments on trickster stories, and critiques the book Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest.
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Using Native American Legends to Teach Mathematics: Legends Retold by Students Participating in the Anishinabe Teachers for Anishinabe Children Project

Alternate Title
CGI [Cognitively Guided Instruction] Workshop
Web Sites » Organizations
Website contains links to the workshop manual, information about the resource, individual Native American legends, and a teacher's guide. Stories were developed by 21 high school students who had an interest in teaching.
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Uvajuq: The Origin of Death

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jeanne L'Espérance
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring, 2001, p. 46
Book review of: Uvajuq edited by David F. Pelly and Kim Crockatt. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 46.
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The Valley Nisenan

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.24, no.4
E-Books
Author/Creator
Alfred L. Kroeber
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 24, (pp253-290).
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Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Humans: Learning From Participatory Responses to the Representation of Native Americans In Twilight

Alternate Title
Article 5
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joanna Luz Siegel
Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, vol. 26, no. 2, Special Issue on Mass Media and Schooling, 2011, pp. [79]-103
Discusses the representation of the northwest Washington Quileute Nation in the movie Twilight and reactions to these representations.
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Vanishing Point

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Stephen A. Smith
Julia Szucs
Marina Endicott
Documentary looks at two Inuit communities on Baffin Island and Northwest Greenland and how they are connected and adapting to social and environmental changes. Includes English sub-titles. Duration: 82:23.
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Veganism and Mi'kmaq Legends

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Robinson
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 2013, pp. 189-196
Links theories of eco-feminism to legends in Aboriginal culture whereby animals are portrayed as siblings to humanity rather than the dominant model of a relationship based on dominance.
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Visiting the Six Worlds: Shamanistic Journeys in Canadian Mi'kmaq Cosmology

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne-Christine Hornborg
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 119, no. 473, Summer, 2006, pp. 312-336
Studies the Mi'kmaq Indians' descriptions of journeys between six parallel worlds as found in tales collected from the early seventeenth century to the early twentieth.
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The Voice of My Grandmother (Gene Gregoret, 1973)

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Gene Gregoret
Documentary about a Cree community in northern Alberta where the children are taught traditional stories and traditional ways by the old people. Duration: 14:32.
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Voices from the Delaware Big House Ceremony

Alternate Title
[Civilization of the American Indian Series; v. 239]
[North American Indian Thought and Culture]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Ruthe Blalock Jones
Marlene Molly Miller
Michael Pace
Darryl Stonefish
Terry J. Prewitt
Adriaen van der Donck ... [et al.]
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The Voices of Gerald Vizenor: Survival Through Transformation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia Haseltine
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 1, The Literary Achievements of Gerald Vizenor, Winter, 1985, pp. 31-47
An examination of George Vizenor's use of the traditional Indigenous trickster narrative to discuss Indigenous concerns and issues.
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