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First Nations Identity

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jennifer Kramer
Canadian Literature, no. 167, First Nations Writing, Winter, 2000, pp. 126-129
Book reviews of: The Star-Man and Other Tales by Basil H. Johnston and Jonas George Privileging the Past: Reconstructing History in Northwest Coast Art by Judith Ostrowitz The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art by Allan J. Rayan What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses? by Richard Van Camp and George Littlechild Mythic Beings: Spirit of the Northwest Coast by Gary Wyatt.
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First Nations Traditional Teaching Units

Web Sites » Organizations
Contains links to lesson plans for bannock making (preschool), fish unit (Grade 2), moose unit (Grade 3), beaver unit (Grade 5), and rabbit snaring unit (Grade 9). Each unit includes rationale, web diagram, advance material preparations, lesson plans, evaluations/reflections, and brief profile of Elder.
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First Nations Way of Life

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Agriculture in the Classroom

Contains links to three modules: Culture, Trade and Ways of Learning and Knowing.

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First Nations Weather

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lua Young
Teachers' guide looks at how First Nations survived the weather extremes of Saskatchewan and includes personal narratives and legends.
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First Nations Youth HIV/AIDS Education Manual

Alternate Title
Beating the Challenge
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Assembly of First Nations Health Secretariat
Discusses holistic and culturally sensitive teaching principles as applied to the curriculum. Provides research guide for students and twelve foundation lesson plans.
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The First Strawberries

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brenda Boreham

Retelling of traditional Cherokee story which illustrates to importance of respect. Recommended for preschool and Kindergarten.

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The First Wife: The Dolphin Myth

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Louis A. Allen
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, September 1988, pp. 49-52
Story from the Wanungamulangwa people of Groote Eylandt.
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Fleur Pillager’s Bear Identity in the Novels of

Louise Erdrich

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nora Baker Barry
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 12, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2000, pp. [24]-37
Discusses the significance of the bear in Chippewa belief systems, Grand Medicine Society and orders of the midewin, and how the author uses these elements as plot devices. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Folk-Lore of the Cree Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fred Swindlehurst
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 18, no. 69, 1905, pp. 139-143
Collection of six Cree stories: The Creation, The Birth of Lake Mistassini, The Painted Canoe, A Big Perch, The Story of Katonao.
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Folklore of the Menomini Indians

Alternate Title
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; v.13, pt.3
E-Books
Author/Creator
Alanson Skinner
John Valentine Satterlee
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 13 (p.217-557).
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[Fort Alexander Stories and Legends]

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jeanette Courchene
Harry Courchene
Beatrice Guimond
Peter Sinclair
Isabelle Courchene

Compilation of 15 short stores originally published in 1976.

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Forty-Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1929-1930

E-Books
Author/Creator
M. W. Stirling
Report includes the following papers: Report of the Chief by M. W. Stirling The Acoma Indians by Leslie A. White Isleta, New Mexico by Elsie Clews Parsons Introduction to Zuñi Ceremonialism by Ruth L. Bunzel Zuñi Origin Myths by Ruth L. Bunzel Zuñi Ritual Poetry by Ruth L. Bunzel Zuñi Katcinas by Ruth L. Bunzel
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Forty-Third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1925-1926

E-Books
Author/Creator
J. Walter Fewkes
Report includes the following papers: Report of the Chief by J. Walter Fewkes The Osage Tribe: Two Versions of the Child-Naming Rite by Francis La Flesche Wawenock Myth Texts from Maine by Frank G. Speck Native Tribes and Dialects of Connecticut: A Mohegan-Pequot Diary by Frank G. Speck Picuris Children's Stories by John P. Harrington and Helen H. Roberts Iroquoian Cosmology - Second Part by J. N. B. Hewitt
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Fossil Legends of the First Americans

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Paul Barber
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 124, no. 493, 2011, pp. 236-237
Book review of: Fossil Legends of the First Americans by Adrienne Mayor.
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Four Directions Teachings.com

Alternate Title
FourDirectionsTeachings.com
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Tom Porter
Presents an Iroquois mythology that includes an introduction, creation of the world, creation of the twins, creation of humans, four sky dwellers prophecy, peace maker prophecy, counting, and morning prayer.
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From Bobtail to Brer Rabbit: Native American Influences on Uncle Remus

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jay Hansford C. Vest
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 1, Winter, 2000, pp. 19-43
Author examines the Uncle Remus children’s stories and links them to a variety of Indigenous narratives from the Saponi-Monacan Confederacy’s oral tradition.
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From Creation Stories to '49 Songs: Cultural Transactions with the White World as Portrayed in Northern Plains Indian Story and Song

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph E. DeFlyer
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 2, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1990, pp. 11-25
Looks at the historical and cultural process of communication, before the first written records had been created between mainstream American culture and the Native American cultures of the Northern Plains. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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From Fish Weir to Waterfall

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kenneth D. Tollefson
Martin L. Abbott
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 2, Spring, 1993, pp. 209-225
Article examines the meanings and significance of the Snoqualmie Falls to the Snoqualmie people; considers historic, political, and spiritual/traditional contexts. Examines a current conflict surrounding the falls which involves the Puget Sound Power and Light Company.
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From the Glittering World: A Navajo Story

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Susan B. Brill
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 4, Series 2; Sherman Alexie, Winter, 1997, pp. [80]-89
Book review of: From the Glittering World by Irvin Morris. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Gender at Work in Laguna Coyote Tales

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Theresa Delgadillo
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 3-24
Looks at how Laguna coyote stories convey the complementarity of gender roles and respect for the strength, power, and intelligence of women. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Gender inside Indigenous Law Casebook

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Darcy Lindberg
Jessica Asch
Includes stories that are used in the Gender Inside Indigenous Law Toolkit to teach methods of engaging with stories as law or work with critical issues surrounding gender. Divided into three parts: stories, case briefs to be used with toolkit, and feminist legal analysis of stories.
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Gender Inside Indigenous Law Toolkit

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Darcy Lindberg
Jessica Asch
Designed to provide facilitators with basic background, lessens and activities to generate discussions about Indigenous law and issues around gender.
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