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Mi'kmaq Holdings Resource Guide

Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management
Description
A “fully-searchable database containing information about 2200 Mi'kmaq and Mi'kmaq-related textual records and published items” held by Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management. Includes records for treaties, photographs, other archival and library holdings.
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Milestones

Articles » General
Inuktitut, no. 98, Fall, 2005, pp. 32-33
Description
Poster commemorates the four Inuit Agreements that ended the 30-year process to settle comprehensive land claims.
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Missing and Murdered Women: Reproducing Marginality in News Discourse

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Yasmin Jiwani
Mary Lynn Young
Canadian Journal of Communications, vol. 31, no. 4, [Sexualities], 2006, pp. 895-917
Description
Argues that historical stereotypes about women, Aboriginality and sex trade workers continue to place the war on women into the margins of society.
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Moccasins

Web Sites » Virtual Exhibits
Author/Creator
Leonid Ermolov
Emma Panech
Description
Exhibition of early moccasins from the Canadian Museum of Civilization's collections, as well as contemporary examples.Includes text by moccasin makers and annotated photos.
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"Montana South Peigans"

Images » Photographs
Description
Black and white photograph of a group of Peigan men from Montana on horseback in traditional clothing (many wear head-dresses) bearing two American flags at the MacLeod Jubilee Parade.
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Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature; The Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930; All That Remains: Varieties of Indigenous Expression

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Shari M. Huhndorf
American Literature, vol. 82, no. 1, March 2010, pp. 183-186
Description
Book reviews of: Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature by Laura L. Mielke The Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930 by Kate Flint All That Remains: Varieties of Indigenous Expression by Arnold Krupat. Scroll down to page 183 to see reviews.
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Mudjil'dya'djurali Dabuwa'Wurrata (How the White Waratah Became Red): D'harawal Storytelling and Welcome to Country "Controversies"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews
Frances Bodkin
Gavin Andrews
Alison Whittaker
AlterNative, vol. 12, no. 5, [Indigenous Peoples, Popular Pleasures and the Everyday], 2016, pp. 480-497
Description
Focuses on non-Indigenous media and academic representations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ceremonies. Argues that they reflect non-Indigenous ideologies rather than accurate portrayals.
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"The Muppets" Among the Cree of Manitoba

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gary Granzberg
Christopher Hanks
Prairie Forum, vol. 6, no. 2, Fall, 1981, pp. 207-210
Description
Looks at a study of Cree children showing their aversion to the television show The Muppets. Two reasons that the Cree dislike the program are their beliefs towards the shaman's relationship to certain animals and the tendency of First Nations to seek out practical applications instead of fantasy in dealing with issues.
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Murdered and Missing Women: Performing Indigenous Cultural Memory in British Columbia and Beyond

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter Dickinson
Theatre Survey, vol. 55, no. 2, May 2014, pp. 202--232
Description
Focuses on the anniversary production of The Ecstasy of Rita Joe directed by Yvette Nolan and the work of Marie Clements and Rebecca Belmore in terms of the way they challenge mainstream representations of the women as expendable victims.
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A Museum of the Indian, Not for the Indian

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Lujan
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3/4, Summer/Fall, 2005, pp. 510-516
Description
Author states that the Museum eliminated conflict and drama by removing the offensive representations of Native American history.
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Muting White Noise: The Subversion of Popular Culture Narratives of Conquest in Sherman Alexie's Fiction

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Cox
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 4, Series 2: Sherman Alexie, Winter, 1997, pp. 52-70
Description
Contends that the author uses his characters to illustrate the damage stereotypes, imposed by the dominant culture, have inflicted on the Native American psyche. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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The Mystery of Language: N. Scott Momaday, An Appreciation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jace Weaver
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 76-86
Description
Discusses the impact of Momaday's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, House Made of Dawn, on both Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals in the forty years since its' publication. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Myth and Ceremony in Contemporary North American Native Fiction

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lorelei Cederstrom
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 1982, pp. 285-301
Description
Some Native American authors use myth and ceremony to create structure and meaning in their work, showing the relevance of traditional ways to the present, while others merely "tack" them on in an inorganic way.
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