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Pocahontas

Alternate Title
[North American Indian Thought and Culture]
[Civilization of the American Indian series ; v. 93]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Grace Steele Woodward
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Poundmaker

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lillian Gibbons
Manitoba Pageant, vol. 6, no. 1, September 1960, p. [?]
Description
Short profile of the plains Cree chief (1826-1886).
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Poundmaker Honoured

Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 3, no. 10, October 1972, p. 7
Description
1972 ceremony honouring Chief Poundmaker at the Cut Knife Battlefield on the Poundmaker Reserve.
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Poundmaker's Surrender

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stan Cuthand
Saskatchewan Indian, September 1988, pp. 13-14
Description
Extracts from Poundmaker's speech to General Middleton.
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The Power of a Horse

Alternate Title
First Stories
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Cory Generoux
Description
Short film depicts the scars of racism for filmmaker, Cory Generoux. Duration: 4:46.
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Prof Took the Long Way to the Front of the Class

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Darla Read
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 6, June 2007, pp. 1-2,11
Description
Brief profile of Dr. Ron Laliberte and the Department of Native Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. Article located on page 1 and by scrolling to pages 2 and 11.
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Protestant Missionaries and Native Culture: Parallel Careers of Asher Wright and Silas T. Rand

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas S. Abler
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 25-37
Description
Author examines the writings and compares the careers of two missionaries working to convert Indigenous peoples in North America; focuses on the missionaries’ engagement with the elders, storytellers and culture of the nations.
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A Psycho-Medical History of Louis Riel

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Daniel Clark
Description
Written by the medical doctor who examined Riel three times to determine his sanity while he was imprisoned after the 1885 Resistance and awaiting trial. Originally published in the American Journal of Insanity, July 1887.
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(Re)telling to Disrupt: Aboriginal People and Stories of Canadian History

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Susan D. Dion
Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 55-76
Description
Tells how a series of biographical stories, intended for school curriculum, were produced and how they would provide an alternative representation of Aboriginal people.
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Recalling a Former Cabinet Minister

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Leader Post, May 2, 2005, p. B1
Description
Tribute to the late Gordon MacMurchy, a senior member of the Allan Blakeney cabinet and MLA from 1971 to 1982 whose responsibilities included First Nations affairs.
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Recollections of an Indian Missionary

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Maurice Sanderson
Manitoba Pageant, vol. 5, no. 1, September 1959, p. [?]
Description
Memoirs of a Cree minister born in 1877 at Fairford Reserve, ordained in 1902 and his 50 years working for the church.
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Red Jacket and the Decolonization of Republican Virtue

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Granville Ganter
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 4, Autumn, 2007, pp. 559-581
Description
Article provide biographical information from historic sources and articulates Sagoyewatha’s (Red Jacket’s) role as an activist for Indigenous sovereignty; focuses on his participation in the Ogden Council of 1819 and his appropriation of the Republican rhetoric of the time.
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Reflections of Yesterday & Today

E-Books
Author/Creator
Education Program of the Manitoba Metis Federation
Description
Includes interviews of: Albert Ballantyne, Laddie Ballantyne, Elsie Bear, Doreen Beaupre, Barney Brown, Leonard Budd, Al J.C. Chartrand, Amy Clemons, Lenore Clouston, John Cuthand, Jim Day, Johnny Dietrich, Norman Fleury, Rod Garrick, St.
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Remembering Chief Seattle: Reversing Cultural Studies of a Vanishing Native American

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Crisca Bierwert
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 280-304
Description
Author offers a critical examination of the ways that the Coast Salish Chief Seattle is remembered; considers both Indigenous and settler perspectives, and different social and cultural discourses that have evolved around the leader.
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A Residential School Memoir

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Deena Rymhs
Canadian Literature, no. 178, Autumn, 2003, pp. 58-70
Description
Book review of Indian School Days, a narrative re-creation of life at the Gamier Residential School for Boys, written by Basil Johnston. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 58.
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The Restoration of an Iłkák'mana: A Chief Called Multnomah

Alternate Title
The Restoration of an Ilkak mana: A Chief Called Multnomah
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ann Fulton
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter, 2007, pp. 110-128
Description
Author uses archives, historical narratives, and or histories to reconstruct a biography of the historic chief.
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Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lawrence J. Abbott
Robley Evans
Louise Mengelkoch
Carol A. Miller
Sidner J. Larson
Jon Reyhner
Alanna Kathleen Brown
Bette S. Weidman
Lawrence J. Evers
James Ruppert
Pauline Woodward
Bonnie J. Barthold
James H. Magu
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 3, no. 2, Series 2 , Summer, 1991, pp. 53-89
Description
Book reviews of: Books Without Bias: Through Indian Eyes edited by Beverly Slapin and Doris Seale Teaching the Native American edited by Hap Gilliland, Jon Reyhner, and Rachel Schafer Indian School Days by Basil H. Johnston Ojibway Heritage by Basil H. Johnston Ojibway Ceremonies by Basil H.
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Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kathleen Mullen Sands
L. G. Moses
Louis A. Heib
R. David Edmunds
Dorothy W. Hewes
Roger Bowerman
Gregory R. Campbell
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, 1983, pp. 79-99
Description
Book reviews of: Mat Hekid O Ju/When It Rains edited by Ofelia Zepeda. The Navajo Nation by Peter Iverson. Historic Hope Ceramics: The Thomas V. Keam Collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology, Harvard University by Edwin L. Wade and Lea S. McChesney. The George Rogers Clark Adventure in the Illinois, and Selected Documents of the American Revolution at the Frontier Posts by Katherine Wagner Seineke. Life Is With People: Household Organization of the Contemporary Southern Paiute Indians by Martha C.
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Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Dawn Karima Pettigrew
J. Anthony Paredes
Steven Ross Evans
Andrew Gulliford
Peter d'Errico
Robert E. Ackerman
Lindsey Claire Smith
James S. Frideres
Stephanie Norton Joynes
Malinda Maynor Lowery
Victoria Smith
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, 2006, pp. 131-181
Description
Book reviews of: Another Attempt at Rescue by M. L. Smoker. Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment by Renée Ann Cramer. Chief Joseph, Yellow Wolf, and the Creation of Nez Perce History in the Pacific Northwest by Robert R. McCoy. Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain’s North American Frontiers edited by Jesus F. de la Teja and Ross Frank. Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous People of Their Land by Lindsay G.
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Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Daniel M. Cobb
Christopher J. Bilodeau
Charles R. Cobb
Robert W. Galler
Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh
Louise Cummings Maynor
Tara Browner
Glenabah Martinez
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, 2007, pp. 113-166
Description
Book reviews of: Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences edited and with an introduction by Clifford E. Trafzer, Jean A. Keller, and Lorene Sisquoc. Captive Histories: English, French, and Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid by Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney. A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814 by Gregory A. Waselkov. Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life by Kingsley M. Bray. Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Native Peoples and Archaeology in the Northeastern United States edited by Jordan E.
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Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Alfonso E. Hernandez
Ruth Spack
Robert Keith Collins
Stacey A. Heiser
Marie Julienne
Barbara A. Mann
Jim Rosenthal
Derek Milne
Margaret Jacobs
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, 2000, pp. 159-207
Description
Book reviews of: American Indians in World War I: At War and At Home by Thomas A. Britten. Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 by Brenda J. Child. Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700 by Patricia Galloway. Daily Life on the Nineteenth-Century American Frontier by Mary Ellen Jones. Dancing the Dream: The Seven Sacred Paths of Human Transformation by Jamie Sams. The Great Peace: The Gathering of Good Minds (CD-ROM) by Raymond Skye et.
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Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Eileen Luna-Firebaugh
Mary E. Stuckey
D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark
Susan L. Rockwell
Jason Edward Black
Tiya Miles
John W. Heaton
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, 2007, pp. 139-193
Description
Book reviews of: American Indian Constitutional Reform and the Rebuilding of Native Nations edited by Eric D. Lemont. American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance: Word Medicine, Word Magic edited by Ernest Stromberg. Bernie Whitebear: An Urban Indian’s Quest for Justice by Lawney L. Reyes. Black Silk Handkerchief: A Hom-Astubby Mystery by D. L. Birchfield. The Collected Speeches of Sagoyewatha, or Red Jacket edited by Granville Ganter. Elias Cornelius Boudinot: A Life on the Cherokee Border by James W.
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Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Margaret Connell Szasz
Claire R. Farrer
G. H. Grandbois
Ofelia Zepeda
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse
Steven M. Karr
Joyotpaul Chaudhuri
Richard M. Wheelock
M. Elanor Nevins
Sara-Larus Tolley ... [et al.]
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 4, 2004, pp. 131-181
Description
Book reviews of : American Indian Education, a History by Jon Allan Reyhner and Jeanne Eder. The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West by Barre Toelken. Battle for the BIA: G.E.E. Lindquist and the Missionary Crusade against John Collier by David W.
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Revillon Man

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
R. H. Cockburn
The Beaver, vol. 70, no. 1, February/March 1990, pp. 12--?
Description
Profiles career of A. Wallace Laird from 1924 to 1931 as well as the trading practices of the period.
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Rex Willie

Articles » General
Inuktitut, no. 84, 1999, p. 8
Description
Brief biography on the recipient of the Governor General's Academic Award for Arctic Bay, Nunavut.
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Riel House National Historic Site of Canada

Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
Parks Canada
Description
On-line tour of the Métis leader's family home. Provides links to history of the Métis, biography of Louis Riel and visitor information.
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