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Lakota Culture

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Aktá Lakota Museum & Cultural Center

Includes links to beliefs and traditions, Seven Council Fires, legends, historical American Indian leaders and South Dakota tribal lands.

Related: Artists and Authors; Spirit Animals.

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Land and Water Based Education

Alternate Title
Land- and Water-Based Education
Treaty Education Nova Scotia
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mi’kmaw Kina’matnewey

Focus on Mi'kmaw culture and Nova Scotia, but lessons could be adapted to other contexts. Lesson plans for all levels as well individual grades.

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Land-Based Learning

Alternate Title
[McDowell Foundation Research Project ; no. 269]
[The Wuschusk or Muskrat Project: The Practices]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Renée Carrière
Bonnie Werner
Leda Corrigal
Tim Jardine.]
Brochure which presents the findings and practices of The Wuchusk or Muskrat Project
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Land Claim Agreements and the North to 2030

Alternate Title
2030 North National Planning Conference
Session Paper (2030 North) ; no. 3
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John Donihee
Discuses the integral importance of agreements and future role that they can play in addressing change in the North.
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Land of Oil and Water: Educational Resource

Alternate Title
Docs for Schools
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Suzanne Methot
Teacher's resource for use with Land of Oil and Water a documentary by Warren Cariou and Neil McArthur about the issues surrounding the possible development of oil sands found in Northern Saskatchewan.
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Land Rights NOT Mining Rights: Free Bob Lovelace and the KI 6

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
[Social Justice and Democracy
Ryerson University]
Ryerson University Rally supporting Robert Lovelace, KI Chief Donny Morris of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) community, (Ontario) and councillors who were jailed for protesting mining development on traditional land. Duration: 10:00.
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Land Security, Sovereignty Head Erasmus' Priorities

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shauna Lewis
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 4, July 2012, p. 14

Profiles Dene Chief, Bill Erasmus, who is running for National Chief for the Assembly of First Nations.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.14.

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Land, Solidarity, Healing

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Marjorie Beaucage
International Indigenous Youth and Elder Gathering regarding land and cultural relations held at Little Red River, Saskatchewan in 1992. Duration: 27:54.
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Landscape and Cultural Identity in Louis Owens’ Wolfsong

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lee Schweninger
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 2, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Louis Owens, Summer, 1998, pp. 94-110
Explores the main character's search for identity through his relationship with the environment. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Landscape as Narrative, Narrative as Landscape

Alternate Title
Landscape as Narrative: Traveling the Sacred Geography of the Anishinaabeg
Narrative as Landscape: A Home Beyond Boundaries in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Theresa S. Smith
Jill M. Fiore
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 4, Winter, 2010, pp. [58]-80
Discusses the importance of environment, location and sense of place in Native American literature. Two sub-articles: Landscape as Narrative: Traveling the Sacred Geography of the Anishinaabeg and Narrative as Landscape: A Home Beyond Boundaries in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 58.
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Landscape Engineering and Organizational Complexity Among Late Prehistoric Bison Hunters of the Northwestern Plains

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Maria Nieves Zedeño
Jesse A. M. Ballenger
and John R. Murray
Current Anthropology, vol. 55, no. 1, February 2014, pp. 23-58
Examines the social, political, and ritual structures and practices of prehistoric hunting traditions. Also discusses how hunters adapted to environmental and climate change.
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The Last Indian in the World

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carolyn Dunn
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, 2008, pp. 79-84
Looks at the lack of voice for Native Americans in the media, where everything is put in terms of black and white, and argues that what happened in New Orleans was a forced relocation of a population.
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Late Bloomer

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Coray
The Northern Review, no. 31, Special Issue; Northern Literature, Fall, 2009, p. 57
A poem.
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Lead and the Environment: An Approach to Educating Adults

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leonard J. S. Tsuji
Evert Nieboer
Jim D. Karagatzides
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 38, no. 2, Winter, 1999, pp. [25-38]
Study found program produced a major attitude change in the Cree people who participated.
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Lead Exposure in Nunavik: From Research to Action

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ariane Couture
Benoît Levesque
Éric Dewailly
Gina Muckle
Serge Déry
Jean-Francois Proulx
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 71, 2012, p. article no. 18591
The regulation of lead shot in 1999 has led to a significant reduction in bloods levels of lead in Nunavut, but levels are still higher than other North American regions.
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Lead Shot Contribution to Blood Lead of First Nations People: The Use of Lead Isotopes to Identify the Source of Exposure

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leonard J. S. Tsuji
Bruce C. Wainman
Ian D. Martin
Celine Sutherland
Jean-Philippe Weber
et al.
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 405, no. 1/3, November 2008, pp. 180-185
Concludes that lead-contaminated game bird meat is a significant source of exposure for First Nation Cree of the western James Bay region.
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Learning from Country

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Nadia Wheatley
ab-Original, vol. 1, no. 2, 2017, pp. 243-256
Article describes the author’s experience of learning Indigenous principles of education and adapting them for use with student living in different environments; advocates for a wholistic pedagogical approach to education.
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Learning from Place: A Return to Traditional Mushkegowuk Ways of Knowing

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jean-Paul Restoule
Sheila Gruner
Edmund Metatawabin
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 36, no. 2, Indigenous Education: Pathways to (Re)membering, 2013, pp. 68-86
Looks at the Cree concepts of land and place while on a canoe trip with youth, adults and elders of Fort Albany First Nation on James Bay.
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