Lizette Ahenakew Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Lizette Ahenakew
Christine Welsh
Indian History Film Project
Description
She was born on the Little Pine Reserve, the first girl from that reserve to attend high school. She tells of some childhood memories; naming ceremonies; significance of Indian names; the training of children, especially girls; menarche seclusion; women: influence of, in religion and ceremonialism, pregnancy; her education: traditional; experiences in Anglican boarding school (integrated) in Saskatoon; training for roles as wife and mother.
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Lloyd Chief Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Lloyd Chief
Mary Mountain
Iris Baker
Group of White Teachers
Indian History Film Project
Description
An interview with the grandson of Misihew and great-grandson of Seekaskootch, Mr. Lloyd Chief. During the interview, Mr. Chief discusses a variety of subjects including: leadership qualities; intertribal wars of the Cree and Blackfoot; the power of dreams; the significance of the Northern Lights; and the powers of Cannibals.
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Local Governments, Tribal Governments, and Service Delivery: A Unique Approach to Negotiated Problem Solving

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Doug Goodman
Daniel C. McCool
F. Ted Hebert
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 2, Special Issue on Research Case Studies, 2005, pp. 15-33
Description
A case study about the difficult jurisdictional issues faced between tribal governments and local, state, and federal levels of governments in the United States.
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Local Values in Governance: Legacy of Choho in Forest and School Management in a Tamang Community in Nepal

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mahesh Nath Parajuli
Indra Mani Rai
Prakash C Bhattarai
Suresh Gautam
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 8, no. 1, 2019, pp. 35-55
Description
Examines a shift in the practices of the Tamang ethnic community in Nepal; argues that the Choho institution is still present, and many practices are still present enacted as resistance against the modern state. Considers how the meaning of these practices may have changed in a contemporary context.
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Locating Difference With Teacher Candidates

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lee Anne Block
In Education, vol. 19, no. 2, Autumn, 2013, pp. 57-71
Description
Discusses teaching about difference in locations where the teacher are of the dominate culture and the discomfort this can cause.
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Locating Ourselves in the Place of Creation: The Academy as Kitsu'lt melkiko'tin

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Emerance Baker
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3/4, Indigenous Women in Canada: The Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Metis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 15-20
Description
Focus of the article is the need for Indigenous researchers and scholars to produce Indigenous research, by, for, and about Indigenous people.
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The Location of Knowledge: A Conversation With the Editors on Knowledge, Experience, and Place

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lynette Shultz
Jennifer Kelly
Cora Weber-Pillwax
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, vol. 55, no. 3, Expanding Knowledge Systems in Teacher Education, Fall, 2009, pp. 335-350
Description
Looks at the expansion of knowledge systems, the location of these systems and connections to teacher education programs.
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Locke and the Dispossession of the American Indian

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathy Squadrito
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 4, 1996, pp. 145-181
Description
Looks at two different views regarding John Locke’s (1632-1704) work. First, is a generous look at Locke's Aboriginal attitudes. Second, is a belief that Locke’s agricultural argument was developed with the intention of taking Indigenous land without consent.
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The Looking Ahead Project: A Lesson in Community Engagement and Positive Change

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul E. Pedersen
Journal of Community Safety & Well-Being, vol. 4, no. 3, 2019, pp. 58-62
Description
Describes partnership involving Greater Sudbury Police Service and the N’Swakamok Native Friendship Centre to create a project with the goal of reducing violence against Indigenous women and girls. Project is titled Looking Ahead to Build the Spirit of Our Women--Learning to Live Free From Violence.
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Looking Forward, Looking Back

Alternate Title
Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples ; Vol. 1
E-Books
Author/Creator
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Description
Volume 1 of Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
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Looking Forward to Sustainability: Executive Director's Message

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Suzanne Benally
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, Sacred Places, Sacred Lifeways, March 2012, p. [?]
Description
The executive director of Cultural Survival Quarterly presents her thoughts on Indigenous people's rights to be heard and determine their own economic, social and cultural development.
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"Lord Lorne meeting with the Indians"

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Sydney Hall
Description
Photograph of sketch by Sydney Hall. The sketch shows a gathering of Indigenous people outside a set-up tent with NWMP standing behind a seated Lord Lorne and others. Dated September 19, 1881.

Historical note:

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Lorna Roth. Something New in the Air

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Judith G. Curtis
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 4, Fall, 2008, pp. 533-536
Description
Book review of: Something New in the Air: The Story of First Peoples Television Broadcasting in Canada by Lorna Roth.
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"Lost and Lonesome": Literary Reflections on Museums and the Roles of Relics

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lee Schweninger
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 2, Spring, 2009, pp. 169-199
Description
Analyzes the sociopolitical implications of disinterring bodies in order to put them on display, and discusses the responses of various writers to such issues. The article includes a comparison of display cases in museums, that house Native American bones, to that of zoos.
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The Lost Children

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Nancy de Vries
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 30, no. 5, September/October 2006, pp. 22-28
Description
Biographical article of Nancy De Vries, a registered nurse who was removed from her mother and raised in a white family environment. Extracted from The Lost Children edited by Coral Edwards and Peter Read.
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Lost in Conflation: Visual Culture and Constructions of the Category of Religion

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael J. Zogry
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 1-55
Description
Examines the role of religion in the stereotyping of Native Americans, and looks at the representations of Native American religion in theater through an analysis of visual images including John White's drawings, Theodor de Bry's engravings, and Paul Green's outdoor drama.
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The Lost Inuit of Franklin Bay

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Morrison
The Beaver, vol. 70, no. 4, August/September 1990, pp. 48-?
Description
Describes the Mackenzie River Inuit, including their trading patterns and the impact of contact with Europeans.
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Lost Tribes: Indigenous People and the Social Imaginary

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stuart Kirsch
Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 2, April 1997, pp. 58-67
Description
Overview of the myth model of the ten lost tribes of ancient Israel and the way missionaries used this to remake Indigenous history.
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Louis Boucher Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Louis Boucher
Richard Lightning
Indian History Film Project
Description
An interview which discusses the signing of Treaty 8: understanding of promises made, the establishment of Wood Buffalo Natural Park, and the need for a reserve at Fort Chipewyan for trapping and hunting.
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Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, and the (De)Mythologizing of the American West

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jason P. Mitchell
Critique Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 41, no. 3, Spring, 2000, pp. 290-304
Description
Explores myths about "cowboys and Indians" as warriors, the consequences of the influx of settlers, and the conflict between new and old conceptions of family, friendship, and spirituality.
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