Myth Understandings: First Contact, Over and Over Again

Alternate Title
Myth and Memory: Rethinking Stories of Indigenous-European Contact
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
John Lutz
Description
Introduction in book: Myth and Memory: Rethinking Stories of Indigenous-European Contact edited by John Sutton Lutz. Contact stories provide differing explanations for settlers and Indigenous people.
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Myth Understandings: First Contact, Over and Over Again

Alternate Title
Myth and Memory: Stories of Indigenous-European Contact
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John Sutton Lutz
Description
A critical look at how contact stories have been, and are being told and used. Four themes run through the book: Currency, Performance, Ambiguity and Power. Introduction to the book Myth and Memory: Stories of Indigenous-European Contact
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N. Battleford Must Deal Honourably With Natives

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, April 12, 2002, p. A15
Description
Discusses North Battleford 's reluctance to approve a service agreement for the Red Pheasant First Nation's land proposal.
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NADOC and the National Aborigines Day in Sydney, 1957–67

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jonathan Bollen
Anne Brewster
Aboriginal History, vol. 42, December 2018, pp. 3-30
Description
Author explores the origins and history of the National Aborigines Day Observance Committee (NADOC) and discusses the evolution of the narrative promoted by the committee.
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NAGPRA as a Paradigm: The Historical Context and Meaning of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in 2011

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 9th, 2011
Where No One Else Has Gone Before: Proceedings of the Ninth Native American Symposium
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Thomaira Babbit
Description
A brief history of Native American Indian and United States relations; examines the similarities between the historical experiences of Native Americans and Palestinians; and discusses the movement to recover the objects and remains of their ancestors.
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NAGPRA's Politics of Recognition: Repatriation Struggles of a Terminated Tribe

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Courtney Cottrell
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 1, Winter, 2020, pp. [59]-85
Description
As tribal historic preservation officer for the federally unrecognized Brothertown Indian Nation, the author uses their own personal experience of attempting repatriation of a pipe under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to discuss the process to prove connection, justify legal status according to federal criteria, and how their recognition status was exploited by the museum community.
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Namwayut: A New Way Forward in Correctional Practice

Alternate Title
Namwayut: We are All One
Third Annual Dr. Liz Elliott Memorial Lecture and Dialogue
Ting Forum on Justice Policy
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Karen Joseph
Description
Keynote speaker talks about reconciliation, restorative justice and creating stronger communities. Duration: 1:08:05.
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Nancy Ward: American Patriot or Cherokee Nationalist?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelene E. Pesantubbee
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 2, Spring, 2014, pp. 177-206
Description
Discusses actions of an elder woman who appeared to support American settlers while protecting the interests of her Cherokee people to prevent bloodshed.
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Narrating the American West: New Forms of Historical Memory

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Gregory Wright
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 132-134
Description
Book review of: Narrating the American West by Jordana Finnegan. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 132.
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The Narrative and Poetical Role of a Polynesian Literary Myth: Canoes of the Origins in Contemporary Texts from French Polynesia, New Zealand, and Samoa

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Chloé Angué [Chloe Angue]
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 1, 2018, pp. 97-109
Description
Article examines the way that contemporary Polynesian writers are reimagining the Polynesian migration in their works and how the rewriting of the migration narrative is a form of post-colonial resistance, and an active imagining of more equitable futures.
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Narrative as Lived Experience

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 53-65
Description
Author reflects on her own personal experiences; and discusses how historic trauma has shaped Aboriginal peoples lives and the need to re-discover traditions for the future.
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Narratives of Social Justice: Learning in Innovative Clinical Settings

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sheryl Reimer Kirkham
Lynn Van Hofwegen
Catherine Hoe Harwood
International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, vol. 2, no. 1, 2005, pp. 1-14
Description
Looks at a study that examined undergraduate nursing students in innovative clinical placements, and how they bear witness to poverty, inequities, critical awareness, critical engagement, and social change.
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Nation-State Science: Lappology and Sweden's Ethnoracial Purity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Greggor Mattson
Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 56, no. 2, April 2014, pp. 320-350
Description
Discusses how the categorization of Lapps (today's Sami) became the key in the development of European ideas of homogeneity, race and populations.
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Nation, Tribe, and Class: The Dynamics of Agrarian Transformation on the Fort Berthold Reservation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Castle McLaughlin
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 3, Special Issues on Reservation Economies, 1998, pp. 101-138
Description
Demonstrates the use of the concept of social class for understanding of reservation politics and argues why most theoretical models for class analysis are inadequate.
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National Coexistence is Our Bull Durham: Revisiting "The Indian Today"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Edward C. Valandra
American Studies, vol. 46, no. 3-4, Indigeneity at the Crossroads of American Studies, Fall/Winter, 2005, pp. 59-76
Description
Analyzes an essay published in the 1965 special issue of the Midcontinent American Studies Journal entitled "An American Indian Renascence?" by Nancy Oestreich Lurie. Joint issue with: Indigenous Studies Today Issue 1, Spring 2006.
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