The Frog Lake Reader

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Mary Horodyski
Prairiefire Review of Books, vol. 10, no. 3, 2010, p. [?]
Description
Book review of: The Frog Lake Reader by Myrna Kostash.
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From a Whisper to a Scream

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lynne Bell
Canadian Art, vol. [27], no. [4], Winter, 2010, pp. 102-107
Description
Focuses on artist Dana Claxton and her exhibition Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux.
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From Appropriation to Subversion: Aboriginal Culture Production in the Age of Postmodernism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter Kulchyski
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Fall, 1997, pp. 605-620
Description
Argues that in the future culture will be a means of differentiating peoples, rather than race and that "authentic" cultural artifacts will become valuable commodities.
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From Boarding Schools to the Multicultural Classroom: The Intercultural Politics of Education, Assimilation, and American Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Sanchez
Mary E. Stuckey
Teacher Education Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3, Summer, 1999, pp. 83-96
Description
Looks at politics and practices of cross cultural communication by examining the historical and current status of American Indians as subjects and participants in the educational system.
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From Captives to Slaves: Commodifying Indian Women in the Borderlands

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Juliana Barr
The Journal of American History, vol. 92, no. 1, June 2005, pp. 19-46
Description
Discusses captured and enslaved Indian women used as currency by Mexican Spaniards, Frenchmen from south Illinois and Canada and Apaches, Comanches and Wichitas in north-central Texas.
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From Colonized Region to Globalized Region?: Challenges to Addressing Social Issues in Nunavik in the Transition to Regional Government

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicole Ives
Oonagh Aitken
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, Fall, 2009
Description
Outlines globalization in a social context and examines how a new regional government can influence more traditional practices and values to address social issues and develop a strong economic, social, and cultural environment.
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From Creation Stories to '49 Songs: Cultural Transactions with the White World as Portrayed in Northern Plains Indian Story and Song

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph E. DeFlyer
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 2, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1990, pp. 11-25
Description
Looks at the historical and cultural process of communication, before the first written records had been created between mainstream American culture and the Native American cultures of the Northern Plains. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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From Documents to People: Working towards Indigenizing the BC Archives

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Genevieve Weber
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 95-112
Description
Discusses the need for archivists to move away from their role as disinterested caretaker toward engaging with the people involved and outlines some of the ways this can be accomplished.
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From Dog Days to Horse Warriors: Montana's People, 1700-1820

Alternate Title
Montana: Stories of the Land
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Krys Holmes
Description

Discusses the lifeways of Indigenous peoples of Montana just prior to contact and the impact that Europeans had on them.

Chapter from Montana: Stories of the Land by Krys Holmes.

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From Ear to Ear: Cross-Cultural Understandings of Aboriginal Oral Tradition

Alternate Title
Adult Education and the Contested Terrain of Public Policy
Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE) ; 21st, 2002
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Maureen Simpkins
no. 6
Description
Examines listening to and understanding Aboriginal oral histories interculturally. Chapter from Adult Education and the Contested Terrain of Public Policy edited by Shahrzad Mohab and William McQueen.
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From Health Worker to Health Worker across Australia

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Susan Abbott Napanmga
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, January/February 1993, p. 5
Description
Health workers use painting stories in a traditional way to educate Aboriginal people about health issues.
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From 'I'm a Lapp' to "I am Saami': Popular Music and Changing Images of Indigenous Ethnicity in Scandinavia

Alternate Title
From 'I'm a Lapp' to "I am Sami': Popular Music and Changing Images of Indigenous Ethnicity in Scandinavia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard Jones-Bamman
Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol. 22, no. 2, August 2001, pp. 189-210
Description
Article examines the activities of Sami musicians and their recordings from the second half of the 20th century.
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From Longhouse to Loghouse: Household Structure among the Senecas in 1900

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy Shoemaker
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 3, American Indian Family History, Summer, 1991, pp. 329-338
Description
Author examines the interplay between physical housing structures and the make-up of the households that occupy them, considers different types of kinship that might be found in a single household. Examines census data to reveal changes, but also notes possible site for imbedded cultural biases.
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From Nation to Population: the Racialisation of ‘Métis’ in the Canadian Census

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chris Andersen
Nations and Nationalism, vol. 14, no. 2, April 2008, p. 347–368
Description
Discusses how the term 'Métis' has been constituted according to racial rather than indigenous national constructions and argues that the Canadian census' lack of explicit categories to distinguish Métis Nation allegiance further naturalizes a racialised construction of Métis at the expense of an indigenously national one.
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From Oppression, Towards Liberation

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joyce Green
Canadian Dimension, vol. 37, no. 6, November/December 2003, pp. 30-32
Description
Looks at how the meaning and practice of self-determination, citizenship, and federalism are shaped by the history of colonization.
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From Protestant and Roman Catholic Missions to Public Schools: Educating Métis and Settler Children in the West to be Citizens of Modern Canada, 1866-1939

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jonathan Anuik
Saskatchewan History, vol. 62, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 22-35
Description
Examines the history, structure, and practice of the missionary schools (and the later public schools) and their role in providing colonial education to Métis and settler students with the intent to civilized them, and by extension their families. Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 22.
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