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Blood Came from Their Mouths: Tongva and Chumash Responses to the Pandemic of 1801

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Edward D. Castillo
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, Special Issue on Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans, 1999, pp. 47-61
Examination of the religious and cultural responses, of two California Native American groups, to new diseases, which were of Spanish origin, and to colonization.
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The Bluejay Character in the Plateau Spirit Dance

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Verne F. Ray
American Anthropologist, vol. 39, no. 4, pt.1, New Series, October-December 1937, pp. 593-601
Focuses on the guardian spirit and its importance in winter dances and religion among the Salish.
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Book Review

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David J. Norton
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 1997, pp. 377-378
Book review of: Behind the Frontier: Indians in 18th Century Eastern Massachusetts by Daniel R. Mandell
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Book Review

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Marybeth E. Culley
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 1997, pp. 387-389
Book review of: An Apache Life-Way: The Economic, Social and Religious Institutions of the Chirichua Indians by Morris Edward Opler.
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Book Review Essay: From Stories to Material Culture: European Scholars in the Arctic

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Claire Alix
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Tchoukotka / Chukotka, 2007, pp. 365-374
Essay containing reviews of: Where the Echo Began: and Other Oral Traditions From Southwestern Alaska by Hans Himmelheber. Deering: A Men's House From Seward Peninsula, Alaska by Helge Larsen. Nunguvik et Saatut: Sites Paléoeskimaux de Navy Board Inlet, île de Baffin by Guy Mary-Rousselière.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Various authors
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, 1993, pp. 327-371
Book reviews of 14 books: Proceedings: First National Conference on Cancer in Native Americans. "Proceedings" reviewed by Rene R. Gadacz. Gabriel Dumont Speaks translated by Michael Barnholden. The Early Years of Native American Art History: The Politics of Scholarship and Collecting edited by Janet Catherine Berlo. Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization by Alfred W.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Robert E. Florida
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 178-179
Book review of: Black Elk and Flaming Rainbow: Personal Memoirs of the Lakota Holy Man and John Neihardt by Hilda Neihardt.
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Book Reviews:

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Alfred Fisher
David J. Norton
Patricia Skidmore
Radolfo Piño-Robles
Eleanor M. Blain
Kenichi Matsui
P. Dawn Mills
John S. Long
Susan Berry
Thomas S. Abler
David J. Norton.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 19, no. 2, 1999, pp. 381-404
Book reviews of: Legends of our Times: Native Cowboy Life by Morgan Baillargeon and Leslie Tepper. The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America by Conlin Callway (Editor). Women in Trouble: Connecting Women's Law Violations to Their Histories of Abuse by Elizabeth Cormack. Leonard Bloomfield's Fox Lexicon: Critical Edition by Ives Goddard (Editor). White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence by Sidney L. Harring.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Amelia M. Trevelyan
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 163-167
Book review of: Navajo Pictorial Weaving: 1880-1950: Folk Art Images of Native Americans by Tyrone Campbell, Joel Kopp and Kate Copp.
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[Book Reviews]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Meagan Glass
Native Studies Review, vol. 20, no. 2, 2011, pp. 195-196
Review of The Mishomis Book: The Voice of the Ojibway by Edward Benton-Banai.
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Boye Ladd: A Visit from a Friend

Articles » General
Windspeaker, vol. 21, no. 11, February 2004, p. 21

Powwow dancer, Boye Ladd, relates traditional teachings on various topics relating to First Nations culture, including information about the sacred drum, respect for other people and groups, and the right to wear an eagle feather.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.29.

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The Buffalo, the Chickadee, and the Eagle: A Multispecies Textual History of Plenty Coups’s Multivocal Autobiography

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jasmine Spencer
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2, Spring, 2019, pp. 168-203
Critical essay in which the author argues that Coups’s autobiography, originally published in 1930 as American: The Life Story of a Great Indian, Plenty- coups, Chief of the Crows is best read as multivocal text that presents both human and more-than-human voices and perspectives.
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Building on Strengths in Naujaat: The Process of Engaging Inuit Youth in Suicide Prevention

Alternate Title
Proceedings of the 2017 Northern, Rural, and Remote Health conference
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Polina Anang
Elizabeth Haqpi Naujaat Elder
Ellen Gordon
Nora Gottlieb
Maria Bronson
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 2, Collaborative approaches to wellness and health equity in the Circumpolar North..., 2019
Describes the process used by researchers, Inuit youth, and a Naujaat Elder to create a resiliency based community youth project designed increase protective factors against youth suicide.
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Building on the Definition of Social and Emotional Wellbeing: An Indigenous (Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand) Viewpoint

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stewart Sutherland
Michael Adams
ab-Original, vol. 3, no. 1, 2019, pp. 48-72
Article reframes the discussion surrounding mental health recognizing that Indigenous peoples have a holistic view of health that encompasses the physical, mental, emotional, and environmental spectrum of wellbeing. Notes implications for government policy and for frontline practice.
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Burial as a Disposition Mechanism for Navajo "Jish" or Medicine Bundles

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charlotte J. Frisbie
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 4, A Special Symposium Issue on Navajo Mortuary Practices and Beliefs, 1978, pp. 347-365
Looks at the conflicting accounts of the placement of a Navajo Jish in regards to burial. Jish or medicine bundles are made up sacred items that are used for a variety of reasons in Navajo culture.
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"Buried in Fine White Ash": Violence and the Reimagination of Ceremonial Bodies in Winter in the Blood and Bearhear

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Meg Armstrong
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 265-298
Literary criticism article which explores the way that Indigenous bodies appear and are used to articulate the struggles between Indigenous and Euro-American cultures in the novels Winter in the Blood and Bearhear.
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The Burning of Kitsegukla, 1872

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
R.M. Galois
BC Studies, no. 94, The Historical Geography of British Columbia, Summer, 1992, pp. 59-81
Discusses Constable Robert Brown's encounter at Kitsegukla and the Gitksan perception of and response to the burring of Kitsegukla.
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The Cahuilla Indians

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.16, no.6
E-Books
Author/Creator
Lucile Hooper
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 16, (pp315-380).
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The Calder Case in Historical Perspective

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
W. H. McConnell
Saskatchewan Law Review, vol. 38, no. 1, 1974, pp. 88-122
Looks at historical, moral and legal claims by the Nishga.
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California Culture Provinces

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.17, no.2
E-Books
Author/Creator
Alfred L. Kroeber
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 17, (pp151-169).
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Can Capitalism Be Decolonized? Recentering Indigenous Peoples, Values, and Ways of Life in the Canadian Art Market

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Solen Roth
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3, Summer, 2019, pp. 306-338
Author examines the interdependent nature of colonial and capitalist structures and their collaborative resistance to decolonizing efforts. Explores two different sites in which Indigenous businesses are working to engage in the market while maintaining business practices rooted Indigenous values and principles. Asks how these economic practices can support the dismantling of colonial-capitalist economic institutions.
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The Canadian Dakota

Alternate Title
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; v. 41, pt. 1
E-Books
Author/Creator
Wilson D. Wallis
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 41 (p. [1]-225).
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Casper Solomon Interview #1

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Casper Solomon
Jocelyn Keeshig
Indian History Film Project
Consists of an interview where he gives an account of the migration of the Potawatomi Indians and a general description of reserve life; an account of the importance of midwives and a brief description of naming ceremonies; and tells a story about an old man who remembered seeing the Chicago fire.
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Cedar

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Margaret Seguin
BC Studies, no. 67, Winter, 1985, pp. 59-62
Book review: Cedar by Hilary Stewart. Scroll down to page 59 to read review.
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Central Role of Relatedness in Alaska Native Youth Resilience: Preliminary Themes from One Site of the Circumpolar Indigenous Pathways to Adulthood (CIPA) Study

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa Wexler
Joshua Moses
Kim Hopper
Linda Joule
Joseph Garoutte
American Journal of Community Psychology, vol. 52, no. 3-4, 2013, pp. 393-405
Interviews with Inupiaq young people revealed that relationships (or their loss) were a important source of stress, but at the same time a chief source of material and affective support.
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Les Cérémonies de Remise de Diplômes au Nunavik

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fabien Pernet
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 33, no. 1-2, Education and Transmission of Inuit Knowledge in Canada, 2009, pp. 225-243
Discusses how Inuit worldviews and customs were incorporated into graduation ceremonies.
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Ceremonies of the Pomo Indians

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.12, no.10
E-Books
Author/Creator
S. A. Barrett
Part of: University of California publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 12, (pp397-441).
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"Ceremony" as Ritual

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carol Mitchell
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 1, A Special Symposium Issue on Leslie Marmon Silko's , 1979, pp. 27-35
Reflects on the importance of evolving traditional Indigenous ceremonies in contemporary Indigenous communities.
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A Change of Subject: Perspectivism and Multinaturalism in Inuit Depictions of Interspecies Transformation

Alternate Title
Un changement de sujet : Perspectivisme et multinaturalisme dans les représentations inuit des transformations interespèces
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sean P.A. Desjardins
Études Inuit Studies , vol. 41, no. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 101-124
Article argues that two pre-contact Inuit artifacts, recovered from the Pingiqqalik site, depict interspecies transformation; author argues that this is evidence that interspecies relations were influenced by a cosmology rooted in multinaturalism.
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Changes in Navajo Mortuary Practices and Beliefs

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Shepardson
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 4, A Special Symposium Issue on Navajo Mortuary Practices and Beliefs, 1978, pp. 383-395
A reflection on the impact of institutional changes in Navajo mortuary practices from traditional to more Christian.
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Changing Burial Practices of the Western Navajo: A Consideration of the Relationship between Attitudes and Behavior

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jerrold E. Levy
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 4, A Special Symposium Issue on Navajo Mortuary Practices and Beliefs, 1978, pp. 397-405
A discussion about educational, financial and spiritual changes in the Navajo lifestyle that has led to changes in Navajo beliefs and culture. However, these markers alone are not sufficient enough to prove the presence or absence of specifics beliefs and further research is required.
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Changing Patterns of Indian Trapping in the Canadian Subarctic

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James W. VanStone
Arctic, vol. 16, no. 3, September 1963, pp. 158-174
Looks at the decline in trapping due to adoption of a western way of living in the Chipewyan community of Snowdrift in the Northwest Territories between 1960 and 1961.
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Chapter One Study Guide: Aboriginal Societies

Alternate Title
Chapter 1: Aboriginal Societies: Study Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Tavis Newman]

Answer key

For use with chapter in the Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada by Daniel Francis, contributing authors Angus Scully and Jill Germain.

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Charlie Chief 1 Interviewer

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Charlie Chief
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Interview of Charlie Chief who discusses the a Grass Dance, Round Dance and Sioux Dance (including songs). Also included are songs. The discusses the difference between old and new ways. Alphonse Littlepoplar is the intterpreter
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