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Alligator Clans in Oklahoma: Creek/Seminole Stomp Dance in Indian Territory

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Papers From the American Indian Studies Section at the 2006 Western Social Science Association
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paula Conlon
Indigenous Policy Journal of the Indigenous Studies Network, vol. 17, no. 2, Summer, 2006, p. [?]
Discusses how the resurgence of the Stomp dance, a Native American religious and social dance, is keeping the Eastern Woodlands tribes alive and well. Access through table of contents.
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Alphonse Antoine 1

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Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Alphonse Antoine
Tony Snowsill
Christine Welsh
Ernest Debassigae
Indian History Film Project
An interview with Antoine Alphonse who gives an account of his life including residential school and serving in two wars.
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American Indian College Students' Ethnic Identity and Beliefs About Education

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lynn Okagaki
Mary Kay Helling
Gary E. Bigham
Journal of College Student Development, vol. 50, no. 2, March/April 2009, pp. 157-176
Study suggests that bicultural efficacy and cultural orientation should be examined when considering educational orientation of American Indian college students.
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The American Indian in Transition: Reformation and Accommodation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fred W. Voget
American Anthropologist, vol. 58, no. 2, April 1956, pp. 249-263
Looks at the "Great Message" of the Iroquois, Peyotism in the Plains and Shakerism in the Pacific Northwest, to explain the reformation movement.
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American Indian Perspectives on Thanksgiving

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Edwin Schupman
Genevieve Simermeyer
Carol Johnson
Clare Cuddy

Resource for suitable for grades 4-8 presents three themes (environment, community, encounters) central to understanding both Native Americans and the deeper meaning of the Thanksgiving holiday.

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The American Indian Renascence?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy Oestreich Lurie
American Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, Indian Today, Fall, 1965, pp. 25-50
Compares American Indians with other minorities living in the United States.
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American Indian Tribes

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Magill's Choice
E-Books
Includes Culture Areas : Volume 1: Tribes and Traditions: Abenaki-Missouri Volume 2: Tribes and Traditions: Miwook - Zapotec (Be patient download is very slow)
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American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection

Web Sites » Organizations
Collection includes over 2,300 original photographs, annual reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior from 1851 to 1908 and six Indian Treaties negotiated in 1855. Study questions suitable for use by K-12 teachers.
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Americans and Other Aliens in the Navajo Historical Imagination in the Nineteenth Century

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William H. Lyon
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 1, Winter, 2000, pp. 142-161
Author attempts to imagine the ways that the Navajo people would have viewed others by considering Diné stories, historical events in which the Navajo expressed ideas about or initiated actions towards other peoples, and the words of Navajo spokespersons.
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Ancient Mi'kmaq Customs: A Shaman's Revelations

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Ancient M'ikmaq Customs: A Shaman's Revelations
Ancient Mi'kmaw Customs: A Shaman's Revelations
Ancient Micmac Customs: A Shaman's Revelations
Ancient Mik'maq Customs: A Shaman's Revelations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Earle Lockerby
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 24, no. 2, 2004, pp. 403-423
Describes Mi'kmaq life just before European contact, based on oral history related by a Mi'kmaq shaman, Arguimaut, to Father Pierre Maillard about 1740.
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Angotee: Story of an Eskimo Boy

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Douglas Wilkinson
Documentary traces an Inuit boy's life from birth to marriage by following him and his family through the different seasons. Duration: 29.56.
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Animals and Theme in "Ceremony"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter G. Beidler
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 1, A Special Symposium Issue on Leslie Marmon Silko's , 1979, pp. 13-18
Looks at the role animals play in Leslie Silko's story and its reflections on Indigenous people needing to learn what to accept and what to resist in order to survive.
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Anishinaabe Syndicated: A View From the Rez

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lawrence Gross
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 29, no. 1, Special Issue: A Tribute to Russell Means, Spring, 2014, pp. 102-105
Book review of: Anishinaabe Syndicated: A View From the Rez by Jim Northrup.
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Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and Being

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lisa M. Poupart
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 30, no. 2, Fall, 2015, pp. 140-143
Book review of Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and Being by Lawrence W. Gross.
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Annie Whitecalf 1

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Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Annie Whitecalf
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Interview includes stories of traditional life including ceremonies, dances, burials, hunting, and spirits.
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Annie Whitecalf 2

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Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Annie Whitecalf
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Interview includes an assortment of stories about animals and animal omens, floods and the Legend of Sounding Lake.
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Antoine Ferguson Interview

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Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Ferguson
Carol Pearlstone
Indian History Film Project
Consists of an interview where he talks about his memories of Gabriel Dumont, the causes of the Riel Rebellion of 1885 and the present day treatment of Metis people.
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Antoine Lonesinger 1 Interview

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Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Interview with the respected storyteller and singer Antoine Lonesinger. Interview includes the Legend of Cut Knife Hill and stories of BlackRock and Chokecherry Wood.
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Antoine Lonesinger 10 Interview

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Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
The interview includes the story of a Cree boy who becomes a Blackfoot Chief.
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Antoine Lonesinger 11 Interview

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Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Interview includes two stories: the first about a boy who saves a boy and wins a wife in the process; a second about a boy who upon returning to his band with a wife becomes chief.
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Antoine Lonesinger 12 Interview

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Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Archie Baptiste
Indian History Film Project
Antoine Lonesinger discusses different methods of earning a living that included making charcoal and lime. Also included is the story of a boy saved a camp from starvation with the help of the raven spirit.
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Antoine Lonesinger 13 Interview

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Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Archie Baptiste
Indian History Film Project
Interview includes stories about a ghost priest and a non-existent camp. Also included is a story of how a lame boy's skill as a medicine man won him a chieftainship and a wife.
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Antoine Lonesinger 2 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Interview includes stories of a Woods Cree who turned a Plains Cree son-in-law into a bone spirit and the revenge that came from that.
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Antoine Lonesinger 3 Interview

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Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Interview with Antoine Lonesinger, who tells stories of escapes from Blackfoot and the use of spirits and evil powers.
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Antoine Lonesinger 5 Interview

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Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Interview includes a biographical account of Antoine Lonesinger's life that includes stories about farming, trapping, house construction and the making of charcoal and lime. He also tells of the murder of an Indian Agent at the hands of a Blackfoot named Owl Eyes.
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Antoine Lonesinger 6 Interview

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Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Indian History Film Project
Interview with Mr Lonesinger who tells stories of Indian agents both good and bad. He also tells of the Battle of the Cut Knife Hill and the banning of the Sundance.
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Antoine Lonesinger 7 Interview

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Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Indian History Film Project
Interview includes stories of attacks on women by Blackfoot and Cree raiders. It also includes the story of the acquisition of the Sioux Dance (or Grass Dance) from the bone grass spirits.
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Antoine Lonesinger 9 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Indian History Film Project
Interview includes the stories of a raid on the Blackfoot and the struggle for supremacy between two medicine men. (Transcribed by J. Greenwood)
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An Apache Medicine Dance

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frank Russell
[American Anthropologist], vol. [11], no. [12], [December] 1898, pp. 357-372
Looks at medicine feasts conducted by an Apache woman from the Pueblo of San Ildefonso for Jicarilla Apaches.
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An Appreciation of Tlingit Ritual Oratory

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas F. Thornton
Ishmael Hope
AlterNative, vol. 10, no. 2, 2014, pp. 99-109
Looks at two speeches given by Tlingit leader, Clarence Jackson.
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Appropriate Technologies in the Traditional Native American Smokehouse: Public Health Considerations in Tribal Community Development

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Ellen Flanagan
Nicholas C. Zaferatos
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, 2000, pp. 69-93

Examines how the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community was able to build a ceremonial smokehouse and reduce the associated health risks, by applying appropriate technologies.

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Archaeology of the Lytton-Lillooet Area

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Baker
BC Studies, no. 6/7, Fall/Winter, 1970, pp. 46-53
Looks at the Thompson and Lillooet Indians and investigation of Lochnore-Nesikep an area, midway between Lytton and Lillooet.
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Arsene Fontaine Interview #1

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Arsene Fontaine
Ray Marnoch
Indian History Film Project
Arsene Fontaine describes a curing by a medicine man and a brief description of how to make a canoe. She also gives a description of transportation by dog team.
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