Social Life & Customs

As the author, Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh, states it is "the first volume of Indian history written by an Indian, with a hope that it may in some degree benefit his nation"..

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 2000.

Samples of teachings and life stories by Elders from Plains Cree, Dakota, Dene, Nakota and Saulteaux First Nations of Saskatchewan taken from the full length videoTraditional Teachings: A Journey From Young Child to Young Adult. Duration: 9:37.

Curriculum and Instruction Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1996.

Includes a diverse variety of tales of transformation, floods, the origin of copper and many other stories.

"examine whether our Nuuyum and its philosophical underpinnings can intertwine and have a productive relationship with contemporary forms of leadership and chief and council governance systems." Entire issue on one pdf. To locate article, scroll to page 33.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2015.

This literary criticism article considers Vizenor’s body of work as a whole and discusses his attention to historical moments and his use of fiction to overturn colonial knowledge of those moments and to disrupt contemporary understandings of transnationalism.

Outlines the massacre at Natural Bridge in 1852 and the lasting impact to the Hupa people into modern times.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 25, (pp249-288).

Professional Communication Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2011.

Article examines the significance of the Gourd Dance in Kiowa culture from the 1800's on. Discusses the evolution of the dance, the meaning of the regalia used, and how it was used as a method of cultural survivance when the Sundance was outlawed.

Book review of: Trying to Get It Back by Gillian Weiss.

Book review of: Tsimshian Culture by Jay Miller. To read review, scroll to page 80.

Book review of: Tsimshian Culture... by Jay Miller.

Chapter in book: Handbook of North American Indians: Northwest Coast, Volume 7> edited by William C. Sturtevant

Episode 61: Michael talks to Harold R. Johnson about his book Clifford, a text that Johnson describes as "a memoir, a fiction, a fantasy." Duration: 28:49

Examines the role of cultural identity and stigmatization in the healing of criminalized Indigenous women from drug abuse in Canada.

Examines how the Turtle Lodge International Centre for Indigenous Education and Wellness in Sagkeeng First Nation, Manitoba teaches a flexible, community-based process of responsibility-based self-determination discourse; stresses respectful and reciprocal relationships, community well-being, earth guardianship, and cultural resurgence.

Considers oral tradition, Native kinship rationale, socio-cultural traditions, Tutelo history and consideration of anthropology when reviewing the letters.

Book review of: Twana Narratives by William W. Elmendorf. Scroll down to page 93 to read review.

Includes essays on the Chilcotin, Haida and linguistics.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Chief by W. H. Holmes The Omaha Tribe by Alice C. Fletcher and Francis La Flesche

Looks at a community participation model of research and teaching which draws on the strengths of Indigenous and Western knowledges in efforts to revitalize language and restore relationships with each other and with the land.

Book reviews of: Two-Spirit People edited by Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang and Men as Women, Women as Men by Sabine Lang.

Article draws on the journals of Guardian of Aborigines William Thomas in New South Wales to describe and examine corroborees (Indigenous spiritual ceremonies) taking place in the early 1850s. Author considers the role of syncretism in Indigenous peoples’ process of understanding European systems of belief.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Iowa, 2004.

Book review of: The Two Worlds of Jimmie Barker as told to Janet Mathews. To access review, scroll down to page 161.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 2, (pp81-103).

[Social Science] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, 1993.

Article describes the ways that the appointment and support of a response team made up of local community members allowed for the use of local knowledge to better understand contemporary food systems; authors advocate for the integration of multiple ways of knowing in food safety policy making.

Book review of : The Universe of the Warramirri by John Cawte.

The author describes the concept of Transmotion and how it relates to Indigenous literatures, worldviews and systems of knowledge. Discusses how the concept became central to his work and scholarship.

Literary criticism article in which the author suggests that Welch’s use of Indigenous understandings of time as a narrative device in the novel Fools Crow works to both dismantle Western histories and to disrupt the mainstream perception of Western ontologies as universal and self-evident.

Author examines the different ways that Mexican national culture and Indigenous Nahua culture interact, adopt each other’s practices, and blend together at intersections of meaning and practice.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Prince Edward Island, 2008.

Report is in response to concerns from urban front-line workers and a need for Aboriginal-specific research related to child poverty.

Health Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Sydney, 2009.

Discussion about the ideals of assimilation and regaining one's culture.