Social Life & Customs

Discusses the controversy surrounding Disney's casting of Depp in the role of Tonto and Comanche activist Ladonna Vita Tabbytite Harris's decision to customarily adopt the actor.

Analyzes a narrative performance by Gros Ventre elder to establish cultural identity.

Looks into the lives of the Berdache or gender-mixed Indigenous leaders We'wha and Klah and how their gender status provided them with a variety of unique skills, insights, and interaction with the rest of American society.

Article explores the phenomena of cultural resilience and resistance to assimilation on the Grand Ronde reservation, additionally considers those settler practices that were adopted and the cultural hybridity that came of that space.

Social Work and Human Service Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queensland University of Technology, 2010.

Discusses the recent realization of cultural loss among the Inuit and the efforts of three men to record their disappearing culture.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 33, (pp1-137).

Looks at the Ahousat, a Central Nootkan group and the establishment of a Ahousat chieftainship.

Article shares findings from interviews with Swampy Cree Elders from Northern Manitoba in which they discussed their worldviews and knowledge systems. Authors argue that Indigenous knowledge offers a philosophy and practice that should serve as a model for mitigating severity of climate change.

Comments on the importance of passing culture from one generation to another.

Poem which recalls the authors experience of their childhood home and community.

These brief 19th century observations about the potlatch were initially published in the American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal.

Discusses how Maria Clara Sharupi Jua incorporates the customs and beliefs of her homeland in her poetry to defend the the Shuar culture.

Virtual exhibition features portrayals of traditional cultures of the Tlingit, Tsimshian, Haida, Nuxalk, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth, and Salish peoples.

[Humanities and the Arts] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian National University, 2005.

Focuses on values of the Mohawk culture, based on interviews conducted after the arrest of Chief Loran Thompson of the Akwesasne Reserve in May 1979.

Describes a project in which digitally augmented reality (AR) is used to engage people in traditional Māori land-based narratives, values, and storytelling. Argues that Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, a design approach developed to illustrate narratives using contemporary media, helps to promote “bicultural engagement with landscape.”

Looks at an incident that took place in Victoria, Australia in 1891 between a white girl and an Aboriginal boy.

Report details policy recommendations which the Calgary City Council could implement in order to engage the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) Calls to Action

Study examines the failure of education system to benefit Aboriginal people based on results which display conflicts with moral and cultural values of the students.

Research findings indicate powwow participation was neither driven by isolation from nor involvement with non-Indigenous communities.

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2007.

Investigates spiritual healing traditions used in the Native American Church (NAC), Catholic Charismatic and Protestant Pentecostal churches.

Discusses archaeological evidence for long-distance relationships which were established for the purposes of trade of both basic materials and non-essentials such as handicrafts and ritual items.

Shows the resilience and adaptability of the Catawba religion through an examination of the devil in Catawba culture.

Provides colonial perspectives on Vancouver Island First Nations including Ahts, Nitinaht, Klah-oh-quots (Clayoquot) and Nootka.

An interview with Wilfred and Harriet Chocan about the joys and challenges in their lives from childbirth to caring for the elderly and death.

Reviews new legislation that will provide improved range land management and the possibility of further marginalization of pastoral people. To access this article, scroll to page 14.

Mrs. Trudeau talks about being adopted and the schooling she received as a child. Mr. Trudeau talks about growing up on the farm, and later working in the lumber and fishing industries. Interpreter : Ernest Debassigae ; transcriber : Joanne Greenwood.

Deals with a farming operation on Walpole Island.

Indigenous Education in Partnership with Linguistic Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2015.

The author provides an overview of berdache in Winnebago society in the early 1900s; observations are based on interviews conducted during 1947-49.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol 17, (pp171-216).

Book review of: Wisdom of the Elders by Ruth Kirk.

Looks at Nickula's portrayal of the Skolt people in The Skolt Lapp Community Suenjelsijd During the Year 1938 and Lappish Nation and Alariesto's art which depicted Lapland.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 2000. Examines works by Rudolfo Anaya, Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, Ana Castillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Paula Gunn Allen and Sandra Cisneros.

Reviews ethnographic tradition, Aboriginal copyright laws and North American women's culture in the book, Daughters of Copper Woman by Anne Cameron.

Book reviews of: Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World by Michelene E. Pesantubbee. Meet Lydia: A Native Girl From Southeast Alaska by Miranda Belarde-Lewis.

Discusses social life and customs surrounding food gathered for protein and carbohydrates, fruits and nuts, and plants used for contraception.

Focuses on the historical role of Métis women and revitalization of their culture.

Graduate Counselling Psychology Program Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity Western University, 2005.