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Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1893-'94

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Author/Creator
J. W. Powell
Report includes the following papers: Report of the Director by J. W. Powell Stone Implements of the Potomac-Chesapeake Tidewater Province by William Henry Holmes The Siouan Indians: A Preliminary Sketch by W. J. McGee Siouan Sociology: A Posthumus Paper by James Owen Dorsey Tusayan Katcinas by Jesse Walter Fewkes The Repair of Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona, in 1891 by Cosmos Mindeleff
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Fighting Isolation: How Four Native Women Created Change at UNC– Chapel Hill

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brian Peteres
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 3, Summer, 2018, pp. 344-374
Article uses a critical race analysis of oral histories and documents to examine how and why the first historically Native American fraternity and sorority (HNAFS), Alpha Pi Omega, was created, and the role that it played in experience of Indigenous students attending UNC – Chapel Hill in the mid-1990s.
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Financing Aboriginal Justice Systems

Alternate Title
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
John H. Hylton
pp. 150-170
Article discusses past governmental approaches, and cost-benefit considerations in implementing self-government versus social and economic costs of not moving ahead and doing things differently. Chapter from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, and Roger Carter.
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First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-'80

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Author/Creator
J. W. Powell
Report includes the following papers: Report of the Director by J. W. Powell On the Evolution of Language by J. W. Powell Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians by J. W. Powell Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society by J. W. Powell On Limitations to the Use of Some Anthropologic Data by J. W. Powell A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians by Dr. H. C. Yarrow Studies in Central American Picture-Writing by Edward S.
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First Arctic Winter Games, 1970.

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Institute for Northern Studies
Slides appear to be a series of 14 images in a slide show about Canada's North. On slide: "Arctic Games"
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First Nation/State Relationships and First Nation Health: An Exploratory Analysis of Linkage Social Capital as a Determinant of Health

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Author/Creator
Peter James Hutchinson
Pimatziwin: A Journal of Indigenous and Aboriginal Community Health, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 105-118
Discusses reasons for health status variations among First Nations including relationships between the Federal, Provincial and First Nations governments.
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“The First Real Indians That I Have Seen”: Franz Boas and the Disentanglement of the Entangled

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Author/Creator
Rainer Hatoum
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 2, The Entangled Gaze, 2018, pp. 157-184
Author analyzes the field notes of the ethnographer Franz Boas, arguing that while he wanted to create a more authentic understanding of Indigenous people, he ignored many of the aspects of his interactions with them that would have led to such and understanding.
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Flexibility in Hare Social Organization

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Guy Lanoue
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1981, pp. 259-275
Hare Indians of the Northwest Territories and their two domestic bases: siblings and conjugal units.
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The Flock Divided

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frits Pannekoek
The Beaver, vol. 70, no. 6, December/January 1990/91, pp. 29-?
Profiles the effect demographic changes in the Red River Valley during the 1850s and 1860s had on the political and social climate.
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Follow the Drum

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Pamela Sexsmith
Windspeaker, vol. 21, no. 3, June 2003, p. Suppl.3

Highlights Gerald Okanee, lead singer of Saskatchewan's Big Bear Singers, who shares his knowledge about the drum and how the beat pits the powwow dancer's style against that of the the drummer's, sometimes "bucking off" the dancer.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.19.

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For Abiayala to Live, the Americas Must Die: Toward a Transhemispheric Indigeneity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Emil Keme
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 42-68
Beginning with the Guna understanding of “Abiayala” and the politics implicit in using the word to describe what is currently called South America, the author argues for a global Indigenous movement based in common experiences, worldview, and political standing.
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For Love of Country: Apocalyptic Survivance in Ambelin Kwaymullina’s Tribe Series

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Graham J. Murphy
Extrapolation, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 177-196
Critical essay which uses Gerald Vizenor’s framework of “Indigenous Survivance” to describe Kwaymullina’s novels The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf (2012), The Disappearance of Ember Crow (2013), and The Foretelling of Georgie Spider (2015) as “a “teaching story” whose strength resides in its use of the apocalypse and the centralizing of Country as collective tactics of survivance and cultural brokering relevant to the experiences of living in a (post)colonial world."
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Fort Pelly: An Historical Sketch

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Author/Creator
J. F. Klaus
Saskatchewan History, vol. 14, no. 3, Autumn, 1961, pp. 81-97
Using the archival journals from the years 1832-36, 1857-58, and 1863-64 the article describes some of the history and operations of the fur trade post, which was built by the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) following its merger with the North West Company (NWC) in 1821. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 81.
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Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1927-1928

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Author/Creator
H. W. Dorsey
Report includes the following papers: Report of the Chief Clerk by H. W. Dorsey The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus by James A. Teit, edited by Franz Boas Tattooing and Face and Body Painting of the Thompson Indians, British Columbia by James A. Teit, edited by Franz Boas Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia by Elsie Viault Steedman The Osage Tribe: Rite of the Wa-xo'-be by Francis La Flesche
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Forty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1924-25

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Author/Creator
J. Walter Fewkes
Report includes the following papers: Report of the Chief by J. Walter Fewkes Social Organization and Social Usages of the Indians of the Creek Confederacy by John R. Swanton Religious Beliefs and Medical Practices of the Creek Indians by John R. Swanton Aboriginal Culture of the Southeast by John R. Swanton Indian Trails of the Southeast by William Edward Myer
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Foxes and Humans at the Late Holocene Uyak Site, Kodiak, Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Catherine F. West
Reuven Yeshurun
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 56, no. 1, 2019, pp. 39-51
Authors examine zooarchaeological, taphonomic, and stable isotope analyses data in order to describe the relationship between humans and red foxes on Kodiak Island during the late Holocene era.
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Frank G. Speck's Contributions to the Understanding of Mi'kmaq Land Use, Leadership, and Land Management

Alternate Title
Frank G. Speck's Contributions to the Understanding of Micmac Land Use, Leadership, and Land Management
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janet E. Chute
Ethnohistory, vol. 46, no. 3, Summer, 1999, pp. 481-540
Looks at early 20th century research about the history of the traditional economic system, its origin and development.
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Friendship Centre Serves Vital Role in City

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Leader Post, October 25, 2004, p. B1
Discusses the importance of friendship centres following the loss of Regina's Friendship Centre due to a 2004 fire.
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Friendship Centres in Canada, 1959-1977

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Will Langford
The American Indian Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 1, Winter, 2016, pp. 1-37
Focuses on the experiences, possibilities, contradictions and influence on urban Aboriginal activism of Friendship Centres.
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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
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 Clan to Kwéan to Corporation: The Continuing Complex Evolution of Tlingit Political Organization

Alternate Title
From Clan to Ḵwáan to Corporation: The Continuing Complex Evolution of Tlingit Political Organization
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas F. Thornton
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 17, no. 2, Autumn, 2002, pp. 167-194
Examines Tlingit politics in Alaska and the link between Indigenous political systems and ecological factors.
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From Dog Days to Horse Warriors: Montana's People, 1700-1820

Alternate Title
Montana: Stories of the Land
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Author/Creator
Krys Holmes

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 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
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 Practice to Praxis: Community-Based Strategies for Aboriginal Youth Sport

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amy T. Blodgett
Robert J. Schinke
Leslee A. Fisher
Clifton Wassengeso George
Duke Peltier
et al.
Journal of Sport and Social Issues, vol. 32, no. 4, November 2008, pp. 393-414
Looks at how to enhance sport programming and increase enrollment of youth within a First Nations reserve.
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From Student to Teacher in Thirty-Four Years

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richie Plass
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 373-375
Author recounts major events in his life and how those events were affected by racism in academic institutions.
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