A Women's Game of the Blood Indians
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
George First Rider
John Hellson
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview that tells about the war games of the Blood Indians and a dice game for women.
Women's Marches Demand Justice For the Disappeared
Articles » General
Author/Creator
David P. Ball
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 12, March 2013, pp. 8-9
Description
Comments on Canadian wide annual marches that advocate increased support services for Aboriginal women.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
Women's Narratives from the St. John's Native Friendship Centre: Digital Storytelling to Inform Community-based Healing and Violence Prevention Programs: Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
St. John's Native Friendship Centre
Ashely Hong
Description
Recommendations developed in areas education and training, economic development, programs and services, traditional materials/medicines, support services and staff, terminology and evaluation.
Women's Position in the Sámi Reindeer Husbandry
Alternate Title
International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Solveig Joks
Description
Discusses some of the problems caused by the focus on meat production and on reindeer husbandry as a one-man job.
Chapter 20 from International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship edited by Léo-Paul Dana and Robert B. Anderson.
Entire e-book on one pdf. To access chapter, scroll to page 246 or select chapter 20 on side bar.
Women's Preponderance in Possession Cults: The Calcium-Deficiency Hypothesis Extended
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alice B. Kehoe
Dody H. Giletti
American Anthropologist, vol. 83, no. 3, New Series, September 1981, pp. 549-561
Description
Suggests women may be more susceptible to spirit possession cults due to nutritional deficiencies.
Women's Status in Egalitarian Society: Implications for Social Evolution
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eleanor Leacock
Current Anthropology, vol. 33, no. 1, 1992, pp. 225-260
Description
Analyzes changes in the status of women within the socio-economic structure as a whole and explores relations of power and property in band societies.
Women's Talk: Conversations about Pregnancy, Birth, Motherhood and Community
Articles » General
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, January/February 1993, pp. 26-29
Description
Excerpt from book that looks at pregnancy, childbirth, mothering and general health from the perspective of Aboriginal mothers. Recommended as a teaching tool and resource.
Women's Technology Network Conference
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rose Ellis
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 20, no. 6, November/December 1996, pp. 22-23
Description
Conference hosted by the Centre for Appropriate Technology (CAT) included workshops on women in communication, water, waste, transport, and shelter and environment.
"Women's Truth" and the Native Tradition: Anne Cameron's Daughters of Copper Women
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christine St. Peter
Feminist Studies, vol. 15, no. 3, Autumn, 1989, pp. 499-523
Description
Looks at Cameron's presentation of women-centered mythology in Daughters of Copper Women, and its importance within North American women's culture.
Women's Use of Indigenous Knowledge for Environmental Security and Sustainable Development in Southwest Nigeria
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Yetunde Adebunmi Aluko
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 9, no. 3, Special Issue: Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change, and Environmental Stewardship, July 2018, p. Article 2
Description
Study uses interviews with 80 women to collect qualitative data about Indigenous Knowledge (IK) in the areas of agriculture, food processing and preservation, family health care, and child care. Suggests that incorporating place-based cultural and traditional knowledge into rural development will lead to more successful outcomes for communities.
Women's Words: Power, Identity and Indigenous Sovereignty
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia A. Monture
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3-4, Indigenous Women in Canada: the Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 154-159
Description
Author describes how words define her and cannot be separated from the Aboriginal oral traditions and world view.
Women Wage War!
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Keith Howell
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 10, no. 2-3, February/March 1980, pp. 2-3
Description
Presentation by Sadie Cote, President of the Saskatchewan Indian Women's Association, describing the effects of alcoholism on First Nations people and calling for recognition of women's input in Band affairs.
Words, Worlds in Our Heads: Reclaiming La Llorona’s Aztecan Antecedents in Gloria Anzaldúa’s My Black Angelos
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Domino Renee Perez
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 3-4, Series 2; [Indigenous Intersections], Fall-Winter, 2003-2004, pp. 51-63
Description
Explores Gloria Anzaldúa's use of the folkloric figure to demonstrate that completely embracing a culture may in fact be oppressive to women.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Working In Collaboration With A Rural Aboriginal Community: A Different Approach To Promoting Health Services
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Pearl North
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, March/April 2000, pp. 20-21
Description
New South Wales, Australia employment training program has multiple positive outcomes including increased awareness of health services and enhanced employability for the participants.
Working on the Domestic Frontier: American Indian Domestic Servants in White Women's Households in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1920-1940
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret D. Jacobs
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 28, no. 1,2, 2007, pp. 165-199
Description
Examines the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and colonization via domestic service or by a BIA approved marriage.
Working Together: Allies in Researching Gender and Combination Antiretroviral Therapy Treatment Change
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Claudette Cardinal
Carly Marshall
Alison R. McClean
Niloufar Aran
Katherine W. Kooij ... [et al.]
Journal of Indigenous HIV Research, vol. 11, Soft Launch, Summer, 2021, pp. 187-212
Description
A collaborative research study on the changes of treatments for women or transgender individuals compared to men.
Workshops Raise Awareness of SIS Campaign
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Laura Suthers
Windspeaker, vol. 25, no. 8, November 2007, p. 11
Description
Discusses the Sisters in Spirit initiative which organizes workshops and special events to raise awareness about violence against Aboriginal women in Canada.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.11.
A World Without Fathers: Patriarchy, Colonialism, and the Male Creator in Northwest Tribal Narratives
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robyn Johnson
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 3, Summer, 2014, pp. 342-373
Description
Discusses role of father in family unit within contemporary Native American literature by its connection to traditional narratives.
"Wouldn't Piss on Them If They Were on Fire": How Discrimination Against Sex Workers, Drug Users and Aboriginal Women Enabled a Serial Killer: Report of Independent Counsel
to the Commissioner of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jason Gratl
Description
Five topics: police failure to protect women at risk, how discriminatory attitudes, biases and stereotyping undermined investigations, suppression of information about risk of a serial killer, and Crown counsel's decision to stay attempted murder charge against Robert Pickton in January 1997.
Woven by the Grandmothers: Twenty-Four Blankets Travel to the Navajo Nation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Heald
Kathleen E. Ash-Milby
Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, vol. 37, no. 3, Autumn-Winter, 1998, pp. 334-345
Description
Discusses how The National Museum of the American Indian, in an attempt to develop an exhibit with community involvement and access, sent a selection of 19th Century Navajo blankets to a Navajo reservation in 1995.
Wrestling with Fire: Indigenous Women’s Resistance and Resurgence
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melissa K Nelson
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 3, [Indigeneity, Feminism, Activism], 2019, pp. 69-84
Description
Describes the rising role of Indigenous women in a new era of activism that is based on traditional Indigenous values and practices.