Women

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Wonder Learns Women's Ways

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fyre Jean Graveline
Atlantis, vol. 29, no. 2, [Indigenous Women: The State of Our Nations], 2005, pp. 139-144
Description
Presents a story of a girl learning about MoonTime from her Elders.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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The Worldly Kenojuak

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Leslie Boyd
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1, Kenojuak Ashevak, 1927-2013, Winter, 2014, pp. 8-15
Description
Comments on an artist who was awarded the Medal of Service of the Order of Canada by Governor General Roland Michener at the inaugural investiture. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 8.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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Writing Life

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Beth Brant
Journal of Lesbian Studies, vol. 4, no. 4, December 2000, pp. 21-34
Description
Beth Brant discusses the role of writing in her life and her relationships with loved ones.
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Writing the Circle: Native Women of Western Canada

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Barbara Belyea
Prairie Forum, vol. 17, no. 2, Native Studies, Fall, 1992, pp. 366-371
Description
Book review of: Writing the Circle: Native Women of Western Canada edited by Jeanne Perreault and Sylvia Vance.
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Writing Whiteness: The Personal Turn

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Brewster
Australian Humanities Review, no. 35, June 2005
Description
Essay looks at the current autobiographical approach taken in whiteness studies.
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Xpqenwellen: Groups for Aboriginal Girls and Young Women in Schools and Community

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Girls Groups in School District No. 73 (Kamloops/Thompson)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kamloops Aboriginal Friendship Society
School District No. 73
First Nations Education Council
Thompson Rivers University
Description
Comments on a school that provides a culturally-safe place for young Aboriginal girls to explore adolescent female issues and to promote a positive and healthy gender and cultural identity.
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Xweliqwiya: The Life of a Stó:lō Matriarch

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Leslie Robertson
BC Studies, no. 186, Summer, 2015, pp. 156-157
Description
Book review of Xweliqwiya by Rena Point Bolton and Richard Daly. Entire book review section on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 156.
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Yellow Women and Leslie Marmon Silko's Feminism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Louise Barnett
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 2, Special Issue: Honoring A. Lavonne Brown, Summer, 2005, pp. 18-31
Description
Silko confirms the importance Pueblo Nations' women and gender equity in their way of life as illustrated in her essay Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 18.
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Yetko and Sophie: Nlakapamux Cultural Professors

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shirley Sterling
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 26, no. 1, Exemplary Indigenous Education, 2002, pp. 4-10
Description
Discusses education in an Nlakapamux narrative regarding identifying success in contemporary settings; article adapted from author's doctoral dissertation.
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"You Do Not Understand ME": Hybridity and Third Space in Age of Iron

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Giorgia Severini
Theatre Research in Canada, vol. 31, no. 2, 2010, pp. 182-192
Description
Discusses the adaptation of the Clements' play regarding the hybrid character representing First Nations women and fulfills the role of mythological prophet.
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Young Aboriginal Mothers in Winnipeg

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lisa Murdock
Description
Explores the issue of teen pregnancy among Aboriginal women by speaking with them about their experiences and perceptions on sex, protection and pregnancy and their expectations and the realities of becoming a young mother. Published by the Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence.
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Young Aboriginal Woman Close-up

Images » Photographs
Description
A head and shoulders photograph of an Aboriginal woman in western style clothing. This woman was probably an acquaintance of the George Mann family who worked on Onion Lake, Saddle Lake and Hobbema reserves between 1883 and 1915. The Mann's were known to return to visit these areas well into the 1920s.
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Young Aboriginal Women's Voices on Pregnancy Care: Factors Encouraging Antenatal Engagement

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tracy Reibel
Lisa Morrison
Denese Griffin
Llinos Chapman
Heather Woods
Women and Birth, vol. 28, no. 1, March 2015, pp. 47-53
Description
Sample included 28 young women and 56 senior women and service providers. Found role of female relatives was crucial, combined with availability of known and trusted care providers.
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Young Lakota: Community Discussion Guide

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Youth Sexual Health Network
Description
Background to Young Lakota, a film about tribal sovereighty and Indigenous women's rights for reproductive justice on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Includes plans for hosting a screening event, follow up discussion questions and resources.
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