Medicine for the Rosebuds: Health Care at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1876-1909
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Devon Irene Abbott
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 1988, pp. 59-71
Description
Reports on the history of health care practices at the facility and the effects on the health of students and staff.
Medicine Keepers: Issues in Indigenous Health
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lori A. Colomeda
Eberhard R. Wenzel
Critical Public Health, vol. 10, no. 2, 2000, pp. 243-256
Description
Examines the holistic and spiritual concepts of health among Indigenous peoples in North America and Australia as opposed to western medicine's linear approach.
Medicine Lines: The Doctoring of Story and Self
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marie Annharte Baker
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, Racism and Gender, Spring, 1994, p. 114
Description
Author discusses the influence of oral traditions, storytelling, and the "grandmother's voice" on her work, with emphasis on characters Coyote Girl and Rat Lady in the play Albeit Aboriginal.
Meeting Survivors’ Needs: Gender-Based Violence Against Inuit Women and the Criminal Justice Response: Phase II: Final Report
Alternate Title
Meeting Survivors’ Needs: Gender-Based Violence Against Inuit Women and the Criminal Justice Response: Phase II: Report in Brief
E-Books
Author/Creator
Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
Elizabeth Comack
Description
Related Material: Report in Brief; Online Survey Results; Environmental Scan.
Meeting Survivors’ Needs: Gender-Based Violence against Inuit Women and the Criminal Justice System Response: Environmental Scan
E-Books
Author/Creator
Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
Elizabeth Comack
Description
Related Material: Final Report; Online Survey Results.
Meeting Survivors’ Needs: Gender-Based Violence against Inuit Women and the Criminal Justice System Response: Online Survey Results
E-Books
Author/Creator
Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
Description
Related Material: Environmental Scan; Final Report.
Memory, History, and Contested Pasts: Re-imagining Sacagawea/Sacajawea
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sally McBeth
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, 2003, pp. 1-32
Description
An investigation into Native Americans worldviews in relation to many versions of the life and death of Sacajawea, the interpreter who accompanied Lewis and Clark.
“The Men in the Bar Feared Her”: The Power of Ayah in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Lullaby
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patrice Hollrah
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2003, pp. 1-38
Description
Examines how the author's knowledge of the Navajo culture and the concept hozho allow her to transform a character who could be viewed as victim into a powerful individual.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Men's and Women's Spheres among Couples from Maniitsoq (Greenland)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karla Jessen Williamson
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, Problématiques des sexes / Gender issues, 2006, pp. 123-133
Description
Discusses what gender roles look like through Inuit eyes and presents the three models of couplehood in the region: traditional, detached, and reversed.
"A Menace Among the Words": Women in the Novels of N.
Scott Momaday
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathleen Donovan
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 4, Series 2. Critical Approaches, Winter, 1994, pp. 51-76
Description
Looks at how the negative representations of women in N. Scott Momaday’s novels demonstrates a lack of harmony and balance, and an underlying of dislike, or mistrust of women.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Mesoamerican Women's Indigenous Spirituality: Decolonizing Religious Beliefs
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sylvia Marcos
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, vol. 25, no. 2, Fall, 2009, pp. 25-45
Description
Looks at how Indigenous women in Mexico's Indigenous worlds are actively recapturing ancestral spiritualities as they struggle for social justice.
Métis Autobiography: The Emergence of a Genre Amid Alienation, Resistance and Healing in the Context of Maria Campbell's Halfbreed (1973)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Armando E. Jannetta
International Journal of Canadian Studies , no. 12, Aboriginal Peoples and Canada, Fall, 1995, pp. [169]-181
Description
Discusses autobiographical narration as a source of healing and resistance.
Scroll down to page 169 to read article.
Métis Housing in Canada: A Literature Review
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Judy Hughes
Description
Encompasses provincial and territorial organizations, Métis National Council affiliates, government websites, articles, mainstream search engines and previous research done by the Native Women's Association of Canada.
Métis in Canada: History, Identity, Law and Politics
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jennifer Hayter
BC Studies, no. 184, Winter, 2014/2015, pp. 141-142
Description
Book review of Métis in Canada edited by Christopher Adams, Gregg Dahl, and Ian Peach.
Entire book review section on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 141.
Metis Multidisciplinary Artist Moe Clark: Poetic Transformation
Alternate Title
First Voices! First Women Speak! A Teach-in and Community Gathering
Moe Clark: Poetic Transformation
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Moe Clark
Description
Performance presented from First Voices! First Women Speak! A Teach-in and Community Gathering
Duration: 22:35.
Métis Remembrances of Education: Bridging History With Memory
Alternate Title
Proceedings of the IDEAS: Rising to Challenge Conference
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Yvonne Poitras Pratt
D. Lyn Daniels
Description
Looks at what significant Indigenous memories are missing from official histories and what it might mean to hear these memories.
Chapter from Proceedings of the IDEAS: Rising to Challenge Conference edited by Paulino Preciado Babb.