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Anishnaabe-Kwe, Traditional Knowledge, and Water Protection

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah McGregor
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. 26-30
Description
Discusses the importance of women's roles in determining outcomes of water issues.
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Annie York & Arthur Urquhart Interview #1

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Annie York
Arthur Urquhart
Imbert Orchard
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview that tells of the arrival of Simon Fraser amongst the Thompson Indians. Annie York discusses the life of her grandfather and speaks at great length of her devotion to the Christian religion.
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Antenatal Depression in Socially High-Risk Women in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Angela Bowen
Norma J Stewart
Marilyn Baetz
Nazeem Muhajarine
Journal Epidemiol & Community Health, vol. 63, no. 5, 2009, pp. 414-6
Description
Examines the prevalence of antenatal depression amongst Indigenous women in Canada.
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Anti-dote for Racism

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Melissa Nelson
Herizons, vol. 19, no. 4, Spring, 2006, pp. 6-7
Description
Comments on the Anti-dote Multiracial Girls' and Womens' Network that helps girls understand the impact of racism on their identity and offers coping strategies.
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Antoine Lonesinger 1 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Description
Interview with the respected storyteller and singer Antoine Lonesinger. Interview includes the Legend of Cut Knife Hill and stories of BlackRock and Chokecherry Wood.
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Antoine Lonesinger 11 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Description
Interview includes two stories: the first about a boy who saves a boy and wins a wife in the process; a second about a boy who upon returning to his band with a wife becomes chief.
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Antoine Lonesinger 12 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Archie Baptiste
Indian History Film Project
Description
Antoine Lonesinger discusses different methods of earning a living that included making charcoal and lime. Also included is the story of a boy saved a camp from starvation with the help of the raven spirit.
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Antoine Lonesinger 13 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Archie Baptiste
Indian History Film Project
Description
Interview includes stories about a ghost priest and a non-existent camp. Also included is a story of how a lame boy's skill as a medicine man won him a chieftainship and a wife.
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Antoine Lonesinger 3 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Description
Interview with Antoine Lonesinger, who tells stories of escapes from Blackfoot and the use of spirits and evil powers.
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Antoine Lonesinger 7 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Indian History Film Project
Description
Interview includes stories of attacks on women by Blackfoot and Cree raiders. It also includes the story of the acquisition of the Sioux Dance (or Grass Dance) from the bone grass spirits.
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Antoine Lonesinger 9 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Indian History Film Project
Description
Interview includes the stories of a raid on the Blackfoot and the struggle for supremacy between two medicine men. (Transcribed by J. Greenwood)
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Anxiety in a Socially High-Risk Sample of Pregnant Women in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Angela Bowen
Rudy Bowen
George Maslany
Nazeem Muhajarine
Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 53, no. 7, July 2008, pp. 435-440
Description
Study found anxiety symptoms were predominant in emotional distress as measured by the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and more prevalent in younger, non-partnered and Aboriginal women.
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Apache 8

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Douglas Heil
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 165-168
Description
Film review of: Apache 8 by Sande Zeig. Review located by scrolling to page 165.
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The Arctic: Gender Issues

Alternate Title
Info Series (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) ; PRB 08-09E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Clara Morgan]
Description
Looks at relationship between gender issues and the environment, economic conditions, domestic violence, health, housing, homelessness and politics.
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Arctic Origin and Domestic Development of Chinook Jargon

Alternate Title
International Tromsø Symposium on Language ; 9th, 1992
Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages
Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs ; 88
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
William J. Samarin
Description

Looks at characteristics of the population that would have found the mixed language useful and how it developed through marriages between traders and Indigenous women. 

Chapter from: Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages edited by Ernst Håkon Jahr and Ingvild Broch

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Arnait Video Productions: Women Telling Their Own Stories

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sonia Gunderson
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2, Summer, 2009, pp. [10]-[13]
Description
Brief history of the Inuit collective since its establishment in 1992. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 10.
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Arrest Made in Decades-Old Native Slaying

Articles » General
Calgary Herald, April 3, 2003, p. A20
Description
Arrest in the murder of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who was murdered on the Pine Ridge reserve in 1976.
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Arsene Fontaine Interview #1

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Arsene Fontaine
Ray Marnoch
Indian History Film Project
Description
Arsene Fontaine describes a curing by a medicine man and a brief description of how to make a canoe. She also gives a description of transportation by dog team.
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The Art of Being an Inuit Woman

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara Sibbald
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 162, no. 5, March 7, 2000, p. 679
Description
Review of an art exhibit entitled, Inuit Women: Life and Legend in Art.
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The Art of Inuit Women: Anonymous No More

Alternate Title
IAQ in Review
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Marybelle Mitchell
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 1, 25th Anniversary Issue, Spring, 2011, pp. [46]-52
Description
Highlights artists featured in past issues of the journal. Entire issues on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 46.
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The Art of Rosalie Favell

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rosalie Favell
Description
Well-known Métis photographer discusses her work. Includes artist statement and lists solo and group exhibitions.
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Artists with Their Work - Ruth Cuthand. - Program. - 1990.

Documents & Presentations
Description
From program: "Ruth Cuthand's art...involves painting herself and her people into their own cultural tradition. Like a storyteller, she brings the tradition to life, and in the process revitalizes it." Exhibit curated by Cindy Richmond.

Historical note:

Ruth Cuthand was born in Prince Albert, SK in 1954 and grew up near the Blood Reserve in Alberta. Her heritage is Plains Cree and Scots/Irish. Her Aboriginal culture and memories of her childhood experiences are often the inspiration for her art-making practice.
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ArtTalk: Conversations on Northwest Native Art: Session 2: Retrospectives on Northwest Coast Art History and Indigenous Methodologies

Alternate Title
"Return of Kaats": Two House Posts by Nathan and Stephen Jackson
ArtTalk: Conversations on Northwest Native Art
Burke Museum's ArtTalk Symposium: Conversations on Northwest Native Art
Copper Seaweed & Woven Octopus Bags
Dance Group Performances as Art History in Motion
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Miqu'l Dangeleli
Megan Smetzer
Emily Moore
Description
First presentation discusses dance groups which perform both traditional and modern works and decolonizing the field of art history. Second presentation discusses resilience as demonstrated by women weavers, with a focus on octopus bags created by artist Shgen Doo Tan George. Third presentation discusses the two house posts carved for the Burke Museum as replacements for the originals which had been repatriated. Duration: 1:25:12.
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As I Knew Them: Navajo Women in 1940

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dorothea C. Leighton
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 1/2, Spring-Summer, 1982, pp. 34-51
Description
Taking an anthropological psychiatric approach to discuss Navajo women's role in their culture related to cultural requirements and habits.
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[As It Happens: Missing and Murdered]

Alternate Title
As It Happens
[Missing and Murdered: Unsolved Cases of Indigenous Women and Girls]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Carol Off
Jeff Douglas
Matthew Bushby
Description
Radio program covers the stories of four women: Sarah Skunk, Shelly Tannis Dene, Maisy Marie Odjick, Claudette Priscilla Osborne.
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The Ashoona Family of Cape Dorset

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Alison Gillmor
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 2, Summer, 1995, pp. 38-39
Description
Exhibition review from the Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1994-1995. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 38.
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Assessing the Needs of Aboriginal Women Offenders on Conditional Release

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Craig Dowden
Ralph Serin
FORUM on Corrections Research , vol. 12, no. 1, Aboriginal People in Corrections, January 2000, pp. 57-60
Description
Discussion of the Community Intervention Scale (CIS) and Community Risk/Needs Management Scale (CRNMS) which were primarily designed for use with male and Caucasian prison population.
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Assimilation Tools: Then and Now

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shirley Joseph
BC Studies, no. 89, In Celebration of Our Survival: The First Nations of British Columbia, Spring, 1991, pp. 65-79
Description
Provides an overview of the development of the Indian Act and the effects of Bill C-31. The article argues that the amendment, which was intended to rectify previous injustices, has failed to provide a solution.
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