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What Their Stories Tell Us: Research Findings From the Sisters in Spirit Initiative

Alternate Title
Sisters In Spirit 2010 Research Findings
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)
Description
Report, based on five years of research into missing and murdered Aboriginal females in Canada, explores circumstances, root causes and trends of violence, numbers of missing/murdered women, and questions why this is occurring.
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"When My Hands Are Empty / I Will Be Full": Visualizing Two-Spirit Bodies in Chrystos's Not Vanishing

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Crystal Veronie
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 83-114
Description
Literary criticism article that gives close readings of work from Chrystos's Not Vanishing; argues that Chrystos’s poetry work combat the rhetorical invisibility experience by two-spirit and queer Indigenous people in contemporary feminist movements.
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Where Do You Go When It’s 40 Below? Domestic Violence among Rural Alaska Native Women

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Judi Shepherd
Affilia, vol. 16, no. 4, 2001, pp. 488-510
Description
Based on in-depth interviews with 9 women who had been involved in abusive relationships. Looks at the environmental and cultural factors which contribute to the situation and the culturally appropriate services that are needed to address the problem.
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Where the Brush Fires Passed

Images » Photographs
Description
A photo of tree remains (from a forest fire) taken from the wagon of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay during their 1919 trek from Prince Albert to La Ronge, Saskatchewan.
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[Whispering in Shadows]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Suzanne Methot
Quill & Quire, vol. 66, no. 7, July 2000, p. 7
Description
Brief book review of: Whispering in Shadows by Jeanette Armstrong.
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White Girl 'Gone Off With the Blacks'

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Liz Reed
Hecate, vol. 28, no. 1, 2002, pp. 9-22
Description
Looks at an incident that took place in Victoria, Australia in 1891 between a white girl and an Aboriginal boy.
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"The White Man's Fancy. The Red Man's Fact. Niagara Falls."

Images » Photographs
Description
Note: The title, description and image of this item uses wording and imagery that was common in mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library. Two separate images of a woman, one white, one Aboriginal, in a waterfall. The white woman has wings and appears to represent Niagara's Maid of the Mist legend.
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White Man's Law and the American Indian Family in the Assimilation Era

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Linda J. Lacey
Arkansas Law Review, vol. 40, no. 2, 1986, pp. 327-379
Description
Compares and contrasts the social and mores existing in American Indian societies of the nineteenth century with those of the Anglo-Europeans. The article also discusses the effects of assimilation and post-assimilation policies on those social structures.
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[White Man Water and Interview with Erica Prussing]

Alternate Title
At the Edge of Canada: Indigenous Research
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Erica Prussing
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Description
Interview with an author about her book White Man Water and research on the Northern Cheyenne First Nation. Duration: 29:32.
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White Mothers, Indigenous Families, and the Politics of Voice

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Damien W. Riggs
Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, The Border Politics of Whiteness, 2008, p. [?]
Description
Examines white foster/adoptive mothers of Indigenous children in Australia highlighting the problematic nature of research representing experiences that were never talked about.
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Whither Restorativeness? Restorative Justice and the Challenge of Intimate Violence in Aboriginal Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jane Dickson-Gilmore
Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, vol. 56, no. 4, Essays to Honour the Life and Work of Dr. Carol LaPrairie / Essais pour honorer ..., July 2014, pp. 417-446
Description
Discusses how the context of reserves affects viability of the process because communities are small and isolated, with interconnected populations. Issues include: coercion to conceal the problem, competing loyalties, lack of alternatives and resources, and keeping the family intact.
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Who Is a Status Indian?

Alternate Title
Citizenship Issue: Who Is a Status Indian?
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Evann Goltz]
Description
Timeline from the General Enfranchisement Act to the Indian Act and pertinent court cases and decisions which resulted in legislation to amend the Act.
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“Who is there to support our women?”: Positive Aboriginal Women (PAW) Speak Out about Health and Social Care Experiences and Needs During Pregnancy, Birth and Motherhood

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
[Saara Greene
Allyson Ion
Kerrigan Beaver
Valerie Nicholson
Rachel Derr
Mona Loutfy]
Canadian Journal of Aboriginal Community-Based HIV/AIDS Research, vol. 7, Winter, 2015, pp. 1-32
Description
Study surveyed 29 women from Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia about their experiences, including HIV testing, perinatal care, and interactions with the child welfare system.
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Who Killed Alberta Williams?

Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Connie Walker
Marnie Luke
Description
Eight part podcast and slideshow about an unsolved 27 year old murder that took place along the Highway of Tears near Prince Rupert, B.C. and the investigation by lead investigator Gary Kerr. Episodes run between 35:00 - 45:00 minutes. Includes transcripts.
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Whose Land is It Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Taiaiake Alfred
Glen Coulthard
Russell Diabo
Melina Laboucan-Massimo
Arthur Manuel ...
Melina Laboucan-Massimo
Kanahus Manuel
Beverly Jacobs
Glen Coulthard ...
Murray Sinclair
Pamela Palmater
Description
Contributors discuss the machinery of colonization and resistance movements, and comment on the possibility of reconciliation.
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Why Bears are Good to Think and Theory Doesn't Have to be Murder: Transformation and Oral Tradition in Louise Erdrich's Tracks

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joni Adamson Clarke
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 1, Series 2 , Spring, 1992, pp. 28-48
Description
Explores how Erdrich transforms her Chippewa oral traditions to create a female character who is able to transform between human and animal in her novel Tracks. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Widening the Circle

Alternate Title
Widening the Circle: Newsletter of the Native Mental Health Research Team
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kahá:wi Jacobs
Laurence Kirmayer
Jean Stevenson
Newsletter of the Native Mental Health Research Team, vol. 2, no. 2, Winter, 1999, pp. 1-9
Description
Information on the Urban Aboriginal health survey; Pimadiziwin Quebec Native Women’s conference; Aboriginal wisdom & wellness; NMHRT Advisory Committee meeting; calendar of events; video review; models for suicide prevention in Aboriginal communities; Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal begins fundraising campaign; resource materials.
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The Widow and the Child

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jack Brook
Aboriginal History, vol. 12, no. 1, 1988, pp. 63-79
Description
Follows the life of an Aboriginal girl from early childhood until her passing circa 1867.
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Wife, Mother, Provider, Defender, God: Women in Lakota Winter Counts

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara Risch
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 3, 2003, pp. 1-30
Description

An historical perspective on gender in relation to waniyetu wowakapi (winter counts) or hekta yawap. reveals evidence of women's roles; author suggests further historical research.

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