Oral History
David & Celestine Johnson Interview #1
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
David Johnson
Celestine Johnson
Margaret Whitehead
Indian History Film Project
Description
An interview that consists of general reminiscences of their days at the Mission Indian Residential School.
David & Celestine Johnson Interview #2
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
David Johnson
Celestine Johnson
Margaret Whitehead
Indian History Film Project
Description
An interview that consists of general reminiscences of their lives at the Mission Indian Residential school.
David James Harding Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
David James Harding
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
Discusses Malcolm Norris and his political views, his involvement with the Neestow Project, his visions for the future, his family, his frustrations and short-comings.
David Laboucan Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
David Laboucan
Ernest Crane
Indian History Film Project
Description
Tells of his loss of treaty status when his mother married a non-treaty man following the death of his father.
Decolonization Matters: Remember This! Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives by Waziyatawin Angela Wilson and In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors edited by Waziyatawin Angela Wilson
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2007, pp. 101-118
Description
Review essay on: Remember This! Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives by Waziyatawin Angela Wilson and In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors edited by Waziyatawin Angela Wilson.
Defining the Middle Period (3500 BP to 1500 BP) in Tsimshian History Through a Comparison of Archaeological and Oral Records
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrew R. C. Martindale
Susan Marsden
BC Studies, no. 138/139, Native Geographies, Summer/Autumn, 2003, pp. 13-50
Description
Analyzes and compares archaeological data to Indigenous oral histories from the Northwest Coast looking for cultural history.
Deflected Missives: Zitkala- a's Resistance and Its (Un)Containment
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara Chiarello
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 3, Fall, 2005, pp. 1-26
Description
Examines issues of racism and colonization in the essays of Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin).
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
Delima Rose Ouellette Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Delima Rose Ouellette
Brenda Arnault
Indian History Film Project
Description
Interview includes recollections of school, working during World War II, farm life as a child and as a widow.
Denésoliné (Chipewyan) Knowledge of Barren-Ground Caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) Movements
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
A. Kendrick
P. O'B. Lyver
Lutsël K'é Dene First Nation
Arctic, vol. 58, no. 2, June 2005, pp. 175-191
Description
Study conducted interviews with Dene Elders and hunters in order to document past and present migration patterns and reasons for changes in those patterns.
Digital Storytelling and Implicated Scholarship in the Classroom
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher Fletcher
Carolina Cambre
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter, 2009, pp. 109-130
Description
Discusses the development of digital storytelling and how the authors have applied the multimedia work within the university classroom setting.
Discuss It!
Alternate Title
Reaching Out Project
E-Books
Description
Guide to accompany collection of 14 films to support English-language and teaching. Includes resources for Summer Legend on page 37.
Dispossession vs. Accommodation in Plaintiff vs. Defendent Accounts of Métis Dispersal from Manitoba, 1870-1881
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
D. N. Sprague
Prairie Forum, vol. 16, no. 2, Fall, 1991, pp. 137-155
Description
Reviews and disputes the statistical evidence that suggests the Métis of Assiniboia were dispossessed by the governments of Canada and Manitoba.
Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters & Social Imagination
Alternate Title
Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters and Social Imagination
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Nelson H. H. Graburn
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 36, no. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 365-368
Description
Book review of: Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters & Social Imagination by Julie Cruikshank.
Don McLean Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Don McLean
Christine Welsh
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview with non-Indian employed at the Gabriel Dumont Institute in Regina. At the time of the interview he was writing a book on the history of the Metis nation.
Don Nielson Interview 1
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Don Nielson
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
Don Nielson was one of the original organizers of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan in 1964. He talks about the differences between Metis groups in the north and south and Norris's fight against government funding.
Don Nielson Interview 2
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Don Nielson
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
One of the original organizers of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan in 1964 discusses problems within native organizations between north and south, status and non-status, Liberal and CCF.
"Don't Even Talk to Me if You're Kinya'áanii [Towering House]": Adopted Clans, Kinship, and "Blood" in Navajo Country
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristina Jacobsen
Shirley Ann Bowman
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 43-76
Description
Uses historical resources (oral histories, interviews, and archival materials) and contemporary popular culture to describe and discuss the elaborate Diné clan systems and extended kinship relationships and networks.
Donald Joe Sheridan Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Donald Joe Sheridan
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
Mr. Sheridan worked in the Dept. of Natural Resources in northern Saskatchewan He was associated with the school for prospectors and with other government agencies. He was a socialist and a close friend of Norris.
Dora Meawasige Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Jocelyn Keeshig
Dora Meawasige
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview with Dora Meawasige where she gives a general account of reservation life and life while trapping in the bush.
Dorathy Lavinge Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Dorathy Lavinge
Brenda Arnault
Indian History Film Project
Description
The interview is an account of Dorathy Lavigne's life: growing up in Winnipeg, living in various other communities. Includes some discussion of her two marriages and her children. There are no index terms provided.
The Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Program: Gathering the "Raw Material of History"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dianna Repp
Journal of the Southwest, vol. 47, no. 1, Oral History Remembered: Native Americans, Doris Duke, and the Young Anthropologists, Spring, 2005, pp. 11-28
Description
Provides overview of the program and goals which included documentation of the history of Native Americans in their own voices and from their own perspectives.
Doris Duke Collection
Alternate Title
Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History
University of Oklahoma Libraries Western History Collections
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
University of Oklahoma Libraries
Description
Transcripts of interviews conducted between 1967 and 1972 with individuals from every tribe in Oklahoma. Can be searched by Interviewee, interviewer, tape number, or keyword.