Supernatural Beings

Discusses the spiritual beliefs of Native American Indians regarding the soul and the afterlife.

Looks at conjuring rites among the Kutenai, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, Cheyenne and Plains Cree.

Looks at the incorporation of elements important to the Indigenous identity by discussing examples from five novels written by Louis Owens.

Looks at different characteristics of contrary or clown behavior in the Bluejay Character, of the east central Plateau, the Heyoka of the Dakota and Ponca, the Buffoons of the Plains Cree, Ojibwa and Assiniboin, the dog designation in the Mandan, Hidatsa, Blackfoot, Arapaho and Atsina, and the fire ritualism presented in the Hot Dances of the Hidats, Arikara, and Iowa.

Literary criticism article in which the author considers the role of the trickster Coyote in King’s novel Green Grass, Running Water; highlights the ways that the character and by extension the text subvert mainstream narratives and expectations.

Explores how Coyote First Person has incorrectly come to be seen as a trickster archetype but actually is a character who supports Indigenous ideas about the world.

Examines various re-tellings of the tale of Coyote, the best known Native American trickster.

Sample of some of coyote's adventures, in both English and Karok, translated in style that attempts to preserve the original literary structure. .

Book review of: Crazy Man and the Plums by William C'Hair.

Includes links to a variety of animal and other stories.

Attempts to explain trickster nature and characteristics. Honours paper towards anthropology degree (B.A.)--Connecticut College, 2008.

Outlines the importance of understanding the trickster in female form in contemporary Native American literature.

Book review of: Dangerous Spirits by Shawn Smallman.

Book review of: Dangerous Spirits by Shawn Smallman.

Book review: Dangerous Spirits by Shawn Smallman.

Book review of: Dinéjí Na'nitin by Robert S. McPherson. Review located by scrolling to page 156.

English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nebraska, 2016.

Highlights the Sami's folklore about the creation and origin of human beings.

Article explores Eastern Cherokee epistemology; by examining sacred traditional-narratives the authors reveal the cultural meanings, purposes and values that are embodied in different characters and deities within those stories.

Discusses how Erdrich's literary method gives a critique of the western worldview of the legacy of Euroamerican conquest.

Introduction to a special issue of Canadian Journal of Native Education titled "Indigenous Knowledges and the University" which is dedicated to the challenges and opportunities of bringing Indigenous Knowledges and Academia together.

Study uses oral interviews to engage Métis understandings of Marian apparitions and shrines in and surrounding Sakitawak (Île-à-la-Crosse); authors work to discuss Métis spirituality in a way that makes sense to community members and that also challenges outsiders presumptions about the relationship between the Métis and Mary. Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 29.

Provides explanations for the supernatural "bushman" stories of the Mackenzie River Valley.

Looks at area where people and land otters lived over the past fifty-five hundred years and explains why Tlingit have a cultural tie to the land otter.

Looks at the ceremony used by Algonquian tribes to heal the sick.

Explains why the relatives of the Navajo victims turned to their own history for answers when hanta-virus caused sudden deaths.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2013.

Article examines different telling of the Hopi origins narrative, discusses the different elements and what they might say about Hopi culture. Considers different characters in the story and explores the cultural understanding of them as heroes/villains.

Rebuttal to arguments rejecting psychoanalytical analysis techniques of Native American stories, myths and folktales.

Looks at fictionalized representation of the James Bay hydroelectric project through the use of Algonquin windigo stories.

Author discusses the ways ghost are a part of the narrative in the films of Wanuri Kahiu and Georgina Lightning in cultural context; examines the variable roles that ghost can play (sacred ancestor – malevolent trickster) and the way that characters respond to their presence and actions.

Profile of a self-taught Inuit sculptor. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 15.

Religious Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Ottawa, 1996.

Examines the displacement of the Indigenous people on the prairies.

Looks at the use of traditional Navajo spiritual practices for healing the main protagonist Tayo in Leslie Silko's Ceremony.

Brief history and comments on imitation and reproduced tithu dolls.

Discusses the interpretations and understandings of Power's novel, The Grass Dancer. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.

Examines the emergence of a spiritual entity during a period of warfare waged by the Lakota and Cheyenne on the Pawnee. Argues that their desperate situation triggered a spiritual crisis since the traditional sacred power of Morning Star seemed to provide no protection from enemy threats.

Focuses on the contribution of Maori writers to the reconstructing of New Zealand's national profile.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 4, (pp167-250).

An article written by Reginald Beatty describing an attempt to contact spirits of the dead made by William Ogilvie, later Commissioner of the Yukon (1898-1901) Item found within folder 'Reginald Bird Beatty Papers.

Traces the lowest forms of belief upwards to the highest conceptions. Originally published in The North American Review, July, 1866.

Article explores the prevalence of content of the Indigenous-Australian people’s beliefs about little people. Findings show that many people believe in and encounter little people in contemporary contexts and that perceptions of their presence range from potentially frightening to seeing them as protectors of the land.

Native American Studies (M.A.)--Montana State University, 2011. Looks at Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road and Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach.

Contextualizes the recovery of legal traditions by looking at past, present and future debates about Indigenous laws, and looks at one example of a legal concept, the wetiko or windigo which describes people who are harmful or destructive to others. Chapter in book: The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law edited by Markus D. Dubber and Tatjana Hornle.

English Language and Literature Thesis (M.A.)--Masaryk University, 2018.