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Intangible Heritage: The Cosmology of a Cultural Landscape

Alternate Title
St. Thomas Native Awareness Days ; 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Maureen Matthews
Speaker discusses Pimachiowin Aki, a project involving six Aboriginal communities and two provincial parks that are lobbying for 4.3 million hectors of land in Northern Manitoba and Ontario to be designated a UNESCO world heritage site. Part 1: 30:42. Part 2: 26:44.
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Interviewing Inuit Elders: Cosmology and Shamanism

Alternate Title
Interviewing Inuit Elders ; vol. 4
[Oral Traditions Project ; vol. 4]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Mariano Aupilaarjuk
Tulimaaq Aupilaarjuk
Lucassie Nutaraaluk
Rose Iqallijuq
Johanasi Ujarak
Isidore Ijituuq and Michel Kupaaq
Aaju Petere
Nancy Kisa
Julia Saimaiyuq
Susan Enuaraq ... [et al.]


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Inukpasugjuk

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Knud Rasmussen
Inuktitut , no. 88, 2000, pp. 31-32
Story of a giant who caused a tidal wave excerpted from The Netsilik Eskimos: Social Life & Spiritual Culture. Scroll down to page 31 -32.
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It Consumes What It Forgets

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Carter Meland
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 137-149
Author discusses different incarnations of the wiindigo narrative ranging from those found in the Anishinaabe oral tradition to those found in the journals of fur traders; examines different potential meanings and teachings of the narrative.
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Jackalope Walks into a Minneapolis Bar

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Denise Low
Transmotion, vol. 1, no. 2, November 20, 2015, pp. 85-90
Creative fiction piece that engages themes of survivance, transformation, and magic realism.
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Jim Hart's Red Cedar Dance Screen

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jim Hart
The Bill Reid Centre
Interview with Bill Hart, explaining the carvings on the 16 by 11 foot dance screen. Duration: 7:05.
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Kato Texts

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University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.5, no.3
E-Books
Author/Creator
Pliny Earle Goddard
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol.5, (pp65-238).
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Kitselas Canyon 1

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
[George F. MacDonald]
[Bill Reid Centre]

Video features historical photos of villages located in the Kitselas Canyon in British Columbia and archaeological digs that took place in the late 1960's and 1970's.

Duration: 19:55.

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The Koryak: Religion and Myths

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Memoir[s] of the American Museum of Natural History ; [v. 10]
[Publications of] the Jesup North Pacific Expedition ; v. 6, pt. 1
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Waldemar Jochelson
Forms part of the Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 10 (p. [1]-382).
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Labrador Inuit on the Hunt: Seasonal Patterns, Techniques, and Animals as They Appear in the Early Moravian Diaries

Alternate Title
Les Inuit du Labrador à la chasse : Modèles saisonniers, techniques et animaux tels qu’ils apparaissent dans les carnets anciens des frères Moraves
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thea Olsthoorn
Études Inuit Studies , vol. 41, no. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 125-149
Author gathers and studies accounts from the journals of Moravian settlers in Labrador; written between 1771 and 1778 these accounts contain depictions of seal and caribou as prey animals, information on when the Inuit hunted these animals and the techniques they used, and clues that suggest transformation between human and nonhuman beings.
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The Learning Circle as a Research Method: The Trickster and Windigo in Research

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Herbert Nabigon
Rebecca Hagey
Schuyler Webster
Robert MacKay
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, Incorporating Traditional Values in Social Work, April 1999, pp. 113-137
Looks at how the Aboriginal research process and the Learning Circle, with the use of the trickster and windigo, affects the community experiences and perceptions of emotional issues. The article also examines the questions emanating from the medicine wheel.
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The Legend of the Mimigwesseos

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Gail Hamilton
Canadian Materials, vol. 7, no. 11, February 2, 2001
Book review of: The Legend of the Mimigwesseos by Adam Ballantyne.
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Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John E. Smelcer
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 1, 1999, pp. 207-212

Presents a story about Ahtna, one of the 13 Athabaskan languages of Alaska, in "Songs From An Outcast," which is followed by a series of short poems that includes the "Muskrat Woman."

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Little People

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Conley Stone McAnally
Whispering Wind, vol. 36, no. 2, Issue 252, September-October 2006, p. 20
Looks at stories about the Ircinrraqs (Yup'ik) or Inukun (Inupiaq) that live around northern communities.
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Lypa

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Shelagh Mackenzie
Sharon Van Raalte
Profiles Inuit hunter and artist Lypa Pitsiulak. Duration: 29:25.
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Maq and the Spirit of the Woods

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Phyllis Grant
Tells the story of an awkward boy's encounter with a supernatural being and his subsequent transformation. Duration: 8:29.
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Me & My Monster

Alternate Title
Me and My Monster
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Andrea L. Rogers
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018 , pp. 104-107
Creative piece in which the author imagines “A Girl, a Goatboy, and summer love.”
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The "Medicine-Man", or, Indian and Eskimo Notions of Medicine

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Robert Bell
"A Paper read before the Bathurst and Rideau Medical Association, Ottawa, 20th January, 1886". Reprinted from the Canada Medical & Surgical Journal, March-April, 1886. Describes some of the plants and practices used medicinally.
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The Metamorphoses of an Ojibwa Manido

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Victoria Brehm
American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography, vol. 68, no. 4, December 1996, pp. 677-706
Examines the symbolism of "Micipijiu", a supernatural being in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine.
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A Monograph of a Peyote Singer: Asa Primeaux, Sr.

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring, 1991, pp. 1-15
Brief profile and interview with a sacred pipe carrier and singer of the Lakota/Dakota and the historical and cultural sacred traditions of Peyotism.
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The Mythical Physical Walrus

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Ningeokuluk Teevee
Leslie Boyd
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 4, Winter, 2014, pp. 24-33
Looks at the work of an artist and storyteller. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 24.
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Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians

Alternate Title
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; vol. 2, pt. 1
E-Books
Author/Creator
Clark Wissler
D. C. Duvall
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the Museum of Natural History, v. 2, pt. 1 (p. 1-163).

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Native American Clowns

Alternate Title
Charlie the Juggling Clown: Creating Happy Memories that Last a Lifetime
Web Sites » Personal
Author/Creator
Bruce Johnson
Looks at characteristics of Cheyenne Contrary clowns, the Hopi and the Nuu-Chah-Nulth clowns in the Northwest and their importance to the community.
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Native American Masks of the Northwest Coast and Alaska

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Selection of web gallery photographs featuring Pacific Northwest masks belonging to the Kwakwaka'wakw, Makah, Nuu-chah-nulth and Yup'ik people.
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Native American Religious Traditions

Alternate Title
The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jeffrey D. Anderson
Joseph P. Gone
Relationship between childhood and the sacred varies between Indigenous communities in North America. Chapter in book: The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion edited by Thomas R. Bidell, Anne C. Dailey, Suzanne D. Dixon, Peggy J.Miller, and John Modell.
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Native Canadian Gothic Refigured: Reading Robinson's Monkey Beach

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jennifer Andrews
Essays on Canadian Writing, no. 73, Spring, 2001, pp. 1-24
Examines the book Monkey Beach and its rendition of the Gothic novel through the character of Lisamarie Hill, a Haisla woman whose world is populated by supernatural characters.
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Native Drums

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Carleton University
Sumner Group
Website committed to First Nations culture and music with games, images, interviews, articles and teacher resources.
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No Greater Faith

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Reginald Bird Beatty
An article written by Reginald Beatty relating to the spirituality of Essa-wa-pum-o, an excellent hunter who gave all thanks to the Great Spirit for his success in hunting bears to feed his family. Item found within folder 'Reginald Bird Beatty Papers.'

Historical note:

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Noah Meets Old Coyote, or Singing in the Rain: Intertextuality in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura E. Donaldson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1995, pp. 27-43
Looks at what is real and what is magical in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water by weaving the traditional world of oral Indigenous story telling with the individualised western written text. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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The Northwest Coast Sisiutl

Theses
Author/Creator
Roderick Paul Paterson
Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1975.
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A Nutritional Factor in Windigo Psychosis

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vivian J. Rohrl
American Anthropologist, vol. 72, no. 1, New Series, February 1970, pp. 97-101
Argues that there may be a nutritional component to windigo in that the "cure" involved the ingestion of fatty meat.
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