Supernatural Beings

Collection of 42 stories.

Creative piece which imagines what Two Treatises of Civil Government would look like if it had been written by the Cherokee Rabbit Trickster, Jisdu.

Examines the turn of clash into comedy by using idea of trickster, turning Christopher Columbus into a crossblood Jewish Mayan trickster.

Comments on two novels for children which interweave the daily experiences of protagonists with traditional stories of powerful spirit-mentors.

Book review of: "The Orders of the Dreamed" by Jennifer S. H. Brown and Robert Brightman.

Examines stories, images, and voices of the owl in Anishinaabe culture and how these teachings (owl) influenced the signatories of Treaty Three.

Discusses different characteristics of Clowns in different tribes from the Oglala and Lakota to the Salish and Hopis and the importance of the Clowns to the community spirit.

Author describes the different perceptions of the wolverine in Dené and Gwich’in culture both as a presence that people must be wary of in the bush and status as a powerful tuurngaq (totem or spirit guide). Text in French.

Book review of: Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence edited by Colleen E. Boyd and Coll Thrush. Review located by scrolling to page 165.

Book review of: Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence edited and introduced by Colleen E. Boyd and Coll Thrush.

Study conducted in 1986 & ‘87 interviews participants in 13 Navajo communities about spaces that are sacred or important to the people in those communities. Research was done to determine which sites should be the focus of the Navajo Nation’s Historic Preservation Department.

Looks at historical information on ceremonial clowns, individual contraries, Reverse Reaction Warriors and the Ceremonial Fool of the Mandan.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen's University, 1996.

Examines the changes to Indigenous religiously ideology due to subordination by European cultures that value a single deity and patriarchal views.

Discusses how author Gerald Vizenor's emphasis on the bear is explained by the animal's role as the renewer of Ojibwe life in Midewiwin ceremony.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1994.

Author examines the different worldviews and practices surrounding religion and spirituality that are and were held by Christian Europeans and the Powhatan in the early 1600’s, notes the points of divergence and potential conflict between the two forms of spirituality.

Examines the cultural and social accuracy of two Native American picture-books.

Literary Criticism Article in which the author explores the ways which Indigenous storytelling and the worldview it conveys have affected her scholarship and her individual understanding and experience of the world.

Discussion of a workshop held to record the views of Inuit elders on social control and shamanism.

Discusses the metaphorical surrealism in Jim Denomie paintings showing historical and contemporary events in American and Native American history, as well as aspects of pop-culture, art history and Anglo-Indian relations.

Discusses the importance of the Raven image in art to Native American Indian cultural groups of the Northwest Coast.

Interrogates how play adapts Shakespeare as a strategy for renewal of First Nation Canadian history, culture and human rights.

Book review of: Ethnic Literary Traditions in American Children's Literature edited by Michelle Pagni Stewart and Yvonne Atkinson.

Re-reading of the American classic, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, exploring author's choice to narrate the story from the perspective of the character of the Native American chief.

The King of the Waters: Legend of the Horned Water Serpent by Deborah Mitchell examines the rare legend of a "snake-man". Chahta-Immataha and the Choctaw Bible by Jerry Bryan Lincecum discusses the oral tradition of the Choctaw people.

Sam Kenoi’s “Coyote and the Whitemen”: Contact in and out of a Chiricahua Narrative by Anthony K. Webster examines specific narration by placing it within the context of received standards for a Coyote narrative. Language in Mari Sandoz’s Crazy Horse: Strange Man of the Oglalas by Kimberli Lee discusses the Indian perspectives used in Mari Sandoz’s work.

Folklore and Mythology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California Los Angeles, 2002.

Documentary looks at Aboriginal comedy across Canada featuring comedians Don Kelly, Sharon Shorty and Jack Bear. Duration: 54:30.

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

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 25 (p.309-444).

Examines witiko case studies not previously scrutinized.

Presents a story about the spirit of a traditional Métis shapeshifter who transforms people's lives. Duration: 5:31.

Book review of: Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories by Adam Fortunate Eagle. Scroll down to page 89 to read review..

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1967.

Anthropology and Sociology (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1983.

Explores the belief systems of the Even and Evenk peoples which consists of three spheres; the physical, the upper world and the lower world.

Book review of: Shamanism in North America by Norman Bancroft Hunt.

An analysis of prophets as an extension of traditional Indigenous shamans and how their similarities allowed prophets to achieve legitimacy within Indigenous communities.

Relates events surrounding the life of Magic Boy, who was viewed as the reincarnation of Lived-with-the-Wolves, possessor of the most powerful indoze (secret way of knowing) by the Chipewyan. These events took place during the 1960s and early 1970s in Canada's North. Includes discussion of the origins and beliefs surrounding the concept of indoze.

Comments on a dance considered to be a "peaceful" ceremonial integration of singing and movement. Honors paper towards undergraduate degree in Sociology and Anthropology--Illinois Wesleyan University, 2013.

English Thesis (M.A.)--Colorado State University, 2012.