Supernatural Beings

Discusses how the comic mobility of the trickster is used to address serious social issues in Sherman Alexie's volume of short stories. Excerpt from Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium edited by Mark B. Spencer.

Examines the trickster character who is often the underdog and uses cleverness to conquer powerful forces in Native American stories.

Humanities: Literature Option Thesis (M.A.)--California State University Dominguez Hills, 2000.

Examines how Louis Owens’ Wolfsong makes use of different imagery and characterizations in order to challenge perceptions around the complexity of American Indian identity. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Shows how Cree storytelling is used in healing from the residential school experience and building knowledge that resists colonialism.

Tuktu, a fictional elder, recalls the traditional ways that the Inuit depended on their dogs. Duration: 14:10.

Tuktu, a fictional elder, recalls a fishing trip to the ancient stone weir. Duration: 14:13.

Discusses how despite the influence of Christianity and although no longer associated with the Inuit shaman, the concept of the Tuurngait still permeates the worldview of contemporary Inuit.

Legend about an encounter with a spirit who attempts to eat one of the men.

Article draws on the journals of Guardian of Aborigines William Thomas in New South Wales to describe and examine corroborees (Indigenous spiritual ceremonies) taking place in the early 1850s. Author considers the role of syncretism in Indigenous peoples’ process of understanding European systems of belief.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1977.

Contends that rock and cave art may offer insights about the trance-induced, supernatural journeys and spiritual sightings of shamans around the world.

Animated video depicting a strange occurrence that happened to a family one winter night. Duration: 03:45.

Studies the Mi'kmaq Indians' descriptions of journeys between six parallel worlds as found in tales collected from the early seventeenth century to the early twentieth.

Documentary about a Cree community in northern Alberta where the children are taught traditional stories and traditional ways by the old people. Duration: 14:32.

Book review of: Wandjuk Marika: Life Story (as told to Jennifer Isaacs) by Wandjuk Marika ; edited by Jennifer Isaacs. Review located by scrolling to page 230.

Book review of Wanjina by Kim Akerman.

Explores the Waptashi or Feather Religion and its leader Jake Hunt. Waptashi is a combination of the Washani faith and the Indian Shaker Church where the Eagle is the supreme being who communicates through Jake Hunt.

Discussion of the large snakes, horned snakes, water monster serpents in Lake Manitou, and horned alligators of extraordinary size.

Looks at representative cases regarding the master of the fish in Indigenous and Inuit communities throughout North American. These fish religions are usually related to fish populations and meant to bring good luck to groups that rely on fish for their livelihoods.

"Part 10 of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka texts told by Tom Sa:ya:ch'apis, William, Dick La:maho:s, Captain Hill, and Tyee Bob"

Comments on two authors' use of the trickster to tackle contemporary problems within hegemonic racist and colonizing contexts.

Looks at miniatures as toys and offerings in the context of life and death, and how changing scales are recurrent operations in Inuit cosmology.

Studies the religious symbolism in creation stories of the Arikara.

Examines traditional Iroquois witchcraft by looking at how the Iroquois defined a witch and how witches used their powers.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, 2009.

Shows the resilience and adaptability of the Catawba religion through an examination of the devil in Catawba culture.

Examines a collection of short stories by Ernest Thompson Seton that explores communication and powers of premonition among wild and domesticated animals.

Discusses various literary works by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal authors that use the Windigo character.

Describes subarctic Algonquian windigo transformations as a psychiatric disorder and reviews alternate explanations.

Examines how accepted beliefs in witchcraft were used to explain cultural confusion, social stress and extensive suffering and death.

Comments on the objections to use artificial snow made from reclaimed treated sewage water, due to the sacred nature of the peaks.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1980.

Book review of: Wolverine Myths and Visions: Dene Traditions from Northern Alberta compiled by the Dene Wodih Society, edited by Patrick Moore and Angela Wheelock.

Indigenous Education & Linguistics Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2016.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 24, (pp361-420).

Forms part of Memoirs of the American Museums of Natural History, v. 13 (p. [135]-342). Parts of text are vocabulary, appear in English and Yukaghir.