Identity
Beadwork Masterpieces: Native American Bandolier Bags
Alternate Title
Nebraska State Historical Society Brown Bag Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Tom Myers
Description
Discusses Native American art and compares essential elements and designs of beaded bags in northern and southern styles. Uses bandolier bag in Benjamin Rush's painting, Death of General Wolfe as one example.
Duration: 45:11.
Beauval, Saskatchewan: An Historical Sketch
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Hurly
Saskatchewan History, vol. 33, no. 3, Autumn, 1980, pp. 102-110
Description
Provides information on the founding of the town of Beauval and of the surrounding community: the Grey Nuns Mission at Ile-à-la-Crosse, the Mission build by the Oblate Marie Immaculate order, and the Indian Industrial School located there.
Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to p.102.
"Becoming Minor": Reading The Woman Who Owned the Shadows
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Renae Bredin
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 4, Series 2. Critical Approaches, Winter, 1994, pp. 36-50
Description
Looks at how Paula Gunn Allen has constructed a social identity that transforms the borderlands of reader, writer, and text to examine the issues of positionality and essentialism.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
"Being a Half-Breed": Discourses of Race and Cultural
Syncreticity in the Works of Three Metis Women Writers
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jodi Lundgren
Canadian Literature, no. 144, Native, Individual, State, Spring, 1995, pp. 82 - 96
Description
Discusses, using the works of Maria Campbell, Beatrice Culleton, and Lee Maracle, how race and culture can become oppressive elements in society.
Being a Native Researcher in Your Own Community
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Agnes Manadamin
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 5, Articulating Aboriginal Paradigms: Implications for Aboriginal Social Work Practice, November 2003, pp. 294-298
Description
Looks at effective and culture-based approaches to research that is grounded in a holistic methodology from the physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional aspects, not only from the researcher's point of view, but also from the community members themselves.
Being a Young Sami in Sweden: Living Conditions, Identity and Life Satisfaction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lotta M. Omma
Lars E. Holmgren
Lars H. Jacobsson
Journal of Northern Studies, no. 1, 2011, pp. 9-28
Description
Questionnaire of 516 young Sami aged 18-28 revealed community connections and perceptions of discrimination or ill treatment.
Being Aboriginal: The Cultural Politics of Identity, Membership and Belonging Among First Nations in Canada
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Ken Coates
Canadian Issues, vol. 21, [Aboriginal Peoples In Canada/ Futures And Identities], [Winter], 1999, pp. 23-[?]
Description
Argues that identity, which was previously characterized by the colonizer/colonized relationship, has become a more complex issue, with definitions ranging from the personal to the international.
“Being and Becoming Indian”: Mi'kmaw Cultural Revival in the Western Newfoundland Region
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Angela Robinson
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, 2012, pp. 1-31
Description
Discusses how the Ktaqamkukeweq Mi’kmaq are working to revitalize traditional practices to reclaim their cultural and ethnic identity.
Being and Becoming Inuit in Labrador
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John C. Kennedy
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, Les Inuit au Labrador méridional / Inuit in Southern Labrador, 2015, pp. 225-242
Description
Shows how identity politics has changed the lives of Inuit and Inuit-Métis.
Being and Place Among the Tlingit
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sergi Kan
BC Studies, no. 160, The Middle Fraser, Winter, 2008/2009, pp. 131-133
Description
Book review of: Being and Place Among the Tlingit by Thomas F. Thornton.
Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 131.
Being Indian: Strengths Sustaining First Nations Peoples in Saskatchewan Residential Schools
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Isabelle Hanson
Mary Rucklos Hampton
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring, 2000, pp. 127-142
Description
Examines the strengths that contributed to the survival of First Nations peoples during their stays in residential schools.
Being Indigenous: Commentary on Chandler
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margo Greenwood
Human Development, vol. 56, no. 2, March 2013, pp. 98-105
Description
Author's interpretation of Michael Chandler's essay, On Being Indigenous: An Essay on the Hermeneutics of 'Cultural Identity'.
Being Indigenous in an Unlikely Place: Self-Determination in the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1920-1991)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Evgeniia Sidorova
Roberta Rice
International Indigenous Policy Studies, vol. 11, no. 3, The COVID-19 Pandemic and Indigenous Peoples, 2020, pp. 1-18
Description
Examines and compares the ways Indigenous groups from different places organize and mobilized in different ways.
Being Indigenous: Resurgences Against Contemporary Colonialism
Alternate Title
Politics of Identity [Series] - IX
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Taiaiake Alfred
Jeff Corntassel
Government and Opposition, vol. 40, no. 4, Autumn, 2005, pp. 597-614
Description
Looks at ways Indigenous communities can renew themselves and withstand further assaults on their identity from corporations, settler societies and states.
Being Influenced: A Cherokee Way of Mentoring
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Lowe
Journal of Cultural Diversity, vol. 12, no. 2, Summer, 2005, pp. 37-49
Description
Reports on research findings related to how the Cherokee male achieves self-reliance and how health care professionals can incorporate the Cherokee concept of self-reliance into health care.
Being/Nothing: Native Title and Fantasy Fulfilment
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katherine Biber
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, Fall, 2004, pp. 1-18
Description
Author explores the consequences of imaging the nation in a fantasy way by reading the formative Australian cases through which Native jurisprudence developed in Australia.
"Being Responsible, Respectful, Trying to Keep the Tradition Alive:" Cultural Resilience and Growing Up in an Alaska Native Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa Wexler
Linda Joule
Joe Garoutte
Janet Mazziotti
Kim Hopper
Transcultural Psychiatry, vol. 51, no. 5, Indigenous Youth Resilience in the Arctic, 2014, pp. 693-712
Description
Discusses ways Inupiaq youth stay grounded while transitioning to adulthood in the face of social change.
The Benefits of Being Indian: Blood Quanta, Intermarriage, and Allotment Policy on the White Earth Reservation, 1889–1920
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katherine Ellinghaus
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 29, no. 2 & 3, 2008, pp. 81-105
Description
Discussion on how the United States government used the intermarriage between Indians and non-Indians to undermine Indian control of their own lands and legal identity.
The Best of Both Worlds: Otherness, Appropriation, and Identity in Thunderheart
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sam Pack
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 16, no. 2, Fall, 2001, pp. 97-114
Description
Analyzes the 1992 Tri-Star Pictures release which breaks new ground on two fronts, an all Native American cast except the lead role, and use of a contemporary setting. Screenplay by John Fusco, directed by Michael Apted and produced by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and John Fusco.