The Last Indian War: Reassessing the Legacy of American Indian Boarding Schools and the Emergence of Pan-Indian Identity
Alternate Title
Article 2
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Abigail M. Gibson
Global Tides, vol. 10, no. 1, 2016, pp. 1-20
Description
Gives some context behind the rise of Pan-Indianism in part due to the divide between urban and reservation American Indians struggling between spiritual and communal connection and learned white individualistic industrial activity.
The Last Quarter Century in Canadian Plains Archaeology
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ian Dyck
Prairie Forum, vol. 22, no. 2, Fall, 2001, pp. 143-167
Description
Looks at changes that Canadian Plains archaeology has made including heritage legislation, Aboriginal involvement, expanded public interpretation and archaeological knowledge.
The Last Travellers--Gypsies and Lapps on the Way to Modern Society
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marjatta Rahikainen
European Legacy, vol. 4, no. 3, Special Issue: Otherness, Identity and Politics, June 1999, pp. 50-61
Description
Looks at folktales involving gypsies and Lapps (Sami) and the colonization of Lapland.
Lateral Violence within the Aboriginal Community in Adelaide: "It Affects Our Identity and Wellbeing"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Yvonne Clark
Martha Augoustinos
Merridy Malin
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing - Te Mauri: Pimatisiwin, vol. 1, no. 1, Healing Our Spirit Worldwide, The Seventh Gathering, August 2016, pp. 43-52
Description
Reports on qualitative interviews held with 30 participants. Several themes emerged: the covert nature of violence, relationship between racism and violence, and effect on identity and wellbeing.
Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Lolomi, and Modern Oneida Placemaking
Alternate Title
American Indian Quarterly ; vol. 37, no. 3, Summer 2013
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristina Ackley
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 2, The Society of American Indians and Its Legacies, Summer, 2013, pp. 117-138
Description
Explores the activist's views on tribal identity, economic development, and self-governance as expressed in her plans for a industrialized village.
Special combined issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures and American Indian Quarterly.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 117.
Leadership, Colonization, and Tradition: Identity and Economic Change in Ruatoki and Ruatahuna
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James H. Liu
Pou Temara
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 22, no. 1, Creating Power in the Land of the Eagle, 1998, pp. 138-150
Description
Two Maori villages reveal a strong sense of place in contrast with the large economic changes that have transformed New Zealand.
Leadership Training Program at Phoenix Indian High School
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kenneth Patch
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 10, no. 3, May 1971, pp. [14-17]
Description
Discussion of lack of leaders in high school and establishment of a leadership program to develop skills and techniques including improving self-concept.
Leading a Good Life: The White Earth Anishinaabeg in Transitional Times
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anna Krausová
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 38, no. 3, 2014, pp. 135-150
Description
Commentary looks at struggle of White Earth Nation to exist with a distinct political and cultural space within the United States.
Leading the Way: Tribal Colleges Prepare Students to Address Climate Change
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Barbara Ellen Sorensen
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 23, no. 2, Climate Commitment, Winter, 2011
Description
Looks at the role tribal colleges and universities play in helping Native communities adjust to the effects of climate change.
Learn Your Language, In Profile: Raffaella Bulyaar from Marsabit, Kenya
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Raffaella Bulyaar
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 4, The Future We Want: Indigenous Women of the World Unite, December 2013, p. [?]
Description
Discusses the challenges facing Indigenous communities and the role Indigenous women can play in language and cultural revitalization for future generations.
Learning from Place: A Return to Traditional Mushkegowuk Ways of Knowing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jean-Paul Restoule
Sheila Gruner
Edmund Metatawabin
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 36, no. 2, Indigenous Education: Pathways to (Re)membering, 2013, pp. 68-86
Description
Looks at the Cree concepts of land and place while on a canoe trip with youth, adults and elders of Fort Albany First Nation on James Bay.
Learning to be and Anthropologist and Remaining "Native": Selected Writings
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kathleen Buddle
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 25, no. 2, 2001, pp. 207-210
Description
Book review of:Learning to be an Anthropologist and Remaining "Native" by Beatrice Medicine with Sue-Ellen Jacobs, forewords by Ted Garner and Faye V. Harrison.
Learning to be Part of the Land: Experiences of a Canadian Indigenous Researcher Doing Research in a Yucatec Maya Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Miguel Paul Sastaretsi Sioui
Canadian Journal of Native Studies , vol. 38, no. 2, 2018, pp. 125-144
Description
Author discusses their positionality as an Indigenous Canadian scholar and researcher in Yucatan, Mexico; reflects on how their Indigenous identity and culture helped to inform their approach to learning and led them to select Indigenous research methods.
Learning to Read—Almost: New Books in Early Native American Studies
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joanna Brooks
Early American Literature, vol. 48, no. 3, 2013, pp. 743-754
Description
Book review essay of:
English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830 by Hilary E. Wyss.
Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature by Birgit Rasmussen.
On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory by Andrew Newman.
Learning to Relate: Stories from a Father and Son
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. J. Baker
L. M. M. H. Baker
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010
Description
Discussion on stories shared by Jeff Baker and his father, Lee Baker on physical and cultural disconnection, and the benefits of listening to and learning from each another.
Learning to Talk to the Land: Online Stewardship in Taku River Tlingit Territory
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christine Schreyer
Jon Corbett
Nicole Gordon
Colleen Larson
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 3, Indigenous Land-Based Education, 2014, pp. 106-133
Description
Article describes a web-based participatory mapping tool(https://trt.geolive.ca/) which combines ideologies of stewardship with place names and stories.
The Legacy of White Supremacy and the Challenge of White Antiracist Mothering
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rebecca Aanerud
Hypatia, vol. 22, no. 2, [Reproduction of Whiteness: Race and Regulation of the Gendered Body], 2007, pp. 20-38
Description
Article is written in the context of historic constructions of white mothering in the 20th century.
Legal and Tribal Identity in Gerald Vizenor’s The Heirs of Columbus
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephen D. Osborne
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Gerald Vizenor, Spring, 1997, pp. 115-127
Description
Contends that, despite appearances, Vizenor's fiction is grounded in the same tradition as the Anishinaabe trickster tales and "tradition-honoring" authors like Momaday and Silko.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Legends of Our Times: Cultural identification
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Description
Terms used by First Nation's to identify their people, as well as English and French words used for cultural groups. Includes links to information about sacred beings, ranching, rodeo, arts, entertainment and industries.
The Lemhi Shoshoni: Ethnogenesis, Sociological Transformations, and the Construction of a Tribal Nation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gregory R. Campbell
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 4, Fall, 2001, pp. 539-578
Description
Origins of the shared social identity of this groups and the history of their struggle to continue as a distinct nation.
Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony as a Viable Path of Resistance and Agency
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dafer Yousif Sarairah
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University (Humanities and Management Sciences), vol. 4, no. 2, 2003, pp. 155-168
Description
Looks at the main character's fight against the evils of imperialism and racism and search for identify.
[LessLIE Talks About "Spindle wHOLE", July 27, 2011, Victoria, BC Canada]
Alternate Title
lessLIE Talk at Alcheringa Gallery: "Spindle wHOLE", July 27, 2011, Victoria, BC Canada
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
lessLIE
Efren Quiroz
Description
Artist explains the background of his works, the title of his exhibition, and the connection to Coast Salish culture and designs.
Duration: 24:33.
Lessons Learned: Settler Colonialism, Development, and the UN Regional Training Centre in Vancouver, 1959-62
Alternate Title
LESSONS LEARNED: Settler Colonialism, Development, and the UN Regional Training Center in Vancouver, 1959-62
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Meren
BC Studies, no. 208, Winter, 2020/2021, pp. 45-72,162
Description
Discusses how settler colonialism shaped the creation of the UN Regional Training Centre at UBC to reinforce the capitalist international order.
Lessons with Leah: Re-Reading the Photographic Archive of Nation in the National Film Board of Canada's Still Photography Division
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carol Payne
Visual Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, April 2006, pp. [4]-22
Description
Discusses such issues as the neutrality of the archive given its mandate "to promote a sense of national unity", its representations of Aboriginal people, and current movement to repatriate images.
Let's Hope Institute Reverses Ugly Trend
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
LeaderPost, June 4, 2007, p. A3
Description
Comments on the creation of the Saskatchewan First Nation Family and Community Institute and hopes that the institute can stem the flow of children placed into foster care.
Let's Talk Healing: Healing Foundation Gathering 2010
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Healing Foundation
Description
Looks at a three day event that brought together community healing programs and initiatives from around Australia and gave the opportunity for participants to meet the people that deliver the programs.
Let the Fires Unite: Our Journey of Allyship
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Claudette Cardinal
Niloufar Aran
Journal of Indigenous HIV Research, vol. 11, Soft Launch, Summer, 2021, pp. 33-51
Description
The authors use their own self reflections to examine how their lives intersected to create an allyship and the impact it had on their lives.