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Living Well: Aboriginal Women, Cultural Identity and Wellness

Alternate Title
Project (Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence) ; no. 79
E-Books
Author/Creator
Alex Wilson
Project (Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence)
Description
Discussion of the positive impact of cultural identity on the wellness of Aboriginal women in Manitoba and the ways they have retained/used cultural values, teachings and knowledge in their efforts to heal their communities.
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Living with the Past: The Creation of the Stolen Generation Positionality

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephanie Gilbert
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 3, September 2019, pp. 226-233
Description
Author examine the identity politics at play for Aborigines in Australia; discusses issues of dysphoria (isolation, anxiety, and depression) that results from the assimilationist policies of the 1900s. Proposes that the dysphoria experienced by Indigenous peoples might be considered a legitimate part of Indigenous identity.
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Local Values in Governance: Legacy of Choho in Forest and School Management in a Tamang Community in Nepal

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mahesh Nath Parajuli
Indra Mani Rai
Prakash C Bhattarai
Suresh Gautam
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 8, no. 1, 2019, pp. 35-55
Description
Examines a shift in the practices of the Tamang ethnic community in Nepal; argues that the Choho institution is still present, and many practices are still present enacted as resistance against the modern state. Considers how the meaning of these practices may have changed in a contemporary context.
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Looking Forward to Sustainability: Executive Director's Message

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Suzanne Benally
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, Sacred Places, Sacred Lifeways, March 2012, p. [?]
Description
The executive director of Cultural Survival Quarterly presents her thoughts on Indigenous people's rights to be heard and determine their own economic, social and cultural development.
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“The Lord and the Center of the Farthest”: Ezol’s Journal as Tribalography in LeAnne Howe’s Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patrice Hollrah
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 2, Tribalography, Summer, 2014, pp. 40-54
Description
Discusses how tribalography's literary capacity can bridge time, space, and place and be beneficial to tribal peoples and sovereignties. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 40.
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"Loss Must Be Marked and It Cannot Be Represented": Memorializing Sex Workers in Vancouver's West End

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Becki Lynn Ross
Jamie Lee Hamilton
BC Studies, no. 197, Spring, 2018, pp. 9-38
Description
Looks at the culture of the area prior to the illegal evictions in 1984, history of advocacy by and for sex trade workers in Vancouver, and the authors’ struggle to secure reparations, an apology and a permanent memorial. Also discusses these issues in the context of ‘reconciliation’ and the consequences of racialization and criminalization.
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Louisa May Alcott’s Wild Indians: Pedagogy of Love, Politics of Empire

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 9th, 2011
Where No One Else Has Gone Before: Proceedings of the Ninth Native American Symposium
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Steve Benton
Description
Discusses gender discourse and territorial expansion policies in Louisa May Alcott’s novels and its negative effect on many Native American people.
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Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, and the (De)Mythologizing of the American West

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jason P. Mitchell
Critique Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 41, no. 3, Spring, 2000, pp. 290-304
Description
Explores myths about "cowboys and Indians" as warriors, the consequences of the influx of settlers, and the conflict between new and old conceptions of family, friendship, and spirituality.
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Loving Indianess: Native Women's Storytelling as Survivance

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Emerance Baker
Atlantis, vol. 29, no. 2, [Indigenous Women: The State of Our Nations], Spring/Summer, 2005, pp. 111-121
Description
Discusses how storytelling is used as a strategy for cultural survival to heal family and community and create social change.
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The Magic of the People in Our Lives

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Richard Wagamese
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 9, December 2012, p. 12
Description

Comments on Norval Morriseau, an artist and a traditional teacher.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.12.

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MAI Te Kupenga: Supporting Māori and Indigenous Doctoral Scholars within Higher Education

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leonie Pihama
Jenny Lee-Morgan
Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Sarah Jane Tiakiwai
Joeliee Seed-Pihama
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 1, March 2019, pp. 52-61
Description
Article highlights some of the challenges Māori and Indigenous (MAI) scholars face in the mainstream university context, and the role of the MAI Te Kupenga (a support program for Indigenous doctoral students) in supporting scholars in these contexts.
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