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Markoosie's "Harpoon of the Hunter": A Story of Cultural Survival

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Seth Bovey
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 2, 1991, pp. 217-223
Description
Literary Criticism article in which the author considers different aspects of the novel Harpoon of the Hunter and attempts to classify the text using contemporary Western literary labels. Argues that the novel focuses on community well-being over individuality.
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The Marriage of Mother and Father: Michif Influences as Expressions of Métis Intellectual Sovereignty in Stories of the Road Allowance

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mareike Neuhaus
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 20-48
Description
Argues that Maria Campbell's use of Michif was necessary to convey the true essence of the narratives. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 20.
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Marxism and Native Americans Revisited

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 6th, 2005
Native Women in the Arts, Education and Leadership: Proceedings of the Sixth Native American Symposium
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
David Michael Smith
Description
Article attempts to assess the Native American relationship to Marxism.
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Masculindians: Conversations about Indigenous Manhood

E-Books
Author/Creator
Sam McKegney
Janice C. Hill Kanonhsyonni
Tomson Highway
Lee Maracle
Basil H. Johnston
Louise Bernice Halfe, Skydancer
Daniel David Moses
Thomas Kimeksun
Taiaiake Alfred
Kim Anderson
Brendan Hokowhitu
Ty P. Kawika Tengan
Jessica Danforth
Warren Cariou
Alison Calder
Daniel Heath Justice
Adrian Stimson
Terrence Houle
Joseph Boyden
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Richard Van Camp
Joanne Arnott
Neal McLeod
Gregory Scofield
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Masi Methodology: Centring Pacific Women’s Voices in Research

Alternate Title
Masi Methodology: Centering Pacific Women’s Voices in Research
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sereana Naepi
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 3, September 2019, pp. 234-242
Description
Article describes the development and use of Masi, a Pacific women centered research methodology, highlighting the work of Pacific academics, and the role of Fijian ontologies and epistemologies.
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The Mass Incarceration of Indigenous Women in Canada: A Colonial Tactic of Control and Assimilation

Alternate Title
Neo-Colonial Injustice and the Mass Imprisonment of Indigenous Women
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Olga Marques
Lisa Monchalin
Description
Chapter from Neo-Colonial Injustice and the Mass Imprisonment of Indigenous Women edited by Lily George, Adele N. Norris, Antje Deckert, Juan Tauri. A discussion on the high incarceration of Canadian Indigenous women due to the impact of both historical and present day colonial practices.
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Maturing Australia Through Australian Aboriginal Narrative Law

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christine Black
South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 110, no. 2, Sovereignty, Indigeneity, and the Law, Spring, 2011, pp. 347-362
Description
Challenges definitions of identity, sovereignty and suggests an alternative governance system based on classic thinking of Aboriginal law.
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Maximum Morality of Art: Thomas King’s Medicine River

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 9th, 2011
Where No One Else Has Gone Before: Proceedings of the Ninth Native American Symposium
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Marija Krivokapic Kneževic
Description
Discusses the concept of relations and Native American identity in Medicine River.
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Maya Cranial and Dental Modifications

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Brian Pritchard
Totem, vol. 14, no. 1, 2006, pp. 57-77
Description
Looks at intentional body changes as an expression of gender ideology. Shows there are no differences between males and females in modifications.
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Mayan Tales From Chiapas, Mexico

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Joel W. Palka
American Anthropologist, vol. 118, no. 3, September 2016, pp. 677-678
Description
Book review of: Mayan Tales From Chiapas, Mexico by Robert M. Laughlin. Translated by Socorro Gómez Hernández and Juan Benito de la Torre.
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“Maybe Einstein Was Part Yaqui”: Deposing Thought in Works by Endrezze and Silko

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Catherine Rainwater
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring, 2014, pp. 1-28
Description
Examines the reappropriation of history in the work of Anita Endrezze and Leslie Silko through Indigenous conceptions of scientific knowledge. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to page 1.
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The Meaning of Political Participation for Indigenous Youth

Alternate Title
CPRN Research REport
Charting the Course for Youth Civic and Political Participation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Taiaiake Alfred
Brock Pitawanakwat
Jackie Price
Description

Looks at the meaning of political engagement for youth today and implications arising from their attitudes and beliefs in the Canadian electoral processes and institutions.

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Mediating Indianness

Alternate Title
American Indian Studies Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Billy J. Stratton
Sonja Georgi
Cathy Covell Waegner
A. Robert Lee
Ellen Cushman …
Kimberly Blaeser
Evelina Zuni Lucero ...
Nicolle Dragone ...
Gordon Henry Jr.
American Indian Studies Series
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[Mediating Indianness]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jean-Paul Restoule
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 35, no. 2, 2015, pp. 247-249
Description
Book review: Mediating Indianness edited by Cathy Coveil Waegner.
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The Medicine Project

Web Sites » Organizations
Description
Online exhibition with twelve artists and three writers which looks at Aboriginal ideas about healing and how they influence First Nations people and artists today.
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Medicine River

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tom King
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 15-20
Description
Chapter 7 excerpt from the book Medicine River by Tom King.
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Medicines at Standing Rock: Stories of Native Healing through Survivance

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Selma Hedlund
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 44, no. 4, 2020, pp. 59-78
Description
In 2016, Indigenous groups and allies met at Standing Rock, North Dakota to protest the creation of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Using interviews from participants to discuss Indigenous social movements, rooted in spirituality and ceremony, that moves away from the stereotypical viewpoint of Indigenous victimry.
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A Melus Interview: Jim Barnes

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gretchen Bataille
Jim Barnes
MELUS, vol. 10, no. 4, The Ethnic Novel: Appalachian, Chicano, Chinese and Native American, Winter, 1983, pp. 57-64
Description
Interview with poet Jim Barnes who is of Welsh, English and Choctaw decent.
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Memories Sustain Us In Our Darkest Times

Alternate Title
Reflections
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Maria Campbell
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 7, July 2007, p. 5
Description
Author looks at the practice and festivities involved in welcoming spring and the importance of passing these traditions on to the youth. Article located by scrolling to page 5.
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Memory as Medicine: The Power of Recollection in "Ceremony"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan J. Scarberry
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 1, A Special Symposium Issue on Leslie Marmon Silko's , 1979, pp. 19-26
Description
An examination of the use of memory in the novel Ceremony. The main character Tayo has painful memories he is trying to forget but as the novel progresses he learns to embrace memories of his Indigenous traditions as a way to control his own life.
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Memory, History, and Contested Pasts: Re-imagining Sacagawea/Sacajawea

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sally McBeth
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, 2003, pp. 1-32
Description
An investigation into Native Americans worldviews in relation to many versions of the life and death of Sacajawea, the interpreter who accompanied Lewis and Clark.
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