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Wac’inyeya: Hope among American Indian Youth

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jacqueline S. Gray
Lisa Schrader
Devon S. Isaacs
Megan K. Smith
Naomi M. Bender
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 26, no. 2, The Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health’s Partnership River of Life, 2019, pp. 151-171
Study of 56 Indigenous youth uses focus groups and a strengths based perspective to understand what gives them hope and how they demonstrate this hope to others in their community.
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Wahi a Kahiko: Place Names as Vehicles of Ancestral Memory

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katrina-Ann R. Kapa'anaokalaokeola Nakoa Oliveira
AlterNative, vol. 5, no. 2, Ke Ala Hou: Breaking Trail in Hawaiian Research and Development, 2009, pp. 100-115
Discusses how place names reveal and provide attachments to the land, to the past, and to the Hawaiian identity.
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"Wait a Second. Who Are You Anyways?" The Insider/Outsider Debate and American Indian Studies

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Alexander Innes
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 4, Fall, 2009, pp. 440-461

Comments on issues concerning insider Indigenous research, the advantages of being both an insider and outsider when researching, and a brief overview of the author's dissertation research. 

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Waiting for Ishi: Gerald Vizenor’s Ishi and the Wood Ducks and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elvira Pulitano
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Gerald Vizenor, Spring, 1997, pp. [73]-92
Discusses the play, based on a true occurrence, the central themes of which are the importance of stories and names, and the issue of what constitutes tribal identity. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Walk-Through at the Hammer

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Luna
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities, 2019, pp. 33-36
Artist James Luna discusses what it means to be accepted as an American Indian by examining the criteria for tribal enrollment and critiques the work of self-declared Cherokee artist Jimmie Durham.
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Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and Their Representations

Alternate Title
A Story Untold: A Community-Based Oral Narrative of Mohawk Women's Voices from Point Anne, Ontario
Aboriginal Studies Series (Wilfred Laurier University Press)
Goodbye, Wild Indian
Kwakwaka-wakw on Film
Permission and Possession: The Identity Tightrope
Seeing Red: The Stoic Whiteman and Non-Native Humour
The Whirlwind of History: Parallel Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on “Are They Savage?”
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Drew Hayden Taylor
Philip Bellfry
Dawn T. Maracle
Karl Hele
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse
Lenore Keeshig-Tobias
Aboriginal Studies Series
Chapters one, two, four, seven, and twelve.
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'Walking between worlds': The Experiences of New Zealand Māori Cross-Cultural Adoptees

Alternate Title
'Walking between worlds': The Experiences of New Zealand Maori Cross-Cultural Adoptees
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Maria Haenga-Collins
Anita Gibbs
Adoption & Fostering, vol. 39, no. 1, 2015, pp. 62-75
Looks at the narratives of six adults who were part of the system of closed stranger adoption, which placed children with white families and denied access to birth records.
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The Walking-out Ceremony: A Model for Development of Character

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Davis
Native Studies Review, vol. 17, no. 1, 2008, pp. 71-81
An official tour guide of the James Bay Region invites tourists to discover the region and gives a description of the Cree Walking-out ceremony that celebrates the complex link between people and environment.
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Wampum Belts with Initials and/or Dates as Design Elements: A Preliminary Review of One Subcategory of Political Belts

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marshall Joseph Becker
Jonathan Lainey
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, 2004, pp. 25-45

Discusses wampum belts, produced by tribes of the Eastern seaboard from 1600 to 1800, including their distinct beadwork styles, their functions and the practice of reuse of beads.

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Wapos Bay: A Mother's Earth

Alternate Title
Wapos Bay: episode 14
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Dennis Jackson
Melanie Jackson
Two boys help prepare for a sweat lodge ceremony and a student has difficulty determining her identity for a school assignment in episode 14 of a stop-motion animation series. Accompanying material: Wapos Bay: A Mother's Earth: Study Guide. Duration: 24:02.
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Wapos Bay: A Mother's Earth: Study Guide

Alternate Title
Wapos Bay; episode 14
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Lyn Daniels]
Study guide to accompany film, Wapos Bay: A Mother's Earth. Oriented toward elementary school students; contains episode description, background information, previewing and post-viewing activities and questions which pertain to the key themes.
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Warlpiri Warriors: Australian Rules Football in Central Australia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce Hearn Mackinnon
Liam Campbell
Sport in Society, vol. 15, no. 7, Indigenous People, Race Relations and Australian Sport, 2012, pp. 965-974
Looks at football as being a vehicle for social cohesion, group identity, pride and joy, and an expression of manhood.
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Waseskun

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Steve Patry
Documents a year spent with inmates undergoing treatment at an Indigenous philosophy based healing center. Duration: 1:21:09.
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Washington Redskins

Alternate Title
Assignment
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Mike Wendling
Lucy Ash
Assignment reporter Mike Wendling in the United States to find out why protests against the name "Redskins" are on the rise. Duration: 25:00.
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Watching Navajos Watch Themselves

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sam Pack
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 22, no. 2, Fall, 2007, pp. 111-127
Records and contrasts Navajo respondents reactions to various films on the same Navajo topics, but made by Native American and non-native film makers.
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Water Sprites: The Elders of the Fish in Aboriginal North America

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Åke Hultkrantz
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 3, Religions, Summer, 1983, pp. 1-22
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.
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Ways of Owning and Sharing Culture Property

Alternate Title
Properties of Culture - Culture as Property: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Erich Kasten
Speaks about cultural tradition, interpretation and concepts of ownership. Introduction from: Properties of Culture - Culture as Property: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia edited by Erich Kasten.
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We Are All Treaty People

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ethan Baptiste
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, 2010, pp. 168-171
Book review of: We Are All Treaty People by Roger Epp.
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"We are like lemmings": Making Sense of the Cultural Meaning(s) of Suicide among the Indigenous Sami in Sweden

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jon Petter A. Stoor
Niclas Kaiser
Lars Jacobsson
Ellinor Salander Renberg
Anne Silviken
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 74, Suicide and Resilience in Circumpolar Populations, 2015, p. article no. 27669
Comments on the four themes that emerged from the focus group discussions on the topic "suicide among Sami"
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"We Are Not Being Heard": Aboriginal Perspectives on Traditional Foods Access and Food Security

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bethany Elliott
Deepthi Jayatilaka
Contessa Brown
Leslie Varley
Kitty K. Corbett
Journal of Environmental and Public Health, vol. 2012, 2012, p. article no. 130945
Discusses project in which Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal partners collaborated to assess challenges and barriers to access in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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“We Are Not Privileged Enough to Have That Foundation of Language”: Pasifika Young Adults Share their Deep Concerns about the Decline of the Ancestral/Heritage Languages in Aotearoa New Zealand

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lina-Jodi Vaine Samu
Helen Moewaka Barnes

Lanuola Asiasiga
Tim McCreanor
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 131-139
Pasifika youth (aged 18-25) are interviewed in focus groups in which they express their distress about the diminishing presence of Indigenous language use and preservation, article notes that there is no comprehensive language policy to preserve these languages and that losing them has profound negative effects for the youth of culturally marginalized communities.
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We Are Still the Aniishnaabe Nation: Embracing Culture and Identity in Batchewana First Nation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gayle Broad
Stephanie Boyer
Cynthia Chataway
Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 31, no. 1, [Special Issue: Culture, Heritage, and Art], 2006, pp. 35-58
As part of the research project Understanding the Strengths of Indigenous Communities researchers explore how the Batchewana First Nation community approaches culture from a holistic worldview.
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"We are the Arctic": Identities at the Arctic Winter Games 2016

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert C. Thomsen
Carina Ren
Renuka Mahadevan
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 55, no. 1, 2018, pp. 105-118
Authors survey participants, volunteers, and sponsors of the 2016 Arctic Winter Games (AWG) and then analyze the data to examine different identities that are on display at the games: "panarctic," "contranational/regional," Indigenous, and "autocommunicating" national identity.
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We Are the Future: A Native Youth Narrative

Alternate Title
[Indigenous Futures Project]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Center for Native American Youth
Disaggregated data from the 2020 Indigenous Futures Survey regarding identity, health and wellbeing, culture and community, and visibility, justice and dismantling racism.
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