Appropriation

Literary criticism article in which the author explores the different ways that knowledge is made, transferred, and protected in Indigenous literatures. Stresses the relational understandings of oral traditions and the resistance to colonial commodification by Indigenous writers.

File contains a presentation by Ray Katt and Bob Narcisse expressing concern for the high rate of Aboriginal students dropping out of high school in northern Ontario. The presenters state that non-Aboriginal teachers should have cultural sensitivity training and that more Aboriginals in the education field are needed. Katt states that because of numerous staff who are Aboriginal, his high school has the best rate of graduation for Aboriginal students in northern Ontario. Following the presentation is a question-and-answer session with the Commissioners.

Commentary states that there is a growing tendency to distort and misrepresent Native American spiritualism in academic and commercial circles.

Explores the problem of neoliberalism and nativist desire, and examines the possible answers to globalized neoliberalism and its reliance on multicultural difference.

Examines the controversial dismissal of Ward Churchill, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Highlights the importance of considering cultural, political, and epistemological context by looking at the data in an interdisciplinary study of the role of fire in affecting the resilience of Alaska Native communities and the relationship between wildfire and human activity in the boreal forest of Alaska and the Yukon Territory.

Analyzes of the vision quest of Native Americans by using resources of the Lakota. The most famous resource is the book Black Elk Speaks, which is deemed controversial because of the sacred knowledge it imparts to the reader.

Author examines the appropriation of Indigenous cultures in the United States, and the phenomenon of settler self-indigenization. Response: "The Southeast Syndrome: The Prior Restraint of a Non-Event"

Review of written works on illness and healing by Native American tribes in the Southern California region.

Book review of: Spirit Wars: Native North American Religion in the Age of Nation Building by Ronald Niezen.

Asserts that withholding knowledge is an act of resistance and argues that to fully understand Native American people is how a dominant society gains a sense of mastery and control.

Author examines some of the reasons why Indigenous peoples might choose not to share their spiritual practices with people outside of their communities. Examines factors of power relations, hermeneutics, ontologies, and commodification.

Discusses the impact and challenges for Indigenous culture by global capitalism and media advertising.

Argues that globalization has resulted in inclusion of Indigenous knowledge.

Law Thesis (LL.D.)--University of Ottawa, 2010.

Arts and Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2003.

Canadian Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1995.

Looks at why some products are labelled as "cultural appropriation" and why this invokes strong pushback.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii, 2003.

Totem pole removed and sold, with the permission of the Government of Canada, to the ethnographical collection of the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh.

American Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wyoming, 1994.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--Dalhousie University, 2000.

Natural Resources Management Thesis (M.N.R.M.)--University of Manitoba, 2001.

Author discusses how oral tradition is not adequately protected by patent and copyright laws which allows industry to harvest traditional knowledge for profit; uses a case study of pharmaceutical companies to illustrate how this happens.

Study explores Inuit women's perspectives on their health and well-being to support local efforts to identify priorities.

History Thesis (Ph. D.)--Queen's University,1997.

Analysis of the inititiatives by the Tutelo of the Six Nations Reserve at Grand River, Ontario to protect their identity and culture amid the Great League of the Iroquois Nations in 1934-35.

Author was founder of the Woodcraft Indians, a youth movement which appropriated Aboriginal culture.

Looks at the play, SongCatcher: A Native Interpretaion of the Story of Frances Densmore to critique Densmore's attempt to be the nonindigenous voice of Indigenous culture.

Author reflects on the role of non-Indigenous peoples in decolonizing research methods and cultural participation using the core themes of identity and belonging, accountability and consent, and responsibility and appropriation.

Article examines the writings of Richard Erdoes and interrogates them for issues of authenticity, appropriation, and misrepresentation.

Article examines the German fascination with North American Indigenous peoples and contemporary Indigenous responses; considers the works of Drew Hayden Taylor and Kent Monkman as practices of survivance and resistance to the “Indianer,” a romanticized German imagining of Indigenous people.

Paper presents suggestions of coordinated action in seven areas to address the perceived shortcomings of libraries.

Arts Thesis (M.A.)--University of Auckland, 2014.

Article investigates the relationship between indigenous knowledge and heritage documentation efforts by academics working to strengthen indigenous cultural identity and tradition.

Looks at the way Native Americans are portrayed, represented and thought about. Duration: 26:00.

Argues that New Zealand’s current legal paradigm is inadequate to protect Māori cultural expressions.

Discusses the differences in the Australian fine art auction market between pricing method and repeat sales method .

Book review of: Who Owns Native Culture? by Michael F. Brown.

Discussion of patenting, copyrighting and trademarking Indigenous knowledge by pharmaceuticals is not by direct appropriation, rather it is by indirect transfer of information by academics, and placing the information in the public domain.

Discusses how Emily Carr confronts Aboriginal cultural change and challenges the authority of Native traditions in her work.

Author summarizes, reviews, and compares several children’s literature books with Indigenous content, highlighting the elements of each book that contribute to a faithful or an inaccurate portrayal of the Indigenous peoples and cultures.

Discusses the authentic representations of Indigenous peoples and cultures in the film The Revenant and contrasts them to common cinematic stereotypes.