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American Indian Studies
General Resource Page
Native America Calling (NAPT)
NAPT: Native American Public Communication(Native America Calling) General Research List (Big List for Browsing)
Media In Indian Country
Indigenous Women
American Indian Women: A Research Guide Native American Women on the WWW Ingrid Washinawatok- "Since the time that human beings offered thanks for the first sunrise, sovereignty has been an integral part of indigenous peoples' daily existence. With the original instructions from the Creator, we realize our responsibilities. Those are the laws that lay the foundation of our society. These responsibilities manifest through our ceremonies... Sovereignty is that wafting thread securing the component of a society. Sovereignty runs through the vertical strands and secures the entire pattern. That is the fabric of Native society." - Ingrid Washinawatok, 1999 Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Photographer Native American Women Photographers As Storytellers Sandra Osawa, Filmmaker. "Listen To Your Heart" Vi Hilbert, Linguist and beloved elder Wilma Mankiller, twice elected Principle Chief of the Cherokee Nation
h-amindian: Gender Roles and Relations Turtle Island Native American News-Women Minnesota Women's Press-Lisa Bellanger National Indian Women's Health Resource Center Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble Ulali, Live Performance on the Millenium Stage at the Kennedy Center for Perfoming Arts, 2004 ( Must have Real Player installed and be video capable) 54 minutes, link at bottom of description. Indigenous Women's Health Issues and Indigenous Family
A Resource Guide on Family Violence Issues for Aboriginal Communities Native women are at the center of the lives of many communities. Women share the struggle of all women to stay healthy and live good lives in environments that are often not condusive to good health. The following links introduce on going health issues that pertain to women or issues that have been historically important to Native women. Indian Health Services: American Indian and Alaskan Native Women's Health Coerced Sterilization of Indian Women The Journal of Aboriginal Health Children and Youth Native Languages and Revitalization
One of the most difficult challenges that American Indian and Canadian First Nations face is the retention and revitalization of their Native languages. Native languages were under a direct assult, repressed and demeaned until very recently. Residential schooling and public schooling discouraged any Native language from being spoken in school. Shame and physical punishments discouraged at least three generations from passing on one of their most priceless gifts: language. Today, all Native nations take it as a priority for their members to learn their language. Still, the pressure for people to actually live and do business in English is intense. This often hampers the concentrated efforts of the community to "language" their memebers. Maps: General Information on Languages, Language Revitalization and communities Residential School Bibliographies and Links
The size of these bibliographies attest to the seriousness that scholars have accorded this subject in the last twenty-five years. The American bibliography and its Introduction was compiled by Tsianina Lomawaima,a respected scholar on the subject in the U.S. and Canada. The Canadian bib is extensive. It has materials written by First Nations peoples, churches and government reports, media, film,et al. I am familiar with both these bibs. Please ask if you have a question about either or obtaining any of the materials on them.
We Hold the Rock! The Bay Area American Indian Community and Alcatraz
By the mid-1960s, an estimated 40,000 Indian people from 100 tribal groups lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. Previous relocatees to the Bay Area included men who had served in World War II, men who worked on the railroad and students who had been educated at government-run boarding schools. Rather than dissolving into the urban "melting pot," Bay Area Indians tenaciously clung to their cultures, forming social and political organizations, and began to mobilize. Echoing anti-war voices and activists of free speech, civil rights and social justice, Bay Area Indians began their own protest of Native American treaty and civil rights abuses. By the late '60s, San Francisco's urban Indian community was one of the largest and best organized in the country.Excerpt from PBS text, in this extensive text and picture presentation on Alcatraz: Northwest American Indian Writers /Communities
Alexie on "The Business of Fancy Dancing," War, and filmaking Jeannette Armstrong Janet Campbell-Hale Ed Edmo, Wisdom of the Elders Program Ed Edmo, poet, writer, storyteller and educator Eden Robinson, Haisla, B.C., Canada, Interview with the author Eden Robinson, On the author and Monkey Beach Eden, Some more links and local comment Haisla Nation Haisla Nation Website , film, and panorama pictures, Click on "Pictures." Resisting Logging in the Kitlope , Haisla elders fight logging in their ecosystem Pictures of Kitimaat, People and Places, Great pictures, but best with volume turned down Velma Wallis, Women from the Gap Biography and Summary of Work ANWR: http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/ANWR/ American Indian Studies Journals
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