Brief profiles of the following politicians: Joan Beatty, Buckley Belanger, Carole James, Bonnie Leonard, Len Marchand, Bob Nault, Charles Fox, and Steve Kakfi.
Alternatives Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, Winter, 2003, pp. 58-61
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Book review of: Take My Land, Take My Life: The Story of Congress's Historic Settlement of the Alaska Native Land Claims, 1960-1971 by Donald Craig Mitchell.
Change, vol. 23, no. 2, March/April 1991, pp. 11-18
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Explores Indian higher education beginning with early colonial efforts to the federal control focused on assimilation efforts and finally the move to self controlled Tribal colleges.
International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, vol. 206, no. 4-5, 2003, pp. 351-362
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States that scientific findings from research have influenced government policy, including those issues that involve Arctic Indigenous health and the disparities that exist in this region.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3/4, Urban American Indian Womens Activism, June 1, 2003, pp. 548-565
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Discussion of the Anishinabequek organization that provided services for women and children in an atmosphere that emphasized cultural retention and Indigenous pride.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 7, no. 2, Autumn, 1991, pp. 58-77
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Delves into the protest by Elijah Harper to block the progress of the Meech Lake accord in the Manitoba legislature and the protest by the Mohawk Warrior Society at Oka, Quebec to stop development of a golf course.
Agricultural History, vol. 77, no. 2, Spring, 2003, pp. 333-354
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Outlines Aboriginal peoples' struggle in the Maritimes for equal rights and their reliance on the land for economic, social, political and cultural survival.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 3, American Indian Family History, Summer, 1991, pp. 339-358
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Author challenges the assumption that population growth among Indigenous people during the early reservation period was an indicator of the success of the reservation health care system. Argues that maternal/infant health is a better indicator and considers the Northern Cheyenne people as an ethnohistorical example.
Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP) has concerns about alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and lack of consultation before agreement reached on residential school issue.
National Forum, vol. 71, no. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. [31-33?]
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Looks at the Seneca Nation Settlement Act of 1990 that compensated for the failure of the United States federal government to carry out trust responsibilities and to protect interests.
Federal Court of Appeal upheld decision concerning lower pension benefits for First Nation people on-reserve, who had not contributed to the Canada Pension Plan until 1988.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. 225-230
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Article considers and compares the two different perspectives on the Hopi-Navajo Land Dispute that are contained in Children of Sacred Ground by Catherine Feher-Elston and Cry, Sacred Ground by Anita Parlowe.
Child Welfare, vol. 82, no. 2, March/April 2003, pp. 201-207
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Describes collaboration among a university, a state child welfare agency, and a Native American community organization to develop a culturally driven practice model for urban, Native American child welfare.
Diamonds are for Dogribs; Canada's First Nations.(A Canadian first nation wins a land claim)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
The Economist (US), vol. 368, no. 8339, August 30, 2003, p. 26
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On August 25, 2003 Prime Minister Chretien signed the Tlicho Treaty, the second recent Treaty agreement in Canada; it provides for self-government and mineral wealth to the Tlicho First Nation of Rae Edzo and traditional land adjacent to two diamond mines.
Suggests that Phil Fontaine's election as leader of the Assembly of First Nations signals a conciliatory approach to relations with the federal government.
Argues that we have to change our concepts of property, contract, sovereignty and constitutional right to allow for growth of First Nations' self government.