"A forum to follow up on the 2004 mission to Canada by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of Indigenous people, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, University of Ottawa, October 2-3, 2006."
Purpose of the report is to summarize key opinions, concerns and recommendations that were shared by participants during the UN mission to Canada.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1, Africa and the Millennium Development Goals, 2006, pp. 4-5
Description
Introduction to journal issue featuring articles on developmental aid from a cultural point of view and examples of rights-based approaches.
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Relocation of Aboriginal Communities: Case Study: The Mushuaua Innu and Davis Inlet
Walking Together: First Nations, Métis and Inuit Perspectives in Curriculum
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kanai Board of Education
Description
Teacher resource for Grade 11 Aboriginal Studies classes. Discusses the relocation of the Mushuaua Innu of Labrador which happened on three separate occasions: 1948, 1967 and 2002.
Excerpt from Peoples and Cultural Change Teacher Resource by the Kanai Board of Education.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1, Africa and the Millennium Development Goals, 2006, pp. 6-13
Description
Outlines Millennium Development Goals, the UN's role, and examines the threat to cultural survival of the African Indigenous peoples.
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Cites the impact of Harper Government decisions to not proceed on pay equity, not improve EI provisions and the possible ramifications of the "three strikes and you're out" law that could jail certain offenders indefinitely. The article argues that those particularly affected would include Aboriginal women with addictions or histories of abuse who have acted out in violence and have inadequate access to healing.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 2, 2006, pp. 141-186
Description
Book reviews of:
Beyond the Reach of Time and Change: Native American Reflections on the Frank A. Rinehart Photograph Collection edited by Simon J. Ortiz.
Bringing Indians to the Book by Albert Furtwangler.
A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children edited by Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin.
Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769–1850 by Steven W.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 3, 2006, pp. 129-178
Description
Book reviews of:
Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America edited by Brian Swann.
Building on a Borrowed Past: Place and Identity in Pipestone, Minnesota by Sally J. Southwick.
The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature edited by Joy Porter and Kenneth M.