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Aboriginal Life and Death in Australian Settler Nationhood

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah Bird Rose
Aboriginal History , vol. 25, Special Section: Genocide?: Australian Aboriginal History in International Perspective, 2001, pp. [148]-162
Paper explores three themes: disappearance, subjugated bodies, and banality.
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Abraham's Diary - A European Ethnic Show from an Inuk Participant's Viewpoint

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hilke Thode-Arora
Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, vol. 2, no. 2, Fall/Winter, 2002, pp. 2-17
Description of the Hagenbeck Inuit show of 1880-81 in Germany. Originally published as "Das Eskimo - Tagebuch von 1880. Eine Völkerschau aus der Sicht eines Teilnehmers" in Kea: Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 2 (1991): 87-115.
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Broader Lessons to be Learned

Alternate Title
Assessing the Indian Residential Schools Litigation and Settlement Processes, Session 6
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
John Borrows
David Dyzenhaus
Michael Marrus
Courtney Jung
Session Six from public conference Assessing the Indian Residential Schools Litigation and Settlement Processes held Friday, January 18, 2013 at the University of Toronto. Implications of implementing transitional justice framework into a non-traditional setting. Duration: 1:11:02.
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Coming to Terms With Genocidal Pasts in Comparative Perspective: Germany and Australia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
A. Dirk Moses
Aboriginal History, vol. 25, Special Section: Genocide?: Australian Aboriginal History in International Perspective, 2001, pp. [91]-115
Argues that past genocidal experiences in Australia have similarities as well as differences with Germany and explores what can be learned from this comparison.
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Discourses of Genocide in Germany and Australia: A Linked History

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tony Barta
Aboriginal History , vol. 25, Special Section: Genocide?: Australian Aboriginal History in International Perspective, 2001, pp. [37]-56
Comments on the treatment of Australian Aborigines, the stolen children and the Bringing Them Home report.
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Do Germans Really Love Indians?

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Peter Bolz
Ann Davis
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 3, Summer, 2003, pp. 193-197
Book review of: Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Encounters, Projections edited by Colin G. Galloway, Gerd Gemünden and Susanne Zantop.
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Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson, Lebensraum, and Manifest Destiny

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce E. Johansen
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 115-122
Uses the ideology of manifest destiny to connect the policies and political practices of Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson, and Adolf Hitler; focuses on the removal of one people or race to make living space for another.
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Early Childhood Education and Care: Next Steps

Alternate Title
Parliament of Canada ; 2nd Session, 40th Parliamanet
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Art Eggleton
Wilbert Joseph Keon
Overview of early learning policies and programs in provinces and territories as well as from other countries.
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Expressions of Policy Effects: Hearing Memories of Indian Residential Schools

Alternate Title
Productive Remembering and Social Agency
Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Lyn Daniels

Compares the treatment of Jewish people in the fictional story of Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald with children's experiences in residential schools in Canada, and Indian boarding schools in the United States.

Chapter from Productive Remembering and Social Agency edited by Teresa Strong-Wilson, Claudia Mitchell, Susann Allnutt, and Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan.

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Fifteen Truth Commissions: 1974 to 1994: A Comparative Study

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 4, November 1994, pp. 597-655
Discusses issues highlighted by commissions worldwide, as well as the different models employed. Examples discussed are countries that had undergone radical political changes and were in the process of transitioning from one regime to another.
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From the Editor: Scholarship Intersects Pedagogy

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chadwick Allen
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 2, Summer, 2016, pp. vii-ix
Brief overview of articles in the issue which deal with teaching Native American and Indigenous literatures.
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The Governance and Fiscal Environment of First Nations’ Fiscal Intergovernmental Relations in Comparative Perspectives

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly
Examines the Canadian Aboriginal fiscal inter-governmental system by comparing it to other countries. Also focuses on the key characteristics of the Canadian system including the constitutional, legal and fiscal; revenues, functions and responsibilities; reporting arrangements; funding agreements; financial reporting; and Aboriginal and federal fiscal intergovernmental relations.
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“The Indian Who Bombed Berlin”: German Encounters in Ralph Salisbury’s Work – Modulating Modern Precariousness

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cathy Covell Waegner
Transmotion, vol. 6, no. 1, June 21, 2020, pp. 97-130
Literary criticism article which focuses on various ways that Salisbury’s work deals thematically with Germans and Germany. Compares and contrasts this engagement with Gerald Vizenor's in Blue Ravens: Historical Novel (2014) and Drew Hayden Taylor's in The Berlin Blues, a 2007 play.
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Indianthusiasm: Indigenous Responses

Alternate Title
Indigenous Studies Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Renae Watchman
Florentine Strzelczyk
Hartmut Lutz
Ahmoo Angeconeb
Jeannette C. Armstrong
John Blackbird
Warren Cariou
Jo-Ann Episkenew
Audrey Huntley
Thomas King
David T. McNab
Quentin Pipestem
Waubgeshig Rice
Drew Hayden Taylor
Emma Lee Warrior
Indigenous Studies Series
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Karl May's Western Novels and Aspects of Their Continuing Influence

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carol Herselle Krinsky
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, 1999, pp. 53-72
How the authors German language novels planted a seed of interest in North American Indigenous culture, an interest which flourished for over a century.
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The Native American Image in Western Europe

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James H. Howard
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 1, 1978, pp. 33-56
A discussion about an American anthropologist's European visit to identify how Europeans view American Indigenous populations. During his investigation he looks at European depictions of Indigenous people in museums and libraries, Indigenous influences in European culture, and compares smaller European societies also struggling for their own cultural autonomy to those of American Indigenous people.
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Objets ethnographiques associés aux Inuit du Labrador exhibés en Europe en 1880

Alternate Title
Ethnographic Objects Associated with the Labrador Inuit Who Were Exhibited in Europe in 1880
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
France Rivet
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 42, no. 1, Arctic Collections and Museology: Presentations, Disseminations, and Interpretations, 2018, pp. 137-159
Article discusses the collections of Inuit artifacts and remains being held in European museums including the nature and provenance of the items.
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"Playing Indian" Revisited: American Indians in the Transatlantic Cultural Landscape

Alternate Title
From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie
[Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
[György Ferenc Tóth]
Focuses on the influence of German author Karl May's Winnetou cycle of novels and Central European hobbyists' obsession with impersonating Plains Indians. Chapter from From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie by György Ferenc Tóth.
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Tragedy in the Zoo

Articles » General
Author/Creator
France Rivet
Canada's History, vol. 96, no. 1, February/March 2016, pp. 36-42
Recalls the efforts of Johan Adrian Jacobsen, who transported eight Inuit from Labrador to Europe for display at zoos and exhibitions during which they all died from smallpox.
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Trapped in a Human Zoo: Based on Abraham's Diary

Alternate Title
The Nature of Things with David Suzuki
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Guilhem Rondot
Roch Brunette
Liam O'Rinn
France Rivet
Documentary about Abraham Ulrikab and seven other Inuit who were transported from Labrador to Europe to act as living ethnological exhibits. Failure to inoculate them for smallpox resulted in their deaths and remains of the five who died in Paris were housed in French National Museum of Natural History. Duration: 44:15.
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TRC in Penny-Pinching Mode in Final Years of Mandate

Alternate Title
Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Penny-Pinching Mode in Final Years of Mandate
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shari Narine
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 3, June 2012, p. 11

Comments on the downsizing of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the impact it will have on residential school survivors.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.11.

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Verwoben in “Indianthusiasm”: A Uniquely German Entanglement

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Nicole Perry
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 2, 2018, pp. 227-245
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.
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