1994 in Review: Dismantling of Indian Affairs, Implementation of Self-Government in Manitoba, Top Stories for 1994

Articles » General
Windspeaker, vol. 12, no. 21, January 1995, p. 2
Description

Assembly of First Nations' elections, postponement of the Great Whale hydroelectric project, and dismantling of the Department of Indian Affairs in Manitoba are but a few of the top stories for 1994 that are discussed here.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.2.

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Aboriginal People and Imperialism in the Western Hemisphere

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rozanne Dunbar Ortiz
Monthly Review, vol. 44, no. 4, September 1992, pp. 1-[?]
Description
Describes how the effects of colonization reduced indigenous populations by as much as ninety per cent in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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[Aboriginal Rights and Self-Government]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sarah Pocklington
Native Studies Review, vol. 14, no. 1, 2001, pp. 127-130
Description
Book review of: Aboriginal Rights and Self-Government edited by Curtis Cook and Juan D. Lindau.
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Aboriginal Women of Québec and Canada: Path Toward Equality

Alternate Title
Cahier DIALOG ; no. 2007-04. Proceedings
Cahiers DIALOG
E-Books
Author/Creator
Marie France Labrecque
Carole Lévesque
Jeannette Corbière Lavell
Evelyn O'Bomsawin
Diana Soroka
Cheryl Knockwood ...
Merilda St.-Onge
Christine Sioui Wanwanoloath ...
Michèle Taïna Audette
Karente Horn-Miller ...
Linda Jean ...
Marceline Picard-Kanapé
Manon Tremblay
Janet Mark
Chantelle Richard
Kahá:wi Jacobs
Roberta Stout
Sheila Swasson
Evelyne St. Onge
Noat Einish
Dolorès André ... [et al.]
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Addressing Double Layers of Discrimination as Barriers to Health Care: Indigenous Peoples with Disabilities

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Minerva Concepcion Rivas Velarde
ab-Original, vol. 1, no. 2, 2017, pp. 269-278
Description
Article reports on the findings of three case studies conducted in Australia, Mexico, and New Zealand; shows that health systems in these countries have not addressed barriers to health care arising from multiple factors (or aggravated forms) of discrimination, such as the intersection between disability and indigeneity. Makes recommendations for improvement.
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Admixture in Mexico City: Implications For Admixture Mapping of Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Risk Factors

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Veronica L. Martinez-Marignac
Adan Valladares
Emily Cameron
Andrea Chan
Arjuna Perera
et al.
Human Genetics, vol. 120, no. 6, 2007, pp. 807-819
Description
Discusses admixture mapping, a method which is used to identify genetic risk factors in complex diseases such as Type 2 diabetes between major continental groups.
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Aesthetics of Indigenous Affinity: Traveling from Chiapas to Palestine in the Murals of Gustavo Chávez Pavón

Alternate Title
Aesthetics of Indigenous Affinity: Traveling from Chiapas to Palestine in the Murals of Gustavo Chavez Pavon
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Amal Eqeiq
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 152-165
Description
Essay in which the author summarizes a series of interviews they conducted with Zapatista cultural promoter and artist Gustavo Chávez Pavón; considers how the murals speak to Indigenous solidarity between Mexico and Palestine, and to similarities across the Global South.
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After Chiapas: Aboriginal Land and Resistance in the New North America

Alternate Title
After Chiapas Aboriginal Land and Resistance in the New North America
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah Simmons
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, 1999, pp. 119-148
Description
Analysis the relationship between economic restructuring and Aboriginal land rights in light of the 1994 conflict in Chiapas, Mexico and suggests that fundamental differences can provide directions for finding solutions.
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Alva Ixtlilxochitl, Civilization, and the Quest for Coevalness

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas Ward
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring, 2011, pp. [96]-125
Description
Focuses on the seventeenth-century historian's arguments that the civilization of the Nahua peoples of Mexico was comparable to those of the West. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to page p. 96.
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American Indian Histories and Cultures

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Adam Matthew Digital
Description
Contains links to extensive list of full-text documents pertaining to Canada, United States and Mexico, maps, visual galleries, online exhibitions, brief biographies, and features cross-searching capability with the American West website. Material is drawn from the Newberry Library's Edward E. Ayer Collection.
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Autonomy in Chiapas Mexico

Articles » General
Author/Creator
IWIGA
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2, Militarization, 2001, pp. 60-65
Description
Delivers a background on the Zapatista uprising in Mexico and the political initiatives introduced to solve the situation. To access this article scroll down to page 60.
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Basketry of the San Carlos Apache

Alternate Title
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; v. 31, pt. 2
E-Books
Author/Creator
Helen H. Roberts
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
Description
Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 31 (p.121-218).
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Between Cut and Consent: Indigenous Women’s Experiences of Obstetric Violence in Mexico

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mounia El Kotni
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 42, no. 4, 2018, pp. 21-41
Description
Discusses the medicalization of women’s in health in Mexico; articulates considerations of separation from traditional healthcare providers and practices, invasive Western practices surround pregnancy and birth, and discrimination against Indigenous and/or Afro-descendant women. Analyzes the way that poor women use the phrase “being cut” to describe “multiple experiences of frustration, mistreatment, and violence during childbirth.”
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Mark Rifkin
American Literature, vol. 85, no. 2, June 2013, pp. 399-401
Description
Book reviews of: Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature by Birgit Brander Rasmussen. Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause by Melanie Benson Taylor. English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830 by Hilary E. Wyss.
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