Museum Anthropology, vol. 16, no. 1, February 1992, pp. 29-43
Description
Assesses two major museum exhibits as individual projects and as illustrations of broader issues concerning the representation of Native Americans: Objects of Myth and Memory: American Indian Art at the Brooklyn Museum and Chiefly Feast: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch at the American Museum of Natural History.0892-8339
Saskatchewan History, vol. 44, no. 3, Autumn, 1992, pp. 81-85
Description
Discusses the purpose and process of developing the Wanuskewin Heritage site; describes the different spaces on the site, and the different stakeholders involved with the park’s development.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 39-52
Description
Author asserts that previous studies on Indigenous people’s engagement in the American Revolution focus on the role played by tribes and their members rather that the effects of the war on Indigenous communities. Article reconsiders the Revolutionary war from the perspective of the Shawnee people.
The Drama Review, vol. 36, no. 1, 1992, pp. 135-159
Description
Discusses the history of Native Theatre in Canada, the founding of Native Earth Performing Arts Inc., and various productions including The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway.
Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 34, no. 3-4, July-October 1992, pp. [417]-434
Description
Compares methods of dealing with crime on-reserve (communities with a majority Aboriginal population) which may not involve formal processes and off-reserve (communities with a minority Aboriginal population) which are dealt with through the criminal justice system.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 1, 1992, pp. 1-22
Description
Comments on the way tribal status was determined and depicts the historical background of the tribe which inhabited the eastern section of Long Island.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 1, Series 2 , Spring, 1992, pp. 28-48
Description
Explores how Erdrich transforms her Chippewa oral traditions to create a female character who is able to transform between human and animal in her novel Tracks.
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Looking to the Future: Papers from the Seventh Inuit Studies Conference, 19-23 August, 1990
Regard sur l'avenir: Communications du Septième Congrès D'études Inuit, 19-23 Août, 1990
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Author/Creator
Jørgen Thorslund
Description
Paper from Looking to the Future: Papers from the Seventh Inuit Studies Conference, 19-23 August, 1990 edited by Marie-Josée Dufour and François Thérien.
American Literature, vol. 64, no. 1, March 1992, pp. 49-70
Description
Reviews Native American elements in The Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison identifying perspectives that Seaver (the editor) and Jemison disagreed on.
Book review of: Wolverine Myths and Visions: Dene Traditions from Northern Alberta compiled by the Dene Wodih Society, edited by Patrick Moore and Angela Wheelock.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1992, pp. 49-64
Description
Examines the character of Pauline in Tracks and how the reader discovers how she becomes Sister Leopolda of Love Medicine.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 3, Summer, 1992, pp. 381-395
Description
Author summarizes, reviews, and compares several children’s literature books with Indigenous content, highlighting the elements of each book that contribute to a faithful or an inaccurate portrayal of the Indigenous peoples and cultures.
Comments on the interpretation of aboriginal history at fur-trade sites, and the challenge to move beyond the idealized and simplified interpretations of the past.
American Indian Law Review, vol. 17, no. 2, 1992, pp. 589-637
Description
Discusses how declarations as a sovereign nation and using established rules of customary international law, will with help the tribe in the return of its cultural property