Kuokkanen, Rauna

Discusses the three most significant aspects of the SGA: the right to mineral resources, the recognition of Greenlanders as people in international law, and the prospect of independence.

Asserts that colonial education has produced similar results in different parts of the world; includes history of establishing the residential schools in British Columbia.

Discusses the poem A Dead Nation by DeWitt Clinton Duncan, the short story A War Maiden by Charles A. Eastman and My Mother a short story by E. Pauline Johnson.

Looks at current concerns and issues of contemporary Sámi literature regarding active role in the cultural connections of the future.

Comments on the need for a closer look at some Indigenous economic successes including a gendered analysis.

Report from a seminar in Kárášjohka, Norway, November 23-24, 2006. Looks at the process of establishing ethics standards for Sámi research.

Compares three environmental assessment (EA) cases: Voisey's Bay Mine and Mill in Nunatsiavut; Meadowbank Mine in Nunavut; and the Mackenzie Gas Project in the Northwest Territories. Discusses gendered nature of the resource decision-making processes and argues that EA process privileges resource extraction, re-inscribes gender hierarchies, and undermines Indigenous mixed economies.

Examines the depoliticization of violence against women in indigenous communities in Canada and in Scandinavia.

Looks at the ways in which Indigenous women and men are differently situated in relation to processes of self-determination.

Discusses violence against Indigenous women resulting from global economic restructuring based on two cases: missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada, and the death of Private Piestewa, a Hopi woman.

Looks at three geographical areas and several groups including Sami, Tsimshian, and Niisitapi and where initial colonial violence has given way to other forms of violence. Chapter from The Psychological Impact of War Trauma on Civilians edited by Stanley Krippner and Teresa M. McIntyre.

Discusses definitions and contemporary significance of subsistence and indigenous economies; explores the relationship between subsistence and wage labor, particularly from the perspective of women; looks at the roles of indigenous women in subsistence activities; and examines the indigenous economic systems and the concept of the social economy as a foundation for contemporary indigenous governance.

Discusses historical and contemporary developments in the fields of education and language and examines the current endeavors toward Indigenous autonomy among the Sámi and First Nations people.

Article examines gender issues in Sami reindeer herding and government's failure to account for role of women.

Article from the Canadian Critical Race Conference held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 2-4, 2003, which was dedicated to the ending of racial oppression. Looks at how to teach and perceive worldviews that are different from one's own.

Looks at two concepts in the Sami language that relate to the Sami gift philosophy or worldview.

Looks at the challenges of publishing in the Sámi languages; the foundation of Sámi literature from oral tradition to written language; early Sámi authors; the Sámi Writers’ Association; and the emergence of Sámi publishing houses. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 42.

Discusses the use of story telling as part of the education system of the Sámi people.

Compares the current situation of Sami Studies programs and research to endeavors of other Indigenous peoples. Chapter from Indigenous Peoples: Self-Determination, Knowledge and Indigeneity edited by Henry Minde.

Keynote speech from Act 4: Beyond Subject and State? Indigenous Interests in the Age of Globalization, University of Lapland, June 2006. Part of exhibition project titled: Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts between March and November 2006.

Interviews Sámi women in Norway and Finland on their perspective of self-determination and engagement in the process.

Looks at the lack of studies that consider whether and how violence against women is related to self-determination and autonomy.