Comments on the Anti-dote Multiracial Girls' and Womens'
Network that helps girls understand the impact of racism on their identity and offers coping strategies.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 87, no. 1, March 2006, pp. 29-52
Description
Studies history of legislation by which individuals could renounce Indian "status" and gain Canadian citizenship through the Department of Indian Affairs.
Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 78, no. 2, January 2006, pp. 114-127
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Paper assesses the participatory process of three different case studies and comes to three common conclusions, one being that community empowerment is vital.
Hastings Race & Poverty Law Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, 2006-2007, pp. 45-129
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Brief overview of government policies aimed at eradicating Native Americans, discussion of how schools fit into achieving these goals, and possibilities for achieving redress through litigation.
Race and Class, vol. 52, no. 1, July-September 2010, pp. 9-18
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Presents an interview with Bonita Lawrence who discusses issues facing Aboriginal people such as: the definition of 'indianness', cultural identity, and colonialism.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010
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Discussion on stories shared by Jeff Baker and his father, Lee Baker on physical and cultural disconnection, and the benefits of listening to and learning from each another.
Visual Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, April 2006, pp. [4]-22
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Discusses such issues as the neutrality of the archive given its mandate "to promote a sense of national unity", its representations of Aboriginal people, and current movement to repatriate images.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 20-48
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Argues that Maria Campbell's use of Michif was necessary to convey the true essence of the narratives.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 20.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010, pp. 122-136,155
Description
Looks at two forms of learning, a traditional community-based spiritual journey, and the academic pursuit of the knowledge related to Indigenous research.
Comments on the flooding at Red Earth, Saskatchewan and how the media said people were evacuated to Prince Albert and Saskatoon, but many stayed with relatives at the Opaskwayak First Nation at The Pas, or Shoal Lake, Cumberland House and James Smith First Nations.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, 2006, pp. 131-181
Description
Book reviews of:
Another Attempt at Rescue by M. L. Smoker.
Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment by Renée Ann Cramer.
Chief Joseph, Yellow Wolf, and the Creation of Nez Perce History in the Pacific Northwest by Robert R. McCoy.
Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain’s North American Frontiers edited by Jesus F. de la Teja and Ross Frank.
Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous People of Their Land by Lindsay G.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 1-33
Description
Contends that the autobiographical work demonstrates a self-determined identity that defies nineteenth century national, social, racial and intellectual categories and successfully integrates his Ojibwe, American and British cultures.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
Ethnohistory, vol. 57, no. 4, Fall, 2010, pp. 597-624
Description
Looks at how trading, cohabitation, and war-making created culturally constructed inter-community identities between Chipewyan natives and their Inuit neighbors in the eighteenth century.
Canadian Theatre Review, no. 128, Fall, 2006, pp. 112-115
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Critiques various articles within the issue as they pertain to regional identity and discusses Aboriginal Canadian drama in theatre as a mode of engagement.