American Antiquity, vol. 55, no. 1, January 1990, pp. 49-67
Description
Analysis of longhouses using the spatially dynamic method to provide data about the development of residences including residence systems, tribal variation in settlement patterns.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 2, Spring, 1990, pp. 4-11
Description
Topics include: working conditions, facilities and resources, isolation, teaching, selling works, artistic practice, and future directions.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.
Department Of Northern Saskatchewan (photographer)
Description
Trapper, trader, prankster, guide - Stanley Mission's George McKenzie has been all of them. Now he remembers. Page one: one picture of George McKenzie. Page two: two pictures, one of George and Betsy McKenzie, one of George McKenzie. Both taken outside their cabin.
Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres (OFIFC)
Description
Discusses how migration from the insulated and regulated life on reserves to urban centres has impacted First Nations people, the importance of friendship centres' role in alleviating problems, and their need for additional resources.
Shows that the stylistic and representational contrasts in art correspond with the division of the Kwakiutl year based on notions of secular and sacred.
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, vol. 9, no. 1, Spring, 1990, pp. 127-142
Description
Study suggests a correlation between increased economic opportunities among First Nation communities and decreased rates of suicide and careless death.
Document relies extensively on interviews with workers and professionals in two northern communities, and finds the administration of justice to be cumbersome and inadequate. Recommendations are appropriate systems relative to culture, education and socio-economic reality.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, Feminism & Visual Art: Le feminisme et l art visuel, 1990, pp. 50-51
Description
Discusses past and continued racism directed at Aboriginal people in Canada, and the segregation of their art because of their race.
Excerpt from a speech given at the opening of the Diversities exhibition mounted at the Glenbow Museum.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 29, no. 3, May 1990, pp. [12-18]
Description
Results of testing Aboriginal students from Brandon University using the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI) and the Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes.
Canadian Literature, no. 124-125 , Native Writers & Canadian Writing, Spring/Summer , 1990, pp. 32-47
Description
Essays examining the conventional portrayals of Native people in literature, exposing prejudices and misconceptions entrenched since colonial days regarding Native societies, including their moral, spiritual, and political values.
Entire journal in one pdf. Scroll down to page 32 to read article.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 8, no. 12, December 1978, p. 27
Description
Gordon Tootoosis, from the Poundmaker Cree Nation, cast in mid 1970's Canadian comedy "Pump It Up", a story about an incident in a small Saskatchewan town prior to the Regina Riot on July 1, 1935.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 2, Breaking Out of the Tourist Trap Part 2, Summer, 1990
Description
Looks at the potential of a culturally and ecologically sensitive tourism experience at Gwaii Haanas, if an agreement can be made between the government of Canada and the Haida Nation.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 4, Special Issue: Inuit Art World, Fall/Winter, 1990/1991, pp. 90-93
Description
Interview with the former curator of Iqaluit's Nunatta Sunaqutangit Museum.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.
Two From the Island: Recent Work Relating to the Mi'kmaq of Prince Edward Island
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
John Crossley
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, 1990, pp. 143-150
Description
Review of the article: "Theophilus Stewart and the Plight of the Micmac" by Alan Andrew MacEachern in The Island Magazine, 28:3-11 (Fall/Winter 1990) and the book Micmac by Choice: Elsie Sark, and Island Legend by M. Olga McKenna.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, Breaking Out of the Tourist Trap Part 1, Spring, 1990
Description
Brief news updates including opposition to an expansion of low-level military flights over Newfoundland and Labrador, lobbying to prevent the issuance of logging permits by the Algonquin of Barriere Lake, a spill of radioactive contaminated water in Saskatchewan, and opposition to pulp and paper mills in Alberta.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 2, Breaking Out of the Tourist Trap Part 2, Summer, 1990
Description
Brief updates on the proposed expansion of the Goose Bay air base, reprieve in the issuance of forest license agreements for the Algonquin of Barriere Lake, mercury contamination at James Bay and more.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3, Cambodia, Fall, 1990
Description
Looks at the placement of a military training facility that would impact the Innu people of Labrador, logging in Barriere, Quebec, the James Bay dispute, and the demands of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai of northern Ontario being met.
Film questions the validity of continued mining practices which are associated with environmental concerns and health hazards for Canada's Native populations. Accompanying material: Uranium: A Discussion Guide.
Duration: 47:59.
Ethnohistory, vol. 25, no. 4, Fall, 1978, pp. 301-317
Description
Studies observance of the Pleiades stars and how these understandings related to the frost free season, which was important knowledge for the growing of maize.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 4, Special Issue: Inuit Art World, Fall/Winter, 1990/1991, pp. 44-51
Description
Summary of findings of dealer survey conducted in Canada and United States.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.
A set of 44 photos of a caribou project at Wollaston Lake that involved students in preparing and cooking caribou meat, making dry meat, drying the hides, and taking part in follow-up activities in the classroom.