Prairie Forum, vol. 15, no. 2, Fall, 1990, pp. 235-262
Description
Discusses Alberta's heritage conservation accomplishments and the various ways of restoring the past, including museums, heritage parks and archaeological site preservation.
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Report. External Research Program
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
William E. Rees
J. David Hulchanski
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Description
Evaluates success of program, identifies key strengths and weaknesses, recommends improvements, and suggests how positive aspects could be shared with other communities.
Identifies problems in areas of time taken for processing applications and returning decisions on their success or failure, increasing rates of denial of status, and falling rate of restorations for women who lost status as a result of marriage
American Anthropologist, vol. 90, no. 2, New Series, June 1988, pp. 272-290
Description
Using ethnobotanical data gathered from two groups in British Columbia, an index was developed to measure the cultural significance a given plant taxon. Discusses importance of such knowledge to the language.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 3, Summer, 1988, pp. 23-24
Description
Excerpts from James Houston's "Report of Purchases" from 1950. Houston, a representative of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild, had been sent north to investigate the viability of training Inuit artisans to produce works which could be sold in the south.
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Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 2, Spring, 1988, pp. 27-29
Description
Discusses the initial phase of federal government involvement in the production and marketing of Inuit art.
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Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4, Fall, 1988, p. 36, 39
Description
Discusses Jim and Alma Houston's early involvement in production and marketing of Inuit art.
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File contains 15 negatives showing people at the Prince Albert Indian and Metis Friendship Centre during its' twenty-fifth anniversary on June 16, 1988. The 15 scanned images show eleven negatives showing various people within the Friendship Centre building, and five negatives showing traditional dancers in front of the Prince Albert City Hall.
File contains 4 negatives from a celebration held to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Prince Albert Indian-Metis Friendship Centre. The celebration was held on July 7, 1988. The four scanned images include pictures of chuckwagon races.
File contains 4 negatives from a meeting of the Indian and Metis Saskatchewan Association of Local Northern Governments, presumably held in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on May 12, 1988. Two scanned images show meeting participants at the conference table.
Book review of: Indian Education in Canada. Volume 2: The Challenge. Nakoda Institute Occasional Paper No. 2 edited by Jean Barman, Yvonne Hebert, Don McCaskill
Call for a Federal policy to recognize the cultural importance of Indian languages and to expand the teaching of them beyond the current situation where only those people of Indian ancestry in Saskatchewan Provincial schools are funded for instruction.
Prairie Forum, vol. 13, no. 1, Spring, 1988, pp. 25-42
Description
Examines the aftermath of the North-West Rebellion and the consequences of a pass system established by Indian Affairs intended to control Native Peoples movements.
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 22, no. 3, Special Issue: First Nations: The Politics of Change and Survival, 1990, pp. 19-39
Description
Analyzes three types of political action First Nations' people have undertaken: acts of civil disobedience, general policy protests and international protests.
Alternate Routes, vol. 8, Nation, Race, Gender and the International Division of Labour, 1988, pp. 144-152
Description
Reply to Jesse Russell's criticisms of approach to culture and class in the author's article, "The Development of Capitalism and the Subjugation of Native Women in Northern Canada".
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 4, Special Issue: Inuit Art World, Fall/Winter, 1990/1991, pp. 15-23
Description
Overview of collecting, research and teaching, and exhibitions in Canada, United States, Great Britain, Soviet Union, Germany, etc.
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