"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
Essays on Canadian Writing, no. 75, Winter, 2002, pp. 1-29
Description
Explores the how concept of race has evolved in Canada from the early settlement days, to multiculturalism, to the "return of race" in the areas of culture and public policies.
American Studies, vol. 43, no. 1, Spring, 2002, pp. 75-99
Description
Looks at the promotion of home-building programs on reservations, from the white imagination to the realities of tribal life, by examining instances of attempted domestic reform.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 2, Spring, 2002, pp. 308-319
Description
Author articulates the problematic roots of anthropology as salvage ethnography. Discusses the discipline's contemporary relationships with Indigenous peoples in the context of a tribal college library.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 14, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 2002, pp. [1]-25
Description
Contends that the writer uses Western sources from Shakespeare through to Edward Lear, Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot and blends them with Native American literary traditions to create a truly mixedblood novel.
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Arctic Anthropology, vol. 39, no. 1-2, 2002, pp. 10-27
Description
Discusses two ideas that influenced Subarctic prehistory; that the Subarctic was not a center for social change and that the environment was excessively austere.