Background Paper (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) ; BP-359E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Peter Niemczak
Célia Justras
Description
Briefly looks at experiences in Maine, New Zealand, Australia, and the Sami parliaments, with more in-depth look at the Canadian context.
2008 version.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1, Winter, 2008, pp. 16-42
Description
Author explores the meanings that are made by the La Paz Run, an annual commemoration of the hundreds of Hualapais who, in 1875, broke out of an internment camp in Southern Arizona and followed the Colorado River for almost 200 miles back to their reservation at the edge of the Grand Canyon.
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 29, no. 2 & 3, 2008, pp. 81-105
Description
Discussion on how the United States government used the intermarriage between Indians and non-Indians to undermine Indian control of their own lands and legal identity.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 3, Fall, 2008, pp. 105-108
Description
Book review of: Bernie Whitebear: An Urban Indian's Quest for Justice by Lawney L. Reyes.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 105.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 24-55
Description
Looks at the 1994 Mohegan case for tribal recognition and the link to Samson Occom's scholarly works.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 24.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter, 2008, pp. 1-15
Description
Explores different ways that Indigenous relationships to land and place have been disrupted by settler-colonialism; offers suggestions for disrupting and unsettling neocolonial and neoliberal frameworks surrounding land and place.
Discussion on the disparities in public education, policies intended to improve and enhance equity, and recommendations for accountability & policy reform.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, Summer, 2008, pp. 297-323
Description
The author examines the political context of the “savagery vs civilization” binary in the culture of the United States and the ways that the resulting narrative allowed denial of Indigenous land ownership and enforced the religious and imperial narratives that have become an implicit part of the national discourse.
Study compares major areas of social and economic well-being, including life expectancy, educational attainment and median income in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
Research Paper (National Centre for First Nations Governance)
Research Paper for the National Centre for First Nations Governance
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Robert B. Anderson
Bettina Schneider
Bob Kayseas
Description
Examines Roque Roldán Ortiga’s six criteria for judging the quality of a particular land and resources rights regime with regards to Indigenous governments; and looks at how those criteria can be used to measure the degree to which Aboriginal peoples in Canada have been successful with their struggle to have of their land, resource and other rights recognized.
Describes why indigenous self-determination, now accepted at both the national and international level,
are hard rights to exercise due to the fact that they are not expressed in any specific institutional arrangement.
*Research paper from Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy.
Examines environmental journalism strategies of demonizing, orientalizing, essentializing and exaggerating Indigenous peoples as an argumentative strategy to influence readers in the struggle against policies and proposed rule changes that supports Indigenous cultural practices.
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CLPE Research Paper Series, vol. 04, no. 05, 2008, pp. ii, 1-37
Description
Examines the sources, content and proof of land rights of Indigenous peoples in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand from the common law perspective. Allow time for the link to download the article.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2, Spring, 2008, pp. 204-218
Description
Author examines the financial successes the Pequot nation has achieved through the Foxwood Casino and other ventures; considers the strategies used by the nation and how those strategies have allowed for success.
Outlines a scientific history of uranium, and looks at the traditional Navajo’s belief system regarding uranium and milling as a disruption in the balance of earth and sky.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 1-23
Description
Discusses the Pequot activist and writer's attempts to subvert the myth of the "Vanishing American", and his unique position as an Indian intellectual in the early 1800s.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring, 2008, pp. 7-24
Description
Examines civil rights and sovereignty issues. The article argues that interests of anti-racists, local and state governments jealous of tax bases, corporate America and the federal government are converging in a way that even the Supreme Court will not be able to contain.