Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 31, no. 1, Indigenous Knowledges and the University, 2008, pp. 232-245
Description
Examines how cultural differences, between Indigenous and Western world views, have been dealt with when teaching the Ojibwe language at the Michigan State University.
Examines the link between Indigenous librarianship and Indigenous approaches to knowledge systems in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Entry in the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, 3rd Edition, edited by Marcia J. Bates, Mary Niles Maack.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 3, 2008, pp. 5-27
Description
Discusses how members of the United League of Indigenous Nations, including Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, are looking at the issue of climate change.
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.
Communique, Special Section: Indigenous Peoples: Promoting Psychological Healing and Well-Being, August 2010, pp. xxiii-xxvii
Description
Presents the People Awakening Project as a good example of a strength-based and culturally-appropriate approach.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page xxiii.
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.
Global Environmental Politics, vol. 10, no. 4, November 2010, pp. 12-35
Description
Looks at the environmental justice struggles of Indigenous peoples and their demands for equity, recognition, participation, and other capabilities, looking at all of these in terms of a concern for the basic functioning of nature, culture, and communities.
Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 18, no. 1, January 2010, pp. 43-60
Description
Examines the evolution of the relationship between tourism and Indigenous peoples; and discusses the proposed six-stage model and sustainability implications of the model.
American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Teresa L. McCarty
Mary Eunice Romero-Little
Larisa Warhol
Ofelia Zepeda
Description
Study of five Native American languages and three language families over a period of five years.
Chapter from American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart edited by Candace K. Galla, Stacey Oberly, G.L. Romero, Maxine Sam, Ofelia Zepeda.
American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Susan D. Penfield
Description
Comments on two courses: grant writing and language documentation.
Chapter from American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart edited by Candace K. Galla, Stacey Oberly, G.L. Romero, Maxine Sam, Ofelia Zepeda.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 4, Fall, 2010, pp. 475-497
Description
Comments on the exchange of cultures between American Indians and Scottish-Irish settlers and the positive transformation into an intertribal community that occurred.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, Special Issue: Indigenous Locations Post-Katrina: Beyond Invisibility and Disaster, 2008, pp. 3-9
Description
Looks at the aftermath of the August 29, 2005 hurricane, named Katrina, and the devastation to Indigenous communities located in Louisiana and beyond.
Native Authenticity: Transnational Perspectives on Native American Literary Studies
Native Traces
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Deborah L. Madsen
Description
Discussion of difficulties involved in determining who can legitimately be called a "Native American" author.
Excerpt from Native Authenticity: Transnational Perspectives on Native American Literary Studies edited by Deborah L. Madsen.
Post Script, vol. 29, no. 3, Indian Cinema, Summer, 2010, pp. 3-[?]
Description
Introduction to special issue celebrating Indigenous film in North America with examples of key films and filmmakers, approaches to studying and writing and interviews with filmmakers in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
International Dental Journal, vol. 60, no. 3, suppl.2, June 2010, pp. 212-215
Description
Overview revealed that inequalities exist and are on the rise in child and adult populations in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, Inuit Urbains / Urban Inuit, 2008, pp. 5-11
Description
Introduction to themed issue reports on urbanization trend of Inuit into larger centres in northern regions and into larger cities in the South such as Ottawa, Edmonton and Montreal.