Part III: Repatriation and Protection of First Nations Culture in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Catherine E. Bell
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [149]-164
Description
Focuses on proposed British Columbia legislation with respect to disputes over ownership of Aboriginal cultural property.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 11, no. 1, Spring, 1995, pp. 33-39
Description
Contends that Native American literature has become a monument that reveals representations of distinctive Indigenous peoples as unique culturally, linguistically and living in a particular geographic region.
Compares the situation in Australia, Canada and the United States, as well the differing approaches to the high rate of Aboriginal incarceration and recidivism.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 76, no. 3, September 1995, pp. 482-510
Description
Book review of: Historical Atlas of Canada Geoffrey J. Matthews, cartographer/designer. Final volume of three volume, 18-year, $8.5 million dollar documentation
American Antiquity, vol. 60, no. 1, January 1995, pp. 59-79
Description
Explores the argument in favour of migration in the development of Northern Iroquoian culture in northeastern North America and examines the history of the controlling model that has dominated regional archaeological interpretation for the past half century.
Examines, from a linguistic perspective, the effect of post-colonial order on the Aboriginal land rights of the Crown's oldest ally, the Mikmaw Nation.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 1, Winter, 1989, pp. 30-57
Description
Considers the influence of both federal administration and personal vision on the translated responses of tribal people who testified before the committee that investigated fraudulent land allotment at the White Earth Reservation at the turn of the century.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 1, Winter, 1989, pp. 30-57
Description
Delves into the creation of the White Earth Reservation, the allotment periods, and tribal bingo as a source of income, education, and the evolution of their religion for the Chippewa Nation.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4, The California Indians, Autumn, 1989, pp. 409-420
Description
Using California land claims to argue that non-Indigenous witnesses and experts must state their personal assumptions, preconceptions, and definitions when presenting evidence for Indigenous land claim cases.
American Literature, vol. 67, no. 3, September 1995, pp. 487-509
Description
Examines the relationship between the author and her editor (Lucullus V. McWhorter) in terms of narrative authority and cultural authenticity in early Native American literary production.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 19, no. 4, July/August 1995, pp. 4-14
Description
Looks at services offered by the Redfern Aboriginal Medical Service, staff involved in the programs and the role in the development of a national Indigenous health policy.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 13, no. 4, December 1989, pp. 7-8
Description
Major problems identified include lack of co-ordination between health, housing, employment and education systems and the Government and State/Territories and community agencies .
Ten-year anthroplogical study tracked students from 1980-1981 to 1988-1989. Author argues problems of retention and success in school are part of conflict in the larger community.
Harvard Educational Review, vol. 65, no. 3, Fall , 1995, pp. 403-444
Description
Results of a ethnographic study on the lives of Navajo youth, describing the racial and cultural struggle between Native American Indians and non-Native Americans.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 13, no. 4, December 1989, pp. 27-29
Description
High rates of diabetes, heart disease, infectious diseases and cancer has prompted a review of the health care system in use. Recommends the role of the health worker be different from the role of doctors or nurse.
Part I: Cultural Protection: The Story of a Saanich Bowl
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara J. Winter
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [29]-36
Description
Curator at the Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology describes the process of acquiring the SDDLNEWHALA bowl, on behalf of the Saanich Native Heritage Society, in order to prevent its exportation to the US.