Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 1, Food (In)security in Northern Canada, April 2017, pp. 18-19
Description
Book review of: From Treaty Peoples to Treaty Nation: A Road Map for all Canadians by Greg Poelzer and Ken S. Coates.
Several book reviews on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 18.
Plan for promoting educational success of Native American students focuses on measuring the progress of relationships between government, tribes and schools districts and supporting a curriculum based on tribal history, culture and government.
From White Indians to Pakeha-Maori: Unruly White Men in Canada's and New Zealand's Colonial Pasts
Historicising Whiteness Conference, University of Melbourne, 22-24 November, 2006
Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of Identity
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Angela Wanhalla
Description
Discusses men who married Aboriginal women, lived on reserves and were considered a threat to maintaining separate racial spaces..
Chapter in book: Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on Construction of Identity edited by Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey, and Katherine Ellinghaus.
Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 42, no. 4, October 2000, pp. 469-492
Description
Discusses the overrepresentation of aboriginal peoples in Canadian corrections institutions and the racial disparities in granting full parole for aboriginal offenders.
Discusses how ancestral law and traditional practices of the Diné are understood and applied by the Navajo Nation Council and other cultural and environmental organizations.
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 1, no. 1, Governance of Aboriginal Health, January 2004, pp. 26-27
Description
Book reviews of 2 books:
Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives by James B. Waldram, D. Ann Herring, T. Kue Young and
Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation: Australia, Canada and New Zealand by Andrew Armitage.
The Georgia Historical Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 3, Special Issue Commemorating The Sesquicentennial of Cherokee Removal 1838-1939 , Fall, 1989, pp. 519-539
Description
Looks at the plight of the Cherokee Nation during this period ending with their removal to Oklahoma.
Explores healing potential of the Canadian government's Aboriginal Action Action Plan by examining Indigenous philosophy, Canada's multicultural legacy and motivation to recover.
Georgia Law Review, vol. 24, no. 4, Summer, 1990, pp. 1019-1044
Description
Uses the example of the Iroquois of upper New York to illustrate how Europeans interpreted social structure in terms of their own cultures and belief systems. In this case, the view that Indian men were lazy and the women "drudges" who nevertheless possessed a great deal of power.
[Centre for Feminist Legal Studies Lecture Series]
[CFLS Spring 2016 Lecture Series]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
[Emma Cunliffe]
Description
Discussion on the events that lead to Cindy Gladue's death, the trial and the controversial evidence presented at the trial of Bradley Barton.
Duration: 1:10:00.
Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Toronto, 1991.
"The inherent and unextinguished nature of self government among the Nawash Band is demonstrated through examining the events of the author's ancestors and community in their interactions with foreign settlers."
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 65, no. 10, November 2007, p. 2093–2104
Description
Examines the bioethical issues involving genetic ownership related to beliefs and practices of a culture and the effects on both health care and research.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 19, no. 2, 1999, pp. 337-363
Description
Development of traditional approaches and use of Indigenous cultures as a vehicle to promote wellness. High rates of suicide correlate with both genocide and 'cultural genocide.'
Discusses whether the forcible transfer of children should be classified genocide, or alternate terminology used, and what the legal, social, political consequences could be in either instance.
A photographic studio portrait of "Gentleman" Joe McKay and Chief Mistawasis studying a book while sitting. Likely taken sometime after the 1885 uprising.
George Gwynne Mann was a farm instructor and Indian agent for the government of Canada in Onion Lake, North-West Territories from 1879 to 1900. Mann and his family fled Onion Lake to Fort Pitt after the so-called Frog Lake "massacre," and were later taken as hostages from Fort Pitt and held for two months by Plains Cree warriors. The file contains hand written manuscripts and photocopied documents that detail Mann family's involvement in the 1885 rebellion, and describe aspects of Aboriginal ceremony and culture.