Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 8, August 2011, p. 16
Description
Comments on ten Saskatchewan youth who attended the 2011 Native American Youth Entrepreneurship Camp in Arizona and the skills attained from participating.
Article located by scrolling to page 16.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 55-58
Description
Discusses some of the issues of the beginnings of Native and Indigenous studies. The article also suggests that what one needs to look at more precisely is at what people mean when they talk about those beginnings, namely specific figures and practices within indigenous traditions.
Describes how Tomson Highway's character challenges concepts of "real Indianness" which have incorporated homophobic attitudes brought about by colonization.
Entire volume on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 135.
Discusses the University of Manitoba City Planning Department and four Manitoba First Nations' partnership to work on community development and issues. Themes identified were: housing development, commercial activity, natural and traditional preservation areas, recreation, water and waste management transportation, community services and culture.
Gabriel Dumont Institute Launches Two New Initiatives
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Gaylene Poulin
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 7, July 2011, p. 18
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Describes the Aboriginal Apprenticeship Initiative and the GDI-Saskatoon health Region Scholarship, both designed for the success of employers and recipients.
Article located by scrolling to page 18.
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.
Canadian Geographer, vol. 55, no. 1, Geographies of Inuit Sea Ice Use, Spring, 2011, p. 1–5
Description
Overview of a special journal issue which focuses on articles about Inuit knowledge of sea ice use and the research being conducted regarding preservation and transmission of this knowledge.
Interviewee was 6 years old at signing of Treaty 8. He describes the establishment of reserves around Lesser Slave Lake; and the need for more reserve land.
Understanding of treaty promises; distribution of food, ammunition, etc. in earlier times; interesting accounts of home-made agricultural equipment (aswell as that supplied by Dept. of Indian Affairs).
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 2, Series 2: Special Issue, Summer, 1993, pp. 39-45
Description
Looks at various works by Gerald Vizenor, and his vision and dream to restore tribal values.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1993, pp. 23-30
Description
Examines how Vizenor enters the role of narrative mediator and intervenes to effect communication and renegotiate the terms of the discourse in works such as, Thomas White Hawk.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
This file contains "Sinasia Remembers" the reminiscences of Harriet E. Gerry (unpublished), and published articles about her work nursing among the Indians of western Canada. Her extensive memoir is made up of several short stories and anecdotes about the many communities she worked in. These include Onion Lake, Kehewin Reserve, Leask, Sturgeon Lake, Cold Lake, Fort Qu'Appelle, One Arrow Reserve, Piapot Reserve and many in British Columbia later in her career.
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, vol. 29, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 37-47
Description
Examines whether the approved environmental assessment for the Victor Diamond Mine in northern Ontario was properly scoped using criteria identified by the Government of Canada.
Investigates literature-based assumptions about gifted Native American youth with input from educators on the Navajo, Standing Rock and Red Lake reservations.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 31, no. 1, 2011, pp. 43-50
Description
Explains the foundations set up for a groundbreaking project that established a partnership for collaborative research among people of diverse backgrounds.
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, Proceedings of the 2011 Western Social Science Association American Indian Studies Section, Fall, 2011, pp. 1-17
Description
Looks at maintaining cultural identity while living in an urban environment.
Slide show accompanied by text describing the northeastern Manitoba reserve. Awarded a Webby Award by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Science for best use of photography.
Discussion about the controversial series of paintings entitled The Forgotten by Pamela Masik which portrayed the sixty-nine missing and murdered women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The exhibition to be held at the Museum of Anthropology was cancelled due to protests.
Duration: 31:50.