Briar Patch, vol. 36, no. 2, March/April 2007, pp. 5-7
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Describes a gathering of family members of Saskatchewan's missing women and filmmaker Lourdes Portillo's documentary Senorita Extraviada about young women missing in Mexico.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 32-42
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Uses data from the 2002 Census of Tribal Justice Agencies in American Indian and Alaska Native Jurisdiction to discuss the complicated issues of using on-reserve gaming revenues to fund tribal judicial systems; notes that while funding might be increased by gaming, so might be the need for tribal judicial resources.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 31, no. 1, The New Information Age, Fall, Aug 11, 2019
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Discusses the challenges faced by tribal librarians as they work to teach information literacy in both mainstream news and social media outlets while incorporating traditional or Indigenous knowledge and teachings.
Canadian Dimension, vol. 44, no. 5, September 2010, pp. 12-13
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Discusses the federal government's funding cuts in 2010 to the Aboriginal Healing Foundation and the effects on organizations such as the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal which provided healing support from the trauma of residential schools.
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 65, no. 10, November 2007, p. 2093–2104
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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 Review of Sociology & Anthropology, vol. 44, no. 2, May 2007, pp. 237-261
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Argues that attributing weight gain and diabetes to the thrifty gene has failed to incorporate aboriginal health perspectives and should be "decolonized".
Reveals a presidential administration that was determined to implement its own plan regardless of opposition voicing to humanitarian concerns or logical arguments.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter, 2019, pp. 101-132
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Examines how, between 1900 and the 1930s, some of the female students at Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon were able to advocate for and affect change in their curriculum and in the limitations on their access to education.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 44, no. 2, Spring, 2010, pp. 219-229
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Book reviews of: Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada by J.R. Miller.
Home is the Hunter: The James Bay Cree and Their Land by Hans M.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 54-82
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Discusses the Two-Row poetry of Peter Blue cloud by comparing it to the Haudenosaunee Two-Row Wampum, and then uses “trans-systemic” analysis to map out the importance of two-row thinking for changing the relationship between Indigenous and settler-colonial legal regimes.
Discusses the inequity of federal funding to First Nations Child and Family Services Program in comparison to provincial agencies and off reserve child welfare programs.