American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 4, Shamans and Preachers, Color Symbolism and Commercial Evangelism: Reflections on Early Mid-Atlantic , Autumn, 1992, pp. 451-469
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Author discusses the shifting systems of meaning and valuation surrounding colour—specifically in trade goods—and how those systems influenced cultures and the trading relationships.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010
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Discussion on stories shared by Jeff Baker and his father, Lee Baker on physical and cultural disconnection, and the benefits of listening to and learning from each another.
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 1, March 2019, pp. 52-61
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Article highlights some of the challenges Māori and Indigenous (MAI) scholars face in the mainstream university context, and the role of the MAI Te Kupenga (a support program for Indigenous doctoral students) in supporting scholars in these contexts.
Gender, Place & Culture, vol. 26, no. 6, 2019, pp. 868-887
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Uses life course analysis of four women to explore linkages between relationships to the land, colonialism and intergenerational violence, and argues that rather than putting themselves at risk as is popularly perceived, they find themselves subjected to circumstances created and maintained by the Canadian state which make them vulnerable to perpetrators of violence.
American Literature, vol. 82, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 837-839
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Book reviews of:
Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture by Shari M. Huhndorf
Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space by Mark Rifkin
Book reviews found by scrolling to page 837.
American Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 3, September 2010, pp. 639-661
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Looks at how Todd Downing appropriates and refigures Mexico's Indigenous history and culture to reveal evidence of the modern Indigenous people obscured by Indigenismo discourse. The article also anticipates the anticolonial discourses of the American Indian civil rights movement.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 341-362
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Uses elder interviews, archival analysis, and behavioral observation to explore the cultural and communications practices of the Lakota people; relates those practices to the core cultural values of kinship and relationality; the idea that all people/things are related.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, Summer, 2010, pp. 285-311
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Looks at the development of Indigenous businesses to achieve ethical, culturally appropriate, and successful Indigenous participation in tourism and the global economy.
American Literature, vol. 82, no. 1, March 2010, pp. 183-186
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Book reviews of:
Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature by Laura L. Mielke
The Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930 by Kate Flint All That Remains: Varieties of Indigenous Expression by Arnold Krupat.
Scroll down to page 183 to see reviews.
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 25, no. 1, 2010, pp. 21-49
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Looks at various socially and culturally constructed categories of discrimination and demonstrates the need for courts to employ multidimensionality theory in cases of complex oppression.
Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 30, no. 4, Winter, 2010, pp. 505-532
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Looks at the linguistic precursor to biological essentialism, evidence of white philologists’ reliance on Native tutors and discusses why the federal government began moving toward assimilation.
Art Journal, vol. 51, no. 3, Recent Native American Art, Autumn, 1992, pp. 36-43
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Author looks at how contemporary artists have incorporated aspects of the dominant culture into their works and transformed such elements to suit their purposes.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 27, no. 4, Winter, 1992, pp. 44-[?]
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Argues that the roles and status of women in this region did not decline after contact, but instead they moved from a position of strength in the traditional era to strength in the mission era.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 1-19
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Discussion on how and why Aboriginal literature should become an intrinsic component in the discipline of Native Studies.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
Art Journal, vol. 51, no. 3, Recent Native American Art, Autumn, 1992, pp. 74-80
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Discusses the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 (United States) and the artist's response, as illustrated in his art, is that "authenticity" is another concept designed to keep Native Americans enclosed in "their world" through a label imposed by Euro-Americans.
Book review of: New World of Indigenous Resistance: Noam Chomsky and Voices from North, South and Central America by Lois Meyer and Benjamín Maldonado Alvarado.
Documentary about treatment of the case of Colton Boushie, a young Cree man who was shot and killed by Saskatchewan farmer Gerald Stanley who was subsequently acquitted of second-degree murder.
Related Material:
for Grades 7-12.
Opinion piece written in poetic prose which articulates the different ways that settlers and colonial systems disregarded and erased Indigenous names and naming practices.
Sport in Society, vol. 13, no. 1, To Remember is to Resist: 40 Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008, January 2010, pp. 143-156
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Discusses contrast between representations of settler-Indigenous relations put forward by countries hosting the games and reality of governments' denial of Aboriginal rights.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 53-61
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Author works to articulate a strategy for the introduction and study of Indigenous text in the post-secondary classroom. Focuses on identifying a text as an “Indigenous text,” diversity of authors, cultural elements of the texts.