Discusses the need for comprehensive educational support to facilitate culturally and linguistically diverse students whose lack of English skills are a barrier to their academic success.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, vol. 70, no. 11, November 2016, pp. 1096-1105
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Uses information from the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey to link contemporary health and mental health conditions to residential school familial attendance.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 77-103
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Argues that as Pope gained a greater understanding of the situation in the Northern Plains, he moved from an attitude of extermination to a desire to provide fair treatment of the "defeated" population.
Looks at historical and ethnographic records to see if the diatomaceous earth found in museums with Coast Salish collections is the same earth used to coat the wool used in Salish spinning.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4, Fall, 2016, pp. 259-280
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Uses material culture and paleobotanical evidence to assess the chronological development of the Wichita society living in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas from 1450 to the 1800s.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2018, pp. 55-73
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Author discusses the Navajo ways of blending traditional practices, identities, and ways of being with contemporary mainstream social structures and lifestyles.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies , vol. 38, no. 2, 2018, pp. 101-124
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Article examines the history of on-reserve housing evaluation, government policies and interventions and contrasts that framework with First Nations cultural understandings of housing and self-determination. Authors interrogate the assimilationist roots of policy that continues to implement Western housing models First Nations.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, 2018, pp. 25-42
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Author argues that the federal government of Canada perpetuates systemic racism through official publications responding to fire deaths on reserve; accuses the government of playing a “blame game” to detract from the reality that a lack of funding is primarily responsible for the fire deaths.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 3, Summer, 2018, pp. 306-328
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Article describes the key issues surrounding and the causes of the decline of the irrigation system; considers historical and institutional factors and makes focused recommendations for improving the state of the system.
Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 6, no. 4, October 2016, pp. 317-338
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Examines how Canada investigated and distorted Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence's band finances as a way to discredit her demands that governments respect her community's treaty rights.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 53, no. 1, January 2016, pp. 37-57
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Looks at the contradictory accounts regarding the importance of halibut as a subsistence resource to the Haida of Haida Gwaii and the Makah of Washington State.
Canadian Public Administration, vol. 61, no. 1, March 2018, pp. 130-134
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Reviews six pieces of literature which demonstrate how local governments are collaborating with the Indigenous community in the areas of land use and strategic planning initiatives, cross-cultural relations offices, advisory committees, urban design and new reserves.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 43-86
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Looks at the circumstances which led to the Koontenai nation declaring war on the United States government in 1974, The tribe was federally recognized but had been given no land base nor received any monetary compensation.