Canada, USA and Australia describe United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as "profoundly imperfect;" contrary to Canadian Parliamentary Committee on Aboriginal Affairs assessment and support of the document.
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 13, no. 1, Spring, 1998, pp. 215-229
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Book review of: The Circle Game: Shadows and Substance in the Indian Residential School Experience in Canada by Roland Chrisjohn, Sherri Young, Michael Maraun.
Book review found by scrolling to page 226.
Social Semiotics, vol. 15, no. 1, Charged Crossings: Cultural Studies of Law, April 2005, pp. 59-80
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Discusses how past colonial laws have harmed Aboriginal peoples and offers alternative forms of justice to redress the effects of those policies and practices.
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The Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 3, Autumn, 2008, pp. 283-302
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Discusses how Indigenous soldiers, who performed the same labor tasks as white soldiers, were institutionally marginalized and distanced as a second-class.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 53, no. 3, September 1972, pp. 272-288
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Discusses how officials excluded the blacks from campaigns promoting settlement in the West, resisted their attempts to take advantage of liberal customs, homestead, and citizenship regulations, and eventually closed the border to them completely.
The Public Historian, vol. 29, no. 3, Summer, 2007, pp. 53-67
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Discusses how Southern legislators and administrators refused to acknowledge American Indians as a distinct society and lumped them with blacks as a method of cultural erasure.
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.
Discusses deeper meaning of assimilation policies as factors of Indian schooling based on 3 perspectives; Protestant ideology, civilized versus savage paradigm, and land quest of whites.
The Georgia Historical Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 3, Special Issue Commemorating The Sesquicentennial of Cherokee Removal 1838-1939 , Fall, 1989, pp. 519-539
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Looks at the plight of the Cherokee Nation during this period ending with their removal to Oklahoma.
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.
Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 49, no. 2, 2003, pp. 155-163
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Discusses how many Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families and cultural heritage as a result of Australian government laws, policies and practices.
Alif, no. 31, The Other Americas, 2011, pp. 133-151
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Discusses Jim Northrup's Rez Road Follies, Thomas King's The Truth About Stories, and Paul Chaat Smith's Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong in terms of the techniques used to critique government actions in their respective countries.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 79, no. 4, December 2011, pp. 850-878
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Examines Indigenous ceremonial practices, government and missionary attempts to suppress Indian dances, and cultural notions about what constitutes "religion".
The International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 23, no. 2, March 2006, pp. 131-137
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Introduces essays focused on indigenous sport heritage, influence of traditional sports, and participation of Native Americans in Euro-American sports.
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 27, no. 1, 2012, pp. 67-73
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Brief introduction to the articles in section of volume which discuss the experiences of residential school survivors, the challenges of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and the politics of reconciliation.
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Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 41, no. 3, September 2008, pp. 525-547
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Demonstrates that race is of a political nature and that there is a lack of material on race in mainstream English Canadian political science. The author proposes a number of factors that have prevented significant research in this area, including dominant elite-focused and colour-blind approaches to the study of politics, and ways to address this disciplinary lag.
Discusses how the Irish have facilitated litigation in the interests of justice regarding the removal of children from their families and how that concept could be applied in Australia.