Award-winning documentary about the Inuit's battle against a new European Union seal ban in an effort to regain their economic independence.
Duration: 1:22:19.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 2, Summer, 2016, pp. 56-79
Description
Discusses the connection between the Chickasaw people's relationship with water and efforts at resource management and themes in the novels Mean Spirit, Power, Solar Storms, and People of the Whale.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 3, no. 1, 2016, pp. 46-74
Description
"This article demonstrates that Canada's political claims to ownership over the North-West lay in problematic claims of sovereignty made by British and Canadian explorers, politicians, and businessmen, using language of discovery and sovereignty to obscure Indigenous governance already in practice".
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, p. 22=36
Description
Uses a map from AD1671 of the Swedish forest-Sami district to compare different forest Sami groups. Concludes that settlements are all close to rivers and lakes showing they fish as opposed to hunt.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 4, Winter, 2016, pp. 25-52
Description
Essay focuses on Slash, a young adult novel that traces the struggles, pain and alienation of a young man who is searching for truth and meaning in his life.
Studies in Political Economy, vol. 97, no. 3, 2016, pp. [217]-233
Description
"This paper examines the structural constraints and contradictory roles of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), with a particular focus on state funding".
BC Studies, no. 190, Histories of Settler Colonialism, Summer, 2016, pp. 67-87
Description
Looks at organization lobbying for sovereignty and how Indigenous peoples perspectives of sovereignty use specific tribal understanding of self-government and territoriality.