American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3/4, Urban American Indian Womens Activism, Summer/Fall, 2003, pp. 505-522
Description
Focuses on women who are strong, but low key activists, who extend many services to other urban community members and play many different roles to the people around them.
Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, vol. 40, no. 4, 2003, pp. 373-390
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"Paper examines the relationship between Canadian state formation and the construction of Aboriginal identities via the legitimating function of public inquiry".
Comments on several current topics including Aboriginal veterans at the ceremonial march on Remembrance Day, artist Allen Sapp winning the Governor General's Award for illustrations in the children's book The Song Within Our Heart, the Frank Calder Treaty case and elections at Big River First Nation.
Polar Record, vol. 39, no. 1, January 2003, pp. 49-60
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Results of a survey of members of committees formed pursuant to the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement; three elements emerged: complex views of traditional knowledge, role of Inuit in attempting to shape the role of TEK in decision-making and need for financial support to collect TEK.
Recounts the history of the disagreement over control of water in the Qu'Appelle Valley between the Qu'Appelle Valley Indian Development Authority (QVIDA) and the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA).
Comments on some of the cutting edge dramas and documentaries being made by Aboriginal filmmakers recently showcased at the Native American Film Festival in Palm Springs.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3/4, Urban American Indian Womens Activism, Summer/Fall, 2003, pp. 533-547
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Recalls how women in 1971, supported by the American Indian Movement (AIM), took over a United States Coast Guard Station in Milwaukee to establish a school.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Winter, 2003, pp. 333-348
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Critical analysis of This Bridge Called My Back, relating classroom experience and sense of responsibility held by a lone Indigenous woman student in a mainstream classroom.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 381-385
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Author articulates the barriers they feel Indigenous people face in the field of Native Studies, and the ways that contemporary Native Studies departments tend to favor non-Indigenous candidates in the hiring process.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 50-51
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An anonymous contribution to the issue which briefly describes the first American Indian Support Program (AISP) within a public Community College from its conceptualization to dissolution 23 years later.
Scandinavian Studies, vol. 75, no. 2, The People of Eight Seasons: The Sámi and Their Changing Culture, Summer, 2003, pp. 181-200
Description
Looks at Nickula's portrayal of the Skolt people in The Skolt Lapp Community Suenjelsijd During the Year 1938 and Lappish Nation and Alariesto's art which depicted Lapland.