St. Thomas Law Review, vol. 14, 2001 - 2002, pp. 425-447
Description
Examines the right of self determination in the United Nations Declaration and outlines two types of constitutive processes that should sharply reduce the human rights violations experienced by indigenous peoples.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 25, no. 1, Sharing Aboriginal Knowledge and Aboriginal Ways of Knowing, 2001, pp. 51-67
Description
Describes several events that provided incentive to further the learning process and the relevance of life experience. Advocates "teaching of sensitive First Nations issues in a non-Native classroom".
Journal of the American Dietetic Association, vol. 90, no. 4, April 1990, pp. 568-572
Description
Description of the 52,000 Native American and Alaskan seniors in 1987 who received improved diet through a meal program. Better nutrient intake and decreased isolation were the major benefits reported.
Journal of Mennonite Studies, vol. 19, 2001, pp. 144-157
Description
Discusses the ideas of appropriation of voice and musical authenticity as they relate to two works, Stolen Life: the Journey of a Cree Woman (by Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe) and the Mennonite hymn book, Hymnal: A Worship Book.
Georgia Law Review, vol. 24, no. 4, Summer, 1990, pp. 1019-1044
Description
Uses the example of the Iroquois of upper New York to illustrate how Europeans interpreted social structure in terms of their own cultures and belief systems. In this case, the view that Indian men were lazy and the women "drudges" who nevertheless possessed a great deal of power.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 27, no. 1, 1990, pp. 52-65
Description
Examines the contentious role of oral histories in ethnohistorical reconstruction and discusses how six elderly individuals living in the Yukon used named locations in space to talk about past events.