Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 4, November 1994, pp. 597-655
Description
Discusses issues highlighted by commissions worldwide, as well as the different models employed. Examples discussed are countries that had undergone radical political changes and were in the process of transitioning from one regime to another.
Explains James Welch used strategic omissions as a way to imply the spirituality as a rationale for some character's disconnection with other characters.
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 19, no. 2, Culture and Education: Aboriginal Settings, Concerns, and Insights, Spring, 1994, pp. 194-196
Description
Review of: First Nations: The Circle Unbroken by Geraldine Bob, Gary Marcuse, Denna Nyce, Lorna Williams. Four video cassettes plus Teachers' Guide and Implementation Workshop for Teachers: A Guide.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, January/February 1994, pp. 7-8
Description
Loss of the traditional nomatic lifestyle has created environmental health problems in communities and town camps. Suggests health workers and Aboriginal educators should be employed to help communities develop and manage their own health strategies.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, Winter, 1994, pp. 71-86
Description
Literary criticism article that examines the social and historical commentary contained in Vizenor’s novel, Heirs of Columbus, and how that commentary works to dismantle mainstream realities.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, March/April 1994, pp. 18-19
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Looks at the reasons for removal, the loss of culture and identification, and continuing effects on adult children. Also discusses the organization Link-Up that assists Aboriginal people in finding their family.
American Indian Law Review, vol. 3, no. 2, 1975, pp. 469-477
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Case involving eight individual members of the Micmac, Maliseet, Penobscot, and Passamaquoddy Indian tribes and the Indian Township Passamaquoddy Basket Cooperative, Inc. asking for a judgement on exemptions from customs duty goods brought from Canada to the United States for individual use, as well as the Cooperative. Judgement was also asked with respect to Canadian-born individuals being exempt from immigration laws requiring registration and visa requirements.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, March/April 1994, p. 26
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Committee to look at report and travel around Australia talking to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people about state and territory implementation of recommendations.
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, 1994, pp. 40-58
Description
Identifies and examines two main discrepancies in the federal government's Indian band governance policy during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 4, Winter, 1975-1976, pp. 331-346
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An examination of the creation and an analysis of the novel which is a fictional retelling of the author's 1883 report to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that described the conditions and needs of the Mission Indians in California.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Autumn, 1994, pp. 91-97
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Brief examination of one form of communication, Indian newspapers, that is a cultural solution allowing identities to be maintained.
See also : "A Journey into Sacred Myth" (pages 98-99)
Journal of Sex Research, vol. 11, no. 1, February 1975, pp. 1-15
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Examines berdache within Plains tribes, including recognition and acceptance of the roles, frequency of the phenomenon, and distinctions between Plains and other tribes.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, January/February 1994, p. 12
Description
United Nations recognizes education, health and nutrition, family in poverty, domestic violence and abuse, and substance abuse as areas that need addressing.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, Winter, 1994, pp. 43-59
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Article examines the records made by Jesuit missionaries of the oral literary traditions of the Algonquian-speaking First Nations; discusses how these texts have become foundational in the study of Indigenous literatures.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Autumn, 1994, pp. 98-99
Description
Excerpt from a public lecture by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn commenting on the use of myths in the Native American story.
See also : Indian Newspapers, or "Say, Ain't You Some Kind of Indians?"
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3, Summer, 1994, pp. 321-348
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Author explores the role that powwows play in intertribal social culture, discusses the ritual of such events, and the elements of shared musical and dance traditions among Southern Plains Peoples. Focuses on the Kiowa and their engagement in the powwow events since the 1870s.
Poitras, once labeled an angry artist, believes anger is foreign to Indigenous philosophies and traditions, instead dictates forgiveness. Her works have display evils done to First Nations people by the church, Western materialism, residential schools and alcohol, but her own worldview is that trials and suffering lead to redemption.