American Economic Review, vol. 68, no. 4, September 1978, pp. 503-516
Description
Suggests that land tenure or other institutional problems, not managerial deficiencies underlie Native American challenges in equalling non-Native operating efficiencies.
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act: Capabilities Failure?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wayne Edwards
Tara Natarajan
Native Studies Review, vol. 17, no. 2, 2008, pp. 69-97
Description
Argues that laws that had the potential to improve the well-being of people in Alaska were never fully realized due to the legislation's design and implementation.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 1, 1978, pp. 1-18
Description
The author argues that the writings of various anthropologists awoke Nanticoke resolve to exercise self-determination and embrace traditional cultural practices as a means to solidify their identity.
Native Studies Review, vol. 17, no. 1, 2008, pp. 45-69
Description
The authors employ Ian McKay's theories on Canadian state formation to evaluate the policy making strategies used by Canadian governments in regards to Aboriginal peoples.
Native Studies Review, vol. 17, no. 2, 2008, pp. 155-163
Description
Explores 'knowing differently' and how bi-epistemic research challenges the researchers preconceived world views and places them in unfamiliar experience.
Anglican Journal, vol. 134, no. 7, September 2008, p. 9
Description
Introduces topics discussed at the synod of the diocese of the Arctic meeting in Iqaluit, Nunavut from May 27 to June 3, 2008. Topics included same-sex unions, welfare of youth, and housing issues.
Biography, vol. 31, no. 3, Summer, 2008, pp. 397-428
Description
Looks at the journal by Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed recounting colonial contact between whites and Indigenous people in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908–09.
Cardiovascular Diabetology, vol. 7, no. 5, March 2008, p. 5
Description
Study results of Canadians of South Asian and Chinese descent, Oji-Cree and Inuit (Greenland) indicated that the association between FTO gene associated with obesity extends to non-Caucasian subjects.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1, Winter, 2008, pp. 16-42
Description
Author explores the meanings that are made by the La Paz Run, an annual commemoration of the hundreds of Hualapais who, in 1875, broke out of an internment camp in Southern Arizona and followed the Colorado River for almost 200 miles back to their reservation at the edge of the Grand Canyon.
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 29, no. 2 & 3, 2008, pp. 81-105
Description
Discussion on how the United States government used the intermarriage between Indians and non-Indians to undermine Indian control of their own lands and legal identity.
Human Ecology, vol. 36, no. 4, 2008, pp. [553]-568
Description
Study examined the characteristics of several berry patches where the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en of Northwestern British Columbia had used landscape burning as a tool for plant management.
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 133, Winter, 2008, pp. 11-16
Description
Discusses a touring Native theatre company in Ontario and its dedication to helping young actors develop their craft through a unique outreach program.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2, A Special Symposium Issue on James Welch's , 1978, pp. 131-139
Description
Looks into the role of humor for the main character in James Welch's novel to take control of his life as things out of his control occur throughout the narrative.