Pesticide & Toxic Chemical News, vol. 31, no. 21, March 17, 2003, p. 36
Description
Results of a 5 year study conducted with Inuit in northern Quebec, published in The Canadian Arctic Contaminants Assessment Report show exposure to mercury and Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) and correlation with behaviours.
Canadian Issues, vol. 21, [Aboriginal Peoples In Canada/ Futures And Identities], [Winter], 1999, pp. 23-[?]
Description
Argues that identity, which was previously characterized by the colonizer/colonized relationship, has become a more complex issue, with definitions ranging from the personal to the international.
American Antiquity, vol. 68, no. 2, April 2003, pp. 273-285
Description
Discusses the relationships between archaeologists, American Indians and First Nations peoples and offers suggestions for improving mutual understanding and fellowship.
Documentary about three sisters and a brother meeting for the first time after being taken from their mother and adopted out as part of the "Sixties Scoop".
Duration: 1:19:21.
Documentary about three sisters and a brother meeting for the first time after being taken from their mother and adopted out as part of the "Sixties Scoop". Edited version of the original.
Duration: 45:00.
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Theatre Journal , vol. 55, no. 4, December 2003, pp. 679-698
Description
Discusses the concept of "racechange" using Susan Gubar's book RaceChanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture to assess the various functions of whiteface performance as a strategic mode of representation in theatre" and how theatre can contribute to debates about racialsim.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, 2017, pp. 117-135
Description
Argues that the Government of Canada has not learned from previous mistakes and its failure to change its behaviour has led to the ongoing trauma inflicted by residential schools and the high number of missing and murdered women.
American Literature, vol. 71, no. 1, March 1999, pp. 93-116
Description
Discusses the debate about what constitutes American Indian identity by contrasting U.S. government's standard of blood quantum with N. Scott Momaday's trope of "memory in the blood" as a sign of racial authenticity.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 2, 2017, pp. 289-310
Description
Discusses failure of new protocols put in place to ensure safe drinking water on reserves and contrasts the response to the failure of water system in Walkerton, Ontario, which took place the same year.
Agricultural History, vol. 77, no. 2, Spring, 2003, pp. 333-354
Description
Outlines Aboriginal peoples' struggle in the Maritimes for equal rights and their reliance on the land for economic, social, political and cultural survival.
Discussion of the Nunavut Act which required that 80 per cent of the nursing positions in Nunavut be occupied by Inuit and the creation of BScN program.
Reports on a UN committee's criticism of the Government of Canada for deferring responsibility for living conditions to the provinces and how this has contributed to poverty.
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, vol. 32, no. 2, August 1, 1999, pp. 197-208
Description
Argues cycle of violence and criminality has emerged from the colonial legacy of assimilationist policies and offers strategies for breaking the cycle.