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Discusses a framework for capacity building including principles and recommendations relating to human resource development, data management, accountability, and institutional development.
File contains two reviews of John Diefenbaker's memoir 'One Canada', describing Diefenbaker's actions in giving Indigenous people the right to vote and opening up the North to development.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 37, no. 1, Special Issue - Part I, Fall, 1997, pp. [7-15]
Description
Authors of Collected Wisdom: American Indian Education describe their rationale for using story-based reporting of findings rather than the more traditional methods.
Book review of: Eastern and Central Arrernte to English Dictionary compiled by John Henderson and Veronica Dobson.
Review located by scrolling to page 233.
Three-month study consisted of data collected through secondary sources, field observations, and interviewing. Found that while the province had no specific policy, federal policies were in place for registered Status Indians. Describes policies and educational objectives and makes recommendations.
Prairie Forum, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 1997, pp. 47-71
Description
Explores the relationship between the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) government and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians from 1958 to 1964.
To Honor & Comfort Native Quilting Traditions (An Educational Curriculum)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Shawn Termin
Description
Guide aimed at middle year students is divided into four sections: Strengthening Community, Design Tells a Story, Expressions of Honor, and Origins of Native Quilting. Discusses eight individual quilters (Aboriginal and Hawaiian): Mary Bighouse (Osage), Sheree "Peachy" Bonaparte (Mohawk), Alice Olsen Williams (Anishinabe), Nancy Crone Naranjo (Eastern Cherokee), Bernyce Courtney (Wasco-Tlingit), Harriet Soong (Native Hawaiian), Ollie Napesni (Rosebud Lakota), and Lula Red Cloud (Ogala Lakota).
Historical background and submissions to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding a 1963 dam built on-reserve and its effect on the First Nation's fishing rights, and obligations owed by Canada. ICC recommended the claim not be accepted for Specific Claims Policy due to compensation already received. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Writer and community organizer challenges several young Native men to organize their reserve communities in an effort to change the Indian Act.
Duration: 32:06.
Inquiry Into the 1907 Surrender Claim of the Fishing Lake First Nation (French Version)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Historical background and issues involved in Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearing to determine the validity of the 1907 surrender. (French language version)
Commissioners include: P.E. James Prentice and Roger J. Augustine.
[These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]