American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 38, no. 4, 2014, pp. 57-84
Description
Article examines over 600 comments posted to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC) website in 2009 after the Government of Canada shut the border crossing in Akwesasne First Nation.
Historical background to claim presented to the Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding the validity of Collins Treaty. ICC assisted the two parties in reaching an agreement in principle. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
To accompany award-winning book by James Daschuk which examines ecological, economic, and political factors affecting Aboriginal health and mortality from the early 1700s to the end of the 19th century.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 37, no. 2, Winter, 1998, pp. [2-20]
Description
Describes a study involving cooperation between a reserve and border community with the goal of improving academic achievement and retention of students at a high school level.
Chapter 12 from book: Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America edited by A. Woolford, J. Benvenuto and A.L. Hinton.
Comments on historical trauma caused by the settlers and the pattern of European dispossession of Indigenous people.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 9, Special Edition In Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the School of Indigenous Relations, February 2014, pp. 41-55
Description
The author discusses journey as a student in the Indigenous Social Work Program to a professor in the School of Indigenous Relations.
Entire issue on one pdf. Scroll down to page 41 to read article.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring, 2014, pp. 127-131
Description
Book review of: Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas edited by M. Bianet Castellanos, Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera, and Arturo J. Aldama.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 127.
Indian Subjects: Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Brenda J. Child
Brian Klopotek
Description
Presents introduction to the essays in Indian Subjects: Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education edited by Brenda J. Child and Brian Klopotek.
Determines six factors in need of improvement for quality of life (QoL): education and training, justice system, understanding of culture and rights, employment opportunities, community funding, spiritual spaces.
"The purpose of this paper is to illustrate a range of options for constitutional reform in order to promote discussion and exploration of specific possibilities for Australia".
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, 1998, pp. 131-150
Description
Examines the exclusion and then limited inclusion into the dominant society, and also the dominant society's construction of the alternative group's identity.
Comments on the experiences of survivors of the Jewish Holocaust, the Japanese American WWII camps and key events affecting Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
Part 3 of 3.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 3, Fall, 2014, pp. 41-61
Description
Analysis of genre which manipulates Japanese manga and Haida art to reflect a balance in both art and life.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 41.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 3, Special Issues on Reservation Economies, 1998, pp. 31-78
Description
Looks at the coercesion of the Navajo, by the United States government, through military domination, the threat of starvation, and finally relocation along the Pecos River in eastern New Mexico.
Describes how First Nations leaders utilize colonial stereotyping to transform the cultural performance of the rodeo into a vehicle of political power.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 66, no. 1, Spring, 2014, pp. 18-19
Description
Author recounts her family’s relationship with a man named “Ou-qui-chass” or Squirrel [possibly Ankwacas, Squirrel in Cree], whom the children in her family called Nicotash, from Nut Lake [now Yellow Quill First Nation].
Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 18.