A conference where elders discuss the philosophy and practice of traditional medicine. Stress role of elders in passing on this tradition. Transcribed by Joanne Greenwood.
Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Monday, June 9, 1980 regarding a report by the Community Liaison Committee (Report No. 3-1980) including items on Aboriginal Employment (Item # 1316), Housing (Item # 1317), Education and Native People and the Law (Item # 1318), as well as a list of Committee members.
Adrian Hope has been active in Metis politics since the 1920s. He was involved in the organization of the Metis Association of Alberta, the Ewing Commission hearings, and the development of Metis colonies in Alberta.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 19, no. 3, May 1980, pp. [5-7]
Description
Successful techniques used in citizen workshops to provide people of the Navajo Nation with the basic information and tools needed to actively participate in land use planning.
Ed Broome was a government employee at the time the CCF government took power. He talks about the NDP programs in northern Saskatchewan, particularly government trading posts, the conversion of trading posts into cooperatives and his brief impressions of Norris and Brady.
Mr. Bishop is a long time resident of Green Lake, Saskatchewan He talks about problems in the area, his work for the Metis people and his impressions of Malcolm Norris and Howard Adams.
Art Davis, a professor of sociology, hired Jim Brady as a research technician/interviewer for work in the north. Davis discusses Brady's work, his personality, his politics and compares Brady to Malcolm Norris.
Art Sjolander is a geologist and prospector who has lived in northern Saskatchewan since 1959. He knew Jim Brady and was involved in the search for Brady and Halkett in 1967.
Arctic, vol. 33, no. 3, September 1980, pp. 487-504
Description
Looks at artifactual, faunal and midden deposit information in the study of fall and winter settlements by examining eight Thule winter houses around Lake Harbour.
Aboriginal History, vol. 4, no. 2, 1980, pp. 230-231
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Book review of: Australian Aborigines, Shadows in a Landscape. Photography by Laurence Le Guay and text by Susanne Faulkiner.
To access review, scroll down to page 230.