Outlines the history of alcoholism in Aboriginal communities, and looks at combining western medicine and traditional healing methods to help Aboriginal people rebuild and sustain a healthy lifestyle.
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 14, Citizenship and Rights, Fall, 1996, pp. [13]-35
Description
Looks at the case Peters v. Campbell regarding the Coast Salish Aboriginal initiation tradition and the Nisga'a treaty.
Scroll down to page 13 to read article.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 2, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Spring, 1996, pp. 229-237
Description
Editorial piece in which the author offers an Indigenous perspective on and criticism of the practices of archaeologists and physical anthropologists in relation to the physical remains and funerary artifacts of Indigenous peoples.
Putting the Woman and the Aboriginal into the Scientist: A Female Urban Indian Scientist's Perspective
Women and Other Faces in Science Conference
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lillian E. Dyck
Native Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 2, 1996, pp. 89-102
Description
Explores how being female and/or holding Aboriginal beliefs can influence/change Western scientific medodologies and thought. Paper presented at the Women and Other Faces in Science Conference in Saskatoon, 1996
Looks at the fundamental elements of Iroquois society, and the founding constitution of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, which provides an efficient institution of democratic governance, social and economic stability, and a moral equation to achieve peace.
Mamow Na-nan-da-we-ki-ken-chi-kay-win: Searching Together Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mamow Sha-way-gi-kay-win North South Partnership for Children
Description
Assessment focuses on six key areas: livelihoods, infrastructure, community participation, education/recreation, children and parents and mental and physical health.
Children and Youth Services Review, vol. 31, no. 9, 2009, pp. 1019-1024
Description
Results based on interviews with 61 foster parents in Manitoba to examine value-based and practical benefits of having a shared cultural background with foster children.
Public Historian , vol. 18, no. 4, Representing Native American History, Fall, 1996, pp. 119-143
Description
Discusses the history of collecting skeletal remains and associated objects for study or display purposes and the Indigenous movement to have scientific or cultural institutions return them to their nations for proper funeral and burial rights. Looks at the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and similar State-enacted legislation.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 1, 1996, pp. 131-146
Description
Looks at new ways to understand mixed cultural origins, reconcile beliefs, and how these ideas are superseding older ideas of assimilation or resistance.
SA-eDUC Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, Special Edition on Education and Ethnicity, November 2009, pp. 100-116
Description
Supports the need to understand First Nations history from an Aboriginal perspective and the effects the Indian Act and residential school systems had on First Nations people in Canada.
Book review of: Celebration: Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian Dancing on the Land by Rosita Worl.
Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 137.
Anthropology of Consciousness, vol. 7, no. 3, September 1996, pp. 30-43
Description
Compares one child's experience of growing up in the Gitxsan/Witsuwit'en culture to that of a child adopted out of the community in terms of the cultural belief of rebirth of an Elder or relative in a baby.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3/4, To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality (Parts 1 & 2), Summer/Fall, 1996, pp. 451-[?]
Description
Discusses the difficulties outsiders encounter when attempting to learn about and understand Aboriginal spirituality and culture.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3/4, To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality (Parts 1 & 2), Summer-Autumn, 1996, pp. 393-414
Description
Article articulates some of the ethical issues that arise in the study in Indigenous spiritual practices; focuses on misinterpretation, appropriation, corruption of different spiritual practices.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3/4, To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality (Parts 1 & 2), Summer - Autumn, 1996, pp. 353-376
Description
Asks whether the current politics of recognition provides new perspectives on the study of religions.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 2, Spring, 2009, pp. 230-252
Description
Cultural conflicts between Southeast Alaska's Tlingit Indians and Europeans from the viewpoint of three cultural systems: cosmology, jurisprudence and religion.
Justice as Healing, vol. 1, no. 4, Winter, 1996, p. [?]
Description
Perspective on maintaining or regaining balance discussed in relation to individual as well the relationship between tradition and the administration of justice in Canada.
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
Rural Social Work & Community Practice, vol. 14, no. 2, December 2009, pp. 6-11
Description
Author equates the loss of language through assimilation with loss of a "moral compass" because it disrupts the ability to transmit teachings to children.
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Guy Bordin
Description
Examines relationship between dreams and collective oral discourse and the attempts to re-invigorate the practice.
Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3/4, To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality (Parts 1 & 2), Summer - Autumn, 1996, pp. 377-392
Description
Assesses the work of Europeans Mircea Eliade and Ake Hultkrantz in the field of comparative religion, with emphasis on their work on Native Americans.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 61, no. 2, Glimpses of Métis Society and History in Northwest Saskatchewan, Fall, 2009, pp. 29-40
Description
Study uses oral interviews to engage Métis understandings of Marian apparitions and shrines in and surrounding Sakitawak (Île-à-la-Crosse); authors work to discuss Métis spirituality in a way that makes sense to community members and that also challenges outsiders presumptions about the relationship between the Métis and Mary.
Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 29.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 2, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Spring, 1996, pp. 297-307
Description
Article speaks to many of the pieces included in Issue 20:2 of American Indian Quarterly, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, and describes some of the process and changes happening in Indigenous and Archaeological communities.