Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 7, no. 9, September 1977, p. 5
Description
Indian Affairs Minister informs the Medicine Wheel Ranch Company band members that they must wait for the settlement of their land claim of the Harold Lees ranch until the legitimacy of the surrender of that land by the Ocean Man and Pheasant Rump reserves in 1902 is decided in court.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4, Winter, 1977-1978, pp. 335-356
Description
Author argues that violence in Cherokee communities can be attributed to the combination social-structural problems found on reservations and the erosion of traditional cultural norms.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 7, no. 4, April 1977, p. 11
Description
Director of the Saskatchewan Medical Services Branch of the Department of Health and Welfare claims radon level in Red Earth Reserve water is not a hazard.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 5, no. 12, July 15, 1975, p. 8
Description
Minister of Indian Affairs states that the Trudeau government has done more "than any other government to give natives control over their own affairs."
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 4, Winter, 1975-1976, pp. 347-361
Description
An examination of the negotiations to remove the Western Cherokee from their homeland in Arkansas through the 1828 Treaty of Washington to the area known as Lovely's Purchase. Lovely's Purchase was named after William Lovely who secured the land from the Osages for the Cherokee people to use as a hunting ground.
Prairie Forum, vol. 2, no. 2, November 1977, pp. 127-151
Description
Overview of the Canadian Indian policy from 1896-1905, when Clifford Sifton and the Laurier government attempted to overhaul the Indian administration, and assimilate the Aboriginal peoples.
Teachings From the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy
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Author/Creator
Barbara Tedlock
Description
Discusses the serious and religious aspects of clowns.
Chapter 7 in the book: Teachings From the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy edited by Dennis Tedlock and Barbara Tedlock.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 58, no. 2, June 1977, pp. 133-153
Description
Traces events through three time periods: limited and casual contact; withdrawal to the interior; and European movement into the area to gain access to resources.
Commission developed in response to the brutal murders of three Navajo men and the complaints about the social and economic relationships between the city of Farmington, New Mexico and the Navajo reservation.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 7, no. 1, January 1977, p. 8
Description
A Federation of Saskatchewan Indians conference in Regina pays tribute to past Chiefs John Tootoosis, David Knight, Wilfred Bellegarde and Walter Deiter.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, June 1, pp. 45-49
Description
Describes the process of digging a well to aid in the growing and consumption of locally produced fruits and vegetables in the arid region of central Australia.
Background Paper (Indian and Eskimo Affairs) ; no. 2
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Author/Creator
Department of Indian and Northern Canada
Policy Planning and Research
Description
This paper covers subjects such as early administration of Aboriginals in Canada, the development of an Indian Policy by Confederation in 1867, the 1951 Indian Act, and the implementation of the White Paper in 1969.
Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1975.
Author illustrates validity of oral history as a source for teaching about the Frog Lake incident in 1885.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 28, no. 2, Spring, 1975, pp. [41]-51
Description
Describes the incident on the Crooked Lakes Reserves in the lower Qu’Appelle valley in which several First Nations participated in a confrontation of the local Indian Agent over the Department of Indian Affairs’ food rationing policies and their enforcement.
Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 41.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 7, no. 10, October 1977, pp. 9-10
Description
Jack Beaver, president and chief executive officer of Churchill Falls Labrador Ltd., gives speech to the annual assembly of the National Indian Brotherhood citing the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians as a leader in the area.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 1, Spring, 1975, pp. 1-13
Description
An overview and analysis of the Nanticoke, a lost Indigenous group from Maryland adopted by the Delaware, their death rituals, and the Skeleton Dance and its significance.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 1, no. 3, 1975, pp. 22-28
Description
Chronicles the events which led to the establishment of a tutoring program in collaboration with St. Lawrence University and cultural centre on the St. Regis Reserve in upper New York.