American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 42, no. 4, 2018, pp. 21-41
Description
Discusses the medicalization of women’s in health in Mexico; articulates considerations of separation from traditional healthcare providers and practices, invasive Western practices surround pregnancy and birth, and discrimination against Indigenous and/or Afro-descendant women. Analyzes the way that poor women use the phrase “being cut” to describe “multiple experiences of frustration, mistreatment, and violence during childbirth.”
CBC website tracks progress on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 Calls to Action in child welfare, education, language and culture, health, justice and reconciliation.
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 129-149
Description
Discusses complicated and shifting relationships between museums and Indigenous peoples, highlights the contradictory roles museums play, and looks at exhibitions in public galleries of Royal British Columbia Museum, Museum of Anthropology, Museum of Vancouver which show the changing nature of the relationship.
Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography, vol. 8, no. 2, 2018, pp. 68-85
Description
Uses a participatory-action research model (PAR) to explore the ideas instilled by and the mobilizing potential of the REDress project—a grassroots, collaborative, community art exhibit intended to bring awareness to the issue of MMIW—at St. Francis Xavier University. Researcher partners with StFX Aboriginal Student’s Society.
Author explores relationship between Indigenous knowledge and Western thought. Paper presented at the Indigenous Knowledge Conference 2001 held at the University of Saskatchewan.
Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 3, Autumn, 2018, pp. 275-297
Description
An exploration of Indigenous student mobility away from the Sherman Institute in Riverside, California that reveals both Indigenous agency and neglect on the part of school officials.
Arctic, vol. 71, no. 4, December 19, 2018, pp. 393-406
Description
Authors discuss the 2011 Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic (ReSDA) research project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC); research indicates gaps in understanding of cumulative impacts, regulatory processes which exclude local participation, and factors of community well-being separate from economic factors.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 190, no. Suppl, November 7, 2018, pp. S16-S18
Description
Article examines a research partnership between health leaders in Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory and a team of scientists at Laurentian University and highlights the lessons learned through community-engaged approach to research.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 25, no. 2, 2001, pp. 93-105
Description
Describes research on social services issues concerning Ojibwa First Nation communities, particularly the high incidence of youth suicide, addiction, and court appearances.
Paper produced as part of the Community Governance Project at University of Victoria. Includes sources, analysis, and recommendations for future initiatives.
Extensive list (169 p.) features a wide array of "grey literature" sources from Alaska state and federal agencies, tribal groups, and privately produced publications.
All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward, Lecture 2
[2018 CBC Massey Lectures]
[Ideas with Paul Kennedy]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Tanya Talaga
Description
Tanya Talaga, prize-winning journalist and author of Seven Fallen Feathers delivers the the second of the 2018 Massey Lectures in Halifax.
Talaga's second lecture focuses on the effects for Indigenous peoples of displacement from their traditional territories and of ongoing contemporary extractive resource economies.
Duration: 53:59
Author presents a case study of Indigenous people and biodiversity from Papua New Guinea. Paper presented at the Indigenous Knowledge Conference 2001 held at the University of Saskatchewan.
Arctic, vol. 71, no. 4, December 19, 2018, pp. 422-430
Description
Study compares bird use of rehabilitated oil extraction sites with that of nearby reference sites; finding demonstrate that sites studied 3 to 10 years post-site rehabilitation are not comparable to nearby reference site in regards to shorebird and passerine habitat (nesting/breeding), but they do seem to support waterfowl. Additional shorebirds and passerines are using these sites for foraging and resting.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 2001 , pp. 99-100
Description
Briefly outlines the three essays highlighted in this issue of the Great Plains Quarterly chosen from those presented at the Center for Great Plains Studies' 24th Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Bison.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, Spring, 2001, pp. 166-179
Description
Book review of: Black Eyes All of the Time by Anne McGillivray and Brenda Comaskey. Focuses on Carol LaPrairie's chapter on sentencing of Aboriginal offenders.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 1, Winter, 1987, pp. 11-35
Description
Discusses the lack of recognition for historical Indigenous cultural achievements. Achievements examined are: medicine, maple sugar, and the use of fertilizer.
Discusses a case where the Blueberry River Indian Band was awarded damages against the Government of Canada for breach of fiduciary duty regarding mineral rights.
Bone Marrow Transplantation, vol. 27, no. 7, April 1, 2001, pp. 703-709
Description
Report examines treatment on 18 Navajo and Dene children with SCIDA. Findings demonstrate the efficacy of bone marrow transplantation when treating infants with this distinct form of SCID and indicates those who were treated with immunosuppressive and myeloablative therapy had a poor outcome.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 4, Fall, 2001, pp. 656-666
Description
Book reviews of 4 books:
Indian Treaty-Making in the United States and Canada, 1867-1877 by Jill St. Germain.
"I Remain Alive": The Sioux Literary Renaissance by Ruth J. Heflin.
Native American Voices: A Reader edited by Susan Lobo and Steve Talbot.
Tribal Epistemologies: Essays in the Philosophy of Anthropology edited by Helmut Wautischer
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, 2001, pp. 179-190
Description
Book reviews of 6 books:
Your Fyre Shall Burn No More: Iroquois Policy Toward New France and Its Native Allies to 1701 by José Antonio Brandao.
Into the Daylight: A Wholistic Approach to Healing by Calvin Morrisseau.
Talking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Oral Texts by Laura J. Murray and Keren Rice.
"Keeping the Lakes' Way:" Reburial and the Re-creation of a Moral World Among an Invisible People by Paul Pryce.
Grandmother's Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life by Alma Hogan Snell.
Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism by Craig S. Womack.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, 2001, pp. 367-376
Description
Book reviews of 7 books:
A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood by Kim Anderson.
Harvest of Souls: The Jesuit Missions and Colonialism in North America by Carol Blackbum.
Aboriginal Education: Fulfilling the Promise edited by Marlene Brant Castellano, Lynne Davis, and Louise Lahache.
In the Words of Elders: Aboriginal Cultures in Transition edited by Peter Kulchyski, Don McCaskill, and David Newhouse.
Suicide in Canada edited by Antoon A. Leenaars, Susanne Wenckstern, Isaac Sakinofsky, Ronald J. Dyck, Michael J. Kral, and Roger C.
Prairie Forum, vol. 26, no. 2, Fall, 2001, pp. 266-269
Description
Book review of 3 books:
Treaty Elders of Saskatchewan: Our Dream Is That Our Peoples Will One Day be Clearly Recognized as Nations by Harold Cardinal and Walter Hildebrandt.
Bounty and Benevolence: A History of Saskatchewan Treaties by Arthur Ray and Jim Miller.
Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867-1877 by Jill St. Germain.
Native Studies Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Native Peoples, Museums, and Heritage Resource Management, 1987, pp. 139-144
Description
Review of: The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First People by Julia D. Harrison, co-ordinating curator, with Ted J. Brasser, Bernadette Driscoll, Ruth B. Phillips, Martine J. Reid, Judy Thompson, and Ruth Holmes Whitehead, editors.