Missionary accounts and agency reports revealed a larger Yanktonai agenda of resistance to assimilation through negotiations with federal officials and missionaries.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3-4, Indigenous People in Urban Areas, 2002, pp. 16-21
Description
Explores the exploitation that takes place with relatively young women who are placed in a new, urban culture.
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Argues that international rules are needed for the collection of genetic material and gives an example of explotation among the Nootka of Vancouver Island.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 68-75
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Discusses Allen's many contributions as a scholar, poet, novelist, theorist, political activist, and professor.
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International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 4, Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research Involving Indigenous Peoples - Part 2, October 2017, pp. 1-[3]
Description
Book review: Trickster Chases the Tale of Education by Sylvia Moore.
Psychology Thesis (Psy.D.)--The Wright Institute, 2002.
Analyses of resiliency in the work of authors including Sherman Alexie, Leslie Silko, Louise Erdrich,
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 1, 2008, pp. 21-34
Description
Discusses tropes or traditions, the organizing devices societies cohere to, by comparing a book and a movie. As key elements of belief systems, tropes act as powerful mediators between the world and how we experience the world’s meaning . By structuring a shared reality cultures are created, however, sometimes tropes can structure incompatible realities across cultures and distort our ability to understand cultures different from our own.
Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing, and Teaching Genocide
E-Books » Chapters
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Adam Muller
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Discusses the meaning of genocide and whether or not genocide occurred based on two underlying issues.
Chapter 3 from Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing, and Teaching Genocide edited by Scott W. Murray.
Discusses the importance of The Paris Agreement to Indigenous peoples and how it is a step closer to the recognition of their rights in international law.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, Summer, 2008, pp. 275-296
Description
Examines the strategies used by Harry C. Hale to communicate with and gain the trust of Hunkpapa peoples following the death of Sitting Bull in December of 1890.
Process Inclusive and Transparent, Acknowledging the Emotional Difficulty of the Memory Sharing For Survivors
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Author/Creator
Andréa Ledding
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 6, June 2008, p. 23
Description
Looks at the priorities of the Commission including determining vision and making plans for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission launch.
Article located by scrolling to page 23.
Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs speaks about his background, challenges faced by community chiefs and First Nations political organizations, and the how the land plays a central role in attempts at reconciliation
Duration: 59:54.
CFLA-FCAB Truth and Reconciliation Committee Report and Recommendations
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CFLA-FCAB Truth and Reconciliation Committee
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Overview of the Canadian Federation of Library Associations -Federation candienne des associations de bibliotheques's Truth and Reconciliation committee's mandate, responsibilities and methodology and a list of recommendations presented to the incoming board.
Anglican Journal, vol. 134, no. 2, February 2008, p. 15
Description
Comments on the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions mandate to hear from those who have been affected by residential schools, including the Anglican Church of Canada.
Multiplying and Dividing: Tuberculosis in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand
RAL-e ; no.3, 2008
Research in Anthropology & Linguistics-e ; no. 3, 2008
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Agapi Mavridis
Description
Discusses links between attempted eradication of TB with the social conditions that allow the disease to thrive.
Chapter 4 from : Multiplying and Dividing: Tuberculosis in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Judith Littleton, Julie Park, Ann Herring and Tracy Farmer.
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Multiplying and Dividing: Tuberculosis in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand
RA&L-e ; no.3, 2008
Research in Anthropology & Linguistics-e ; no. 3, 2008
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Paul Hackett
Description
Highlights several factors including inability of government and church to protect children and the conflict between economics of running the schools and medical personnel.
Chapter 10 from: Multiplying and Dividing: Tuberculosis in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Judith Littleton, Julie Park, Ann Herring and Tracy Farmer.
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