Description of the formation and history of the Saskatchewan Indian Media Corporation and its goal of delivering media services to the Treaty peoples in Saskatchewan.
Discusses amendments to the Act involving reinstatement of status that had been lost due to gender discrimination in the previous Act, the issue of transmission of status to children, difficulties in producing documentation, and band membership vs. status.
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND)
Description
Annual reference report on the demographic, social and economic conditions of First Nations people on and off-reserve. Topics include population, education, health and social conditions, housing, self-government and economic and labour force activity.
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Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND)
Description
Annual reference report on the demographic, social and economic conditions of First Nations people on and off-reserve. Topics include population, education, health and social conditions, housing, self-government, and economic and labour force activity.
A large coloured illustration depicting the Battle of Batoche reproduced from the Canadian Illustrated War News. Published in the series The Opening of the West by Encyclopedia Britannica.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, May 1885, p. 196
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Note: The description of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library.
A short article on the ongoing Northwest Resistance, including four sketches: 1. The fort at Battleford; 2. The South Saskatchewan; 3. Steamers loading at Medicine Hat; 4. The Revolt of the Half-Breeds.
This file contains excerpts from Reginald Beatty's diary, correspondence about his encounters with Cree people, and letters home to his parents detailing his experience in the 1885 Riel Rebellion. Mr. Beatty was a farmer and fur trader in what is now known as the Melfort area of Saskatchewan.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 4, Series 2. Critical Approaches, Winter, 1994, pp. 36-50
Description
Looks at how Paula Gunn Allen has constructed a social identity that transforms the borderlands of reader, writer, and text to examine the issues of positionality and essentialism.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 1, Series 2: Feminist and Post-Colonial Approaches, Spring, 1994, pp. 71-82
Description
Looks at creative ways of expressing human experience, along with creative critical approaches that tear down artificial boundaries.
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Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 19, no. 2, Culture and Education: Aboriginal Settings, Concerns, and Insights, 1994, pp. 165-181
Description
Outlines motivations for bilingual instruction, curriculum, and difficulties involved in implementation, and argues that such a program will eventually lead to a hybrid language and culture.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, Autumn, 1994, pp. 481-494
Description
Literary criticism article which examines Black Hawk: An Autobiography and argues that in addition to its value as a historical text, it should also be considered as an act of literary resistance against the narratives imposed on Indigenous peoples by mainstream society.
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.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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Robert W. Mitchell
pp. 303-314
Description
Article from 1993 Conference proceeding, discussing justice reform, self-government in the context of inherent rights and facing the challenge of overlapping roles among the levels of government.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 253-300
Description
Argues that the occupation of Alcatraz Island started a process of Government repression of Indigenous activists that was without parallel in its virulence and lethal effects.
Looks at results from the U.S. Department of Education's Indian Nations at Risk (INAR) Task Force and the White House Conference on Indian Education in 1992 regarding Native students in public schools and school reform.
Native Studies Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Native Peoples, Museums, and Heritage Resource Management, 1987, pp. 139-144
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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.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 1994, pp. 395-434
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Book review of 14 books:
Drum Songs: Glimpses of Dene History by Kerry Abel.
Names, Numbers, and Northern Policy by Valerie Alia.
Sacred Stories of the Sweet Grass Cree by Leonard Bloomfield.
Guide to Oral History Collections in Canada/Guide des fonds d'histoire orale au Canada by Normand Fortier.
The Mohicans of Stockbridge by Patrick Frazier.
500 Jahre danach: Zur heutigen Lage der indigenen Volker beider Amerika (500 Years Thereafter: The Present Day Situation of the Indigenous Peoples of Both Americas) edited by Peter R.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 1994, pp. 1-31
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Book review of 10 books:
Indians Are Us: Culture and Genocide in Native North America by Ward Churchill.
Thresholds of Differences: Feminist Critique, Native Women's Writings, Postcolonial Theory by Julia Emberly.
Nation to Nation: Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Future of Canada edited by Diane Englestad and John Bird.
Arctic Dreams and Nightmares by Alootook Ipellie.
The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories: The Original Tsimshian Texts of Henry Tate by Ralph Maud.
Ethnophilosophical and Ethnolinguistic Perspectives on the Huron Soul by Michael Pomedli.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 1987, pp. 139-147
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Book reviews of 3 books:
Too Few To Count: Canadian Women In Conflict With The Law edited by Ellen Adelberg and Claudia Currie.
The Foot of the River by George Lalor.
Ste. Madeleine, Community Without a Town: Métis Elders in Interview by Ken Zeilig and Victoria Zeilig.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 3, Series 2: Linda Hogan: Calling Us Home, Fall, 1994, pp. 7-14
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Discusses the dissolving of physical, spiritual, and human/animal boundaries in Linda Hogan’s writing.
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