Ethnohistory, vol. 51, no. 3, Summer, 2004, pp. 567-607
Description
Identifies sources and methods for documenting Métis during the fur trade period in Ontario in order to investigate legal and historical questions related to contemporary rights of Métis in that province.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, Indigenous Women, 2004, pp. 4-7
Description
Introduction to journal issue featuring articles on the external social pressures which affect traditional gender structures and Indigenous women.
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The Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 4, no. 1, Special Edition: Value(s) Added: Sharing Voices on Aboriginal CED, Fall, 2004, pp. 14-21
Description
Uses the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology (NVIT) as an example of how Aboriginal institutions can identify useful culture, values, and traditions and incorporate them into an institution's organizational structure.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, 2004, pp. 129-222
Description
Discusses important documents regarding Aboriginal governance during the last three decades including key emerging themes, policy issues, and areas in need of further research.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 4, Land Rights: A Key Issue, 2004, pp. 47-50
Description
Discusses effects the creation of Lake Hannington Games Reserve has had on traditional culture and religious lifestyle of the Endorois people living by Lake Bogoria.
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Peepeekisis First Nation Inquiry File Hills Colony Claim (French Version)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Final report examines historical background and submission to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding whether the Crown breached its fiduciary obligation by allocating reserve land (IR 81) to people outside of the Band. ICC found Canada breached its obligations and recommended the claim be a negotiated under Canada's Specific Claims Policy. (French language version) Commissioners include: Alan C. Holman, Renee Dupuis, and Sheila G. Purdy.
[These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
Environment and Economic Development: Co-Managing a National Park While Stimulating Community Development in Churchill (MB)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Thibault Martin
Lisa Falvo
Mike Chotka
Description
Examines the differing opinions on the efficiency of the co-management structure and the tensions that exist regarding the impact of the park on community development.
Pimatisiwin, vol. 2, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 59-76
Description
Relates the events leading to the forced relocation of the residents of Island Cache in Prince George B.C. in the early 1970s and how community research needs to be ethical.
Includes discussion of friction in the East coast fishery and issues in post-secondary education, interviews with leaders from the Prairies, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories, and commentaries. Also includes statistics from survey of Canadian's attitudes about important Aboriginal issues.
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.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, Indigenous Women, 2004, pp. 22-27
Description
Examines female circumcision in ethnic groups in Kenya and gives an overview of attempts to eradicate the practice.
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States that because colony was established on Peepeekisis reserve without permission, and students from other bands were brought there to live and farm, members of the original band were displaced and unable to use communal lands.
Discussion Paper Series in Aboriginal Health. Legal Issues ; no. 2
NAHO Discussion Paper Series ; no.2
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Yvonne Boyer
Description
Uses historical analysis to argue that federal government has a clear obligation to provide health care to Aboriginals but has failed to provide adequate services.
Journal of Ecological Anthropology, vol. 8, 2004, pp. 24-46
Description
Looks at the structure and function of grassland ecosystems in British Columbia from pre-European contact through the present; and discusses grassland restoration ecology from a First Nations perspective.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, 2004, pp. 29-56
Description
Examines the National Reclamation Act and how many people in the Gila River and Casa Grande valleys, including government officials, thought that the first reclamation project would be built in Arizona.
Indigenous Policy Journal of the Indigenous Studies Network, vol. 15, no. 2, Special International Indigenous Issue, Summer, 2004, p. [?]
Description
Discusses an interview session with George Manuel on his vision of international solidarity towards human rights promotion where social, cultural, economic, civil and political justice prevail and people live with respect and dignity.
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Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 1, no. 1, Governance of Aboriginal Health, January 2004, pp. 115-116
Description
Book reviews of: Beyond Intellectual Property: Toward Traditional Resource Rights for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities by Darrell A. Posey, Graham Dutfield and
Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge by Marie Battiste, James (Sa'ke'j) Youngblood Henderson.
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 1, no. 1, Governance of Aboriginal Health, January 2004, pp. 26-27
Description
Book reviews of 2 books:
Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives by James B. Waldram, D. Ann Herring, T. Kue Young and
Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation: Australia, Canada and New Zealand by Andrew Armitage.
New Scientist, vol. 184, no. 2468, October 9, 2004, pp. 8[-?]
Description
Signed agreement between Pacific island nation of Samoa and the University of California, will split equally revenues from potential prostratin-based drugs, extracted from the mamala tree bark. Samoan healers were the first to recognize the trees medicinal potential.
Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 4, Winter, 2004, pp. 429-450
Description
Argues that Native Americans experimented with their identities and dramatized their resistance to white society and culture during the Haskell Institute homecoming of 1926.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 92-96
Description
Author describes a process of research and discovery during the making of a short PSA film in which they discover historical family ties, and serendipitous implications for the present.
Risk Analysis: An International Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, August 2004, pp. 1007-1018
Description
Results show little downside economically or nutritionally when replacing some "country food" with food from other sources, but few have actually altered their lifestyle perhaps because of the high value placed on the traditional economy.