MELUS, vol. 25, no. 3/4, Autumn-Winter, 2000, pp. 31-64
Description
Discussion on the poetic re-imaginings in Tekonwatonti, Molly Brant by Maurice Kenny, in order to reconstruct the times, life, and land of Molly Brant.
Critical Public Health, vol. 10, no. 2, 2000, pp. 243-256
Description
Examines the holistic and spiritual concepts of health among Indigenous peoples in North America and Australia as opposed to western medicine's linear approach.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, National Identity and Gender Politics, Summer, 2000, pp. 143-148
Description
Looks at the complexities of the ongoing debate between feminists and nationalists saying that feminist theories need to integrate issues of race, lands, sovereignty, and colonialism.
Wisconsin Women's Law Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, Fall, 2000, pp. 293-334
Description
Argues that sentencing circles are of little use to the victim and that only a solution which addresses the imbalance of power between men and women produced by colonial policies will make a substantive difference.
Research Report (Department of Justice Canada) ; 2000-7e
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Naomi Giff
Description
Report provides collection of articles addressing social issues, crime, and justice issues in the North and the nature and results of community-based justice projects in Canada.
"Unrevised".
FORUM on Corrections Research, vol. 12, no. 1, Aboriginal People in Corrections, January 2000, pp. 48-50
Description
Discussion of programs offered by the Lodge which are meant to enhance womens' chances of success upon release; follows principles outlined in the Creating Choices Report.
Anthropology of Work Review, vol. 21, no. 2, June 2000, pp. 12-17
Description
Discusses Tsimshian women's experience as laborers and producers and their exclusion from wage work and independent harvesting over the past 100 years.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 24, no. 5, September/October 2000, p. 20
Description
Reports on the awarding of the Queensland (Australia) Health Outstanding Achievement Award to Maureen Kirk, Project Officer, Women's Cancer Screening Services, Public Health Services in Brisbane, Australia.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3, Indigenous Women, July/August/September 2000, pp. 12-17
Description
Article attempts to construct an overview of the plight of Asian Indigenous women as victims of oppression and disadvantage.
To access this article scroll down to page 12.
Herizons, vol. 14, no. 1, Summer, 2000, pp. 15-[?]
Description
Deals with the political power Aboriginal women traditionally exercised and how Western political systems have excluded these women from decision-making, thereby undermining Indigenous cultures.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, National Identity and Gender Politics, Summer, 2000, pp. 64-69
Description
Discussion of identity under the Indian Act and the past discriminatory provision of women who marry non-Indian men losing thier status, and social and political rights.
Winner of the 2000 George Wicken Prize in Canadian Literature: The Raced Female Body and the Discourse of Peuplement in Rudy Wiebe's The Temptations of Big Bear and The Scorched-Wood People
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Catherine Higginson
Essays on Canadian Writing, no. 72, Winter, 2000, pp. 172-190
Description
Examination of Rudy Wiebe's novels and his use of conventional 19th-century depictions of women.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, 2000, pp. 1-35
Description
Examines stories of healing and resistance to the cultural denigration experienced by women of the Northern Cheyenne, Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux reservations.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, 2000, pp. 223-268
Description
Book reviews of:
American Indians and National Parks by Robert H. Keller and Michael F. Turek.
Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archeology of the Unknown Past edited by Richard F.