Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 6, June 2008, p. 1,12
Description
Comments on the historic apology by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, on June 11, 2008, to former students of Indian Residential Schools asking for their forgiveness on behalf of the government and all other Canadians.
Article located on page 1 and by scrolling to page 12.
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Shadow Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[US Human Rights Network?]
Description
Brief discussion of the history of the system and ongoing effects of human rights violations such as religious/cultural suppression, forced labor, and deaths in schools.
Native Studies Review, vol. 17, no. 2, 2008, pp. 155-163
Description
Explores 'knowing differently' and how bi-epistemic research challenges the researchers preconceived world views and places them in unfamiliar experience.
Website aims to be a repository of materials (photographs, films, sound recordings or documents) that are culturally and historically significant to the Indigenous people of central Australia.
Arctic, vol. 61, no. 5, suppl. 1, 2008, pp. iii-xi
Description
Looks at the challenges of climate change being witnessed in Arctic marine and coastal areas and the impact of those changes on the coastal communities.
Anglican Journal, vol. 134, no. 7, September 2008, p. 9
Description
Introduces topics discussed at the synod of the diocese of the Arctic meeting in Iqaluit, Nunavut from May 27 to June 3, 2008. Topics included same-sex unions, welfare of youth, and housing issues.
Encyclopedia Arctica. Transportation and Communications
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Howard A. Chapelle
Description
Looks at umiak (open boats) and kayak (decked hunting canoe) used by Inuit in Canada, Greenland, Alaska and Asia and compares them to the Irish curraghs.
Digitized copy of typescript is part of the unpublished reference work on the Northern Arctic and subarctic regions. Project ran from 1947-1951.
Abstract: The territorial aspirations and achievements of Aboriginal minorities in the common-law jurisdictions of North America, Australia and New Zealand can be divided according to three varieties of political-legal situations; those in areas of initiation, enhancement and omission. In the first of these, to which attention is here confined, there has been no legally defined and protected land-base, and Aboriginal land claims are or have been the subject of recent litigation, negotiation and settlement.
Studies in Art Education, vol. 52, no. 3, Spring, 2011, pp. 225-242
Description
Compares the educational philosophies and methods of Richard Pratt, founder of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and Estelle Reel, the Superintendent of Indian Schools between 1898-1910.
English Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 2011.
Examines four films: Waban-aki: People from Where the Sun Rises by Alanis Obomsawin, Reel Injun by Neil Diamond, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner and The Journals of Knud Rasmussen both by Isuma Corporation.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1-32
Description
Uses the art of Arthur Renwick as an illustration of the environment, attitudes and efforts to resist colonization of other Aboriginal artists, including Alfred Young Man.