Towards 2012, Part III: Culture and Language, 1997, p. [?]
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Discusses different characteristics of Clowns in different tribes from the Oglala and Lakota to the Salish and Hopis and the importance of the Clowns to the community spirit.
Paths of Resistance, Tracks of Disruption: On Stereotypes, Native/Women's Spirituality, and the Problems of Functionalism and Cultural Appropriation in the
Mr. Paul Gladue, aged 75, describes the area of land covered by a trapper; the traditional lifestyle in northern Alberta; and work in Fort McMurray supplying wood to river steamboats.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 299-320
Description
Author examines both the text and its reception to offer a critical analysis of factors that affect the interaction between dominant and marginalized cultures including acts of appropriation on the part of reviewers, and the devaluing of oral literatures.
Chemosphere, vol. 34, no. 5-7, 1997, pp. 1459-1468
Description
Studies the high exposure of organochlorines, via food-chain contamination, on Inuit in Northern Quebec, and discusses the impact it has on their health.
Historical background and submission to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding a land entitlement shortfall. ICC suspended its inquiry since the Crown accepted the claim under the Specific Claims Policy. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 149-157
Description
Reviews three books, each providing a life history of an Indigenous male: Blackfoot warrior Red Crow, Comanche Chief Quanah Parker, and Nuumuu farm labourer Corbett Mack.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 1, no. 3, 1975, pp. 13-21
Description
Using anthropological and colonial sources presents an alternative way of thinking about the tribe's motivations and activities in the conflict with New England colonists.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 1997, pp. 329-350
Description
Reviews the research project developed to examine the attitudes of both incarcerated Aboriginal youth and senior management on the issue of racism in British Columbia's youth correctional facilities.
Issues in Educational Research, vol. 11, no. 1, 2001, pp. 1-13
Description
Analysis of a questionnaire given to upper primary and lower secondary years students indicated the need for teachers to form strong relationships with their students to ensure their educational success.
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, [Aboriginal Peoples: Special Issue], Spring/Summer, 2001, pp. 85-104
Description
An anthropologist's career and research about the Beothuk and Mi'kmaq. Speck was a student of Franz Boas, often referred to as the "father of American anthropology."
[Antimodernism and Artistic Experience: Policing the Boundaries of Modernity]
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Ruth B. Phillips
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Argues that during the period between the 1860s and the 1960s performance art offered the most favourable site for answering to stereotypes such as vanishing, pre-modern and degenerate races. Uses the careers of Ester Deer and Molly Nelson as examples.
Chapter from: Antimodernism and Artistic Experience: Policing the Boundaries of Modernity edited by Lynda Jessup
New story about Manitoba Grand Chief Phil Fontaine being under fire for hiring Brian Contois, leader of the Manitoba Warriors, to keep Aboriginal youth out of street gangs. Includes synopsis.
Duration: 2:13.