Basic definitions and information about on-reserve real property rights following separation or divorce of married or common-law couples. Not intended to provide legal advice.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 4, Indigenous Peoples in Africa, 2003, pp. 14-19
Description
Looks at how livelihood systems and traditional hunting and gathering grounds are being threatened by conservation project on Cameroon's Atlantic coast.
To access this article, scroll down to page 14.
Discusses five models of aggregation: single-tier, two-tier, power sharing through treaties, and special purpose bodies with and without specific legislated powers, and the utility of each type.
Covers the past 100 years of contact between First Nations farmers and non-Aboriginal farmers which in many circumstances depended on the level of respect they had for each other.
Public Health Reports, vol. 118, no. 6, November-December 2003, pp. 518-530
Description
Compares mortality patterns between Alaskan Native and Non-Native population between 1989 to 1998 and trends for period between 1979-1998. Uses data from the Indian Health Service and 1990 Census.
Alternatives Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, Winter, 2003, pp. 58-61
Description
Book review of: Take My Land, Take My Life: The Story of Congress's Historic Settlement of the Alaska Native Land Claims, 1960-1971 by Donald Craig Mitchell.
Explores province's early history using three themes: Archaeology and Pre-Contact, First Nations and Métis History, and Fur Trade and Mission History. Text with accompanying photos....
Rural and Remote Health, vol. 3, no. 156, February 8, 2003, pp. 1-10
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Study identifies risk factors for adult renal disease through a screening program known as the Umoona Kidney Project. Information will be used by Aboriginal health workers.
Historical background and submissions to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) concerning the federal Crown's granting of three rights of way to Calgary Power on Alexis IR133 during 1950s and 1960s. ICC concluded no effort was made to provide annual payments to the Band and recommended the claim be accepted for negotiation under Canada's Specific Claims Policy. Commissioners include: Roger J. Augustine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, Sheila G. Purdy. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2, A Special Symposium Issue on James Welch's , 1978, pp. 123-130
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A discussion on ritual in James Welch's Winter in the Blood and its a representation of Indigenous Americans fighting their own cultural alienation in society.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2, A Special Symposium Issue on James Welch's , 1978, pp. 107-122
Description
Takes a feminist approach to analyzing James Welch's story structure and characters in the novel. The female characters are the cause of and the resolution to the story's conflict.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring, 2000, pp. 219-246
Description
Examines how the writer, Thomas King, explores the conflicting storytelling traditions of Native Americans and European/North Americans regarding colonialism.
Examines the controversy over the question of the author's Aboriginality and ethnicity.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
Entire book on one pdf. To access paper, scroll to p. 108.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 3, Summer, June 1, 2000, pp. 420-440
Description
Wynema: A Child of the Forest, by S. Alice Callahan, originally published in 1891, contains one of the few literary critiques of the Dawes Act (commonly known as the General Allotment Act).
Discusses the poem A Dead Nation by DeWitt Clinton Duncan, the short story A War Maiden by Charles A. Eastman and My Mother a short story by E. Pauline Johnson.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 12, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2000, pp. [97]-101
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Book review of: Always a People collected by Rita Kohn and W. Lynwood Monteil.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 5, Articulating Aboriginal Paradigms: Implications for Aboriginal Social Work Practice, November 2003, pp. 299-313
Description
Looks at the philosophy of social work that is based upon the values of humanitarianism and egalitarianism, its values, and its practices; and examines Indigenous-based helping philosophies, theories, approaches and practices.