Provenance, vol. 10, no. 1-2, Spring-Fall, 1992, pp. 1-24
Description
Looks at how the National Archives of Canada is maintaining the collective memory of Canadian life by acquiring native art for its historical value rather than its artistic value.
Mohawks of Kanehsatake and their supporters from Kahnawake, stand-off against the Quebec police and the Canadian military in defense of a sacred burial ground.This film deals with mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.
Duration: 104:34.
Examination of structure and operation of principal institutions of public government: the Legislative Assembly, the cabinet and bureaucracy from the mid-1970s to the 1990s.
Arguments supporting the sentencing or healing circle as a "valid vehicle for reflecting Aboriginal culture and traditions in the criminal justice system."
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 7, 1992, pp. 185-206
Description
Discusses the dispute as to whether Lubicons are included in Treaty Eight or live on unceded land and are therefore entitled to an external adhesion.
A commentary on this article appears in the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 7, 1992, pp. 207-212.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 7-13
Description
Comments on the oil boom being a major factor for the success of the arts in the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 7.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 16, no. 3, May/June 1992, pp. 4-5
Description
Looks at some of the key policy decisions identified in the reports The National Aboriginal Health Strategy Working Party Report and The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People and HIV/AIDS.
File includes a pamphlet from the Manitoba Metis Nation with advice about how to vote on the Charlottetown Accord. Personal statement by Yvon Dumont, President of the Metis National Council and Manitoba Metis Federation included in pamphlet.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 25-32
Description
Argues that the Alcatraz event was mainly a civil rights movement protest against the very oppressive conditions faced by Native Americans, somewhat like the Ku Klux Klan gathering in 1957 was for the African-American population.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 131-134
Description
Argues that the occupation of Alcatraz Island set the stage for Native American peoples spiritual rebirth and was the beginning of the reclaiming of pride and dignity for all Indian nations.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 59-74
Description
Gives different perspectives on the Alcatraz story, including insider-outsider and Native-Non-Native. The author comments how the occupation is still told like a legend or a folk tale would be.
Exhibition was part of the Mendel Art Gallery's Post-Colonial Landscape series, featured 60 paintings from 1960-1990 selected from the Thunder Bay Art Gallery's retrospective The Art of Alex Janvier: His First Thirty Years, 1960-1990.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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Author/Creator
James Youngblood Henderson
pp. 423-432
Description
Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, provides some concluding remarks on the Conference discussions of the justice system, its failing of Aboriginal peoples and the necessary reform and commitment to change required.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
Native Studies Review, vol. 10, no. 2, 1995, pp. 57-76
Description
Explores the life story, escape, recapture and death of the young Saskatchewan Cree, Kahkeesay-Manitoowayo, who escaped from jail and remained at large for nineteen months.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 23, no. 6, July-August 1994, p. 14
Description
First Nations Justice System provides future opportunity to apply alternative forms of treatment in correcting the behaviour of First Nations people who violate Provincial Wildlife Regulations/Law.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 4, 1995, pp. 125-133
Description
Argues that the Exxon Valdex oil spill would become the scapegoat for the many changes in the Alutiiq environment that have occurred in the twentieth century, including glacier ice melt, earthquakes, tidal waves, avalanches, volcanic eruptions and massive storms.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 1, 1992, pp. 137-163
Description
Chronicles the brief rise and fall of Bill S.2770, the Indian Finance Corporation Act, in the U.S. Senate in 1990, which, the author argues, could have been a powerful positive force in solving problems of underdevelopment.