Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND)
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Annual reference report on the demographic, social and economic conditions of First Nations people on and off-reserve. Topics include population, education, health and social conditions, housing, self-government and economic and labour force activity.
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Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND)
Description
Annual reference report on the demographic, social and economic conditions of First Nations people on and off-reserve. Topics include population, education, health and social conditions, housing, self-government, and economic and labour force activity.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 4, Series 2. Critical Approaches, Winter, 1994, pp. 36-50
Description
Looks at how Paula Gunn Allen has constructed a social identity that transforms the borderlands of reader, writer, and text to examine the issues of positionality and essentialism.
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Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 23, no. 2, 1998, pp. [163-?]
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Examines the evolution and development of the radio station serving First Nations in Southwestern Ontario and evaluates its success as a viable community institution.
IPA Backgrounder, vol. 10, no. 1, February 1998, pp. 1-24
Description
Disputes issues discussed in the 1997 national inquiry report, Bringing Them Home, such as specific cases, comparison of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal child removal and the claim of genocide.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 1, Series 2: Feminist and Post-Colonial Approaches, Spring, 1994, pp. 71-82
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Looks at creative ways of expressing human experience, along with creative critical approaches that tear down artificial boundaries.
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Maclean's, vol. 111, no. 52, December/January 1998, pp. 114-[?]
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Discussion of mini-series based on the historical novel The Temptations of Big Bear about the Plains Cree leader and his fight to gain a fair Treaty settlement for his people. Filmed in Saskatchewan by Gil Cardinal of Alberta.
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 19, no. 2, Culture and Education: Aboriginal Settings, Concerns, and Insights, 1994, pp. 165-181
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Outlines motivations for bilingual instruction, curriculum, and difficulties involved in implementation, and argues that such a program will eventually lead to a hybrid language and culture.
Contends that contents of the bill will eventually lead to loss of Status for Aboriginal people. Speech was delivered at the Unity for Our Grandchildren conference in a session with The Native Women's Association of Canada.
Proceedings of conference that looked at the impact of the legislation. Main issues discussed were divisiveness resulting from adoption of band membership codes which block women from returning to their home communities and two-tiered system which produces loss of status due to the "second generation cutoff" rule.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, Autumn, 1994, pp. 481-494
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Literary criticism article which examines Black Hawk: An Autobiography and argues that in addition to its value as a historical text, it should also be considered as an act of literary resistance against the narratives imposed on Indigenous peoples by mainstream society.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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Robert W. Mitchell
pp. 303-314
Description
Article from 1993 Conference proceeding, discussing justice reform, self-government in the context of inherent rights and facing the challenge of overlapping roles among the levels of government.
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.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 230-258
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Author considers different perceptions of and from people of mixed Black and Cherokee ancestry in an attempt to better understand the discourses surrounding the Cherokee Freedmen, tribal affiliations, and the constructs of individual and community identities.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 253-300
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Argues that the occupation of Alcatraz Island started a process of Government repression of Indigenous activists that was without parallel in its virulence and lethal effects.
Looks at results from the U.S. Department of Education's Indian Nations at Risk (INAR) Task Force and the White House Conference on Indian Education in 1992 regarding Native students in public schools and school reform.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 2, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Louis Owens, Summer, 1998, pp. 23-40
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Explores the dual and linked themes of stories and community as expressed through the main character, who finds himself isolated from both.
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Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, 1998, pp. 157-161
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Book review of: Visions of Sound: Musical Instruments of First Nations Communities in Northeastern America by Beverley Diamond, M. Sam Cronk and Franziska von Rosen.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, 1998, pp. 161-164
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Book review of: âtalôhkâna nêsta tipâcimôwina. Cree Legends and Narratives from the West Coast of James Bay told by Simeon Scott and translated by C. Douglas Ellis.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, 1998, pp. 169-171
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Book review of: Voices from the Bay: Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Inuit and Cree in the Hudson Bay Bioregion by Miram McDonald, Lucassie Arragutainaq and Zack Novalinga.