American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3/4, Decolonizing Archaeology, Summer - Autumn, 2006, pp. 632-645
Description
Author examines the commentary on the opening exhibits at National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), offers their own criticism on the museum’s “failure to discuss the colonization process in a clear and coherent manner.”
Critiques John S. Milloy's The Plains Cree: Trade, Diplomacy and War, 1790-1870 describing the books lack of primary research and inadequate attention to the facts.
Article includes listing of 100s of missing persons including: the late Amber Tara-Lynn Redman, Daleen Bosse, and the late Melanie Dawn Geddes, Shelley Napope, Calinda Waterhen, Eva Taysup, Mary Jane Serloin, Joyce Lucille Tillotson (missing since 1983) and many others.
Provides information used to assess the practicality of developing and implementing standardized police policies, protocols, and practices across Saskatchewan.
Sociology Department, Faculty Publications. Paper 89
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adrienne Freng
Scott Freng
Helen A. Moore
Sociological Focus, vol. 39, no. 1, February 2006, pp. 55-74
Description
Examines the condition of education from the perspective of young adult American Indians from the Ho-Chunk or Winnebago tribe, Omaha, Santee, Lakota, and Cheyenne tribes living in Nebraska.
Comparative Literature Studies , vol. 43, no. 3, Classics and Contemporary Literature/Culture/Theory, 2006, pp. 355-374
Description
Shows how the tradition of monkey stories can be blended into American literature in Gerald Vizenor's Griever: An American Monkey King in China, Maxine Hong Kingston's Tipmaster Monkey: His Fake Book and Patricia Chao's Monkey King.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 17, no. 4, Reforming Our Schools, Native Style, Summer, 2006
Description
Comments on the legislation passed in Montana that provides funding for tribal colleges to prepare curriculum that educates all students about the role of Native Americans in the nation's history.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1, Africa and the New Millennium Development Goals, 2006, pp. 46-54
Description
Citing examples from research done in Botswana, article discusses several factors effecting education: spatial distance, cultural distance and a failure to accommodate local language and culture.
To access this article, scroll down to page 46.
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, vol. 62, no. 1, 2006, pp. 65-83
Description
Discussion of how the narrative by Mounring Dove (or Hum-ishu-ma) is a complex read due to intrusion of the collaborating author, nevertheless reveals her perspectives, which places Metis women in roles equal to men.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 37-49
Description
Explores the difficulties of translating a poem by Rex Lee Jim due to phonetic, rhythmic, symbolic and morphological differences and concludes that linguistic critical analysis and ethnographic knowledge are crucial to translation projects.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 37.
Ministry of Advanced Education Annual Post-Secondary Education Forum ; 3rd, 2006
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Garry Merkel
Description
Primary focus of discussions was the B.C. Ministry of Advanced Education's document Proposed Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education Strategy and its Aboriginal post-secondary Enhancement Plans.
Studies the monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota and the changes since 2004 when Gerald Baker became the facilities first Native American superintendent.
Argues that while, on the surface Canada may seem to have respected the right to self-government, in practical terms it has done little and a landmark decision is needed to speed the process.
Extracts from the diary of George B. Murphy, of Qu'Appelle, transport officer of the Battleford Column, Second Division of the North West Field Force, sent out to suppress the 1885 resistance. Entries from March 17 - July 16, 1885. Entries mostly include communications regarding troop movements.
Satirical essay which parallels discussion about the creation of the National Museum of the American Indian.
Designed to accompany the film A Seat at the Drum from the Public Broadcasting Service series Indian Country Diaries.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 4, 2006, pp. 41-62
Description
Contends that Native Americans do not lack an historic tradition of philosophy, that wisdom is apparent in American Indian oral tradition, and that what they do have is often misunderstood or rejected by the Western culture.