Studies in American Literatures, vol. 5, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1993, pp. 6-24
Description
Discusses how Silko manages to employ oral traditions through a multiplicity of storytellers in her novel, Storyteller.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 14, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 2002, pp. [1]-25
Description
Contends that the writer uses Western sources from Shakespeare through to Edward Lear, Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot and blends them with Native American literary traditions to create a truly mixedblood novel.
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Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jay Nelson
Law and Society Series
Description
Considers several factors affecting intermarriage: geography, law, morality, race and sexuality.
Chapter 1 from Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law edited by John P. S. McLaren, Robert Menzies, Dorothy E. Chunn.
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, vol. 20, no. 4, December 2002, p. 265–278
Description
Examines an environmental impact assessment review followed by parallel permitting and negotiated agreements including policy, environmental, social impact, legal/administrative, and economic issues.
American Journal of Human Genetics, vol. 70, no. 4, April 2002, pp. 905-919
Description
Study analyzes genetic material to propose the origins, time of tribalization, population expansion and migration patterns of Native North Americans before recorded history.
The Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 3, no. 1, Special Issue on Sustainability, Summer, 2002, pp. 94-97
Description
Author focuses on the Human Development Report 2001 (HDR 2001), published by the United Nations Development Program, which stresses technology as the remedy to poverty, disease and inequality.
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A photograph of the North West Half-Breed Claims Royal Commission members in 1885. (l to r); W.P.R. Street QC Chairman; Roger Goulet Secretary; N.O. Cote; A.E. Forget.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 36, no. 3, June 2002, pp. 404-410
Description
Study discusses differences in suicide methods and high levels of untreated mental illness and substance abuse among many of the individuals who had taken their own lives.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 39, no. 1-2, 2002, pp. 10-27
Description
Discusses two ideas that influenced Subarctic prehistory; that the Subarctic was not a center for social change and that the environment was excessively austere.
TDR [The Drama Review], vol. 37, no. 1, Spring, 1993, pp. 9-17
Description
Letter to the editor regarding the article Weesageechak Begins to Dance: Native Earth Performing Arts Inc. (published in vol. 36 , no.1, 1992) as well as several letters in rebuttal.
The Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 3, no. 1, Summer, 2002, pp. 76-88
Description
Article spotlights the process of structural change, suggesting that social capital is key to long term economic success.
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, Special Issue on Encounter of Two Worlds: The Next Five Hundred Years, 1993, pp. 131-139
Description
Exposes the problems of intrusive research on Aboriginal peoples and the publication of information people within the communities do not wish disseminated to the general public.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 4, 1993, pp. 99-105
Description
Study found a positive correlation between the number of hospital beds and suicide and homicide rates among United States Indian Health Service (IHS) areas. This study puts into question previous studies which found a negative correlation between the same variables.
Looks at program's impact on Aboriginal businesses, entrepreneurs and financial institutions, as well as broader contributions to sustainable development and enhanced recognition. Information gathered from secondary sources, and interviews with 54 key informants and 13 Aboriginal Business Canada staff members.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2, Bolivia, June 2002, pp. 36-45
Description
Overview of the privatization of Bolivian state oilfields and the ensuing conflicts and negotiations between oil companies and Indigenous peoples.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1993, pp. 36-42
Description
Examines the relationship between the narrator and narratee regarding White Hawk's death sentence in Gerald Vizenor's work, Thomas White Hawk.
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Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Description
Sketch showing the surrender to French's Scouts, led by Lord Melgund, General Middleton's chief of staff. Sketch caption : "Three Dakota scouts told their captors that they had been forced to join Riel."
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
Survey sample contains a total of 1,423 completed interviews. Questions focused on relationship with the Federal government and the services it provided.
Text in English and French. English version starts at page 80.