Index to RG10 and RG15 Microfilms in the University of Saskatchewan Libraries
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government Publications Department
University of Saskatchewan Library
Description
Provides a list of microfilms available at the First Nations University of Canada (Saskatoon campus); many of the same microfilms are available in the Murray Library (Main Library). The microfilms contain Government of Canada records of correspondence and documents of the Department of Indian Affairs (RG10) and the Department of Interior (RG15).
Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 109, no. 5, May 2001, pp. A216-A219
Description
Discusses blood samples ostensibly taken from the Nuu-chah nulth tribe for arthritis research, later used for other purposes without subjects' consent.
Overview of the activities of the Indian Claims Commission for the year including inquiries, reports, special projects, status of claims and summary of claims. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Overview of the Indian Claims Commission activities for the year, including status of claims, summary of claims, inquiry reports, inquiries and mediation and facilitation.
Report includes inquiries and responses regarding: Gamblers First Nation Treaty Land Entitlement Inquiry; Nekaneet First Nation Agricultural and Other Benefit Under Treaty 4 Inquiry; Moose Deer Point First Nation, Pottawatomi Rights Inquiry. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P. E. James Prentice, Roger J. Augustine, Carole T. Corcoran, Elijah Harper, and 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.]
Reports include the Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation Inquiry, the Peguis First Nation Inquiry and the Cowessess First Nation Inquiry. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 23, no. 1, Hands Back, Hands Forward: Revising Aboriginal Voices and Revisioning Aboriginal Research, 1999, pp. 64-99
Description
Overview of the education history of the Band, which indicates the need for local control of its education. Describes a workshop where educational philosophy goals were developed.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 25, no. 3, 2001, pp. 143-159
Description
Paper introduces complexity theory as a new conceptual approach to research in Native American studies and to gaming in particular. The paper argues that although gaming can have positives, it can also spawn major and irreversible changes in a community, perhaps even weaken a tribe and its sovereignty.
Book review of 2 books: The Indian History of British Columbia by Wilson Duff.
The First Nations of British Columbia by Robert J. Muckle.
Scroll down to page 130 to read review.
Journal of the West, vol. 40, no. 4, Fall, 2001, pp. 26-33
Description
Analyzes art works from the Plains ledger drawings produced at Fort Marian between 1875 and 1978, carved wooden figures by a Hopi artist, and contemporary paintings by a Navajo artist.
BC Studies, no. 124, Politics and Planning, Winter, 1999/2000, pp. 93-98
Description
Book review of:
Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest edited by Robert Boyd.
An Anchored Radiance by Jay Miller.
Beyond the Reservation: Indians, Settlers, and the Law in Washington Territory, 1853-1889 by Brad Asher.
Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound by Alexandra Harmon.
Pardon Me If When I Talk Want to Tell the Story of My Life It's the Land I Talk About by Pablo Neruda.
Addresses the question of involving anthropologists in political and legal matters between the First Nations and the government of Canada, as in the Delgamuukw case.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 3, May/June 2001, pp. 33-35
Description
Assesses the percentage of Indigenous content to be 1.9% in Australia where health in rural/remote areas lags consistently behind the country as a whole.
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, vol. 47, no. 2, Summer, 2001, pp. 196-201
Description
Book review of: Indigenous Education Models for Contemporary Practice: In Our Mother's Voice edited by Maenette Kae'ahiokalani Padeken Ah Nee-Beham and Joanne Elizabeth Cooper.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 14, no. 2, Autumn, 1999, pp. 77-91
Description
Looks at the historical conferences on the multi- and interdisciplinary field of Native American Studies held in the Spring and Summer of 1998 and organized by the University of California.