Video of representative from the Office of the Treaty Commissioner speaking at the 2010 Growing Saskatchewan Conference.
Five parts. Viewer is automatically sent to next part.
Total duration: 59:10.
International Journal of Mental Health Addiction, vol. 8, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 320-335
Description
Reviews existing research of alcohol and illicit drug treatments and looks at two integrated treatment programs for Aboriginal women, New Choices and Sheway.
Presents a study looking into educational provisions for Michigan Native Americans contained within treaties made between the United States and the Anishinaabe Three Fires Confederacy governments.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 47, no. 1, Spring, 1995, pp. 3-12
Description
Describes the signing of Treaty six at Fort Carlton and the adhesion of the Willow Cree on August 28 of 1876, and the relationship between the Crown and the Cree peoples in following years.
Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 3,
Grade 7 students in Saskatchewan were tested for their understanding of history and treaties and the success of the mandatory K-12 treaty education program was assessed with respect to requirements of the Treaty Commissioner.
Board of Education Saskatoon School Division no. 13, Meeting of the Saskatoon Board of Education Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Scott Tunison
Darryl Isbister
Barry MacDougall
Description
Goal is to evaluate Saskatoon Grade 7 students' knowledge and understanding in six areas: treaties, treaty relationship, history, worldviews, symbolism, and contemporary issues. Compares scores to earlier years.
Scroll to p. 5 to access results.
Discusses the art works created as part of the author's The Treaty Lands Project, focusing on the research conducted for the The Treaty 3 Suite (Outside Promises).
Forward and part IX from: Papers of the Rupert's Land Colloquium 2008: The Centre for Rupert's Land Studies at The University of Winnipeg: May 14 to 16, 2008, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta edited by Margaret Anne Lindsay and Mallory Allyson Richard; foreword by Jennifer S. H. Brown.
Interview with Paul Tenant, a Political Science Professor from the University of British Columbia, originally broadcast in the 1990s .
Duration: 16:26.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 2, Tribalography, Summer, 2014, pp. 55-64
Description
Examines pseudo-tribal discourses in American political, corporate, media, and social realms and how Indigenous tribalographies can connect past, present, and future together.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 55.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 1, January 2010, p. 14
Description
Comments on the consortium between two Saskatchewan tribal councils and K-Mech Constructors in an effort to create economic development in local communities.
Article located by scrolling to page 14.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 81-84
Description
Book reveiw of: Tribal Theory in Native American Literature: Dakota and Haudenosaunee Writing and Indigenous Worldviews by Penelope Myrtle Kelsey.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 81.
Documentary focuses on Treaty 9 (James Bay Treaty), First Nations' fight to see that treaty rights and obligations are respected, and their lands and resources are protected.
Duration: 84:51.
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Mini-Lesson.
Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium
Native American Symposium ; 8th, 2009
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Marija Kneževiċ
Description
Discusses how the comic mobility of the trickster is used to address serious social issues in Sherman Alexie's volume of short stories.
Excerpt from Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium edited by Mark B. Spencer.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 27-42
Description
Examines how Louis Owens’ Wolfsong makes use of different imagery and characterizations in order to challenge perceptions around the complexity of American Indian identity.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Overview of the various avenues explored by Aboriginal peoples for gaining meaningful self-government.
Excerpt from: Becoming Visible - Indigenous Politics and Self-Government edited by Terje Brantenberg, Janne Hansen, and Henry Minde.
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 29, no. 2, 2014, pp. 181-197
Description
"In this paper, I argue that Indian Residential School (IRS) litigation, and the emphasis on "cultural loss" or genocide, threatened to expose the illegitimacy of Canada's claim to sovereignty and the settler collective's occupancy of Indigenous lands today".
BC Studies, no. 182, The Great War, Summer, 2014, pp. 217-218
Description
Book review of The True Story of Canada's "War" of Extermination on the Pacific plus the Tsilhqot'in and Other First Nations Resistance by Tom Swanky.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 217.
Western American Literature, vol. 45, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 30-52
Description
Discusses the social and national implications of lying in the popular Western formula through a reading of three works that cross gender and cultural lines.