AHWS: Repatriation of Aboriginal: Executive Summary
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Child and Family Services of Toronto
Stevenato and Associates
Janet Budgell
Description
Purpose of the project was to: gain understanding of key issues and concerns; identify repatriation models being implemented; review successful approaches and determine applicability in Ontario; develop a demographic profile of adoptees and foster children; consult with service providers, individuals, and Elders; and recommend a repatriation model for Aboriginal people in Ontario.
Looks at the New Interpretations Project involving Native artists who used their traditional perspectives in the creation of works about the Grand Canyon.
Explores the phenomenon of the fa'afafine, boys who are raised as girls, their traditional and contemporary roles in Samoan culture and how they relate to issues of culture, gender and the complexities of sexual identity.
Duration: 52:00.
Northern Review, no. 20, Summer [Winter], 1999, pp. 11-40
Description
Looks at environment of school-community interactions, involvement in children's schooling, and patterns of control related to student success. Interviews were conducted with parents, teachers, administrators and influential community members in over 20 sites between 1982 and 1993.
Paternalism and Identity: The Role of Personal Labour Organization in the Formation of Group Identity Among the Métis in the Rupert's Land Fur Trade and the Aboriginal People in the Northern Australian Cattle Industry
Theses
Author/Creator
Leanna Parker
Description
Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1999.
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 69, no. 4, April 1999, pp. 796S-802S
Description
Comments on a program for Native American schoolchildren, in third to fifth-grade, that promotes increased physical activity and healthy eating behaviours.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 51, no. 1, Spring, 1999, pp. 8-
Description
A short article by the editor accompanying and commenting selected photographs that can be found throughout the issue.
Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 8.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 1, 1999, pp. 87-94
Description
Examines the 1972 publication by John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes on Lakota worldviews and why the book is on the periphery of scholarly discussion and marginalized.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, 1999, pp. 127-131
Description
Argues that Gerald R. Gems overestimates the importance of playing football, neglects the significance of "playing Indian" and thereby supports a racial stereotype.