Book review of: New World of Indigenous Resistance: Noam Chomsky and Voices from North, South and Central America by Lois Meyer and Benjamín Maldonado Alvarado.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 1, January 2010, p. 1,2
Description
Comments on the Olympic torch passing through Wanuskewin Heritage Park and the re-opening of Wanuskewin after a two year renovation closure.
Article found on page 1 and 2.
National Arts Centre English Theatre Programme for Student Audiences ; 2009-2010 Season
Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Pamela Levac
Christopher Morris
Description
Includes synopsis of the play, information of Indigenous peoples of the North, the Inuktitut language, Pond Islet, Baffin Island, and an interview with writer/director,
Non-Insured Health Benefits Ontario Region: Prescription Drug Trends
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Health Canada
Description
Statistics for opiate use and the medications used in treatment of diabetes, heart conditions, mental health conditions, inhalers for respiratory conditions, smoking cessation products, and reproductive and sexual health. Covers the years 2000 to 2009.
Presents play FrontRunners by Laura Robinson about segregation and abuse in residential school, the Aboriginal teenage boys selected to run 800 kilometers carrying the torch for the Pan Am Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1967, and the apology by the province thirty-two years later.
Duration: 47:27
Niigaanibatowaad: FrontRunner Study Guide.
Lesson Plan.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 3, Fall, 2007, pp. 115-132
Description
Explores how Laguna Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko uses the image of the garden to illustrate imperialism on international, national, local, and domestic levels.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 115.
[Kaahsinnooniksi Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mari King
Description
Lesson plan for constructing a dog travois developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta.
Research Paper (National Centre for First Nations Governance)
Research Paper for the National Centre for First Nations Governance
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Paul L. A. H. Chartrand
Description
Discusses relations between First Nations and Metis peoples before Federal presence in the West and looks for ideas on how self-government might be brought about.
Explores the economic development activities of the Osoyoos Indian Band.
Chapter 27 from International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship edited by Léo Paul Dana and Robert B. Anderson.
Entire e-book on one pdf. To access chapter, scroll to page 336 or select chapter 27 on side bar.
No Action, No Progress: FAFIA’s Report on Canada’s Progress in Implementing the 2008
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action
Description
"Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action Report on Canada's Progress in Implementing Priority Recommendations Made by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in 2008".
Sport in Society, vol. 13, no. 1, To Remember is to Resist: 40 Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008, January 2010, pp. 143-156
Description
Discusses contrast between representations of settler-Indigenous relations put forward by countries hosting the games and reality of governments' denial of Aboriginal rights.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, March/April 2007, pp. 17-18
Description
Excerpt of report presented to the launch of a program to enable health workers to assist families with caring for a loved one with a substance abuse problem.
NOTE: pdf displays incorrect information (vol. 30 no.6 November/December 2006)
Undergraduate Honors Theses (Utah State University) ; paper 70
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brooke D. McNaughton
Description
Evaluates two novels which address identity issues: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko and Wolfsong by Louis Owens.
American Studies Honors Thesis--Utah State University, 2010.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 26-44
Description
Discussion on the metacritical inquiries that Native American literary study raises; and the best methods of connecting Native American literary texts to the cultural contexts.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 26.
Scandinavian Studies, vol. 82, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 257-286
Description
Discusses the stereotypical portrayal of the Finnar (the Sami and the Finns) in various stories. The most negative depiction being Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla.
State Center for Health Statistics And Office Minority Health and Health Disparities
Description
Facts about mortality, chronic diseases, HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, access to health and health of children from infant to adolescent in the American Indian population.
Assessment focuses on developing a community profile of the local food system in order to provide a base for capacity building for food related security initiatives.
Related material: Appendices.
Open Women's Health Journal, vol. 4, What We Have Known About Community Characteristics, Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality among Aborig, 2010, pp. 46-54
Description
Concludes that North-South place of residence does matter in regards to adverse birth outcomes, but the effects may differ by ethnicity and this situation could require different intervention strategies.