Tribute to an adolescent who committed suicide after moving in and out of 28 foster homes. This film deals with mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.
Duration: 29:10.
Native Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 1, Native People in British Columbia: Recent Research, 1996, p. 91–108
Description
Discusses the conflict between Aboriginal people & the Americans, who participated in the Fraser River gold rush, and the peacekeeping efforts of Native leaders.
Film highlights play put on by high school Aboriginal students from Winnipeg's North End and Francophone students from Saint-Boniface. Discussion follows. Accompanying material: Riel Country: [Study Guide].
Duration: 49:05.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 25, no. 2, January 1986, pp. [1-7]
Description
Argues there is insufficient evidence to support the claim of right hemisphere dominance in Indigenous peoples and cautions against changing curricula until it can be proven.
Ethnicity & Health, vol. 1, no. 3, September 1996, pp. 261-267
Description
Concludes that Native American adolescents have higher risk prevalence across indices of anitsocial behavior and substance abuse, with females presenting the highest.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 2, 1996, pp. 127-154
Description
Examines key potests and conflict leading up to the occupation of Wounded Knee of 1973, the evolution of the American Indian Movement (AIM), and more recent disputes concerning assets from gambling.
Native American writers such as Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich, explore the role of traditional gambling practices in the modern world and the rise of high stakes reservation gambling.
Short documentary about services offered to battered women in the communities of Portage La Prairie and Thompson, Manitoba and the West Bay Reserve, Ontario.
Duration: 27:40.
Discusses issues involved in the withdrawal from the Assembly of First Nations with indications that Treaty issues and land claims were central precipitating factors.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 3, no. 9, October 1973, p. 8
Description
Saskatchewan's first Northern Municipal Council election, and the controversy regarding jurisdictional concerns voiced by the Executive of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians (FSIN).
This file contains a promotional brochure that outlines the philosophy, objectives and training opportunities available at Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College in 1973.
A variety of texts created by the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College. Includes: "Kataayuk: Saskatchewan Indian Elders," "Remembering Will Have to Do," Two Forms of Art," and "Learning About the Indian Reserve."
Booklet relating to the purpose and goals of the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College, located in Saskatoon, SK. Details of various programs offered by the College are given, including child care worker and Indian teacher education programs.
Case studies of Chiefs Poundmaker and Big Bear compiled by Blair Stonechild using oral history and original source materials. A curriculum intended to "enable the student to review the circumstances surrounding Indian involvement in the Resistance and to arrive at his or her own conclusions about the culpability of the Indian people."
Crawford convicted of murder of Eva Taysup, Calinda Waterhen, and Shelley Napope. First Nations' leaders attribute lack of media attention to the fact that victims were First Nation women.
Elders discuss: loss of respect for elders; loss of traditions; problems with younger generation; alcohol-related problems; traditional hunting and trapping lifestyle.Story of woman who feigned pregnancy in order to get more money.
Discussion of the problem of alcohol abuse among native peoples. Raising children: comparison with earlier days. Establishment of the Shesheep, Sakimay and MuscowpetungReserves. Many lectures about their histories and their hopes for the future of their people.
Native Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 2, 1996, pp. 51-88
Description
Uses example of schools in British Columbia to illustrate that while children's health education was used as a method of assimilation, children were undernourished and conditions were unsanitary encouraging the spread of disease.