Looks at media coverage of the incident and use of the term, 'Black Velvet'.
Note from author: "Terms historicised in this article remain offensive and have continuing power to offend. This article attempts to dispel and challenge the meanings conveyed by the term ‘Black Velvet’ by tracing its use in print media and thereby intervening in the attitudes it disseminated"
Indigenous Affairs, no. 4, Indochina, October/November/December 2000, pp. 16-21
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Discusses relations between the Akha highland peoples and the lowlanders as well as the role opium production and consumption plays in their lives.
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Native American Classics: Graphic Classics ; vol. 24
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Joseph Bruchac
John Smelcer
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Excerpt from Native American Classics: Graphic Classics, volume 24 edited by Joseph Bruchac, John Smelcer and Tom Pomplun.
American Indian writers often reference boarding school experiences in their poems, short stories, essays, novels and plays. Provides a list of suggested readings on American Indian boarding schools in Canada and the United States.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, 2013, p. article no. 21032
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Book reviews of: Alaska Native Medical Centre: A History 1953-1983 by Robert Fortuine.
Circumpolar Health Atlas edited by T. Kue Young, Rajiv Rawat, Winfried Dallmann, Susan Chatwood, Peter Bjerregaard.
Healing Histories: Stories From Canada's Indian Hospitals by Laurie Meijer Drees.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, 2000, pp. 197-229
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Book review of:
kwayask-ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik: Their Example Showed Me the Way translated and edited by Freda Ahenakew and H. C. Wolfart.
A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas: 1492 to the Present by Ward Churchill. Incorporating the Familiar: An Investigation into Legal Sensibilities in Nunavik by Susan G. Drummond. The Indian History of British Columbia: The Impact of the Whiteman by Wilson Duff.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 2000, pp. 487-516
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Book reviews of:
Living Relationships: The Treaty of Waitangi in the New Millennium by Ken S. Coates and P. G. McHugh.
Aboriginal Rights and Self-Government: The Canadian and Mexican Experience in North American Perspective edited by Curtis Cook and Juan D. Lindau.
Tribal Honors: A History of the Kainai Chieftainship by Hugh A. Dempsey.
The Myth of the Savage, and the Beginning of French Colonialism in the Americas by Olive Patricia Dickason.
The Pawnee Mythology by George Dorsey.
Prairie Forum, vol. 13, no. 1, Spring, 1988, pp. 125-127
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Book reviews of:
Public Administration Questions Relating to Aboriginal Self-Government by C. E. S. Franks.
Future Issues of Jurisdiction and Coordination between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Governments by Ian B. Cowie.
The Political and Legal Inequalities Among Aboriginal Peoples in Canada by Delia Opekokew.
Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada: A Bibliography 1986 by Evelyn J. Peters.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 1, Spring, 2013, pp. 89-94
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Book review of Living with Koryak Traditions: Playing with Culture in Siberia by Alexander King.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 89.
American Literature, vol. 85, no. 2, June 2013, pp. 399-401
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Book reviews of:
Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature by Birgit Brander Rasmussen.
Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause by Melanie Benson Taylor.
English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830 by Hilary E. Wyss.
American Literature, vol. 85, no. 3, September 2013, pp. 591-593
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Book reviews of:
On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sovereignty in the New World by Jonathan Elmer and Dislocating Race.
Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism by Robert S. Levine.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 1988, pp. 155-162
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Book reviews of 3 publications:
American Indian Culture and Research Journal Vol. 10, No. 2: Special Issue: American Indian Governments in the Reagan Era1885 Métis Rebellion or Government Conspiracy? by Don McLean.
Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes by Carl Waldman; with illustrations by Molly Braun.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, 1988, pp. 303-328
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Book reviews of 13 books:
Kishinahamwakan-acimowinisa - Student Stories edited and translated by Freda Ahenakew.
waskahikaniwiyiniw-acimowina - Stories of the House People edited by Freda Ahenakew.
Kinship and the Drum Dance in a Northern Dene Community by Michael Asch.
Pisiskiwak kâ-pîkiskwêcik Talking Animals. Memoir 5. Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics edited and translated by H. C.
Journal of American History, vol. 87, no. 2, September 2000, pp. 641-643
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Book review of 2 books:
Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature by James D. Hartman.
Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century New England Writing by Jim Egan.
Canadian Literature, no. 167, First Nations Writing, Winter, 2000, pp. 139-141
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Book reviews of:
Hollywood's Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor.
Speaking for the Generations: Native Writers on Writing by Simon Ortiz.
Full issue on one pdf. Scroll down to page 139 to read reviews.