Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 1, no. 4, December 1977, pp. 10-15
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Talks about compilation of Aboriginal language glossary of medical terms common across many language families in order to assist health care providers.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 4, no. 3, 1980, pp. 1-19
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Discusses how the myth and ideas it embodies are foundational to a worldview which informs all relationships, codes of behavior, and ways of governing.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 20, no. 1, October 1980, pp. [1-9]
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Promotes a bilingual-bicultural program intended to revitalize native Arizona heritage by including Yavapai language and culture in the curriculum for all students.
NOTE: This transcript is a very rough English translation of an interview conducted in Blackfoot, and should be disregarded. Access is restricted to listening to the tape, in Blackfoot, until such time as an accurate translation can be obtained.
Lawrence Tobacco, born 1919, on the Poor Man Reserve, Saskatchewan He attended a residential school and is now involved in traditional education and counseling. He talks about farming and raising cattle on the Poor Man Reserve; shares a story of a trip he took to Winnipeg to sell cattle for a number of reserves in the File Hills area, and how Indian Affairs officials tried to bribe him with part of the proceeds of the sale; shares stories of defiance toward Dept.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 7, no. 3, September 1983, pp. 25-26
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Brief article describes the various forms of English that need to be spoken by Aboriginal health workers who speak English as a second or third language.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 1, Spring, 1977, pp. 1-15
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An investigation of the evolving legal history of the Navajo Nation following the Second World War. The Navajo legal counsel provides legal opinions on land, resource development, employment, and the protection of sovereignty.
Diploma in Polar Studies --Cambridge University, Scott Polar Research Institute, 1980.
Discusses two distinct intellectual northern traditions, Native oral tradition and western scientific research and looks at the strengths and weaknesses of both.
Interviewee gives a general description of her life. The tape got increasingly more difficult to hear as it went along, and the transcriber stopped after 16 pages. There are no index terms provided.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, June 1977, pp. 4-7
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Chronicles the history of leprosy from its introduction into the Northern Territory in the late 1800s to new drug therapies and how it changes Aboriginal attitudes.
She was born on the Little Pine Reserve, the first girl from that reserve to attend high school. She tells of some childhood memories; naming ceremonies; significance of Indian names; the training of children, especially girls; menarche seclusion; women: influence of, in religion and ceremonialism, pregnancy; her education: traditional; experiences in Anglican boarding school (integrated) in Saskatoon; training for roles as wife and mother.
File contains the historical booklet, "I Wasn't Put on this Earth for Nothin': Stories from La Loche, Saskatchewan. It was a "Celebrate Saskatchewan, 1905-1980" brochure, compiled by Ray Marnoch.
An exterior photograph of Long Walk participants in front of the Saskatoon Correctional Centre on 16 August 1983. The man in the centre is Jake Badger (died in the mid-1980s) and the man in the wheelchair is elder Philip Nicotine.
Louis Garneau was a cousin of Jim Brady and spent much of his youth with Jim. He speaks of working in the north during the 20s and 30s and of his recollections of Jim's family and political interests.
This document is a summary of the original interview in Chipewyan. The summarized sections are too short to be of value to researchers, and it will be necessary for them to refer to the original.
Aboriginal History, vol. 4, no. 2, 1980, pp. 198-199
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Book review of: Ludwig Becker, Artist and Naturalist With the Burke and Wills Expedition edited and with an introduction by Marjorie Tipping.
To access review, scroll down to page 198.
A set of 23 photographs of Mary Anne McKay making bannock in the cabin on the family trapline. Bannock, a baking-powder bread, has been a staple food for people living in the bush for as long as the ingredients have been available - no domestic grains are indigenous to northern Saskatchewan. It can be mixed up anywhere, even in the mouth of a flour sack. It keeps very well, does not mould easily, tastes good, and is solid and nourishing.
Department of Northern Saskatchewan (photographer)
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A set of 55 photos of Isaac Herman La Loche cutting down a birch tree and making boards that can be cut and shaped for use in making canoes, buildings, or snowshoes.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 1983, pp. 215-221
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Summary of recommendations by the Manitoba Treaty Land Entitlement Commission, 1983, relating to First Nations in Manitoba adhering to Treaty 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10.