American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. 153-170
Description
Author examines attempts by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to terminate Indian tribes’ status and recognition in the United States following the second world war. Focuses on the Eastern Cherokee and the conditions surrounding the Nation’s fight for continued recognition.
Explores the work of Blackfeet author James Welch who presents Native American and Western humanistic cultures in equally forceful ways in order to have a meeting of the two worlds.
Book review: Tlingit Indians of Alaska by Archimandrite Anatolii Kamenskii. Translated, with an Introduction and supplementary material, by Sergei Kan.
Excerpt from: Tradition and Education: Towards a Vision of Our Future by the National Indian Brotherhood and Assembly of First Nations. Produced as part of the National Review of First Nations Education.
Summarizes the findings of the National Review of First Nations Education conducted by the National Indian Brotherhood and the Assembly of First Nations.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 3, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1991, pp. 13-26
Description
Looks at the characters in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine, and their connections to community, landscape and myth.
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Native Studies Review, vol. 7, no. 1, 1991, pp. 1-21
Description
Examines Aboriginal and treaty fishing rights and emerging fisheries legislation by referring to Supreme Court rulings which suggest re-assessment of management practices by government.
Discusses the historical development and fact that these Treaties with the Mississauga and Chippewa peoples did not secure hunting and fishing rights for the First Nations people. Both Canada and Ontario were involved in negotiations.
Discusses historical background, terms, conditions and implications of Treaty 7; concluded during the Klondike gold rush of 1897-98 for economic reasons when settlers were coming into Lake Athabasca, Great Slave Lake, and parts of the Peace River area.
Provides historical context of Treaty-making and argues that acceptance of the Treaty 5 locked both parities into a permanent relationship and set the context for subsequent actions.
Argues that treaty was concluded after provincial borders were created. Report includes instructions to Crown negotiators, historical context and a section on Métis claims.
Treaty Research Report: Treaty No. Nine (1905-1906)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Morrison
Description
Argues that treaty represents the end of a colonial policy, which went back to the British Indian Department era. Adhesions to Treaty No. 9, often referred to as the James Bay Treaty, occurred between 1907-1930.
Provides historical context and negotiation overview. Argues that Treaty 3 became the definitive Treaty and that all the subsequent "numbered treaties" in Canada were patterned after it.