Image of Captain John French, killed at Batoche. On back of photo: "An old French halfbreed, named Ross, was standing at the corner of a house nearly opposite Batoche's house, and fired the fatal shot, then made a run for cover, but paid the penalty for shooting French just before reading it."
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, December 1986, pp. 45-49
Description
Author, who works with the Dietary-Nutrition Unit in the Aboriginal Health Programme in Cairns, Queensland, Australia describes how the goal is to provide useful information to reduce sickness.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, September 1986, pp. 5-8
Description
Describes the role of the Special Programmes Section of the Division of Health Promotion and how it assists Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander citizens to have more positive health outcomes.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, September 1986, pp. 30-31
Description
Discusses steps taken to ensure positive outcomes for conducting heart screening and other related testing in the remote community in Queensland, Australia.
"Comprising a full and impartial account of the origin and progress of the war ... scenes in the field, the camp, and the cabin; including a history of the Indian tribes of North-Western Canada," including chapters about Poundmaker.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, 1986, pp. 15-40
Description
Focuses on the possibility that acceptance of the legislation didn't necessarily mean appropriateness nor did it mean that it was embraced whole heartily.
Image of a house used as a barracks by the Metis during the Northwest Resistance. On back of photo: "House built in 1879 and Â’80 by Xavier Batoche. Used as store and dwelling. In 1885 used as barracks by the Metis."
Through the eyes of a young Ojibwe woman this film illustrates one down side of contact between cultures, the introduction of small pox and its dire impact on Native Americans.
Duration:57:00.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 25, no. 3, May 1986, pp. [12-21]
Description
Discusses the rapid social change and long-term effects that undermined traditional self-sufficient Alaskan lifestyle including factors such as welfare dependence; and stresses strategies about education and community development are essential.
Prairie Forum, vol. 11, no. 2, Fall, 1986, pp. 171-183
Description
Looks at the First Nations commitment to continue the tradition to hunt, fish and garden despite the introduction to modern farming by the government, European traders and missionaries.
Describes how the Heard Museum created interest in Native American and Indigenous peoples art and discusses how some of this art attempted to make comprehensible what was incomprehensible.
A photograph of an Indian family seated in front of their camp. Written underneath the photograph is: Big Jack and family and two wives. There is a teepee, a military style tent and camp supplies in the background. Probably taken near Moose Jaw
Native Studies Review, vol. 2, no. 1, 1986, pp. 1-43
Description
Summary of policy developments, under Mulroney government, which examined the recommendations of Nielsen's task force and the resulting controversy. Part II to appear in Vol. 2, No. 2 of NSR.
Native Studies Review, vol. 2, no. 2, 1986, pp. 1-45
Description
Paper attempts to provide an overview of Indian policy
developments in context of recent policy initiatives of the Minister of Indian Affairs, Concludes with with observations on the current status of policy reforms.Part I appeared in NSR, Vol.2, no.1
Indian Tribal Studies Programs in the Tribally Controlled Community Colleges
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wayne J. Stein
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 2, no. 2, Autumn, 1986, pp. 29-33
Description
Argues that academic process can be used to restore traditional knowledge and that the Tribal Community College provides a forum for discussion of concerns.
American Journal of International Law, vol. 80, no. 2, April 1986, pp. 369-385
Description
History from 1949-1985 focuses on development of the Declaration on Indigenous Rights a draft distributed in 1985 by United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations.
A typed copy of Inspector Francis Dickens's North West Mounted Police journal from Fort Pitt in 1885. Recounts the events of the Resistance, the skirmish and subsequent abandonment of Fort Pitt by Dickens who was in command of the installation when hostilities broke out.