Journal of the Southwest , vol. 30, no. 3, Autumn, 1988, pp. 325-355
Description
Discusses how Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller combines fiction, poetry, family history, and oral tradition to create a sense of personal, cultural, feminist, and human identity.
Note: The title of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library.
A photograph of the North West Half-Breed Claims Royal Commission members in 1885. (l to r); W.P.R. Street QC Chairman; Roger Goulet Secretary; N.O. Cote; A.E. Forget.
Task Force on Delivery of Legal Services to Native People of B.C.
Description
The organization, Task Force on Delivery of Legal Services to Native People of B.C., seeks to help Aboriginals deal with the legal system and makes several recommendations, including increasing the number of lawyers, court workers and RCMP members of Aboriginal descent, and to provide pre-paid legal services to Aboriginals.
Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he describes the ceremonies associated with the construction of a Holy Lodge. Note: Dave Melting Tallow, interpreter. Joanne Greenwood, transcriber.
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Description
Sketch showing the surrender to French's Scouts, led by Lord Melgund, General Middleton's chief of staff. Sketch caption : "Three Dakota scouts told their captors that they had been forced to join Riel."
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
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.
Examines the criticisms of theories advanced in his 1963 book Early Voyages and Northern Approaches, originally published in 1963; includes some illustrations.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, 1988, pp. 33-48
Description
Reviews the history of the Turtle Mountain reserve and how the author portrays it's unique Native American development in fictional pieces based on the facts of the Chippewa Indians.
Some Thoughts about Organization and Leadership: From a Paper Presented to the Manitoba Indian Brotherhood 1967
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Wilfred Pelletier
Description
The first article recounts the author's childhood and young adulthood in the Manitoulin, Ontario area. The second article is entitled "Some Thoughts About Organization and Leadership; From A Paper Presented to the Manitoba Indian Brotherhood, 1967."
Aboriginal History, vol. 12, no. 1, 1988, pp. 103-112
Description
Review article of seven books:
Aboriginal Australians and Christian Missions: Ethnographic and Historical Studies edited by Tony Swain and Deborah Bird Rose.
Christianity and Aboriginal Australia by John Harris.
I'd Rather Dig Potatoes: Clamor Schurmann and the Aborigines of South Australia, 1838-1853by Edwin A. Schurmann.
Black Robinson: Protector of Aborigines by Vivienne Rae-Ellis.
Thomas Dove and the Tasmanian Aborigines by R. S. Miller.
Dark Deeds in a Sunny Land or Blacks and Whites in North-West Australia by J. B.