Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
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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.
Provides overview of survey and its strengths, compares data collection and results to other surveys, and gives statistics for four variables: age, labour market activity, education and immigrant status.
Part III: Repatriation and Protection of First Nations Culture in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
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Trudy Nicks
University of British Columbia Law Review, no. 2, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [143]-147
Description
Reviews developments since the release of the Task Force report 2 years earlier and the things still required to be done if the recommendations of the report are to be fulfilled.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1995, pp. 79-86
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Discusses how the live interaction between the speaker and listener is a different experience than the solitary activity of reading in teaching courses with many cultural
perspectives.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Looks at possibilities for technology to help reestablish and strengthen cultures, and issues surrounding accurate and authentic representations.
Excerpted from Telecommunications Technology and Native Americans: Opportunities and Challenges.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 9, no. 2, 1989, pp. 205-236
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The transformation of First Nation arts and crafts over the past century in response to changing mainstream demand, includes a history of the Indian art and crafts movement.
MELUS, vol. 20, no. 4, Maskers and Tricksters , Winter, 1995, pp. 75-90
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Argues that Chippawa author Gerald Vizenor's Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart is radical and traditional at the same time and makes extensive use of oral tradition while employing postmodern narrative strategies within a written text.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, Winter, 1995, pp. 31-73
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Article relates a prophetic narrative recorded by the ethnologist Frank Cushing, and explores possible interpretations of the story and potential results.
Discusses early authorities' attitudes about the upbringing of Aboriginal children, residential schooling in Canada, judicial responses to culture in child protection cases, and the origin and functioning of intertribal child protection agencies in Manitoba.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 4, Autumn, 1995, pp. 451-465
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Literary criticism article that considers Humishuma’s (Mourning Dove, aka Christine Quintasket) novel; examines the ways that the text was influenced and edited by Humishuma’s friend and mentor Lucullus V. McWhorter.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 45-63
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Discusses how the characters provide the poets with a playful, sometimes painful, way of speaking about American Indian women’s experiences and encompasses both traditional beliefs and contemporary reality.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Art Journal, vol. 54, no. 4, Winter, 1995, pp. 48-52
Description
Reviews and discusses work of Hopi video and filmmaker Victor Masayesva, Jr. who integrates experiences of traditional American Indian world with Native American media.