Arizona and the West, vol. 16, no. 4, Winter, 1974, pp. 343-364
Description
Discussion on failure of the Indian infantry and cavalry companies, made up entirely of Native American personnel, who were strictly segregated and commanded by white officers.
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Description
Website developed to accompany exhibition of the same name. Topics include impact of the horse, native arts and the horse, decline and revival, and the horse nation lives on.
Images of items in the exhibition.
Argues that three common elements run through the debates: taking responsibility for past actions, importance of a common purpose, and vagueness about future actions. Compares style and rhetoric employed by politicians in each country.
Contemporary Justice Review, vol. 14, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 43-63
Description
Considers the ways in which a police-community workshop served to open up a discussion about what are understood to be the material effects of residential schools.
"... paper attempts to develop ideas around Indigenous resistance in the context of expressions of Indigenous cultural performance and cultural activities".
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 75-103
Description
Describes the concept of rhetorical sovereignty, and looks at the workings and complications of enacting rhetorical sovereignty using the three inaugural exhibits of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI).
Submission contends that Canada has failed to adequately address issues facing Aboriginal children and therefore has not complied with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and other human rights instruments.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 6, no. 9, November 1974, p. 15
Description
Describes federal-First Nation meeting in Saskatoon, where education committees from Thunderchild, James Smith, Muskeg Lake, La Ronge and File Hills presented briefs on needs to Indian Affairs Minister Judd Buchanan.
Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, vol. 4, no. 3, Spring, 2011, pp. 54-60
Description
Discusses spiritual health program and collaboration between
community agencies, tribes in Arizona and institutions to bring attention to the role of spiritual and cultural understanding in cancer care.
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 148, Fall, 2011, pp. 25-31
Description
Describes initiative undertaken by Twin Fish and urban ink theatre groups in Williams Lake, British Columbia. Project involved youth in the development of a short play entitled Damed if You Do, What it Don't as part media and performance training.
Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, vol. 35, no. 2, Service Delivery to First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada: Part 1, Spring, 2011, pp. 198-205
Description
Comments on the difficulties and differences that may cause Aboriginal students to struggle with Standard English.