Child Welfare, vol. 74, no. 3, May 1995, pp. 525-[546]
Description
Surveys academic and nonacademic literature covering topics such as difficulty in providing service, relationship with welfare services and the state, and perspectives on child maltreatment.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 4, Fall, 2009, pp. 427-439
Description
Discusses the contentious issue of the termination of federal trust protection of American Indian reservation lands, including rifts formed between tribal communities.
Native Studies Review, vol. 10, no. 2, 1995, pp. 77-95
Description
Outlines four major change agents operating on Aboriginal political organizations on the prairies: external politics; internal politics; negotiation of ethno-Aboriginal identities; perceived effectiveness of the organizations.
Comments on "food security" or "food sovereignty" movements that are popping up across North America to address health and cultural problems in Indigenous communities.
[Frequently Asked Questions - Engagement Process - Amendments to the Registration Provisions of the Indian Act As per the Court of Appeal for British Columbia's Decision in the Sharon McIvor Litigation]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Description
Answers questions regarding new amendments to the Indian Act in the wake of the ruling of McIvor v. Canada (Registrar of Indian and Northern Affairs).
Discusses artist's controversial Indian paintings from 1960s and 70s in exhibition mounted by The National Museum of the American Indian; includes brief biography.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 1, Winter, 2009, pp. 33-166
Description
Explains the history of berry picking as an example of how the Lake Superior Ojibwe adapted to economic change in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Outlines globalization in a social context and examines how a new regional government can influence more traditional practices and values to address social issues and develop a strong economic, social, and cultural environment.
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Daria Morgounova
Description
Comments on the question of language shift in relation to the question of ethnic identity.
Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 69, no. 1, 1988, pp. 1-20
Description
Discusses greater emphasis that is currently placed on social history of Métis communities and concludes that further investigations should consider the importance of class as well as comparisons of relevant experience of parallel peoples in other lands.
Presents a music video that was developed from the findings of a CIHR Project that examined the role of identity and stigma in Aboriginal women's healing from illicit drug abuse in Canada.
From the Bronx to the Wilderness: Inari-Sami Rap, Language Revitalization and Contested Ethnic Stereotypes
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Juha Ridanpää
Annika Pasanen
Studies in Ethnicity & Nationalism, vol. 9, no. 2, September 2009, pp. 213-230
Description
Article focuses on Amoc, the first ever Inari Sami language rap musician and how he employs his music as an emancipatory tool for language preservation.
Brief discussion of restorative justice and sentencing circles.
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 4, no. 2, 2009, pp. 18-29
Description
Looks at the challenges of revitalization for Aboriginal helpers, elders, counsellors, social workers, police and teachers to change destructive and abusive patterns to healing, and revitalize Aboriginal identity and culture.
Discussion paper at the Chiefs Legislative Assembly suggests that the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations refocus efforts on Treaties and Treaty Rights.
Harvard Educational Review, vol. 58, no. 1, February 1988
Description
Examines three perspectives that were factors in the campaign to assimilate aboriginal people through schooling: the Protestant ideology, the civilization-savagism paradigm, and the quest for land by Whites.
Discusses deeper meaning of assimilation policies as factors of Indian schooling based on 3 perspectives; Protestant ideology, civilized versus savage paradigm, and land quest of whites.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 6, June 2009, p. 21
Description
Looks at the program, Bridges and Foundations for Aboriginal Development, developed to train 400 First Nations and Métis people in residential construction.
Article located by scrolling to page 21.
Book review of: The Fur Issue: Cultural Continuity Economic Opportunity. Report of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development by Stan Schellenberger
Describes the thriving fur industry in the Montreal region in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Website includes history, the bourgeois, the voyageurs, role of Aboriginal women, North West Company, Hudson's Bay Company, virtual tour, image gallery, and activities.
Australasian Canadian Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Globalising Indigeneity: New Research Directions, 2009, pp. 85-94
Description
"This paper introduces the concept of fur trade colonialism as something that is separate to settler colonialism".
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 85.