Our Coming In Stories: Cree identity, Body Sovereignty and Gender Self-Determination
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alex Wilson
Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol. 1, no. 1, Cultured Queer/Queering Culture Symposium, 2015, p. article 4
Description
Looks at use of Cree traditional law in relation to sexual diversity, regulation of Cree two spirit people by government and the church, and the Idle No More social movement.
Accompanying interview.
Accompanying presentation.
The Pacification of Indigenous Resistance: An Anti-Security Analysis of Idle No More Protest Policing and Surveillance Operations
Theses
Author/Creator
Matthew Jared Banninga
Description
Political Economy Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2015.
Personal Memories of Alcatraz, 1969
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Luis S. Kemnitzer
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 103-109
Description
Remembering what turned out to be a significant historical event, one Professor of Anthropology gives his perspective.
Picturing Transformation: Nexw Áyantsut
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Dorothy Kennedy
BC Studies, no. 186, Summer, 2015, pp. 155-156
Description
Book review of Picturing Transformation by Nancy Bleck, Katherine Dodds, and Chief Bill Williams.
Entire book review section on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 155.
Political Resistance in a Contemporary Hunter-Gatherer Society: More about Bearlake Athapaskan Knowledge and Authority
Alternate Title
Political Resistance in a Contemporary Hunter Gatherer Society: More about Bear Lake Athabaskan Knowledge and Authority
Political Resistance in a Contemporary Hunter-Gatherer Society: More about Bear Lake Athabascan Knowledge and Authority
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Scott Rushforth
American Ethnologist, vol. 21, no. 2, May 1994, pp. 335-352
Description
Bearlake (Bear Lake) belief systems relating to past experiences of the Sahtu Dene and how they react to externally controlled economic proposals.
Post-Colonial Literature and Hawaii: Teaching Ethnic American Literature in a Colony
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ann Rayson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 1, Series 2: Feminist and Post-Colonial Approaches, Spring, 1994, pp. 1-10
Description
Discusses the political and historical issues surrounding the teaching of ethnic American literature amid the Hawaiian activist movement and racial tensions in a multicultural state.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
A President in Indian Country: Calvin Coolidge and Lakota Diplomacy in the Summer of 1927
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eric Steven Zimmer
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 3, Summer, 2017, pp. 215-234
Description
Looks at how Henry Standing Bear and Chauncey Yellow Robe capitalized on the historical presidential visit to the Pine Ridge reservation.
[Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native Americans]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Matika Wilbur
Description
Matika Wilbur shares photographs and stories from Project 562, her multi-year project to document members of federally recognized tribes in the United States.
Duration: 1:42:58.
The Protect Mauna Kea Movement: Since Before the Overthrow in 1893
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Katie Kamelamela
Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol. 1, no. 2, Reterritorialising Social Media: Indigenous People Rise Up, 2015
Description
Speaker discusses ongoing activism by Hawaiians to assert sovereignty and protect their environment, the movement to stop the construction of a new telescope on the sacred peak of Mauna Kea, and how it has been utilizing social media.
Duration 51:11.
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti
Cash Ahenakew
AlterNative, vol. 11, no. 1, 2015, pp. 76-78
Description
Book Review of: Red Skin, White Masks by Glen Coulthard.
Reflections of Alcatraz
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
LaNada Boyer
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 75-92
Description
Describes the authors experience of being relocated to San Francisco and the part he played in the fight against proverty and injustice.
Reflections of an AIM Activist: Has It All Been Worth It?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karren Baird-Olson
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 233-252
Description
Argues that the American Indian Movement (AIM) was a main factor in bringing rapid change and empowerment to many Aboriginal people and communities.
Remembering Alcatraz: Twenty-five Years After
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Troy Johnson
Joane Nagel
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 9-23
Description
Story of the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island, why the occupation was stopped, and how the events fueled American ethnic pride, personal empowerment and community membership.
A Reminiscence of the Alcatraz Occupation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Edward D. Castillo
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 111-122
Description
Description, by the author, on his experiences of attending university, being the first member in a family to attend college, and reflections regarding the three months he participated in the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz.
The Road Forward
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
National Film Board (NFB)
Marie Clements
Shirley Vercruysse
Jenn Strom
Description
Musical documentary traces Indigenous rights activism from the founding of the Indian of Brotherhood of B.C. in the 1930s to the present day. Duration: 1:41:00.
Say We Are Nations: Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America Since 1887
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Rose Soza War Soldier
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 3, Summer, 2017, pp. 294-297
Description
Book review of Say We Are Nations by Daniel M. Cobb
Say We Are Nations: Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous American since 1887
E-Books
Author/Creator
Queen Lili'uokalani
Chitto Harjo
Cherokee Freedmen
Arthur C. Parker
Carlos Montezuma ... [et al.]
Seizing the Sky: Redefining American Art
Alternate Title
Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kate Morris
Jessica L. Horton
Lisa Roberts Seppi
Robert Houle
Joelene Rickard ... [et al.]
Description
Symposium honoring Kay WalkingStick held at the National Museum of the American Indian November 5, 2015. Features 12 symposium videos divided into 2 sessions. The first session discusses Kay's personal approach to making art. The second session discusses the larger context of her work in art, history, society and culture.
Session 1 - Duration: 81:40
Session 2 - Duration: 127.25
The Serpent Slayer
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Janet Nicol
Canada's History, vol. 95, no. 1, February-March 2015, pp. 42-46
Description
Brief biography of Andrew Paul, the Salish lawyer, political activist, and leader.
Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentary Governance of Indigenous Life in Canada and Its Disruption
Theses
Author/Creator
Danielle Taschereau Mamers
Description
Media Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Ontario, 2017.
"Smudging, drumming and the like do not a nation make": Temporal Liminality and Delegitimization of Indigenous Protest in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard G. Baker
Nadia Verrelli
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 1, Destabilizing Canada / Le Canada déstabilisé, Winter, 2017, pp. 37-63
Description
Analyzes representations of activities associated with the Idle No More movement in editorial and commentary of sections in the Globe and Mail and the National Post.
The Spirit of Indigenous Youth: The Resilience and Self-Determination in Connecting to the Spirit and Ways of Knowing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bonnie Freeman
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing - Te Mauri: Pimatisiwin, vol. 2, no. 1, June 2017, pp. 60-75
Description
Comments on the resilience and activism of a youth group known as "The Spirit of the Youth".
Standing on Sacred Ground: Eight Cultures - One Fight
Articles » General
Author/Creator
David Yarlott
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 26, no. 3, Global Indigenous Higher Education, Spring, 2015
Description
Film review of: Standing on Sacred Ground: Eight Cultures - One Fight directed by Christopher McLeod, narrated by Graham Greene.
A Strange Mixture: The Art of Politics of Painting Pueblo Indians
Alternate Title
The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Sascha T. Scott
Structures of Settler Colonial Domination in Israel and in the United States
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Johanna Fernandez
Decolonization, vol. 6, no. 1, 2017, pp. 29-44
Description
Describes and compares the politics of land, sovereignty, labour, race relations and law enforcement enacted in the two countries by settler governments. Details general practices and events which illustrate the politics described.
[Survival Schools: The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Nicholas A. Timmerman
The American Indian Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 1, Winter, 2015, pp. 103-105
Description
Book review of: Survival Schools by Julie L. Davis.
Talk, Negotiate, or Blockade? Tactics & Strategies for Indigenous Power
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Peter Trnka
Northern Pubic Affairs, vol. 3, no. 3, Special Issue: Aboriginal Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century, August 2015, pp. 34-37
Description
Explains the art of negotiating.
Theatrical Activism in Vancouver: From the Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood of BC to Marie Clements's The Road Forward and Back ...
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Selena Couture
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 164, October 1, 2015, pp. 44-50
Description
Analysis of the performance.
"There's a River to Consider": Heid E. Erdrich's "Pre-Occupied"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Bernardin
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 1, Digital Indigenous Studies: Gender, Genre, and New Media, Spring, 2017, pp. 38-55
Description
Discusses a poem written for a blog and a short film.
Timely Objects and the Revolutionary Formerly Known as Marcos: Rereading Almanac of the Dead
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kyle Bladow
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 2, Summer, 2017, pp. 1-25
Description
Comments on the novel by Leslie Marmon Silko.
To Guard Against Invading Indians: Struggling for Native Community in the Southeast
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Zug G. Standing Bear
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 301-320
Description
Examines the Deer Clan and those who were attempting to create a sense of community and identity in southeastern United States.
'Uncle Sam's Priceless Daughters': American Indian Women During the Great Depression, World War Two, and the Post-War Era
Theses
Author/Creator
Grace Mary Gouveia
Description
[History?] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Purdue University, 1994.
Unlikely Alliances : Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands
Alternate Title
Indigenous Confluences
E-Books
Author/Creator
Zoltán Grossman
Unsettling Citizenship: Movements For Indigenous Sovereignty and Migrant Justice in a Settler City
Theses
Author/Creator
Krista R. Johnston
Description
Gender, Feminist & Women's Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2015.
Urban Indians and the Occupation of Alcatraz Island
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adam (Nordwall) Fortunate Eagle
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 33-58
Description
Discussion about the ideals of assimilation and regaining one's culture.
Voices of First Nations Women: Their Politics and Political Organizing in Vancouver, B.C.
Theses
Author/Creator
Susan C. Cole
Description
Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1994.
"We Have Always Had These Many Voices": Red Power Newspapers and a Community of Poetic Resistance
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Seonghoon Kim
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 3, Summer, 2015, pp. 271-301
Description
Investigates the Red Power era in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s, which promoted Native sovereignty.
"We Have Bigotry All Right—but No Alabamas": Racism and Aboriginal Protest in Canada during the 1960s
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Scott Rutherford
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 2, Spring, 2017, pp. 158-179
Description
Discusses context and history of a protest march that took place in Kenora, Ontario in 1965.
Where They Meet: Indigenous Activism and City Planning in Winnipeg, Manitoba
Theses
Author/Creator
Jason Syvixay
Description
City Planning Thesis (MCP)--University of Manitoba, 2017.
Who Was Henry Standing Bear? Remembering Lakota Activism From the Early Twentieth Century
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kiara M. Vigil
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 3, Summer, 2017, pp. 157-182
Description
Overview of the Crazy Horse Memorial and Standing Bear's connection to it.
'Willing to Fight to a Man': The First World War and Aboriginal Activism in the Western District of Victoria
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jessica Horton
Aboriginal History, vol. 39, 2015, pp. 203-222
Description
Focuses on political aspects of the decision to enlist and the struggle of servicemen and their families to access military wages and repatriation benefits
The Winter We Danced: Voices From The Past, The Future, And The Idle No More Movement
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Marc Woons
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 35, no. 1, 2015, pp. 177-182
Description
Book review of: The Winter We Danced edited by The Kino-nda-niimi Collective.
"With A Vow to Defend": Indigenous Direct Mobilization in Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Michael David Morden
Description
Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2015.
"Without Destroying Ourselves": American Indian Intellectual Activism for Higher Education, 1915-1978
Theses
Author/Creator
John Anthony Goodwin
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2017.
Writing Activism: Indigenous Newsprint Media in the Era of Red Power
Theses
Author/Creator
C. Elizabeth Best
Description
History Thesis (M.A.)--Wilfrid Laurier University, 2017.
Examines three newspapers: Native Youth Movement, The Native Voice and The Native People
Writing Settlement after Idle No More: Non-Indigenous Responses in Anglo-Canadian Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gillian Roberts
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 1, Destabilizing Canada / Le Canada déstabilisé, Winter, 2017, pp. 64-89
Description
Looks at four poetic texts: Arleen Paré's Lake of Two Mountains, Rachel Zolf's Janey's Arcadia, Rita Wong's undercurrent and Shane Rhodes's X.
Xweliqwiya: The Life of a Stó:lō Matriarch
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Leslie Robertson
BC Studies, no. 186, Summer, 2015, pp. 156-157
Description
Book review of Xweliqwiya by Rena Point Bolton and Richard Daly.
Entire book review section on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 156.
Youth and Reconciliation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daxton Rhead
Erin Samant
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 12, no. 1, 2017, pp. 5-6
Description
Transcript of speeches given by students at demonstration on Parliament Hill over the treatment of Indigenous people.