Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010
Description
Looks at Aboriginal health research and how racial discourses continues to impact on Indigenous people's connection to self and to spirit; and discusses how non- Aboriginal researchers and Aboriginal communities need to develop better relationships.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, Development and Customary Law, 2010, pp. 6-15
Description
Argues customary and traditional laws of communal stewardship over land as opposed to individual land tenure systems should be recognized and protected for future land development.
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Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, Development and Customary Law, 2010, pp. 16-21
Description
Discusses customary law’s contribution to addressing areas where ordinary criminal or civil laws have failed particularly in reference to mass violence .
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American Literature, vol. 80, no. 4, December 2008, pp. 677-705
Description
Discusses how Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk contextualizes the Battle of Bad Axe within previous conflicts between the U.S. government and Indigenous peoples of the Great Lake region over conceptions of landholding, diplomacy and trade.
Website looks at First Nation relationships with the land, natural resource and development. Provides links to First Nations Bands - Tribes, Councils, Alliances, education centres and First Nations organizations in British Columbia.
Post Script, vol. 29, no. 3, Indian Cinema, Summer, 2010, pp. 3-[?]
Description
Introduction to special issue celebrating Indigenous film in North America with examples of key films and filmmakers, approaches to studying and writing and interviews with filmmakers in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Outlines a scientific history of uranium, and looks at the traditional Navajo’s belief system regarding uranium and milling as a disruption in the balance of earth and sky.
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Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3-4, Indigenous Women in Canada: the Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 39-51
Description
Paper discusses the author's personal journey to self-determination through ceremony and spirituality.
Resisting Exile in the Homeland: He Mo'oleno No La'ie
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hokulani K. Aikau
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1, Winter, 2008, pp. 70-95
Description
The author explores the contradictions in the different narratives about place—Indigenous and Mormon—surrounding the town of Lā'ie on O’ahu. Works to problematize the oppositional relationship between Indigeneity and modernity. Explores sites of resistance occupied by Kanaka Maoli members of the Church of Latter-day Saints (LDS).
Looks at the economic potential of mining, oil and gas projects and the potential harm to the environment and to traditional lifestyles in Aboriginal communities.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, 2008, pp. 175-194
Description
Reviews theories and the issues/problems associated with their application by historians and anthropologist. Focus is on two main, competing theories: Hobsbawmian and constructivist.
Global Encounters Initiative, University of British Columbia
Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame March 4-6, 2010 University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Media » Film and Video
Description
Chief Councilor of the Hupacasath Nation shares her story, place of being and knowledge about ceremonies, designs on Ceremonial Curtains and her own Ceremonial Curtain.
Duration: 1:03:13.
Sharing Indigenous Wisdom International Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ethan Baptiste
Description
Discusses five traditional leadership principles: the will of the people, leadership training, protection of the land, leading by example, and continuously validated authority.
International Journal of the Commons, vol. 4, no. 1, February 2010, p. 36–55
Description
Looks at two joint ventures ability or inability to contribute the extra dimensions of development in forest management desired by Aboriginal communities.