Discusses customary rights and responsibilities with respect to three areas: private advice-/knowledge, inherited ritual/ceremonial property (rituals, songs, stories, etc.) and House property (hereditary names, songs, stories).
This documentary reflects on Kainai (Blood tribe) history, governance, survival, and living culture as it explores the repatriation of artifacts from Europeans.
Duration: 1:9:39.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, June 1989, pp. 34-37
Description
Book reviews of: Flinders Ranges Dreaming by The Adnyamathanha Storytellers of South Australia and Dorothy Tunbridge.
Turning the Tide: A Personal History of the Federal Council for Advancement of Aborigines andTorress Strait Islanders by Faith Bandler.
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, Fall, 2003, pp. 67-115
Description
Argues that since the theoretical underpinings of Canadian law are Western liberalism, there is a fundamental conflict with the viewpoint of Aboriginal people.
BC Studies, no. 138/139, Native Geographies, Summer/Autumn, 2003, pp. 181-184
Description
Book reviews of: A Story Sharp as a Knife by Robert Bringhurst, Nine Visits to the Mythworld by Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas and Being in Being by Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, 2003, pp. 1-32
Description
An investigation into Native Americans worldviews in relation to many versions of the life and death of Sacajawea, the interpreter who accompanied Lewis and Clark.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2003, pp. 1-38
Description
Examines how the author's knowledge of the Navajo culture and the concept hozho allow her to transform a character who could be viewed as victim into a powerful individual.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 1, Winter, 1989, pp. 30-57
Description
Considers the influence of both federal administration and personal vision on the translated responses of tribal people who testified before the committee that investigated fraudulent land allotment at the White Earth Reservation at the turn of the century.
Canadian Literature, no. 178, Autumn, 2003, pp. 111-113
Description
Comparative review of essay collections in three interdisciplinary books:
Contemporary American Indian Writing: Unsettling Literature by Dee Home
The Mythology of Native North America by David Leeming and Jake Page
Mirror Writing: (Re-)Constructions of Native American Identity edited by Thomas Claviez and Maria Moss.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access reviews, scroll to page 111.
Arctic, vol. 42, no. 2, Current Perspectives on Western Boreal Forest Life: Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Research in Late , June 1989, pp. 97-108
Description
Looks at the effects of climate change on the moose and caribou populations, ethnoarchaeological study of moose hunting and butchering in Alaska and Yukon, and the importance of caribou to the Athapaskan lifestyle.
Prairie Forum, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring, 1989, pp. 102-104
Description
Book review of: "The Orders of the Dreamed": George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823 by Jennifer S. H. Brown and Robert Brightman.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 5, Articulating Aboriginal Paradigms: Implications for Aboriginal Social Work Practice, November 2003, pp. 23-43
Description
Looks at the traditional protection paradigm under which Aboriginal agencies are required to operate and the Aboriginal vision for an alternative child welfare model that emphasize community and wellness.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, 2003, pp. 61-75
Description
An investigation into the worldview structures underlying Western traditions and Indigenous peoples cultures. Publication is a revision of Scholarship Association Lecture presented in 2002 at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Native Studies Review, vol. 5, no. 1, Native Health Research in Canada, 1989, pp. 175-186
Description
Discusses the views of doctors on the advantages and disadvantages of joint co-operation between traditional practitioners and non-traditional practitioners for a better health care system.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 3&4, Series 2; [Indigenous Intersections], Fall-Winter, 2003-2004, pp. [147]-167
Description
Discusses arguments for creating a new genre of American Indian literature which uses culturally specific models.
Entire issue on one pdf. To Access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
BC Studies, no. 138/139, Native Geographies, Summer/Autumn, 2003, pp. 165-172
Description
Book review of: Indian Myths & Legends From the North Pacific Coast of America: A Translation of Franz Boas' 1895 Edition of Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Kuste Amerikas edited by Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy.
Gateways: Exploring the Legacy of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902 edited by Igor Krupnik and William W. Fitzhugh.
Q'sapi: A History of Okanagan People as Told by Okanagan Families edited by Shirley Louis.
Faculty of Law, University of Windsor & the Commonwealth Legal Education Association Roundtable
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Georges Erasmus
Description
Discusses the role of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation in dealing with a variety problems of arising from the residential school system, and argues that a healing environment must be included in the compensation process.
Report (Northern Labour Market Information Clearinghouse) ; no. 105
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jim Klingle
Description
Examines cultural and environmental influences on Aboriginal learners and distance education delivery practices. Provides recommendations for distance programming.
Hypatia, vol. 18, no. 2, Special Issue: Indigenous Women in the Americas, May 2003, pp. 32-57
Description
Analyzes effects of western ideas of self, other and feminism on women who migrate between altered states of consciousness in order to heal and mediate with the spirit world (Machi).
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, 1989, pp. 97-128
Description
Book reviews of:
The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories by Robert J. Conley.
Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880 by Thomas D. Hall.
Collections Arctiques by Yvon Csonka.
New Directions in American Indian History edited by Colin G. Calloway.
Hasinai: A Traditional History of the Caddo Confederacy by Vynola Beaver Newkumet, Howard L. Meredith.
Sous le signe de l'ours.