A conference discussing comparison of Indian and Christian religions and religious ceremonies, traditional songs and dances, and history of Europeans in North America from the Indian viewpoint.
Consists of an interview where Adam Solway talks about being orphaned at 8 years and adopted by the Blackfoot Reserve, Alta; his attendance at a residential school; becoming a councillor and then chief of the reserve. He comments on the issues he had to deal with as well as providing comments on contemporary lifestyles and leadership.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, Spring, 2011, pp. 161-191
Description
Looks at the socioeconomic, political, and cultural factors that contributed to the spearfishing crisis in northern Wisconsin and the battered attempts by the Ojibwe to exercise their treaty-based fishing rights. The article also examines the state of relations between Native and non-Native residents.
File contains samples of Red River Rebellion Military Bounty Land Warrants, North West Mounted Police Warrants, North-West Rebellion Military Bounty Warrants and Land Certificates, and Metis Scrip Certificates.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 3, Defending Life First, September 2012, p. [?]
Description
Discusses how the government neglected cultural rights by illegally licensing an oil company to do business on traditional lands without community consent.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 3, Special Issues on Reservation Economies, 1998, pp. 31-78
Description
Looks at the coercesion of the Navajo, by the United States government, through military domination, the threat of starvation, and finally relocation along the Pecos River in eastern New Mexico.
Consists of an interview with non-Indian employed at the Gabriel Dumont Institute in Regina. At the time of the interview he was writing a book on the history of the Metis nation.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, Sacred Places, Sacred Lifeways, March 2012, p. [?]
Description
Looks at injustices perpetrated by the Colombian government and mining companies and discusses how Karmen Ramirez is advocating for Indigenous issues and rights.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 34, no. 1, 2014, pp. 25-41
Description
Focuses on protests over ecological and environmental issues, their relation to land claims, and how they have been framed in mainstream media and public policy.
Film about the Québec Provincial Police (QPP) raid on the Restigouche Reserve in June 1981 due to disputes over the salmon-fishing rights of the Micmac people. This film deal with mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.
Duration: 45:57.
"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.
Federal government publication relating to Aboriginal life in British Columbia, covering areas such as pre-contact, explorers and traders, colonization, missions, post-Confederation, education and economic development.
Canada. Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Description
Federal government publication relating to Aboriginal life in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, covering areas such as pre-contact, explorers and traders, Confederation to World War I, World War I to World War II, post-war years, missions and education.
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Description
Federal government publication relating to Aboriginal life in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, covering areas such as pre-contact, explorers and traders, Confederation to World War I, World War I to World War II, post-war years, missions and education.
Jim Carriere is a resident of Cumberland House and worked for Jim Brady when the latter was a field officer for the CCF government. Carriere discusses Jim Brady's strengths and weaknesses, Brady's life in Cumberland House, speculates about Brady's death and his links with the Communist Party. He also talks about returning World War II veterans and their impact on the communities.
Lawrence Cook knew Jim Brady in 1949/50. He talks about the CCF government policies and how the people reacted to them, the Legion, and the various Co-op efforts that were tried in Cumberland. He is the only informant to talk about efforts by Brady to organize a Metis Association in Cumberland in 1949.
Lawrence Tobacco, born 1919, on the Poor Man Reserve, Saskatchewan He attended a residential school and is now involved in traditional education and counseling. He talks about farming and raising cattle on the Poor Man Reserve; shares a story of a trip he took to Winnipeg to sell cattle for a number of reserves in the File Hills area, and how Indian Affairs officials tried to bribe him with part of the proceeds of the sale; shares stories of defiance toward Dept.
Louis Garneau was a cousin of Jim Brady and spent much of his youth with Jim. He speaks of working in the north during the 20s and 30s and of his recollections of Jim's family and political interests.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2, Militarization, 2001, pp. 20-25
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Describes the partial implementation and success of the Total War Policy against the New Peoples Army in the Philippines.
To access this article, scroll down to page 20.
America Haus Munich, April 11-13, 2005, 26th American Indian Workshop
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sandra Busatta
Description
Discusses how the concept of sovereignty, with its accompanying refusal to recognize the international border between Canada and the United States, has led to the illegal activities of groups, such as the Warrior Society, on the St. Regis reservation and the Kahnawake and Kanesatake reserves.
Canadian Public Policy, vol. 16, no. 3, September 1990, pp. 262-283
Description
Discusses the efforts of the federal and territorial governments to develop the Northwest Territories, and assesses native participation in the economy in the late 1980's.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 27, no. 3, Autumn, 1974, pp. 95-102
Description
Articulates the anxieties of settlers in and prospective immigrants to the North-West during the conflict and following its suppression; contains a number of quotations from archival materials demonstrating the biases, beliefs, and fears of the settlers and governing officials.
Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 95.