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.
Native Studies Review, vol. 6, no. 2, Advocacy and Claims Research, 1990, p. 195–196
Description
Book review of: After Native Claims?: The Implications of Comprehensive Claims Settlements for Natural Resources in British Columbia by Frank Cassidy and Norman Dale.
Book review of: After Native Claims? The Implications of Comprehensive Claims Settlements For Natural Resources in British Columbia by Frank Cassidy and Norman Dale.
To read review, scroll to page 94.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, 1990, pp. 33-68
Description
Argues that the land surrender and damage claims entailed by railway construction reduced the Tsimshian to a position of economic dependency and subordination.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, 1990, pp. 151-166
Description
Book reviews of 7 books:
Self-Determination in Native Education in the Circumpolar North, Proceedings of the Seminar: Inuit Control of Inuit Education edited by Malcolm Farrow & David Wilman.
Out of the Background: Readings in Canadian Native History edited by Robin Fisher and Kenneth Coates.
Indian School Days by Basil H.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, 1990, pp. 243-270
Description
Explores 1944 policies about Métis poverty that were designed by the Canadian Commonwealth Federation (CCF) to facilitate training, development and eventual assimilation.
Research on characteristics of elected Native leaders in various organizations in southeast Alaska. Results are organized using the eight assumptions for success.
An interview where Chief One Gun tells of his father's recollections of the signing of an unspecified treaty. He also tells of a Brave Dog Society prayer meeting.
The Beaver, vol. 70, no. 1, February/March 1990, pp. 50-?
Description
Book review of: Empire of the Bay: An Illustrated History of the Hudson's Bay Company by Peter C. Newman, edited by John Geiger with photographs by Kevin Fleming.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 1986, pp. 333-349
Description
Indian reservations were surveyed regarding their consumption of wildlife. Calls for increased joint management efforts between provincial and Indian governments to identify all forces affecting wildlife populations and to create equitable conservation programs.
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.
Consists of an interview where she gives a lengthy discourse on Indian medicines. She also gives a description of basket making and an account of being lost in the woods.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, 1983, pp. 23-40
Description
Describes how this project, which included 6 dams, destroyed over 550 square miles of tribal land and displaced more than 900 Native American families.
Investigates selected aspects of the commercial trapping industry and attempts to identify factors that influence participation in this historically important activity.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 1986, pp. 141-157
Description
History of a co-operative project between the Dene Nation and the University of British Columbia to develop a database on the effects of the Norman Wells Pipeline Expansion and the Pipeline Project.
Prairie Forum, vol. 15, no. 2, Fall, 1990, pp. 235-262
Description
Discusses Alberta's heritage conservation accomplishments and the various ways of restoring the past, including museums, heritage parks and archaeological site preservation.