American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 1, 1996, pp. 43-71
Description
Looks at the reasons for displacement in Alaska and why the Bureau of Education's efforts included an emphasis on
preparing the local inhabitants for a more urban society, one in which some degree of assimilation and integration would be inevitable.
Image of a refugee camp during the Northwest Resistance. Women and children of Batoche were permitted to leave the village to escape enemy fire. Visible are supplies piled up on the ground in front of a cluster of tents.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 8, no. 2, Series 2; Teaching American Indian Literatures, Summer, 1996, pp. [89]-103
Description
Book reviews of:
Ke-ma-ha: The Omaha Stories of Francis La Flesche edited by James W. Parins and Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr.
Life and Death in Mohawk Country by Bruce E. Johansen.
The Feathered Heart by Mark Turcotte.
Eagle Drum: On the Powwow Trail with a Young Grass Dancer by Robert Crum.
Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization by Robert H. Jackson and Edward Castillo.
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Film highlights play put on by high school Aboriginal students from Winnipeg's North End and Francophone students from Saint-Boniface. Discussion follows. Accompanying material: Riel Country: [Study Guide].
Duration: 49:05.
Ethnicity & Health, vol. 1, no. 3, September 1996, pp. 261-267
Description
Concludes that Native American adolescents have higher risk prevalence across indices of anitsocial behavior and substance abuse, with females presenting the highest.
Native Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 2, 1996, pp. 51-88
Description
Uses example of schools in British Columbia to illustrate that while children's health education was used as a method of assimilation, children were undernourished and conditions were unsanitary encouraging the spread of disease.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 20, no. 1, January/February 1996, p. 11
Description
Discusses resource developed to aid health workers improve nutrition and general health in Aboriginal communities experiencing childhood malnutrition and recurrent infectious diseases and high rates of diabetes and heart disease in adults.
Identifies resources, practices and instructional methods that would support Aboriginal students in the Intermediate-Advanced English as a Second Language Program (ESL) at Mount Royal Collegiate in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 8, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1996, pp. [13]-24
Description
Discusses treatment of these subjects in the work of Ella Doloria, LeAnne Howe, Mary Crow Dog, Louise Erdrich, and Janet Campbell Hale.
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