Justice as Healing, vol. 3, no. 1, Spring, 1998, p. [?]
Description
Project offering alternative approaches and services for youth in the present justice system.
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
Discusses views of self-government, management models, issues and changing relationships using one provincial and one federal example.
Excerpt from: Visions of the Heart: Aboriginal Issues in Canada edited by D. Long and O.P. Dickason.
IPA Backgrounder, vol. 10, no. 1, February 1998, pp. 1-24
Description
Disputes issues discussed in the 1997 national inquiry report, Bringing Them Home, such as specific cases, comparison of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal child removal and the claim of genocide.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 230-258
Description
Author considers different perceptions of and from people of mixed Black and Cherokee ancestry in an attempt to better understand the discourses surrounding the Cherokee Freedmen, tribal affiliations, and the constructs of individual and community identities.
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.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 4, 1996, pp. 121-144
Description
Argues that the Native Americans persistent wish to preserve culture and identity proved to be the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) best tool in the right to a separate ethnic identity.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 1998.
Provides a glimpse into the thoughts, ideas and struggles of the Peguis people of Manitoba as they build a healthier community.
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 14, Citizenship and Rights, Fall, 1996, pp. [52]-76
Description
Looks at issues raised with the Canadian political system and reviews two different concepts for Canadian citizenship.
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Prepared in 1996 and revised in 2003 for the Political and Social Affairs Division, Parliamentary Library; provides historical background of federal legislative control of "status" and "membership."
Meeting of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN), Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) and Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) and their discussion of areas of common concern.
The Mobilization of Native Canadians During the Second World War
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Author/Creator
Michael D. Stevenson
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 205-226
Description
Discusses the government's attempts to enforce compulsory service and Aboriginals' reactions to them. Argues that while the government refused to listen to protests, in the end practical considerations such as geographic isolation and health of potential recruits, and barriers of language and culture caused the policy to fail.
Sources are divided by two areas, "Chipewyan" (Northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, North West Territories) and British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon and Northwest Territories, grouped together. Each area is then divided into a social and cultural section and a language section. Bibliography includes citations from the Hearne Bibliography. The article is current as of 1998.