Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 19, no. 2, March/April 1995, pp. 6-7
Description
Looks at how a community addressed an alcohol problem by collaborating with government agencies and other organizations to to lobby authorities for help.
Consists of an interview where he talks about different groupings in Mohawk society. This transcript illustrates some of the difficulties encountered when relying too closely on the oral history tradition. He also gives personal recollections of life on the reserve.
Research and Development Highlights (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation). Socio-economic Series ; no. 21, 1995
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Research and Development Highlights (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation). Socio-economic Series
Description
Uses data from the 1991 Census and applies the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation's core housing need model. Compares Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal households.
Journal of Educational Psychology, vol. 87, no. 2, 1995, pp. 241-252
Description
Results from study involving Inuit, White, and mixed-heritage students living in a subarctic community suggest that it was more beneficial for minority students to be taught in their own language (Inuttitut) rather than English.
Anthropologica, vol. 25, no. 1, New Series, Native North Americans and the Media: Studies in Minority Journalism, 1983, pp. 9-21
Description
Comments on an archive of audio tapes which document the process of transition from a life based on hunting and trapping to one which is integrated into the modern industrial economy.
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 1, no. 2, June 1995, pp. 273-299
Description
Reinterprets the evidence for changing settlement strategies and demonstrates the use of ethnographic and historical observation in settlement archaeology.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 2, 1979, pp. 115-134
Description
An examination into the introduction of land allotments into Indian Territory and the efforts of Cherokee lobbyists to prevent its implementation in the late nineteenth century.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring, 1983, pp. 67-80
Description
Discussion on the Indian Rights Association and its goal of the assimilation of American Indigenous nations, in particular through the allotment policies in Oklahoma during early twentieth century.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 4, Autumn, 1995, pp. 519-525
Description
Examines how Blackfeet author James Welch depicts characters from two eras who improvise and appropriate Blackfeet and white cultures while facing loss of political autonomy, illness and attack while retaining hope for the future.
Medical Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Francisco, 1983.
Study focuses on males of Sanctuary Bay, an Inuit settlement in the Arctic.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 18, no. 3, 1983, pp. 90-101
Description
Examines the wage income of rural northern Saskatchewan Indigenous communities and how Indigenous groups used this wage incomes as an adaptive strategy to preserve themselves in the contemporary world.
Joe Duquette, born 1904, on Mistawasis Reserve, never attended school, completely self-educated. Now Senator of F.S.I. and involved in teaching and counselling young people. He tells the story of his arranged marriage.
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 12, Aboriginal Peoples and Canada, Fall, 1995, pp. [30]-49
Description
Discusses the National Galley of Canada's first exhibit of contemporary First Nations art in the context of nationhood and identity.
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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.