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.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 5, no. 1, March 1981, pp. 13-15
Description
Author argues that most neglected part of Australian Aboriginal health is mental health and that alcohol abuse is rooted in the rapid changes in Aboriginal society.
Author argues that, if science education is to contribute to Aboriginal peoples economic development, environmental responsibility and cultural survival, then Indigenous common sense used together with Aboriginal and Western knowledge and technology about nature, as ways of learning, must also be used.
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.
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, vol. 3, no. 1, Spring, 1998, pp. 100-115
Description
Article/review resembles poetry and is written in a oral style. Author expresses his observations on Aboriginal culture, tradition and the environment.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1981, pp. 331-336
Description
Satirical pseudo-report to the Board of Directors of a hydroelectric project, proposing a solution to the problem of Indigenous people displaced by flooding.
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.
Cumberland House celebrates summer with four days of canoe racing. Page one: three pictures of canoes racing. Page two: two pictures of audience members, one picture of canoe racing.
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.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 2, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Louis Owens, Summer, 1998, pp. 23-40
Description
Explores the dual and linked themes of stories and community as expressed through the main character, who finds himself isolated from both.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1981, pp. 217-257
Description
Book reviews of 23 books:
The Forces Which Shaped Them: A History of the Education of Minority Group Children in British Columbia by Mary Ashworth.
Forty Years a Chief by George Barker.
A History of Native Claims Processes in Canada, 1867-1979 by Richard C. Daniel.
The Metaphysics of Modern Existence by Vine Deloria
The Covenant Chain: Indian Ceremonial and Indian Trade Silver by N.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1981, pp. 363-375
Description
Book reviews of 6 books:
Urban Indians: The Strangers in Canada's Cities by Larry Krotz.
Report of the Indian Child Welfare Sub-Committee Manitoba.
Inuit Songs from Eskimo Point [edited] by Ramon Pellinski, Luk Suluk and Lucy Amarook.
Song of Sedna by Robert D. San Souci.
Gathering What the Great Nature Provided: Food Traditions of the Gitksan by the People of 'Ksan.
Pitseolak, A Canadian Tragedy by David F. Raine.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 22, no. 1, January/February 1998, pp. 2-4
Description
Paper reflects on some of the issues raised in the study of expanding the service to remote areas of Queensland, Australia. Key recommendations were to implement a mobile, culturally relevant program in order to improve participation rates.
Child Welfare, vol. 77, no. 4, July/Aug 1998, pp. 441-460
Description
Looks at information gathered from interviews conducted with clients to develop a course of action for child protection. Text from interviews included.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, 1998, pp. 313-333
Description
Discusses ways Cayuga Chief Jacob E. Thomas (1922-1998) of the Six Nations Reserve taught language; examines the educational materials he produced, and some reactions to his efforts.
American Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 5, American Culture and the American Frontier, Winter, 1981, pp. 502-524
Description
Contends that the Cherokee Nation was perceived, manipulated, and distorted according to the society of the times, which had its own multiple and internal conflicts.
Christine Adam, one of the first residents of Uranium City, reflects on life in the old days. Page one: portrait of Christine Adam. Page Two: portrait of Christine with her mother and friend Adele Whitedeer.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 37, no. 2, Winter, 1998, pp. [2-20]
Description
Describes a study involving cooperation between a reserve and border community with the goal of improving academic achievement and retention of students at a high school level.