American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 3, Summer, 2011, pp. 294-312
Description
Discusses critical perspectives within American Indian/Native American studies including nationalism, indigenism, cosmopolitanism, and tribal transnationalism.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 91-105
Description
This presentation text examines different sites and incidents of neocolonial violence and Aboriginal activism as defiance in response; asserts the basis of Native Studies is “indigenousness and sovereignty” and examines the implications of these concepts for activism and resistance movements.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 1, Winter, 2009, pp. 1-17
Description
Looks at the history of American Indian Studies programs in the United States; information about the activism among Indian communities; the activism efforts of American Indian college students; the presence of American Indian teachers in United States colleges and universities; and other factors contributing to the growing field of American Indian Studies.
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, vol. 17, [Indigenizing and Decolonizing Environmental Education], 2012, pp. 148-158
Description
Argues that place-based education can promote greater cross-cultural understanding between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians, promote social and ecological justice, and act as a site for Indigenous resurgence.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 54, no. 2, 2017, pp. 71-82
Description
Article follows up on a small ethnographic survey conducted in 2011-2012; examines the ideas of cultural citizenship and social mobility as they are expressed by students from Greenland who are studying in Denmark.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 19, no. 2, 1999, pp. 289-319
Description
Examines four Native Studies programs, in four provinces, and how each University has increased its responsiveness to First Nation needs since the 1960s.
Includes discussion of friction in the East coast fishery and issues in post-secondary education, interviews with leaders from the Prairies, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories, and commentaries. Also includes statistics from survey of Canadian's attitudes about important Aboriginal issues.
Website contains links, some with access to the full text of presentations, from a conference which explores intellectual thought and cultural development of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Many of the presenters were Canadian.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 177-188
Description
Author draws on their experience working within the academy to illustrate institutional discrimination against Indigenous scholars, graduate students, and allies who choose to confront issues of genocide, land theft, and colonization in their work.
AlterNative, vol. 13, no. 4, December 2017, pp. 235-245
Description
Focuses on the experience of facilitators and leaders in the program dealing with the challenges associated with adapting Western research methods to the Indigenous context.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 14, no. 2, Autumn, 1999, pp. 77-91
Description
Looks at the historical conferences on the multi- and interdisciplinary field of Native American Studies held in the Spring and Summer of 1998 and organized by the University of California.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 46-49
Description
Short Introductory piece to the special issue which describes the editor’s experience following the release of the Call for Papers for an AIQ issue dedicated to the experience of Indigenous students, staff and faculty within the academic intuition.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 233-239
Description
Author examines the way that the current narratives surrounding Indigenous Peoples in what is now The United States historicize first peoples and marginalize their involvement in diversity programs within the academy.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 452-455
Description
Author discusses their work at a university in Ohio; details progress they have made since they were a graduate student and in their current role as an instructor and describes ongoing anti-Indigenous racism.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 1, Series 2: Feminist and Post-Colonial Approaches, Spring, 1994, pp. 1-10
Description
Discusses the political and historical issues surrounding the teaching of ethnic American literature amid the Hawaiian activist movement and racial tensions in a multicultural state.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
The History Teacher, vol. 39, no. 2, 2006, pp. [153]-173
Description
Discusses the following contributing elements that inspired some history departments to offer Native studies classes: the Meriam Report of 1928, the Indian Reform Movement of the 1920s and 1930s, the Indian claims research of the 1950s, and the political climate of the 1960s.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 2, 2006, pp. 141-186
Description
Book reviews of:
Beyond the Reach of Time and Change: Native American Reflections on the Frank A. Rinehart Photograph Collection edited by Simon J. Ortiz.
Bringing Indians to the Book by Albert Furtwangler.
A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children edited by Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin.
Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769–1850 by Steven W.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 4, 1988, pp. 65-104
Description
Book reviews of:
Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 edited by Gary Clayton Anderson, Alan R. Woolworth.
Abstracts of Native Studies, Volume 1. Abstracts of Native Studies, Volume 2 edited by R. C. Annis.
Fools Crow by James Welch.
The Seminole by Merwyn S. Garbarino.
The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West by Patricia Nelson Limerick.
Southeastern Pomo Ceremonials: The Kuksu Cult and Its Successors by Abraham M.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, 2004, pp. 121-178
Description
Book reviews of:
American Indians in U.S. History by Roger L. Nichols.
Blanket Weaving in the Southwest by Joe Ben Wheat.
Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield by Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney.
“The Cherokee Night” and Other Plays by Lynn Riggs.
Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World by Robbie Ethridge.
Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties and Contemporary Controversies edited by Bruce E. Johansen.
Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption by Enrique R.
File contains a presentation by Chief Gerald Antoine on behalf of the Deh Cho Regional Council. The presentation was prepared by Rene Lamothe and Betty Hardisty, who consulted with Elders, band members, Metis locals and municipal council of the Deh Cho Region. Visitations in the Deh Cho Region generated feedback regarding the Canadian Constitution and a discussion of the existing constitutional revisions in Canada. Briefly listed are statements of positions by members of the various local councils.
A Syllabus for History After the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Historical Association
Description
Goal of document is to "gather together materials on Indigenous history in and around Canada that might be useful for people teaching, researching, writing history or working in public history".
Current as of 2019.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 53, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 233-253
Description
Study traces the learning experiences of primarily non-Indigenous educators who created an Indigenous-focused Master of Education program to challenge the legacy of colonization in schools and who have worked to decolonize their practice through their participation in a graduate studies; asserts that decolonizing education means valuing Indigenous people, languages, and land, and building inter-cultural understanding.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 53, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 254-275
Description
Longstanding teacher-education team who teach a specialized Honours BEd course, entitled Indigenizing Perspectives and Practices in Education, outline the obstacles and struggles in settler teacher education; discuss legacies of colonialism in education and systemic racism in curriculum.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3-4, Indigenous Women in Canada: The Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 77-89
Description
Author describes the measures in place to ensure employment equity and the barriers still existing in the workplace.