Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, January 31, 2019, pp. 88-98
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Author discusses their experience as a Canadian Research Chair (CRC) in Indigenous Well-Being, Community-Engagement, and Innovation at McMaster University. Considers the role that Indigenous scholars are currently playing in decolonization and Indigenization efforts in the Canadian academy and the personal cost to those scholars.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 5, Special Issue: The Impact of Reserve and Reservation Systems on Indigenous Well-Being, 11 22, 2019
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Author offers a critical perspective on the perspectives in discussion papers being released by municipal government agencies in response to reserves being created within and adjacent to urban centers; argues that many of the perspective within these documents reinforce settler colonialism and ignore Indigenous sovereignty.
Practices based on experiences shared by First Nations leaders and managers, lawyers specializing in Indigenous law, and previous reports. Primary focus is British Columbia, but information generally applies across Canada.
Updated version of Best Practices for Consultation and Accommodation by MNP.
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 24, no. 4, Autumn, 1999, pp. 383-397
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Looks at the reaction of teacher education students to a course in Aboriginal Children's Literature. Discusses issues surrounding stereotyping and learning in a multicultural environment.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1999, pp. [66]-78
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Argues that King's works, Medicine River and Green Grass, Running Water represent a process of challenging views held by the dominant culture and constructing a new identity which is not based on the premise of superiority/inferiority as in previous cross-cultural relationships.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 58-83
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Author discusses the 1846 translation and annotation of Black Hawk’s autobiography by the Dutch pastor Rinse Posthumus; offers critical commentary on Posthumus’ station and politics as an influencing factor in his additions to and translation of the text.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, Special Issue on Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans, 1999, pp. 47-61
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Examination of the religious and cultural responses, of two California Native American groups, to new diseases, which were of Spanish origin, and to colonization.
Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place
Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border Crossing, and Loose Canons
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David Payne
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1999, pp. 84-89
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Book reviews of:
Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place by Louis Owens.
Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border Crossing, and Loose Canons by Paula Gunn Allen.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 439-470
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Author examines several images contemporary to the 1904 World’s Fair, discusses the way in which Indigenous people were portrayed as "spectacle, commodity and spoil of American conquest;" articulates ways that some Indigenous Leaders both corroborated these portrayals and subverted them.
Explores reasons why the epidemic figures prominently in First Nations' histories; includes oral remembrances of the devastation the disease brought to First Nations communities.
Article reframes the discussion surrounding mental health recognizing that Indigenous peoples have a holistic view of health that encompasses the physical, mental, emotional, and environmental spectrum of wellbeing. Notes implications for government policy and for frontline practice.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, June 25, 2019
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Conceptual article argues that Indigenous sovereignty remains valid throughout the Americas and that the settler colonial laws are therefore illegitimate and illegal; all systems that function on the assumption of settler colonial sovereignty must be re-centered around Indigenous laws and ethics.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3, Summer, 2019, pp. 306-338
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Author examines the interdependent nature of colonial and capitalist structures and their collaborative resistance to decolonizing efforts. Explores two different sites in which Indigenous businesses are working to engage in the market while maintaining business practices rooted Indigenous values and principles. Asks how these economic practices can support the dismantling of colonial-capitalist economic institutions.
Survey conducted online between March 22 and April 29, 2019, with stratified samples of 682 Indigenous and 695 non-Indigenous youth (ages 16 to 29), distributed across the 10 provinces and three territories.
Related material:
Detailed Data Tables: Indigenous Youth.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11 , no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1999, pp. [42]-63
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Discusses the literary treatment of Pocahontas in: The Death of Jim Loney and The Powwow Highway.
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Canadian Literature, no. 161-162, On Thomas King, Summer-Autumn, 1999, pp. 82-102
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Argues that maps illustrate power relationships, as when colonizers' place names and territorial boundaries attempted to erase the prior occupancy and ownership of lands by First Nations.
Study consisted of a literature review, ten interviews, and four case studies: Tłı̨chǫ All‐season Road Project, Hope Bay Mining Ltd, Offshore Oil and Gas Strategic Environmental Assessment, and Adams Lake Cumulative Effects Land Use and Management Assessment
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities, 2019, pp. 37-40
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The author examines the creation of the Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World exhibit at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, California, his supporters questioning of tribal denial of his claim to Cherokee ancestry and its importance regarding Indigenous identity and sovereignty.
Subtitled: "Entered according to act of Parliament of Canada, in the year 1885 by Prof. Buell in the office of the ministry of agriculture." Image of Lt. Gov. Dewdney and a troop of military men in uniform. In the foreground are 6 chiefs.
Examines the different definitions of Indigeneity used by the different nation-states in the Arctic regions. Finds that Russian definitions exclude large Indigenous groups (Sakha & Komi) and shows that not all Arctic Indigenous groups are included in the Arctic Council.
Inquest investigated the deaths of seven youths who had relocated to Thunder Bay, Ontario to complete their high school education.
2017 Report.
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BC Studies , no. 200, 50th Anniversary, Winter, 2019, pp. 273-299
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Article examines the construct of white masculinity in the interior of British Columbia during the Cariboo Gold Rush; discusses how the intersection with the settler-colonial agenda created a socially enforced code of behavior that demanded that men both subscribe to Victorian values, but also present with a roughness or heartiness about their person. Also illustrates how this construct of white masculinity justified violence towards women and racialized persons.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 123-132
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Discusses successful children's writers that falsely claim Indigenous ancestry and the effect their success had on maintaining stereotypes that fit the popular conception of what constitutes an Indigenous person. The four of the writers profiled are: Jamake Highwater Anpao, Paul Goble, Sharon Creech, and Asa Carter.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 115-122
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Discusses how decreased funding for museums and art galleries has lead to an increased effort to secure Indigenous art in order to acquire grants. Uses Jimmie Durham as a case study and an examination of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 to illustrate how the art community's haste to secure Indigenous art has allowed those with a fraudulent identity to benefit.
Mr. Trindle, aged 78, has spent most of his adult life in the Trout Lake/Peerless Lake area and is a former chief--talks about promises of a reserve in the area; surveying of boundaries; duration of occupation of area; and traditional lifestyles.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 5, Special Issue: The Impact of Reserve and Reservation Systems on Indigenous Well-Being, November 22, 2019
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Research uses qualitative interviews with Indigenous and non-Indigenous health care and social services providers to examine the barriers that Indigenous people face when accessing healthcare; suggests possible strategies to improve responsiveness.
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 14, no. 2, Growing Roots of Indigenous Wellbeing, October 31, 2019, pp. 74-94
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Authors examine colonial traumas—Indigenous separation from land, culture, and relations—which occur as a result of ongoing and neo-colonial practices, as a determinant of Indigenous peoples’ physical and mental health.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, June 18, 2019
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Paper uses qualitative description to examine the way that community settings act as determinants on tuberculosis (TB) detection and rates among Indigenous peoples. Researchers found delays in diagnosis and misdiagnosis to be high in urban centers, while issues of shame and stigma were prominent in rural and remote communities, low levels of TB knowledge were present in all communities.