American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 39, no. 2, 2015, pp. 29-52
Description
Questions benefits and risks of participation in natural resource management due to the fact that the process rules were established in advance of Aboriginal participation.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3/4, To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality (Parts 1 & 2), Summer/Fall, 1996, pp. 451-[?]
Description
Discusses the difficulties outsiders encounter when attempting to learn about and understand Aboriginal spirituality and culture.
Policy Paper for the Reconciliation Working Group ; PB-2015-03
[ISID Aboriginal Policy Studies Papers]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ben J. Geboe
Description
Looks at government policies and programs in the four countries. Selection based on feedback indicating that initiatives were meeting with some success.
Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC)
Description
Paper outlines the organization's position on regulating street checks, answers the Government of Ontario's 15 consultation questions and provides recommendations for consideration.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3/4, To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality (Parts 1 & 2), Summer-Autumn, 1996, pp. 393-414
Description
Article articulates some of the ethical issues that arise in the study in Indigenous spiritual practices; focuses on misinterpretation, appropriation, corruption of different spiritual practices.
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 1, no. 2, 2015, pp. 98-111
Description
Looks at two groups photographed and interviewed for the project: First Nations youth from Calgary, Alberta and Te Ora Hou, a Maori youth organization in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 8, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1996, pp. [36]-48
Description
Examines the theme of someone from one culture invading that of another for the purposes of personal gain or empowerment expressed in Warrior's works.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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.
Assesses levels of concurrence in understanding regarding the salmon fishery among the Ahtna, an Alaska Native people, commercial fishers, and fishery biologists.
Curator: The Museum Journal , vol. 39, no. 2, 1996, pp. 108-122
Description
Discusses the tribe's past resistance to having spiritual ceremonies photographed and their current efforts to restrict access to sensitive material held in museum collections.
Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Gretchen Eick
Description
Focuses on three writers who wrote about their traumatic childhoods which collectively cover from 1862 to 1920.
Presented at the Tenth Native American Symposium, November 14-15, 2013.
Chapter from Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs edited by Mark B. Spencer.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20 , no. 2, 1996, pp. 59-105
Description
Discusses the lack of existing government documentation, regarding federal Indian law, that would provide the knowledge necessary for Native Americans to negotiate on an equal level.
Native Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 2, 1996, pp. 116-124
Description
In letter, author describes how she came to teach Native Studies, developed the necessary background to do so, and what she believes to be her primary purpose as an educator in the field.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 2, 1996, pp. 155-172
Description
Commentary on the assertions that the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and other Native American confederacies helped shape ideas of democracy the early U.S. and Europe.
American Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 4, 1996, pp. 653-679
Description
Chronicles the life of the author of the first full length autobiography done by a Native American, with special focus on Methodist religious influences and his civil activism efforts.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 1996.
Includes discussion of Slash by Jeanette Armstrong and Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 2, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Spring, 1996, pp. 180-196
Description
Author examines and discusses the narrative of a civilization—the Moundbuilders of America—that inhabited the Mississippi River valley prior to contemporary Indigenous peoples.
Discussion of international legal principle created and justified by ideas of European superiority; doctrine provided newly arrived Europeans with automatic property rights and entitled them to exercise governmental, political, and commercial power over the original inhabitants.
Panel discussion at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's closing events.
Duration: 1:03:21.
BMC Public Health, vol. 15, 2015, p. article no. 1222
Description
Cross sectional survey (2012/13) conducted with Beardy's and Okemasis' Cree Nation and Montreal Lake Cree Nation involved 580 households and 1570 adult participants. Found that residential school attendance and cultural disruption were not predictive of diabetes, while those experiencing the highest level of racism had low prevalence. Authors suggest that the latter finding may be the result of increased interaction with off-reserve society.
ita [Industry Training Authority] Aboriginal Initiatives
Description
Discusses challenges and issues and the essential elements in employment counseling services and training programs including finding candidates, defining program's purpose, assessing participant readiness, and providing support and resources. Based on experiences of organizations in British Columbia.