Shared Witsuit’en-Settler Relationships in Smithers 1913-1973
Shared Witsuït’en-Settler Relationships in Smithers 1913-1973: Project Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tyler McCreary
Description
Reports information gathered about circumstances which led to relocation to an urban environment, experiences of living in the city in the early twentieth century, and establishment and displacement of "Indiantown".
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 6, no. 1, 2017, pp. 37-63
Description
Reports some findings from a larger research project that focused on post-genocide healing practices in Rwanda. Advocates for community-based and traditional methods for solving socio-economic problems and rebuilding social relations; examines implications for social work education and practice.
Arizona and the West, vol. 16, no. 4, Winter, 1974, pp. 343-364
Description
Discussion on failure of the Indian infantry and cavalry companies, made up entirely of Native American personnel, who were strictly segregated and commanded by white officers.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 97-111
Description
Asserts that withholding knowledge is an act of resistance and argues that to fully understand Native American people is how a dominant society gains a sense of mastery and control.
Describes and compares the politics of land, sovereignty, labour, race relations and law enforcement enacted in the two countries by settler governments. Details general practices and events which illustrate the politics described.
Presents results of six weeks of fact-finding conducted from January to July 2016, interviews and correspondence with police, and complaint mechanisms from August 2016 to January 2017.
Sixty-three elders' interviews from the Treaty 8 area were reviewed for references to land, and of these, all but fourteen contain some sort of statement about land.
A total of 136 elders' interviews were read for reference to treaty mineral rights. Of these, 58 were either not concerned with an Indian understanding of treaty or did not deal specifically with minerals.
Author uses various anthropological and historical sources to throw some light on the way in which the Indians of the Treaty 6 and 7 regions might have interpreted the treaty promises.
AlterNative, vol. 13, no. 4, December 2017, pp. 256-265
Description
Uses two vignettes reflecting Maori students composite experiences where perceived or actual power imbalances took place. Includes nine strategies to use when supervising Indigenous students researching Indigenous peoples.
This paper, based on his many field interviews, represents Mr. Rain's views on why the Indians in the Treaty 6 area wereanxious to sign treaty, the problems of language, and therefore of their understanding of the terms.