CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 189, no. 33, August 21, 2017, pp. e1080-1081
Description
Talks about the report, Tubal Ligation in the Saskatoon Health Region: The Lived Experience of Aboriginal Women that confirmed allegations against the Saskatoon Health Region.
Author of Separate Beds speaks about the history of segregation, discrimination, and substandard facilities, care and funding in the Indian Hospital Service.
Duration: 15:56.
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 170-179
Description
Author critically engages the format and storytelling devices within the videogame Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) and discusses how this and other digital platforms can be used to build understanding and counter stereotypes and misinformation about Indigenous peoples.
Ethnohistory, vol. 36, no. 4, Fall, 1989, pp. 392-410
Description
Examines the legal and ethical issues surrounding the 1988 return of the belts, the Iroquois sense of proper behaviour on the occasion and the mutually satisfying outcome for both parties.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, 1989, pp. 97-128
Description
Book reviews of:
The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories by Robert J. Conley.
Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880 by Thomas D. Hall.
Collections Arctiques by Yvon Csonka.
New Directions in American Indian History edited by Colin G. Calloway.
Hasinai: A Traditional History of the Caddo Confederacy by Vynola Beaver Newkumet, Howard L. Meredith.
Sous le signe de l'ours.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, 1989, pp. 107-138
Description
Book reviews of:
A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians by Joan Mark.
Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots and Affixes by D. G. Frantz and N. J. Russell.
The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors From European Contact Through the Era of Removal by James H. Merrell.
American Women Writing Fiction edited by Mickey Pearlman.
New Voices From the Longhouse: An Anthology of Contemporary Iroquois Writing edited by Joseph Bruchac.
Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore, 1620-1984 by William S.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, 1989, pp. 29-68
Description
Article focuses on the meaning of the occupation rather than the function, as well as the language, imagery, ideology and ideals attached to the event.
Inquiry into the handling of the case involving a young Mi'kmaq man falsely accused and convicted of murder and his subsequent twelve-year incarceration.
Nine elders in discussion at Saddle Lake Reserve. They talk about aspects of life before contact with whites, Treaty #6, the history of amalgamations and land sales, and a traditional story of a boy raised by buffalo.
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.
Native Studies Review, vol. 5, no. 1, Native Health Research in Canada, 1989, p. 17–40
Description
Discussion on Native patients' dependency on clinical encounters in the health service system as opposed to use of alternative methods with relation to medical evacuations and southern hospitalizations.
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.
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.
Explores the many contributions made by Indigenous peoples to North and South American societies and the long history of settler exploitation of the land, resources, and people of the two continents.
A photograph of two First Nations men in traditional garb, and a City Official at a ceremony to celebrate the giving of a totem pole to the City of Prince Albert, 1975. The pole was carved by a First Nations man originally from British Columbia, and currently stands along the North Saskatchewan River near the Prince Albert Historical Museum.
Several topics are discussed: describes the acceptance by the Peigans of Treaty #7, and its effects on their way of life; compares U.S. and Canadian treaties and criticizes Canadian education of Indians; briefly describes some aspects of traditional ceremonies; and tells story of two spirits gambling for control of lands adjacent to Rockies.