Commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement (IFA) with a brief history of changes in society since first major contact and outlines the changes which have been the result of the settlement of the land claim.
Analyzes 691 news and opinion articles published in 19 Canadian daily newspapers, Maclean's magazine and four wire services between July 31 and Oct. 16, 1995.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 3, 2005, pp. 25-57
Description
Review of the film, The Mission, that contends the underlying message in it is to free the colonizers of their guilt and doubt, which undermines the film's central allegory of physical and spiritual genocide of conquered Native Americans.
John Emms was an Indian agent for the federal government. He talks about work in the Kamsack area as a community development officer. He also disusses attitudes within the Indian Affairs department and the CCF/NDP governments' plans for the Indian and Metis peoples of Saskatchewan.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 1, 1978, pp. 19-31
Description
An examination of how writer John Muir's views on the American Indigenous populations changed due to his own personal interactions with the Indigenous populations throughout his life.
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, 2005, pp. 1-18
Description
Author, who was the first Aboriginal person appointed to an appellant level bench, expresses his thoughts about the impact of the Canadian justice system on Aboriginal people.
Contends that programs and services must respond to the compounding effects of oppression and repeated exposure to violence that young Aboriginal women face.
Argues that adding Aboriginal perspectives to histories of political economy will result in prevention of the true and separate histories of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.
This booklet written for the Western Development Museum Travelling Exhibition examines the religious attitudes and beliefs of Western Canadians to the land from earliest times to the present. The display seeks to facilitate understanding of man's relationship with the land and God.
Argues that no other racial group in Australia has suffered as much as the Indigenous Australians and the university experience has been, for many, one of discrimination, racism, and paternalism.
The American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, vol. 13, no. 3, 2005, pp. 597-631
Description
Uses fictitious story of tribally-run school which eventually is taken over by non-Indians as an allegory for the European conquest of Indigenous peoples.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 2, Special Issue on Research Case Studies, 2005, pp. 15-33
Description
A case study about the difficult jurisdictional issues faced between tribal governments and local, state, and federal levels of governments in the United States.
Maori Women Confront Discrimination: Using International Human Rights Law to Challenge Discriminatory Practices
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kerensa Johnston
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, 2005, pp. 19-70
Description
Discusses the Women's Convention and the Optional Protocol procedure, in order to examine the extent to which international human rights law may play a role in eliminating discrimination against Māori women in New Zealand.