Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, vol. 4, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1-11
Description
Looks at a community practitioner-based approach using library skills to link services to community needs.
Based on Community-Led Libraries: Working Together With Your Community, CLA Conference, 2008.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, Special Issue on International Year of Indigenous Peoples: Discovery and Human Rights, 1993, pp. 37-54
Description
Explores the varying Italian reactions to quincentenary celebrations.
Film about the historic confrontation at Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Québec in the summer of 1990 when the mayor of Oka agreed to appropriate sacred Mohawk land for a private golf course.
This film contains scenes of violence.
Duration: 119:24.
National Network Urban Aboriginal Economic Development
Description
Looks at establishing a network of scholars, policy analysts, and practitioners who, together, can deepen the dialogue about urban Aboriginal economic development in urban Aboriginal communities that is both successful in raising standards of living and in strengthening the cultures, traditions, and identity of Aboriginal community members.
Histoire sociale / Social History, vol. 42, no. 83, May 2009, pp. 175-201
Description
Looks at the struggle between First Nations people and the Canadian state to understand why law and punishment operated as they did in the aftermath of the Rebellion.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 29, no. 1/2, 2009, pp. 302-303
Description
Book review of: Lines Drawn Upon the Water: First Nations and the Great Lakes Borders and Borderlands edited by Karl Hele.
Scroll to page 302 to read review.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 2, Spring, 2009, pp. 169-199
Description
Analyzes the sociopolitical implications of disinterring bodies in order to put them on display, and discusses the responses of various writers to such issues. The article includes a comparison of display cases in museums, that house Native American bones, to that of zoos.
Looks at the mainstreaming of Indigeneity along indigenous policymaking lines in New Zealand and Canada by examining self determining autonomy models and state determination governance models.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 90, no. 3, September 2009, pp. 427-461
Description
Looks at the governments attempt to create a one-size-fits-all category of societal Canadian citizenship, and reveals the extent to which First Nations peoples and immigrants were expected to conform to Canadian values and standards.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 90, no. 4, December 2009, pp. 711-751
Description
Suggests that the event represented economic self-sufficiency, personal independence, and the development of new rodeo masculinities for both settlers and Aboriginal men in early twentieth-century Western Canada.
Guide includes information about the book by Joseph Bruchac, discussion questions, research and activities, and how to start a book club. For grades 6-8.