Survey conducted with 19 students found that they experienced isolation, racism, lack of respect and insufficient support from the institution. Author argues that present policies address the symptoms rather than the root causes of the lack of student retention.
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Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Monday, January 19, 1981 regarding actions taken to date and the progress made towards developing an Affirmative Action Program for the City by the City's Director of Personnel Services. Includes discussion of meetings with Native Outreach and Native Placing and Training-on-the-Job Units of the Canada Employment Centre, as well as feedback from civic Unions and women's groups.
Drama Review / T D R: The Journal of Performance Studies, vol. 44, no. 3, Fall, 2000, pp. 11-36
Description
Discusses the decolonization process, which the author states is accomplished by, "moving the center", in this case, from Europe to their own centers. The writer concludes that "underneath the new globalized skin" is the same Euro-defined ethnicity, carrying the same biases that are written into scripts.
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, April 30, 2000, p. 119
Description
Book reviews of: Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950 by Constance Backhouse and Race, Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court: Historical Case Studies by James W. St. G. Walker.
Canadian Literature, no. 167, First Nations Writing, Winter, 2000, pp. 68-84
Description
Discusses the novel Inside Out: An Autobiography of a Native Canadian which incorporates prison confession narrative and First Nation autobiography.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 68.
Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 25, no. 4, 2000, pp. [497-515]
Description
Explores how the myth of tolerance has become part of the national identity despite evidence to the contrary; uses the results of a survey conducted on attitudes toward immigration as an illustration of this dichotomy.
Authors discuss their experiences while conducting research in communities and how this opportunity leads to increased awareness of ethical considerations.
Discusses both the technical and common meanings of the term “recognition”, and examines a number of ways in which the existence, history and contributions of the Aboriginal people of Manitoba could be recognized by the Manitoba government.
International Journal of Science Education, vol. 22, no. 6, June 2000, pp. 603-617
Description
Examines the approach taken to minority group knowledges in two recently published sets of junior secondary science texts, with a specific focus on the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge into the texts.
Rebuttal to Hoover's critique of the article written by Gloria Frank regarding the permanent First Peoples Exhibit
at the Royal British Columbia Museum.
Response to an article which critiques the permanent First Peoples Exhibit at the Royal British Columbia Museum from a Aboriginal perspective; contends that while a personal viewpoint is legitimate, article does not have the research and knowledge to support some of criticisms.
Saskatchewan Law Review, vol. 63, 2000, pp. 185-194
Description
Argues that restorative justice has potential to reduce social injustice if it can become mainstream in the criminal justice systems in Canada and Australia.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, January/February 2000, pp. 23-25
Description
Focuses on agencies delivering housing to Indigenous Australians rather than the consumer. Housing is determined to be a significant factor in the occupant's physical and psychological health.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, 2000, pp. 223-268
Description
Book reviews of:
American Indians and National Parks by Robert H. Keller and Michael F. Turek.
Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archeology of the Unknown Past edited by Richard F.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, 2000, pp. 159-207
Description
Book reviews of:
American Indians in World War I: At War and At Home by Thomas A. Britten.
Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 by Brenda J. Child.
Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700 by Patricia Galloway.
Daily Life on the Nineteenth-Century American Frontier by Mary Ellen Jones.
Dancing the Dream: The Seven Sacred Paths of Human Transformation by Jamie Sams.
The Great Peace: The Gathering of Good Minds (CD-ROM) by Raymond Skye et.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, 2000, pp. 177-223
Description
Book reviews of:
An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians by Fray Ramon Pané, José Juan Arrom et al.
American Indians in the Marketplace: Persistence and Innovation among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870-1920 by Brian C.