Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1995, pp. 79-86
Description
Discusses how the live interaction between the speaker and listener is a different experience than the solitary activity of reading in teaching courses with many cultural
perspectives.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, Winter, 1995, pp. 31-73
Description
Article relates a prophetic narrative recorded by the ethnologist Frank Cushing, and explores possible interpretations of the story and potential results.
Discusses early authorities' attitudes about the upbringing of Aboriginal children, residential schooling in Canada, judicial responses to culture in child protection cases, and the origin and functioning of intertribal child protection agencies in Manitoba.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 4, Autumn, 1995, pp. 451-465
Description
Literary criticism article that considers Humishuma’s (Mourning Dove, aka Christine Quintasket) novel; examines the ways that the text was influenced and edited by Humishuma’s friend and mentor Lucullus V. McWhorter.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010
Description
Discusses the way in which the tobacco contributes to Indigenous research methodology and examines how Indigenous research can draw upon Indigenous ways of knowing by connecting individuals with the spiritual and physical world.
First National Trudeau Fellow discusses the Canadian art establishment's failure to recognize continuum of Aboriginal art or its aesthetic.
Duration: 1:08:05.
Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium
Native American Symposium ; 8th, 2009
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Rachael Price
Description
Describes how elements from these novels serve as a mirror of hybridity theory with an emphasis on stories and the idea of journeys for true cultural unity.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1995, pp. 3-8
Description
Examines how the Native American Studies Program at Berkeley differs from the existing structure of the Ethnic Studies Department at Berkeley.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Video of representative from the Office of the Treaty Commissioner speaking at the 2010 Growing Saskatchewan Conference.
Five parts. Viewer is automatically sent to next part.
Total duration: 59:10.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 47, no. 1, Spring, 1995, pp. 3-12
Description
Describes the signing of Treaty six at Fort Carlton and the adhesion of the Willow Cree on August 28 of 1876, and the relationship between the Crown and the Cree peoples in following years.
Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 3,
Presents historical context of Treaty-making and argues that the meaning of Treaty 4 cannot be derived from the Crown's text alone; and Treaties must be flexible to last forever.
Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium
Native American Symposium ; 8th, 2009
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Marija Kneževiċ
Description
Discusses how the comic mobility of the trickster is used to address serious social issues in Sherman Alexie's volume of short stories.
Excerpt from Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium edited by Mark B. Spencer.
Western American Literature, vol. 45, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 30-52
Description
Discusses the social and national implications of lying in the popular Western formula through a reading of three works that cross gender and cultural lines.
Looks at the challenges affecting performance of Aboriginal students and the benefit of using principles which combine both Indigenous and western perspectives in the classroom.
George Wright Forum, The, vol. 27, no. 2, 2010, p. 222–233
Description
Examines the unique legal and constitutional relationship with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples and Parks Canada including the legislative policy and corporate changes that have occurred over the last 30 years.
Critical Social Work, vol. 11, no. 1, Special Indigenous Issue, 2010, pp. 63-79
Description
Examines the history of Aboriginal cross-gender roles and discusses approaches to improve the quality of social work practices by including traditional Aboriginal practices and worldviews.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 2, Summer, 2010, pp. 1-21
Description
Looks at Choctaw mythology involving self-discovery and the false divisions between this world and the spirit world in Louis Owens’s The Sharpest Sight.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
French Colonial History, vol. 11, 2010, pp. 109-129
Description
Examines how gender and race in the social, economic, and political structures played a role in the lives of Marie Josephe Le Borgne de Belisle and Marguerite Guédry.
Looks at how the Province of British Columbia handles duty to consult and accommodate First Nations when activities impose on treaty rights or aboriginal title. Based on case law as of April 2010. To be used in conjunction with Guide to Involving Proponents When Consulting First Nations.
Canadian Political Science Association Conference; 82nd, 2010
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Joanne Heritz
Description
Looks at the movement between reserve and city (labelled as 'churn') and the concerns submitted to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People and the Urban Aboriginal Peoples Study.