Adapted for the Alberta context from the KAIROS Blanket Exercise, an interactive learning experience focusing on the historical and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples of Canada. Themes explored are: assimilation, discrimination, Indigenous rights and reconciliation.
American Literature, vol. 80, no. 2, June 2008, pp. 416-419
Description
Book reviews of 4 books:
Public Native America: Tribal Self-Representation in Museums, Powwows, and Casinos by Mary Lawlor.
Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction by Annette Trefzer.
Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief by David Murray.
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country edited by Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 4, 2008, pp. 145-200
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Book reviews of 20 books:
Being and Place Among the Tlingit by Thomas F. Thornton.
The Cultivation of Resentment: Treaty Rights and the New Right by Jeffery R. Dudas.
Diabetes Among the Pima: Stories of Survival by Carolyn Smith-Morris.
Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music by Lynn Whidden.
First Families: A Photographic History of California Indians by L. Frank and Kim Hogeland.
Households and Hegemony: Early Creek Prestige Goods, Symbolic Capital and Social Power by Cameron B.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 3, 2008, pp. 177-231
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Book reviews of 18 books:
Before the Country: Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology by Stephanie McKenzie.
Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism Since 1900 edited by Daniel M. Cobb and Loretta Fowler.
The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians by Michale Leroy Oberg.
How Choctaws Invented Civilization and Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World by D. L. Birchfield.
I Swallow Turquoise For Courage: Poems by Hershman R. John.
Long Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians edited by James W.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring, 2008, pp. 85-89
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Book review of: Border Crossings by Arnold E. Davidson, Priscilla L. Walton and Jennifer Andrews.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 85.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 439-470
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Author examines several images contemporary to the 1904 World’s Fair, discusses the way in which Indigenous people were portrayed as "spectacle, commodity and spoil of American conquest;" articulates ways that some Indigenous Leaders both corroborated these portrayals and subverted them.
Stream: Culture/Politics/Technology, vol. 1, no. 2, 2008, pp. 1-22
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Discusses how the media can reform their practices to promote democratic, inclusive intercultural dialogue, and help solve conflicts between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3/4, Indigenous Women in Canada: the Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 177-178
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Highlights the difficulties faced by reserve residents when accessing urban amenities.
Article reframes the discussion surrounding mental health recognizing that Indigenous peoples have a holistic view of health that encompasses the physical, mental, emotional, and environmental spectrum of wellbeing. Notes implications for government policy and for frontline practice.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, June 25, 2019
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Conceptual article argues that Indigenous sovereignty remains valid throughout the Americas and that the settler colonial laws are therefore illegitimate and illegal; all systems that function on the assumption of settler colonial sovereignty must be re-centered around Indigenous laws and ethics.
Indigenous lawyers and law students from British Columbia recount their experiences with stereotyping, race-based assumptions, and discrimination within the legal profession and while practicing in the justice system.
Duration: 25:43.
Related material: Part 2.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3, Summer, 2019, pp. 306-338
Description
Author examines the interdependent nature of colonial and capitalist structures and their collaborative resistance to decolonizing efforts. Explores two different sites in which Indigenous businesses are working to engage in the market while maintaining business practices rooted Indigenous values and principles. Asks how these economic practices can support the dismantling of colonial-capitalist economic institutions.
Primary focus is the personal narratives of two survivors of the Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School, with some general information of the school system and the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Duration: 47:30.
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, Spring, 2008, pp. 131-133
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Book review of: Canadian Cultural Exchange / Échanges Culturels au Canada: Translation and Transculturation / Traduction et Transculturation edited by Norman Cheadle and Lucien Pelletier.
National online survey was conducted in September, 2016 and had a sample of 521 Indigenous and 1,529 non-Indigenous respondents.
Results for individual provinces and regions can be found here.
Survey conducted online between March 22 and April 29, 2019, with stratified samples of 682 Indigenous and 695 non-Indigenous youth (ages 16 to 29), distributed across the 10 provinces and three territories.
Related material:
Detailed Data Tables: Indigenous Youth.
Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, Winter, 2008, pp. [1]-71
Description
Chronicles the history and circumstances leading up to the Crisis, including issues with governments, the rise of the Mohawk War Society (Rotishkenhrakete), and the provincial and federal governments' response in terms of police and military presence during the conflict.
Study consisted of a literature review, ten interviews, and four case studies: Tłı̨chǫ All‐season Road Project, Hope Bay Mining Ltd, Offshore Oil and Gas Strategic Environmental Assessment, and Adams Lake Cumulative Effects Land Use and Management Assessment
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 3, Summer, 2017, pp. 250-286
Description
Study involved interviews with 10 individuals who had served in the legislature or on county councils about their experiences running for, and serving in, political office given that the state is considered to be highly racialized.
CMAJ, vol. 189, no. 44, November 06, 2017, pp. e1352-e1359
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Study interpretation concluded that deaths were occurring at an alarming rate, particularly young women or those using injection drugs. Argues that these results reflect intersections of current and historical injustices, substance use and barriers to care.