Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 4, Winter, 2017, pp. 58-75
Description
Explore Vizenor’s use of devices such as humour, code-switching, and subversion of the English language to undermine Eurocentric narratives and create agency for the characters in his writing.
Discusses historical and contemporary factors which contribute to high rate of homeless found in the Indigenous population and looks at 12 different dimensions: historic displacement, contemporary geographic separation, spiritual disconnection, mental disruption and imbalance, cultural disintegration and loss, overcrowding, relocation and mobility, nowhere to go, escaping or evading harm, emergency crisis, and climatic refuge,
American Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 4, 1996, pp. 653-679
Description
Chronicles the life of the author of the first full length autobiography done by a Native American, with special focus on Methodist religious influences and his civil activism efforts.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 1996.
Includes discussion of Slash by Jeanette Armstrong and Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 54, no. 2, 2017, pp. 71-82
Description
Article follows up on a small ethnographic survey conducted in 2011-2012; examines the ideas of cultural citizenship and social mobility as they are expressed by students from Greenland who are studying in Denmark.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 2, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Spring, 1996, pp. 180-196
Description
Author examines and discusses the narrative of a civilization—the Moundbuilders of America—that inhabited the Mississippi River valley prior to contemporary Indigenous peoples.
Includes sections on historiography and colonialism in the context of Africa, South and East Asia, the Pacific, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Central Steppes, and North America.
Policy Brief (Ivey Business School) ; September 2014
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Guy Holburn
Margaret Loudermilk
Andre Wilkie]
Description
Overview of the development of Aboriginal rights beginning with the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and general discussion of consultation practices in Canada.
Cultural Dynamics and Social Representations of Dogs in the Inuit Community of Kuujjuaq (Nunavik)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia Brunet
Francis Lévesque
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 41, no. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 265-283
Description
Presents the findings of research conducted in September of 2016 on the changing place of dogs in Kuujjaq, a community where Inuit and non-Inuit live together. Researchers found “that dogs in the community occupy a position that oscillates between appreciation and repulsion—a position shaped by cultural and community contexts.”
Text in French.
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 114, August 2014, p. 200–203
Description
Discusses the problems with statistical analysis done by Stephen Whelan and Donald J. Wright on health services use and lifestyle choices of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 26, no. 1, White Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in the Canadian Context: A Tribute to Patricia Monture, 2014, pp. i-iii
Description
Introduces the articles in this specially themed issue.
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 46, no. 1, 2014, pp. 121-144
Description
Looks at the scope of social inequity between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations as well as within the Métis and Inuit populations over a five year period.
[Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada]
Description
Defines the sector, maps funding economy, identifies key issues, gives insights from focus groups, and makes recommendations. Includes five case studies: Got Bannock, Bear Clan, Indspire, Families First Foundation, and the Royal Bank of Canada.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 53, no. 1, 2014, pp. 42-53
Description
Non-Indigenous researcher and her mentor describe how the time taken to build and maintain relationships with, for and by community was essential the project.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 2, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Spring, 1996, pp. 297-307
Description
Article speaks to many of the pieces included in Issue 20:2 of American Indian Quarterly, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, and describes some of the process and changes happening in Indigenous and Archaeological communities.