Northern Review, no. 50, Law in the Canadian North, April 07, 2020, pp. 179-189
Description
Editorial article discusses the need to for non-Indigenous legal systems to engage with and normalize the legal traditions of the First Nations in the Yukon.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 44, no. 4, 2020, pp. 21-40
Description
Looks at the Senaca's resisting the Indian Removal Act by requesting aid through the US government. However, as this article discusses, these requests served to both fight against their own displacement and strengthen their own claims of sovereignty.
American Quarterly, vol. 59, no. 1, March 2007, pp. 199-209
Description
Book reviews of: Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827–1863 by Maureen Konkle and Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform by Lucy Maddox.
Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 36, September 2007, pp. 177-190
Description
Discusses two aspects of a debate surrounding the concept that indigenous attitude toward the environment and conservation is the most appropriate model.
Plot involves a young Shuswap woman who leaves her reserve for the city and is ultimately raped and murdered.
Originally published by Talonbooks, 1970.
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2010, p. 1
Description
Introductory editorial to themed issue on how different epistemologies and cultural values inform power relations in different locations, situations and contemporary contexts.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3, Migration, 2007, pp. 4-5
Description
Introduction to journal issue featuring articles on various aspects of Indigenous migration with snapshots of different experiences from around the world.
To access this articles, scroll to page 4.
Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Thomas Goldfinch
Catherine Layton
Timothy McCarthy
Description
Introduces a pilot project aimed to foster cultural intelligence and awareness in students.
Paper from Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education.
Teacher resource developed in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name. Case studies are supplemented by articles from the newspaper. Unit of study for First Nations 12 students in British Columbia.
[Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference; 82nd, 2010]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Beverley Jacobs
Description
Discusses the disproportionate exposure of environmental hazards and extension of racism as it applies to the environment and the lands of Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
Topics include quantity and quality of employment, closed and open gateways to employment, and governments as gatekeepers to public service employment.
Discussion of the nature of Aboriginal employment and barriers to achieving the desired number and level of appointments and retaining those hired to fill positions.
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, 2007, pp. 193-203
Description
Advocates a new partnership model of ethical space, a cooperative spirit between Indigenous peoples and Western institutions, in order to overcome archaic ways of interaction.
Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics, vol. 17, no. 4, Lighthouse Point, 2020, pp. 51-71
Description
Reflects on a five year project to connect Indigenous females with white policemen through participation in a drum circle. The drum circle allowed dialogue between the two groups in hopes of creating understanding, healing and trust.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3, Migration, 2007, pp. 18-25
Description
Looks at different migrations and changes to the Mayan identity as a result of violence in the 1980s and their return to Guatemala to rebuild their society.
To access this article, scroll down to page 18.
The Public Historian, vol. 29, no. 3, Summer, 2007, pp. 53-67
Description
Discusses how Southern legislators and administrators refused to acknowledge American Indians as a distinct society and lumped them with blacks as a method of cultural erasure.
World Literatures and Cultures Major Research Paper (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2020.
Focuses on the Bentwood Box by Luke Marston, the Witness Blanket by Carey Newman and the Living and Healing Quilt.
Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 43, no. 3, 2010, pp. 711-732
Description
Looks at Riel's exile in 1870 after the Red River Rebellion; examines the tensions between French and English Canada over Riel's execution; and discusses the two statues which serve as a metaphor for the relationship between liberal and colonial dynamics in Canada political history.