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.
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.
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.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 59, no. 2, Fall, 2007, pp. 3-19
Description
A historical sketch of the Gravelbourg Saskatchewan area; examines previous assumptions about the role played by Catholic priests in the settlement of Western Canada. Contains information on different Francophone and Métis families that settled in the area.
Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 3.
Looks at the initiative of government and First Nations to reconcile Crown and Aboriginal titles cooperatively while building a positive relationship and developing a common business perspective.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 44, no. 2, COVID-19 and Indigenous Peoples, Part 1, 2020, pp. 89-99
Description
A discussion of community responses to the pandemic that asserted sovereignty and ensured the safety of their members by keeping infection rates low, and how this challenges the stereotype of Indigenous groups being helpless.
AFN Discussion Paper for WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jeffrey L. Reading
Andrew Kmetic
Valerie Gideon
Description
Discussion on the historic, cultural, social, economic and political forces affecting health and creating disparities that First Nations peoples experience.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, Resistance and Resiliency: Addressing Historical Trauma of Aboriginal Peoples, March 2007, pp. 57-77
Description
Looks at the life story of resistance and resiliency of a First Nations woman against multiple forms of oppression and her concern for the improved well-being of Aboriginal people with disabilities.
Museum Anthropology , vol. 30, no. 2, September 2007, pp. 101-124
Description
Looks at the collaboration between various Warumungu groups, government agencies, and Aboriginal organizations to negotiate and produce the Nyinkka Nyunya Art and Culture Centre at Tennant Creek.
Study gathered information semi-structured interviews with community leaders, knowledge keepers, Elders, academics, support workers and activists involved in both communities in Winnipeg, Manitoba.