Report and responses for: Sturgeon Lake First Nation Inquiry, Red Deer Holdings Agricultural Lease Claim; Chippewa Tri-Council Inquiry, Chippewas of Beausoleil First Nation, Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation, Chippewas of Rama First Nation, Collins Treaty Claim; Friends of the Michel Society Inquiry, 1958 Enfranchisement Claim; and the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Inquiry, W.A.C. Bennet Dam and Damage to Indian Reserve 201 Claim. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P. E. James Prentice, Roger J. Augustine, and Carole T. Corcoran.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 2, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Louis Owens, Summer, 1998, pp. 94-110
Description
Explores the main character's search for identity through his relationship with the environment.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 1988, pp. 107-130
Description
Reviews land use disputes in Stein River Valley, British Columbia and offers an assessment of some of the larger lessons to be learned from this forestry/wilderness conflict.
Paper explores the responses of Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals to the debate regarding the project to build a passenger cable car through a National Park.
The Plains Paradox: Secular Trends in Stature in 19th Century Nomadic Plains Equestrian Indians. The Arapaho, Assiniboine, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Kiowa, and Sioux from 1800 to 1870
Theses
Author/Creator
Joseph M. Prince
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1998.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, 1983, pp. 91-127
Description
Book reviews of:
Indian Water Policy In a Changing Environment: A Symposium on Indian Water Policy edited by Patricia Zell.
Languages and Their Roles in Educating Native Children by Barbara Burnaby.
Changing Economic Roles for Micmac Men and Women by Ellice B. Gonzalez.
Native American Art at Philbrook by N. P. Paper.
The Upward Moving and Emergence Way by Father Berard Haile.
People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879; with an epilogue, 1964-1974 by Father Peter John Powell.
Food Additives and Contaminants, vol. 15, no. 3, Part A, April 1998, pp. 307-317
Description
Suggests that the health risk associated with cadmium exposure via food and cigarette smoking in Fort Resolution is within the Provisional Tolerable Weekly Intake (PTWI) set out by the World Health Organization.
Land Economics, vol. 74, no. 2, May 1998, pp. 162-171
Description
Study conducted on the Chimane Amerindians in Bolivia's rain forest had two tentative conclusions: conservation is enhanced when land rights of Indigenous peoples are protected and high private discount rates do not necessarily increase deforestation.
An interview with Rufus Goodstriker, born in 1924 on the Blood Indian Reserve and attended a residential school. He tells of the origins and significance of the transfer of Indian names, especially within his own family. He also talks about Indian medicine and the power of faith; the Indian spiritual way vs. the Western technological way;of herbs, animal spirits, sweat bath in healing etc.
Selective Ethnobotanical Education Directory (SEED) compiled by four Ktunaxa/Kinbasket students. Includes information on plants used in daily life, information about the First Nation and a short quiz.