American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, Summer, 2010, pp. 397-399
Description
Book review of: A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England by Frank Waabu O'Brien (Moondancer) and Julianne Jennings (Strong Woman)
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 34, no. 2, 2010, pp. 81-101
Description
Promotes the cohesion of Haudenosaunee people on both sides of the United States/Canada border by sharing history, clan research and linking clan relatives.
Examines the structural factors behind disproportionality in the system and reviews approaches that go beyond traditional limits of social welfare systems.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 34, no. 2, 2010, pp. 27-46
Description
Study probes the importance of kinship relations, with respect to individual and collective identity, for members of the Cowessess First Nation, Saskatchewan.
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 2, 2010, pp. 1-42
Description
Looks at the strengths and limitations of the Siyá:m System of leadership, and discusses the government and missionary actions which isolated and curtailed the traditional inter-village family interactions.
Canadian Social Trends, no. 90, Winter, 2010, pp. 73-82
Description
Data from the 2006 Aboriginal Children's Survey used to identify characteristics associated with the ability to understand an Aboriginal language among children aged 2 to 5. Examines the extent to which the home, the extended family, child care settings, and community contribute to the transmission of languages.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, May/June 2004, pp. 10-11
Description
Describes pilot project at the Emu Plains Correctional Centre in New South Wales, Australia where Indigenous women were trained in family research methodology.
Discusses the importance of First Nations control over the adoption process and the need for government funding to support culturally based adoption services and programs.
Looks at re-designing Indigenous school-based health programs and practices to include indigenous ways of knowing, learning, traditions, and values of the community.
Mr. Paulhus is of French descent, not Metis. He is married to a Metis and has lived most of his life in a Metis community in the Duck Lake/Batoche area. He gives his impression of the Riel Rebellion, the causes, the battles and views of Riel and Dumont.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 44, no. 2, Spring, 2010, pp. 219-229
Description
Book reviews of: Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada by J.R. Miller.
Home is the Hunter: The James Bay Cree and Their Land by Hans M.
Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American Indian Identities ; and Smoke Screens/Smoke Signals: Looking Through Worlds: Proceedings of the Third and Fourth Native American Symposiums
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Gay Barton
Description
Examines some of Louise Erdrich's more significant familial protagonists, and her intra- and inter-family webs.