Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 1, Winter, 2017, pp. 244-247
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Reprinted from unsettling Canada: A national Wake-up Call; Chapter 17
Article advocates for a fundamental restructuring of Canadian policy, programs, and services that is built on the recognition of Indigenous title to land and territories and the Indigenous right to self-determination.
Labour/Le Travail, vol. 38, Special edition: Australia and Canada: Labour Compared, Fall, 1996, pp. [37]-53
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Compares policies that oppressed Aboriginal women in Australia and Canada during the 19th and 20th centuries. Special Joint issue with Labour History, volume 71.
Prepared in 1996 and revised in 2003 for the Political and Social Affairs Division, Parliamentary Library; provides historical background of federal legislative control of "status" and "membership."
The James Mann Family genealogy was researched and compiled by family member Frank Nash in December 1996. Only the research he compiled on the family of George Gwynne Mann was scanned for this database. Included in this research is G. G. Mann's account of his family's two month captivity in Wandering Spirit's camp from April to June 1885 (see historical note).
Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, vol. 33, no. 2, May 1996, pp. 213-[?]
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Investigates Departmental hiring practises during this expansionary period and factors that determined whether patronage appointees would continue to be employed.
Describes the history of Canada's residential schools which were financed by the federal government, but largely run by various religious organizations.
Author of Separate Beds speaks about the history of segregation, discrimination, and substandard facilities, care and funding in the Indian Hospital Service.
Duration: 15:56.
Prairie Forum, vol. 21, no. 2, Fall, 1996, pp. 149-176
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Describes the link between federal First Nations health care, in the period 1890 to 1930, and the social reform goals and values of that same time period.
Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs speaks about his background, challenges faced by community chiefs and First Nations political organizations, and the how the land plays a central role in attempts at reconciliation
Duration: 59:54.
Journal of Historical Sociology, vol. 9, no. 2, June 1996, pp. [188]-212
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Argues that rather than being a case cultural differences, the crime was motivated by extreme hunger as well an act of resistance against federal government authority and policies.