Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 1, Spring, 1998, pp. 18-23
Description
Looks at the need for Inuit artwork to be displayed in French museums and a change in perception of Inuit art.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 18.
Fourteenth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dawn Lavell Harvard
Description
Brief statement by President of the Native Women's Association of Canada addresses violence in general, murdered and missing women, and Canadian government's failure to respond to these issues.
Talks about contrasts in world views and racism which perpetuate the problem of violence towards women starting from the historical point of contact.
Duration: 20:10.
Response, by the Aboriginals, to the issues of statehood and governance in the Northern Territory of Australia. This statement was produced in Kalkaringi in August 1998.
Project had three phases: initial scan of academic and grey literature dealing with training, education and workforce development programs, jurisdictional scan of government, industry, and Aboriginal-led programs in six case-study regions, and subsequent discussions with stakeholders about findings.
The Northern Review, no. 41, Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic, 2015, pp. 207-240
Description
Looks at the role new communication technology played in two scenarios: the inquiry into the construction of a pipeline in the Mackenzie Valley and the Nunavut Impact Review Board hearings into the Mary River ore project.
Using the Cree refugee experience in the US following the 1885 resistance to discuss Canada's history of using the term refugee to distance themselves from political and legal responsibility to refugee conditions.
Focuses on how the Australian Repatriation Commission responded to men of Aboriginal descent after the war and whether their treatment differed from other veterans.
Looks at limited access to incriminating archival documents about genocidal tactics used against Aboriginal people and promotes importance of archival preservation of all materials retrieved through IAP (Independent Assessment Process) proceedings.
[Income Research Paper Series (Statistics Canada) ; no. 13]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Maryanne Webber
Description
Examines low income rates based on Low Income Cutoff (LICO) or Low Income Measure (LIM), neither are intended as a poverty line, but they are sometimes used as such.
International Journal of Transitional Justice, vol. 9, no. 3, November 2015, pp. 469-485
Description
Contends that "the transpower of the Canadian TRC may therefore lie not in the public events themselves, but in the more carnivalesque movements that are growing in its wake".
Identifies ways in which the Government of the Northwest Territories can ensure access and decision-making roles for Indigenous women. Discusses human resource policies, educational opportunities, role of the Women's Advisory Office, and the need for affordable and accessible child care.
Justice as Healing, vol. 3, no. 4, Winter, 1998, p. [?]
Description
Analysis and commentary by the Law Commission of Canada on abuse in residential schools. Excerpt from Discussion Paper's Executive Summary.
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
[Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC)]
Description
"The material provides an overview of the mandate and history of the Department, the parliamentary environment, the Minister's portfolio, key relationships, and departmental sectors and their mandates. It also includes an overview of First Nation, Métis and Inuit protocols, cultures and traditions."
Speaker talks about how some of the data has been misinterpreted or ignored by the RCMP, federal government, and media. Implication has been that most women were murdered by their spouse, family member, or intimate partners on-reserve and disregarded the role of acquaintances.
Duration: 45:34.
Sources are divided by two areas, "Chipewyan" (Northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, North West Territories) and British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon and Northwest Territories, grouped together. Each area is then divided into a social and cultural section and a language section. Bibliography includes citations from the Hearne Bibliography. The article is current as of 1998.
Discusses Indigenous, regional, state or territorial, and federal policy context in Canada and the U.S. At each level options and their accompanying opportunities and challenges are identified, and recommendations are made.