Applies after- tax Low-income Measure to data from the 2006 Census, the 2011 National Household Survey, and the 2016 Census to track trends, compare results for provinces and urban centres. Data for population as whole and broken down by Aboriginal group (status First Nations on and off-reserve, non-status, Inuit, and Métis).
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4, The California Indians, Autumn, 1989, pp. 369-389
Description
Using Hupa oral history and Jedediah Smith's personal journals to track his movements through California in the late 1820s. Parts of Jedediah Smith's journal entries are included.
Explains how the James Bay Project has increased the traditional way of life in Quebec, how mercury poisoning has stopped fishing at site, and how the income security program helps people live in the bush.
Duration: 3:13.
Quantitative study of broadband access, device use, and uses of the internet by Tribal peoples. Combines survey results, normed against other national surveys, and case studies of six successful projects.
Sheilla Jones and Sheila North to discuss Let the People Speak: Oppression in a Time of Reconciliation. The pair have taken the ideas in the book and formed the Modernized Annuity Working Group.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4, The California Indians, Autumn, 1989, pp. 325-345
Description
Looks at the creation of the US Acknowledgement and Research Branch to investigate California Indigenous tribes seeking federal recognition. Also includes a list of California tribes seeking federal recognition during the 1980s.
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 7, no. 1, New Series, 1996, pp. 55-80
Description
Discusses strategies employed by the Chief in an effort to influence Canadian Indian Policy and ensure his peoples' livelihood during a time of rapid social and political change
Provides guidance of each step in the process: creating a framework, pre-planning, planning, implementation, monitoring and assessment, and adaptation.
Journal of American History , vol. 76, no. 1, June 1989, pp. 172-180
Description
Author comments on his historical research into the impact of the 1908 statute on the Cheyenne River Sioux and an opportunity to examine everyday life of American Indian communities.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities, 2019, pp. 33-36
Description
Artist James Luna discusses what it means to be accepted as an American Indian by examining the criteria for tribal enrollment and critiques the work of self-declared Cherokee artist Jimmie Durham.
Uses literature on environmental racism to frame case study of the Canadian government's inaction on the issue and provides overview of Indigenous-government relations to illustrate factors which have allowed this human rights violation. Argues that the current situation is a result of lack of government accountability and the country's colonial history.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 9, no. 2, 1989, pp. 161-186
Description
Using contemporary Huron examples, reviews Native American art history practises in terms of the "new art history" which rejects the "concept of linear evolution culminating with western European art and the equation of artistic with cultural style."
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 111-120
Description
Author examines the multiple factors at play in defining the term indigeneity. Considers the right of people to self-identify, the legal implications and complications that result based on the definition, and the gap between the legal definition and the sociocultural practice thereof. Discuss both United States contexts and global ones.
Photo of illustration made from photograph of White Cap, Sioux Chief, pledging friendship to his white brother, taken from Illustrated War News, 25 April 1885.
Timeline from the General Enfranchisement Act to the Indian Act and pertinent court cases and decisions which resulted in legislation to amend the Act.
Journal of Museum Ethnography, vol. 8, May 1996, pp. 41-58
Description
Discusses repatriation request by the Pine Ridge Wounded Knee Survivors Association for articles housed at the Art Gallery and Museum in Kelvingrove, Glasgow. Articles included a necklace, moccasins, Sioux cradle and Ghost Shirt.
First Nations Programs and Partnerships Unit (FNPP)
Description
Topics include Yukon First Nations, their territories, languages, and governments, culturally responsive educational practices, working with Elders, and curriculum elaborations.