Looks at health determinants such as chronic illness and risky behaviors that effect well-being and social determinants that contribute to disadvantages in areas of education, income and employment.
Study focuses on three types of policy initiatives: (1) control of alcohol within tribal jurisdictions; (2) education and treatment (3) social and environmental risk factors.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, 2000, pp. 49-63
Description
Gives a brief history of the US Federal government's policy on affordable housing, the proliferation of low income housing units on reserves and how housing became a symbol of the government's commitment to self-determination.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, National Identity and Gender Politics, Summer, 2000, pp. 64-69
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Discussion of identity under the Indian Act and the past discriminatory provision of women who marry non-Indian men losing thier status, and social and political rights.
A resource for teacher and supplement to Research Into Practice: An Overview of Reading Research for Washington State. Looks at facets of education influenced by parents and teachers not policymakers.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, 2000, pp. 85-110
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Comments on complexity of issues related to geographical studies concerning Indigenous communities in Canada and the United States, and the constant need to revise understandings of the environment.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 3, 2000, pp. 131-153
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Provides background and potential resolution to struggles of the Anishinaabe of Wisconsin which emerged in 1910-1953 and have continued over rights and control their lands and resources.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 35, no. 2, Spring, 1982, pp. 55-56
Description
Memoir of Fredrick Arthur Deane Bourke who joined the NWMP in 1877 and was posted at Fort Walsh, and later in Battleford; Bourke retired from the police force and with a partner bought 80 head of cattle and took up cattle ranching. Notes that in 1877 the buffalo were plentiful and after that they vanished from the plain.
Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 55.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 35, no. 2, Spring, 1982, pp. 55-56
Description
Memoir of Fredrick Arthur Deane Bourke who joined the NWMP in 1877 and was posted at Fort Walsh, and later in Battleford; Bourke retired from the police force and with a partner bought 80 head of cattle and took up cattle ranching. Notes that in 1877 the buffalo were plentiful and after that they vanished from the plain.
Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 55.
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 41, Representations of First Nations and Métis / Les représentations des Premiéres Nations et des Métis, 2010, pp. 99-135
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Looks at strategies Indigenous peoples use to deal with state power and suggests an alternative way.
Exhibit held at the National Museum of the American Indian. Curated by Gerald McMaster and co-curated by Arthur Renwick. Features works by: Marianne Nicolson, Shelley Niro, Mateo Romero, Nora Naranjo-Morse, C. Maxx Stevens, Jolene Rickard and Mary Longman.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 35, no. 1, Spring, 2000, pp. 190-203
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Discusses recent academic discourse about colonialism, reserve establishment and policy and suggest that writers create a utopian perspective, disregarding the severe problems faced by on-reserve residents.
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, Proceedings of the 2010 Western Social Science Association American Indian Studies Section, Summer, 2010, pp. 1-40
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Comments about the on going process of tribal government development in the Navajo Nation.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, 2000, pp. 177-223
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Book reviews of:
An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians by Fray Ramon Pané, José Juan Arrom et al.
American Indians in the Marketplace: Persistence and Innovation among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870-1920 by Brian C.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, 2000, pp. 223-268
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Book reviews of:
American Indians and National Parks by Robert H. Keller and Michael F. Turek.
Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archeology of the Unknown Past edited by Richard F.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, 2000, pp. 159-207
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Book reviews of:
American Indians in World War I: At War and At Home by Thomas A. Britten.
Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 by Brenda J. Child.
Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700 by Patricia Galloway.
Daily Life on the Nineteenth-Century American Frontier by Mary Ellen Jones.
Dancing the Dream: The Seven Sacred Paths of Human Transformation by Jamie Sams.
The Great Peace: The Gathering of Good Minds (CD-ROM) by Raymond Skye et.
Michael Fredericks discusses her company's philosophy and first project using a participate design concept at the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Facility at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Duration: 47:37.