Looks at the access to safe drinking water in Indigenous communities and how Source Water Protection can provide a means to deal with this issue in the long term.
Looks at lawsuit filed by the Colville Indian Reservation in 1951 against the United Sates government regarding lands used for the building of the Grand Coulee Dam.
History Capstone Thesis--Commonwealth Honors College, 2011.
Looks at development of three urban Aboriginal education models for engaging First Nation, Metis and Inuit students, family and community living in urban centers.
A Vanishing People: The Systematic Destruction of American Indian Identity for the Sake of American Manifest Destiny
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Francine M. Miranda
Description
Argues that governmental recognition of American Indian tribes as well as criteria for tribe membership needs to be altered.
Capstone Experience Manuscript--Commonwealth Honors College, 2011.
Comments on several current topics including Aboriginal veterans at the ceremonial march on Remembrance Day, artist Allen Sapp winning the Governor General's Award for illustrations in the children's book The Song Within Our Heart, the Frank Calder Treaty case and elections at Big River First Nation.
Highlights comments made in response to four questions: meaning of citizenship in the past, present and future, roles and responsibilities of citizens and their governments, vision for the future, and tools required to make change.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 3, 2011, pp. 91-118
Description
Discusses the legal and political fights for water in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian community, and the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, and looks at the impact of water-rights in those communities.
Discusses discrepancies between what had been promised in the agreement and what was later published by the Canadian government, and the government's actions after it was signed. Focuses on education, fishing, hunting, mineral, forestry, and wild plant rights, assistance for agriculture, and self-government.
Mrs. Trudeau talks about being adopted and the schooling she received as a child. Mr. Trudeau talks about growing up on the farm, and later working in the lumber and fishing industries. Interpreter : Ernest Debassigae ; transcriber : Joanne Greenwood.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, 2011, pp. 133-153, 188
Description
Discusses the tensions between First Nations and environmental groups, who often unwittingly serve the interests of the State by undermining First Nations' sovereignty and self-determination.