Discusses the signing of Treaty 6, after the Frog Lake Massacre in 1885, and looks at the Federal Governments refusal to recognize a Chief until 1914, when they amalgamated as the Onion Lake Band.
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 156-160
Description
Book review of: ReCalling Early Canada: Reading the Political in Literary and Cultural Production edited by Jennifer Blair, Daniel Coleman, Kate Higginson, et al.
Documents the successes, challenges and transformations experienced by Pete Standing Alone and the Blood Reserve in Alberta over the past 25 years. Accompanying material: An Integrated Educator's Guide.
Duration: 57:50.
Consists of an interview where Verna Patronella Johnston speaks of uses for traditional foods and medicines. She also gives an account of Grandma Jones, a storyteller.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 29-41
Description
Relates how colonization and Western influences have caused societal problems in Indian cultures. Restorative justice models by the Navajo and Haudenosaunee are also explored.
BC Studies, no. 152, Past Emergent, Winter, 2006/2007, pp. 67-95
Description
Traces the history of archaeological digs and subsequent Western theories about the identity of the peoples who inhabited the Lower Fraser River area of BC.
Historical background and submission to the Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding what lands the Bands occupied around Missioner Creek and Williams Lake in 1861 and if Canada had an obligation to protect the settlement. ICC held that the village sites should have been set aside for the Band and that Canada should accept the claim. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]