Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 17, no. 4, Special Issue on Canada and Colonial Genocide, 2015, pp. 411-431
Description
Introduction to the history of the Indian Residential School system, analysis of the history wars in the United States and Australia over indigenous genocide, and debates about genocide in Canada.
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.
CBC reports on the lawsuit initiated by veterans after the Federal government excluded them from compensation offered to Status Indians. Broadcast date: August 12, 2002.
Duration: 2:18.
The Sea of Identities: A Century of Baltic and East European Experiences with Nationality, Class, and Gender
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Author/Creator
Andrej Kotljarchuk
Description
Chapter 3 from The Sea of Identities: A Century of Baltic and East European Experiences with Nationality, Class, and Gender edited by Norbert Götz. Looks at state run violence against the Nordic minorities and long term results.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 30, no. 2, Fall, 2015, pp. 56-76
Description
Discusses tribes which have been ignored or forgotten and have ambiguous status, and the role that academics have played in shaping what constitutes legitimate Indigenous identity.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 26, no. 3, 2002, pp. 1-24
Description
Examines reading and writing as separate skills; how writing enables communication to travel up the hierarchy and how historically the Southern Paiutes historically used their new writing abilities.
Author uses the treatment of the Indigenous Christians by the colonial government during Metacom’s War (or King Phillip’s War) to contrast colonial and Indigenous understandings of sovereignty.
CBC reports on Ottawa's compensation for benefits and assistance denied veterans after their military service and veterans response to the announcement. Broadcast date: June 21. 2002. Includes link to accompanying printer-friendly page.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3, Autumn, 2002, pp. 526-558
Description
Author explores the United States Government’s termination movement and the resulting resistance from the Menominee people situating the response within the context of the American Indian Movement (AIM), the Red Power Movement, and the social upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s.