Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 4, Special Issue: In Honor of Simon J. Ortiz, Winter, 2004, pp. 68-78
Description
Explores the theme of technological and governmental effects on Native American land in the work of writer Simon Ortiz.
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Presents an analytical tool that contains a series of criteria and related questions organized around five good governance principles that are based on work done by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 5, no. 7, April 15, 1975, p. 6
Description
Conference sponsored by the Saskatchewan School Trustees Association (SSTA), the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs (DIAND) and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians (FSI).
Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American Indian Identities ; and Smoke Screens/Smoke Signals: Looking Through Worlds: Proceedings of the Third and Fourth Native American Symposiums
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Author/Creator
Peter W. Phillips
Description
Discusses progress made to overcome problems that face many tribal police officers within Native American communities.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 19, no. 2, Autumn, 2004, pp. 9-23
Description
Describes the impact of colonization on Native American justice systems in the United States and the growing trends toward culturally appropriate justice systems by tribal governments.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3, The UN Decade: Expectations and Realities, 2004, pp. 8-18
Description
Looks at the effect the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People had on the world's Indigenous people as well as their impact on the United Nations.
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Discussion Paper (Institute of Intergovernmental Relations) ; no. 15
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Norman K. Zlotkin
Description
Discussion paper topics include Aboriginal participation in constitutional reform, the Constitution Act of 1982, and the issues likely to be raised at the 1983 conference.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 4, Land Rights: A Key Issue, 2004, pp. 30-35
Description
Discusses methods and results gained from land use and occupancy studies which was used for negotiating land withdrawals legally prohibiting new land sales, land leases, mineral staking, oil/gas exploration and timber cutting.
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Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, May/June 2004, pp. 26-27
Description
Discusses consequences of the official Australian policy of Assimilation or the Stolen Generation and initiatives in Aboriginal community-controlled Health Services.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 85-104
Description
Describes ideas of discovery, ideologies of purchase, and misinterpretations, for example that of Native American women as battered women, by Lewis and Clark in their explorations, 1804-1806.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 3, Religions, Summer, 1983, pp. 111-142
Description
Discusses the historical and political challenges for Indigenous religions in the United States. Despite these challenges Indigenous religions have survived and even had a resurgence within Indigenous communities.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 252-257
Description
Author offers some perspective on the process of colonization in the period between 1849 and 1890 and on everything that was lost in in that time to the Sioux peoples; also discusses the current moves towards healing, resurgence and cultural reclamation.
William Okeymaw was 12 years old at the time when he attended the Treaty #8 negotiations.He describes the negotiations and his understanding of the promises made; the role of the missionaries; talks of some of the Indian agents; and the abundance of buffalo in Lesser Slave Lake area at one time.
Social Science and Medicine, vol. 59, no. 2, July 2004, pp. 335-349
Description
Argues that health program devolution was part of a longer tradition of incorporating aspects of non-Native medicine in a way that supported Nisga’a social structure.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, p. 351
Description
Poem that deals with the 1862 removal of the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota from their lands, their forced march to a concentration camp at Fort Snelling, and the execution of 38 men by the United States government following the “Sioux Uprising of 1862.”
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 85, no. 2, June 2004, pp. 367-372
Description
Book reviews of 3 books:
The Yukon Relief Expedition and the Journal of Carl Johan Sakariassen edited by V.R. Rausch and D.L. Baldwin.
Arctic Justice by Shelagh D. Grant.
Arctic Migrants, Arctic Villagers by David Damas.