Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jérôme Melançon
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 2018, pp. 127-147
Description
Examines major texts published early in the movement's history and collected under the title The Winter We Danced
“Inconvenient Neighbours, Whom It Was Desirable Ultimately Wholly to Remove”: Differing Factors in the Dispossessions of Studied Anishinaabe Groups of the Great Lakes Basin, 1820-1865
Theses
Author/Creator
Heather J. Sanguins
Description
Geography Thesis (PhD) -- Wilfred Laurier University, 2018.
Increasing Indigenous Benefit Take-Up in Canada: 2018 Federal Budget Submission; Revised Feb. 13, 2018
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Prosper Canada
Aboriginal Financial Officers of Canada
Description
Provides recommendations to facilitate access to money from programs such as the Canada Child Benefit, for which people are currently eligible, but not receiving.
Indian Acts and Amendments: 1868-1950
Alternate Title
Contemporary Indian Legislation, 1951-1978
E-Books
Author/Creator
Treaties and Historical Research Centre, Corporate Policy, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Description
Indian and Northern Education Program
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Indian and Northern Education Program
Description
Materials relating to the 20th Reunion & Language Workshop of the Indian and Northern Education Program, including correspondence, pamphlets and a rough draft of Dr. Spinks's remarks at the banquet.
The Indian Arts and Crafts Board: An Aspect of New Deal Indian Policy
Theses
Author/Creator
Robert Fay Schrader
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Marquette University, 1981.
Indian Equity Foundation Lacks Signing
Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, Special Edition, November 1981, p. 27
Description
Noel Starblanket describes the benefits of the Saskatchewan program and explains why the Agreement is not yet signed by the Federal government.
Indian Infant Mortality in British Columbia
Theses
Author/Creator
Marilyn Baker-Anderson
Description
Community and Regional Planning Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1981.
Indians, Bureaucrats, and Land: The Dawes Act and the Decline of Indian Farming
Alternate Title
Contributions in Economics and Economic History ; no. 36
E-Books
Author/Creator
Leonard A. Carlson
Indigenizing the Healthy Built and Social Environment: A Public Health Case Study of O-Pipon- Na-Piwin Cree Nation (OPCN)
Theses
Author/Creator
Pepper-Mackena Armstrong-Pritty
Description
Natural Resources Management Thesis (M.N.R.M.)--University of Manitoba, 2018.
Indigenous Peoples and Records: A Guide to Research at the City of Winnipeg Archives
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
City Clerk's Department
Archives and Records Control
City of Winnipeg
Description
Lists sources of information in the following areas: urban
Indigenous population, settler colonialism, building relationships, Indian Residential Schools, the aqueduct, family history, and Indigenous achievement.
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada: Truth and Reconciliation
Alternate Title
Truth and Reconciliation: Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
Royal Canadian Geographical Society
Indigenous Perspectives: Stories from Indigenous Public Servants
Alternate Title
ESDC Indigenous Perspectives
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Todd Lyons
Employment and Social Development Canada
Description
Series of podcasts discusses various aspects of being both Indigenous and a public servant.
Indigenous Planning and Municipal Governance: Lessons from the Transformative Frontier
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Noelle Bouvier
Ryan Walker
Canadian Public Administration, vol. 61, no. 1, March 2018, pp. 130-134
Description
Reviews six pieces of literature which demonstrate how local governments are collaborating with the Indigenous community in the areas of land use and strategic planning initiatives, cross-cultural relations offices, advisory committees, urban design and new reserves.
Indigenous Rights and Multilevel Governance: Learning from the Northwest Territories Water Stewardship Strategy
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alex Latta
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, April 2018, p. Article 4
Description
Examines the evolution of the Strategy and how it functions as a state-Indigenous governance relationship.
Indigenous-specific Mental Health and/or Wellness Strategies in Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
Stephani Arulthas
Indigenous Unemployment in Rural and Regional Western Australia: A Contextual, Cultural and Bottom-up Approach
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reena Tiwari
Stephanie Harris
José Van Den Akker
Indigenous Policy Journal , vol. 29, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 1-18
Description
Authors argue that current top-down policy models have produced poor outcomes, and that social and economic change must start at a grass-roots level and be tailored to individual communities' specific geographical and cultural concerns. Looks at the issues through fieldwork in the remote settlement of Wakathuni.
Introducing NAMHA
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cyril Hennessy
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 5, no. 2, June 1981, pp. 43-45
Description
Describes the objectives of the (Australian) National Aboriginal Mental Health Association (NAMHA).
Introductory Timeline of Settler Colonialism in Saskatchewan
Alternate Title
Settler Colonial History and Indigenous People in Saskatchewan: A Gladue Rights Research Database
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Community-engaged History Collaboratorium
History Department
University of Saskatchewan]
Description
Significant events from the 1540s to 2004.
Kindergarten to Grade 12 Operating Expenditures 2016-2017
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indigenous Services Canada
Description
Contains information of the budget, student enrolment, per student funding, methods of funding, operating expenditures, increases in funding (2008-2017), and explanatory notes. Includes link to methodology.
Kinshipwrecking: John Smith’s Adoption and the Pocahontas Myth in Settler Ontologies
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rachel Bryant
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 4, Special Issue: Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, December 2018, pp. 300-308
Description
Reconsiders the colonial narrative surrounding Pocahontas and Wahunsenaca (Powhatan) created by John Smith in Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England and the Summer Isles (1624) as a “mode of storytelling that destroys and moves to supplant traditional Indigenous kinship structures and obligations.” Argues that Smith depicts colonization as a war between British patriarchal structures and Indigenous systems of kinship.
The Kootenai War of '74
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ian Chambers
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 43-86
Description
Looks at the circumstances which led to the Koontenai nation declaring war on the United States government in 1974, The tribe was federally recognized but had been given no land base nor received any monetary compensation.
Last Resort
Alternate Title
APTN Investigates ; season 10
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Christopher Read
Holly Moore
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN)
Description
Investigative report on the physical and mental abuse suffered by young male offenders, most of whom were Indigenous, at a northern Saskatchewan wilderness camp run by the Ranch Ehrlo organization during the 1970s. The wilderness experience was thought to address behavioural Issues.
Duration: 23:50.
Literature Review: Perceptions of the Health of the Māori Language 2015
Alternate Title
Literature Review: Perceptions of the Health of the Maori Language 2015
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anne Hardman
Description
Primary focus is on language loss and the factors which influence it, but also looks at planning and policy actions related to language loss or shift, revitalization and maintenance.
Living Together - Acting Together: Government Brief Submitted to the Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Secrétariat aux affaires autochtones
Ministère de la
Justice
Justice
Ministère de la Sécurité publique
Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux
Ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur
Secrétariat à la condition
Description
Discusses provincial government's past and present relationship with Aboriginal peoples, and interactions between the Aboriginal population and provincial ministries and agencies such as the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Public Security, Correctional Services, Ministry of Education and Higher Education.
Message to Aboriginal Health Workers: Medical Care Does Not Equal Health
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Peter Baume
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 5, no. 1, March 1981, pp. 5-8
Description
Comments the merits of proactive health care versus reactive.
Métis Scrip in Alberta
Alternate Title
Métis Archival Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nathalie Kermoal
Frank Tough
Jenn Rossiter
Leah Hrycun
Description
Provides brief history of "Half-breed Scrip", its meaning and origins. Focuses on the community of Lac La Biche as an example of the process.
The Midnight Rider: The EPA and Tribal Self-Determination.
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Raymond Nolan
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 3, Summer, 2018, pp. 329-343
Description
Using a rider added by Senator James Inhof to a transportation bill as a case study, the author analyzes the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) relationship with Indigenous people in the United States, and offers criticism on the EPA’s failure to respect tribal self-determination.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: A Digital Story
Alternate Title
Interdisciplinary Dialogue Student Conference 2018
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Mikhayla Patterson
Louise Speakman
no. 1
Description
A short film depicting the effects of colonization on Indigenous women in Canada.
Duration: 5:48.
Mnisose / the Missouri River: A Comparative Literary Analysis of River Stories from the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the #NoDAPL Movement
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah Hernandez
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 72-95
Description
Examines multiple narratives—historical and contemporary—relating to the river and discusses how those narratives in combination with the privileging of text-based have been used alternately to empower and disempower Indigenous communities and nations.
Montana's Landless Indians and the Assimilation Era of Federal Indian Policy: A Case of Contradictions: Lessons for Grades 7-12
E-Books
Author/Creator
Laura Ferguson
Description
Title refers to the Chippewa, Cree and Métis.
"More Precious Than Gold": Indigenous Water Governance in the Context of Modern Land Claims in Yukon
Theses
Author/Creator
Nicole J. Wilson
Description
Resource Management and Environmental Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2018.
The Myth of Multiculturalism and the Reality of the American Indian in Contemporary America
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Francis R. McKenna
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 21, no. 1, October 1981, pp. [1-9]
Description
Argues that multicultural commitments in American society lack meaningful substance and that Native cultures are suppressed by the policies and actions of the government.
A National Legacy Framework for Comprehensive Sustainable Access to Mental Health Services for Indigenous Children and Youth Mental Health in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jason Walker
Sandra Harris
Jennie
Thomas
Miranda Mae Phillips
Andjelka Stones
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, 2018, pp. 145-164
Description
Authors conduct a review of literature relating to the disparity experienced by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit youth in need of metal heath care and discusses systemic issues that need to be addressed in order to provide equity of care.
Native Americans and Nuclear Power
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dorothy Nelkin
Science, Technology, & Human Values, vol. 6, no. 35, Spring, 1981, pp. 2-13
Description
Discussion of uranium mining, questions of sovereignty, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, cultural integrity, radiation hazards and the anti-nuclear movement.
Native Nation Building: The Long Emergence of the Oneida Nation Judiciary
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Larry Nesper
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 87-116
Description
Traces the history of the Appeals Commission over the course of 30 years. Case illustrates the difficulties involved when integrating court systems into societies organized by kinship.
Native Settlements and Native Rights. A Comparison of the Alaska Native Settlement, the James Bay Indian/Inuit Settlement, and the Western Canadian Inuit Settlement
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J.S. Frideres
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1981, pp. 59-89
Description
Three 1970s agreements between Indigenous peoples and governments are compared: the Alaska Native Claims Settlement of 1971, the James Bay Settlement (1975) and the Committee for Original People's Entitlement (COPE) Agreement-in-Principle (1978).
The Native-Wilderness Equation: Catholic and Other School Orientations in the Western Arctic
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Carney
Canadian Catholic Historical Association. Study Sessions, vol. 48, 1981, pp. 61-77
Description
Paper examines three variations of the equation: Sisters of Charity and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Roman Catholic missionary groups in the Mackenzie District from the 1850s to the 1950s; federal and territorial governments from the 1920s to the early 1970s; and Justice Thomas Berger in his report of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry.
The Navajo Local Governance Act (LGA): A Help or Hindrance to Grassroots Self-Government?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle L. Hale
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 42, no. 1, 2018, pp. 91-114
Description
Discusses the viability of decentralized political structures within the Navajo Nation in terms of efficiency, transparency, culturally appropriate governance and improved service delivery.
Neoliberal Biopolitics in Michel Noël's Nipishish: Market Logic and Indigenous Resistance
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Boucher
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 2, Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways, 2018, pp. 77-96
Description
Literary criticism article explores the intersections of history, fiction and biopolitics in a variety of specific confrontations between the Canadian state and the Anishnaabeg in Michel Noël's teen novel Nipishish (2004).
The Neoliberal State, Recognition and Indigenous Rights: New Paternalism to New Imaginings
Alternate Title
Research Monograph (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) ; no. 40
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez
Cathryn Eatock
Avril Bell
Mandy Yap
Eunice Yu … [et al.]
Research Monograph (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research)
Nunavut Inuit Labour Force Analysis Report: Executive Summary
Alternate Title
Nunavut Inuit Labor Force Analysis Report: Executive Summary
E-Books
Author/Creator
Employment and Social Development Canada
Nuuk, Greenland: Site, Situation, and “The Law of the Primate City”
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anthony J. Dzik
Northern Review, no. 48, October 18, 2018, pp. 3-32
Description
Defines a city’s “primacy” as having three factors: a large population in comparison to other cities in the country, economic preeminence, and symbolic of a national cultural identity and assesses how well Nuuk fulfills those criteria.
Ojibwe Treaty Rights
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission
Description
Focuses on off-reservation treaty rights to hunt, fish, and gather in treaty-ceded lands in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
[On-reserve Housing Reform: Engagement 2017-2019]
Alternate Title
What We Heard about Housing 2017-2019
Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)
Description
Brief summaries of comments received from First Nations and their representatives, technical groups and other interested parties during engagement sessions with representatives of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada.
Ontario's Responses to Jury Recommendations Seven First Nations Youth Inquest 2016-26 (Jethro Anderson, Reggie Bushie, Robyn Harper, Kyle Morrisseau, Paul Panacheese, Curran Strang & Jordan Wabasse) [2017]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Government of Ontario]
Description
Inquest looked into the deaths of youths had relocated from remote communities to Thunder Bay in order to attend high school.
2018 Report
2019 Report
Open History Seminar: Canadian History
E-Books
Author/Creator
Thomas Peace
Sean Kheraj
Description
Collection of primary and secondary sources suitable for use at secondary and post-secondary levels. Can be used to supplement Canadian History: Pre-Confederation and Canadian History: Post-Confederation.
"Our Land and Our Culture Is Our Future": Strategies and Implications of Development on the Metis Settlements of Alberta
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elmer Ghostkeeper
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1981, pp. 151-157
Description
Provides background to the Metis Population Betterment Act of 1938 and discusses relationships between Metis "colonies" and other governing bodies. This Act is commonly referred to as the Metis Betterment Act.
Out of Irrelevance
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
D. Bruce Sealey
Prairie Forum, vol. 6, no. 1, Spring, 1981, pp. 101-102
Description
Book review of: Out of irrelevance by J. R. Ponting and R. Gibbins.
Pedagogies of Remembrance and "Doing Critical Heritage" in the Teaching of History: Countermemorializing Canada 150 with Future Teachers
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa Karen Taylor
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 52, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 217-248
Description
Uses two examples of critical heritage discourses—social media debate surrounding Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations, and an undergraduate history education course which focused on the production of counter histories—to illustrate how critical heritage studies can expand the discussion and challenge traditional thinking around national memory and settler-colonial narratives.