Minutes of Evidence: Sparking Conversations about History and Structural Justice
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Minutes of Evidence
Description
Website highlights the significance of the 1881 Parliamentary Coranderrk Inquiry through research, education and performance to educate the broader population and attempt to redress the injustices produced from that history.
Miraculous Plagues: Epidemiology on New England's Colonial Landscape
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cristobal Silva
Early American Literature, vol. 43, no. 2, 2008, pp. 249-270
Description
Looks at texts that describe seventeenth-century colonial epidemics in New England.
Mixed Race, Legal Space: Official Discourse, Indigeneity, and Racial Mixing in Canada, The US, and Australia, 1850-1950
Theses
Author/Creator
Camilla Charity Augustus
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2013.
Module 6: Changes After State Formation and Borders
Alternate Title
CS 321: Peoples and Cultures of the Circumpolar World I
Module Six: Changes After State Formation and Borders
University of the Arctic – CS 321
[Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies (BCS) 321]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Michel Bouchard
Greg Poelzer
Heather Exner
Ludmilla Zhukova
Jeremei Gabyshev
Ken Coates ... [et al.]]
Description
Gives overview of impact modern nation-state governance has had on Indigenous populations and discusses disputes over land and independence. Also gives examples of integration and assimilation into southern markets.
Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.
Module 8: Self-Determination throughout History
Alternate Title
CS 321: Peoples and Cultures of the Circumpolar World I
Module Eight: Self-Determination throughout History
University of the Arctic – CS 321
[Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies (BCS) 321]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Michel Bouchard
Greg Poelzer
Heather Exner
Ludmilla Zhukova
Jeremei Gabyshev
Ken Coates ... [et al.]]
Description
Discusses northern movements for regional and Indigenous autonomy and cultural self-determination. Includes three examples: Greenland, Nunavut, and the Sami people of Northern Europe.
Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.
"More a Diplomatic Than a Esthetic Event": Canada, Brazil, and Cultural Brokering in the São Paulo Biennial and "Isumavut"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristy Robertson
Stephanie G. Anderson
Elizabeth Diggon
Ahlia Moussa
Sarah E.K. Smith
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 47, no. 2, Spring, 2013, pp. 60-88
Description
Examines the state of government relations between Canada and Brazil from 1950 to 2013, and how Inuit culture was brokered the relationship.
More Than a Food Fight: Intellectual Traditions and Cultural Continuity in Chilocco's Indian School Journal, 1902-1918
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Bess
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, Winter, 2013, pp. 77-110
Description
Examines ways that federal assimilation policies were actualized in the cultivation and consumption of food at the boarding school and the how the newsletter helped the students keep their identities.
Moving Backwards: Does the Lack of Duty to Consult Create the Right to Infringe Aboriginal and Treaty Rights?
Alternate Title
Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy Research Paper Series ; no.13
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Shin Imai
Ashley Stacey
Description
Discusses two cases Neskonlith Indian Band v Salmon Arm (City) and Wahgoshing First Nation v Solid God Resources Corp both involving failure to consult with First Nations by a municipality and a private business.
Moving Towards Saimaqatigiingniq
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bethany Scott
Julie Harris
David Joanasie
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 2, no. 2, Literacy & Democracy, December 2013, pp. 69-76
Description
Examines how government actions into the 1970s, including the killing of sled dogs, negatively affected Inuit people. Also discusses the progress made from the Qikiqtani Truth Commission’s recommendations.
Much More Than Paperwork: Proper Planning Essential to Better Lives for B.C.'s Children in Care: A Representative's Audit on Plans of Care
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond
Description
Of 100 case files examined, 60 involved Aboriginal children.
Municipal Colonialism in Vancouver: City Planning and the Conflict over Indian Reserves, 1928–1950s
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jordan Stanger-Ross
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 89, no. 4, December 2008, pp. 541-580
Description
Looks at the conflict of city planning with settler claims to Indian reserves in Vancouver, and discusses the municipal governments decisions regarding land-use planning, land claims, and their attempts to acquire and control the Kitsilano and Musqueam reserves.
Murders and Disappearances of Aboriginal Women and Girls in Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)
Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA)
Description
Briefing Paper for Thematic Hearing Before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights - 147th Period of Sessions, March 12, 2013.
Museum-Making and Indigenous Curation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christina Kreps
Museum Anthropology, vol. 22, no. 1, March 1998, pp. 5-17
Description
Looks at the influences of state ideologies in the policies and practices of a provincial museum.
Muskoday Signs TLE Agreement
Alternate Title
Muskoday Signs Treaty Land Entitlement Agreement
Articles » General
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 2, February 2008, p. 3
Description
Looks at the economic benefits and social development opportunities that the settlement agreement will bring to the Muskoday First Nation.
Article located by scrolling to page 3.
The Mutuality of Citizenship and Sovereignty: The Society of American Indians and the Battle to Inherit America
Alternate Title
American Indian Quarterly ; vol. 37, no. 3, Summer 2013
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
K. Tsianina Lomawaima
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 2, The Society of American Indians and Its Legacies, Summer, 2013, pp. 331-351
Description
Discusses the members' attitudes about rights and restrictions that resulted from the U.S. government's wardship of Native Americans.
Special combined issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures and American Indian Quarterly.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 331.
My Country, Mine Country: Indigenous People, Mining and Development in Remote Australia
Alternate Title
Research Monograph (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) ; no. 33
E-Books
Author/Creator
Benedict Scambary
Research Monograph (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research)
"My Parents, They Became Poor": The Socio-Economics Effects of the Expropriation and Relocation of Stoney Point Reserve #43, 1942
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Helen Roos
Past Imperfect, vol. 1998, 7, pp. 155-175
Description
Interviews Stoney Point band members about the effects of relocation.
Myths and Facts about First Nations Peoples
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Information Series ; pamphlet no. 28
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Office of University Accessibility
[University of Manitoba]
Description
Debunks 10 commonly-held misconceptions.
Nadleh Whut'en First Nation: Lejac School Inquiry
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Claim submitted to the Specific Claims Branch of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs in 1992, alleging there was a failure to meet the statutory requirements regarding the taking of reserve lands for school purposes. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
[Nancy Greyeyes: A Sacred Walk for Future Generations]
Alternate Title
At the Edge of Canada: Indigenous Research
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Nancy Greyeyes
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Description
Interview with a participant of a march to Parliament Hill in support of the Idle No More movement opposing Bill C-45.
Duration: 28:53.
A Narrative Description of Contemporary Negotiations Between the Canadian Pacific Railway and Five Indian Bands Regarding Land Taxation and Land Tenure Rights in British Columbia
Theses
Author/Creator
Kari Giddings
Description
Communications Studies Project (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 2008
The Nation Must Change: Socio-cultural Acclimation and Instantiations of Ethic Identity in the Choctaw Nation, 1830-1907.
Theses
Author/Creator
Kevin Daniel Motes
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2008.
National Parklands in Northern Homelands: A Comparison of Co-Management of National Parks With Native People in Alaska (U.S.A.) and the Yukon (Canada)
Theses
Author/Creator
Paul Gerrald Sneed
Description
Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii, 1998.
Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jennifer Denetdale
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 191-193
Description
Book review of: Native Acts by Joanne Barker.
Review located by scrolling to page 191.
[The Native American Apology Resolution]
Alternate Title
[Harvest of Hope: A Symposium on Reconciliation ; pt. 5]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Description
Senator speaks about the need for an apology from U.S.government to tribal governments and native people nationwide for past mistreatment, and the difficulties involved in getting the bill passed.
Duration: 22:21.
Native American Boarding Schools: The Education and Cultural Transformation of American Indians under the United States Government Boarding Schools
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mathew LaMore
Description
Lesson plan for Grades 6-8 teaching about the experiences of Native youth in Indian boarding schools.
Native American Education Research and Policy Development in an Era of No Child Left Behind: Native Language and Culture During the Administrations of Presidents Clinton and Bush
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Beaulieu
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 47, no. 1, 2008, pp. 10-45
Description
Article is a personal narrative which covers ten years of federal Indian education policy development.
Native American Sacred Sites and the Department of Defense
E-Books
Author/Creator
Vine Deloria, Jr.
Richard W. Stoffle
Native American Students’ Perceptions of the Manoomin STEM Camp
Theses
Author/Creator
Courtney C. Kowalczak
Description
Environmental Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Minnesota Duluth, 2013.
Native Americans and the Wisconsin Cooperative Extension Service, 1810-1940
Theses
Author/Creator
Angela Jo Perkins
Description
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Perdue University, 1998.
Native and National in Brazil: Indigeneity After Independence
E-Books
Author/Creator
Tracy Devine Guzmán
Native Men, White Women, and Marriage in the Indian Service
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cathleen D. Cahill
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 29, no. 2 & 3, 2008, pp. 106-145
Description
Discussion on intermarriages between whites and Native Americans and the role the federal government played, both bureaucratically and ideologically, in orchestrating them.
Native Nationality and the Contemporary Queer: Tradition, Sexuality, and History in Drowning in Fire
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark Rifkin
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 4, Fall, 2008, pp. 443-471
Description
Discusses federal and state laws regarding same sex marriage in the Cherokee and Navajo Nations.
Native Nations and U.S. Borders: Challenges to Indigenous Culture, Citizenship, and Security
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Andrew Bard Epstein
AlterNative, vol. 9, no. 4, 2013, pp. 373-374
Description
Book review of: Native Nations and U.S. Boarders by Rachel Rose Starks, Jen McCormack and Stephen Cornell.
Native Voices and Native Values in Sacred Landscapes Management: Bridging the Indigenous Values Gap on Public Lands Through Co-Management Policy
Theses
Author/Creator
Sharon Kay Milholland
Description
American Indian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2008.
[Natives and Settlers Now and Then: Historical Issues and Current Perspectives on Treaties and Land Claims in Canada]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Michael Cottrell
Great Plains Research, vol. 18, no. 2, 2008, pp. 242-243
Description
Book review of: Natives and Settlers Now and Then edited by Paul W. Depasquale.
Natives, Churches, Feds Seek Way Out of Lawsuits
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathy Blair
Anglican Journal, vol. 124, no. 10, December 1998, p. 1
Description
Discussion of meetings regarding the residential school lawsuits, some for sexual abuse other lawsuits were of a more general nature.
Natives & Settlers - Now & Then: Historical Issues and Current Perspectives on Treaties and Land Claims in Canada
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Richard Hawkins
British Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, September 2008, pp. 280-281
Description
Book review of: Natives & Settlers - Now & Then edited by Paul W. DePasquale.
Naturalizing Race Relations: Conservation, Colonialism, and Spectacle at the Banff Indian Days
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Johnathan Clapperton
The Canadian Historical Review, vol. 94, no. 3, September 2013, pp. 349-379
Description
Looks at relations between Indian Days organizers, park staff, Banff residents, spectators and the Stoney Nakoda.
Navigating Neoliberalism: Self-Determination and the Mikisew Cree First Nation
E-Books
Author/Creator
Gabrielle Slowey
A Necessary Evil: Framing an American Indian Legal Identity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dwanna L. Robertson
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 37, no. 4, 2013, pp. 115-139
Description
Comments on the vast complexity regarding the requirements of American Indians to prove racial heritage and why many cannot.
Negotiating Ojibwe Treaty Rights: Toward a Critical Geopolitics of State-Tribal Relations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steven E. Silvern
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 3, 2008, pp. 153-176
Description
Describes conflicts that center on the question of political control over geographical space among American Indians, non-Indians and the government.
[Negotiating the Deal: Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements in Canada]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kelly Saunders
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, 2013, pp. 165-166
Description
Book review of: Negotiating the Deal by Christopher Alcantara.
Negotiating the Deal: Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements in Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
Christopher Alcantara
Negotiating the "New Country:" The Cultural Politics of Exchange in the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Reservations and Allotment Periods, 1867-1910
Theses
Author/Creator
Jacki Thompson Rand
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oklahoma, 1998.
Neskonlith, Adams Lake, and Little Shuswap Indian Bands Neskonlith Douglas Reserve Inquiry
Alternate Title
Indian Claims Commission: Neskonlith, Adams Lake, and Little Shuswap Indian Bands Neskonlith Douglas Reserve Inquiry
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Submitted specific claim to the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development arguing that a reserve had been created in 1862 by the British Crown and was later unlawfully reduced. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Network Sovereignty: Understanding the Implications of Tribal Broadband Networks
Theses
Author/Creator
Marisa Elena Duarte
Description
Information School Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2013.
“Never mind the logic, give me the numbers”: Former Australian Health Ministers’ Perspectives on the Social Determinants of Health
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frances E. Baum
Paul Laris
Matthew Fisher
Lareen Newman
Colin MacDougall
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 87, June 2013, pp. 138-146
Description
Study involved qualitative interviews with Federal, State or Territory representatives. Found that while most exhibited some awareness of issues, actions taken to reduce health disparities were limited.
Never Trust a Government Man: Northern Territory Aboriginal Policy, 1911-1939
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jeremy Long
Aboriginal History, vol. 22, 1998, pp. [223]-225
Description
Book review of: Never Trust a Government Man by Tony Austin.
Review located by scrolling to page 223.