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Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Allan Quandt
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
Allan Quandt discusses general problems of implementing programs in the north.
Allan Quandt Interview 3
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Allan Quandt
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
Allan Quandt speaks about the disappearance of Jim Brady and the theories on what happened.
Allan Quandt Interview 4
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Allan Quandt
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
Allan Quandt talks about Malcolm Norris and Jim Brady and their relationships with the CCF party.
Augustine Yellow Sun and Joe Poor Eagle Interview 2
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Augustine Yellow Sun
Joe Poor Eagle
Allan J. Wolfleg
Indian History Film Project
Description
A discussion of Land rights under Treaty #7; trade of furs for goods; and the dispersal of the Blackfoot people and eventual return to the Blackfoot Reserve under Crowfoot.
BC First Peoples 12: Teacher Resource Guide
Alternate Title
British Columbia First Peoples: Teacher Resource Guide
E-Books
Author/Creator
First Nations Education Steering Committee (FNESC)
First Nations Schools Association
Donald Joe Sheridan Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Donald Joe Sheridan
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
Mr. Sheridan worked in the Dept. of Natural Resources in northern Saskatchewan He was associated with the school for prospectors and with other government agencies. He was a socialist and a close friend of Norris.
Gwendoline B. Beck Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Gwendoline B. Beck
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
Gwen Beck is a long time resident of La Ronge who has taken a keen interest in local, social and political affairs.
Helen E. & Joe Wheaton Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Helen E. Wheaton
Joe Wheaton
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
Helen and Joe Wheaton lived in Prince Albert where Joe worked for the Saskatchewan government. They were active in the CCF party and became friends of Malcolm Norris and Jim Brady.
Helga M. Reydon Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Helga M. Reydon
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
Helga Reydon worked for many years for the Department of Natural Resources in Prince Albert. She knew Malcolm Norris, Jim Brady and Pete Tomkins.
How Political Change Paved the Way for Indigenous Knowledge: The Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julia Christensen
Miriam Grant
Arctic, vol. 60, no. 2, June 2007, pp. 115-123
Description
Highlights the process of political change in an attempt to recognize the legitimacy of indigenous knowledge in resource management.
'It Belongs to Us': N.W.T.'s Premier Stephen Kakfwi on Resources, Pipelines and Sharing
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stephen Kakfwi
Maclean's, vol. 115, no. 42, October 21, 2002, p. 49
Description
Interview with the Premier of the Northwest Territories.
Jim Black Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Jim Black
Allan J. Wolfleg
Indian History Film Project
Description
An interview discussing various topics: evidence given to the Office of Specific Claims and Research by Jim Black; signing of Treaty #7; an account of the CPR line being taken through Blackfoot Reserveterritory; a description of two murders: Frank Skynner killed by Scrapings, and Charcoal's murder of Medicine Pipe Stem; the surrender of Blackfoot Reserve land; and an understanding of land rights.
Julian Bird Moses Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Julian Bird Moses
Louis Rain
Indian History Film Project
Description
Sale of Saddle Lake Reserve land.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Two: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
People of a Feather
Alternate Title
People of a Feather: Educational Package
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
The Arctic Eider Society
Sanikiluaq Running Pictures
Joel Heath
Community of Sanikiluaq
Description
Documentary about the unique relationship between the Inuit of Sanikiluaq, Nunavut and the Hudson Bay Common Eider and how changing sea ice and ocean currents caused by massive hydroelectric dams are threatening both the bird and the traditional way of life. Duration:
Related material: Educational Package by Global Environmental Justice Documentaries.
The Place of Falling Water
Alternate Title
Video Reviews
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher Paci
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 159-161
Description
Video review of: The Place of Falling Water produced by Roy Bigcrane and Thompson Smith about the experiences of the Salish and Kootenai peoples on the Flathead Reservation.
Preliminary Analysis of Elders' Interviews
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Rick Daniel
Indian History Film Project
Description
Brief summary and evaluation of the references to mineral rights in the Treaty 8 interviews.
Rewriting the Narrative of American History: American Indian Identity and the Process of Recovery
Alternate Title
Contemporary American Indian History
[Yale National Initiative National Seminars]
Curriculum Units by National Fellows of the the Yale National Initiative ; 2016 Volume 1
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jo Anne Flory
Description
Unit looks at how the authors of Tulsa: From Creek Town to Oil Capital (Angie Debo), Custer Died for Your Sins (Vine Deloria, Jr.), and Winter in the Blood (James Welch) repond to certain crises in Native American history. Designed for 11th grade Advanced Placement Language and Composition classes. Some focus on Oklahoma history.
Shadow of the Salmon: Respect the Salmon, Respect Yourself : A Resource Guide for Eighth Grade Teachers
Documents & Presentations
Description
Guide accompanies docu-drama, Shadow of the Salmon. Provides links for resources, suggestions for classroom activities, stories to read aloud in class and information about history and resource management in Washington State.
Summary of Elders Interviews -- Mineral and Other Resource Rights
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Richard Daniel
Indian History Film Project
Description
A total of 136 elders' interviews were read for reference to treaty mineral rights. Of these, 58 were either not concerned with an Indian understanding of treaty or did not deal specifically with minerals.
Summary of Elders' Interviews -- Support from Anthropological Sources
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Lynne Hickey
Indian History Film Project
Description
Author uses various anthropological and historical sources to throw some light on the way in which the Indians of the Treaty 6 and 7 regions might have interpreted the treaty promises.
Tony Wood Interview 1
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Tony Wood
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
Tony Wood was an employee of the Saskatchewan government and was associated with the school for prospectors. He was a friend of Norris and Brady.
Tony Wood Interview 2
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Tony Wood
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
Tony Wood was an employee of the Saskatchewan government and was associated with the school for prospectors. He was a friend of Norris and Brady.
Water, History, and Sovereignty in Simon J. Ortiz’s “Our Homeland, a National Sacrifice Area”
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robin Riley Fast
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 36-53
Description
Discusses Ortiz’s essay in the context of contemporary concerns surrounding water and environmental damage as forms of oppression of marginalized peoples. Calls for Indigenous led resistance to government and corporate control, and for dismantling systemic factors of oppression which sacrifice peoples and lands in favour of neocolonial and corporate interests.
Water Is Life: Ecologies of Writing and Indigeneity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christina Boyles
Hilary E. Wyss
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 1-9
Description
Discusses some of the sociopolitical issues and topics addressed in special issue including #NoDAPL, the cuts to the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), water sovereignty, regulation and distribution, and extractive practices.
Writing Water, Writing Life: Silko as Environmental Activist
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christina Boyles
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 10-35
Description
Examines author Leslie Marmon Silko’s post-1990 works, Almanac of the Dead, Sacred Waters, Gardens in the Dunes, and Oceanstory in the context of a growing focus on water scarcity and sovereignty; highlights Aboriginal and Native American perspective on the privatization of water for profit, and neocolonial and imperial interests.