Building A Nation Family Healing Centre Inc.: Project Number CT-2429-SK/1256-SK
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kevin Barlow
Description
Description and evaluation of Building A Nation Family Healing Centre project designed to provide clinical and traditional counselling services and child custody, justice system, and social assistance program support. Sources of information include project files, Aboriginal Healing Foundation National Process Evaluation Survey, key informant interviews, and documents and data collected by community support coordinator.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3, Summer, 2002, pp. 436-459
Description
Author considers the way that worldviews are constructed; examines the way that humour and comedy contribute to the Anishinaabe worldview, and to the resilience of the Anishinaabe people.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 14, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 2002, pp. [79]-80
Description
Brief short story titled Conquistadors by Stephen Graham Jones, which is told in one very long sentence.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
"This book is an expanded and edited version of Canadian Ethnology Service Paper no. 30, published by the National Museum of Man in the Mercury Series in 1975".
Original diary and various papers of R. Lyndhurst Wadmore, Lieutenant of the Royal Canadian Regiment during the Northwest Resistance, covering from 8 April to 20 July 1885. Included in diary pocket is a requisition for short boots that was signed by Wadmore on May 1885, lyrics of the Infantry School Corps fight song, and a Victoria Daily Times article from 23 June 1944 about the remaining members of the Northwest Field Force and their experiences.
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, 2002, pp. 135-149
Description
Argues that there are American Indian authors, writers, and poets, often unrecognized, and that there are very few courses to take that cover their works.
Book review of:
Dreams and Thunder by Zitkala-Sa.
Native American Women's Writing 1800-1924 edited by Karen L. Kilcup.
Sarah Winnemucca by Sally Zanjani.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 26, no. 3, 2002, pp. 113-124
Description
Discussion of how two novelists have brought attention to the way Caucasian people have harmed the environment. The article also suggests that Aboriginal peoples are economic and social victims of the scarred earth and its destroyed forests, a fact which has driven some insane.
American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series; vol. 35
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
James H. Cox
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 14, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 2002, pp. 51-54
Description
Book review of: El Indio Jesús by Gilberto Chávez Ballejos and Shirley Hill Witt.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 4, Fall, 2002, pp. 623-640
Description
Critical analysis of the author's second novel, "attempts to overcome the limitations of the American Indian Movement (AIM) by presenting readers with" characters with international alliances.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 1985, pp. 167-175
Description
Reviews the historical accuracy of short stories by Simon Ortiz and Leslie Silko that are both based on the same murder case involving a policeman and two brothers from Acoma Pueblo Reservation in New Mexico in 1952.
Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 40, no. 1, 2002/2003, pp. 115-124
Description
Examines the autobiographical collection American Indian Stories by Native American women writer Gertrude Bonnin and considers various strategies of resistance to assimilation.