Parallel Encounters: Culture and the Canada-U.S. Border
Waste-full Crossings: Thomas King's Rubbishy Border
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Catherine Bates
Description
Comments on the Canadian-American border which King calls "this line of someone else's imagination" and the river that separates the town of Truth from the First Nation, Bright Water.
Chapter from Parallel Encounters: Culture and the Canada-U.S. Border [edited by Gillian Roberts and David Stirrup]
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 36, no. 1, Indian Control of Indian Education--40 Years Later, 2013, pp. 126-145
Description
Briefly discuses the applicability of the 1972 Indian Control of Indian Education policy statement for urban Aboriginal students who are in the child protection system, reports results of interviews conducted with 14 individuals involved in the system, and argues for an agency specifically mandated to eliminate educational gap between those in care and those who are not.
Article explores the posts and comments from three different Blogs by Indigenous women; examines how intersectional rhetoric is constructed and used in these spaces, and how it serves to defend Indigenous rhetorical sovereignty.
Book review of What We Learned by Helen Raptis with members of the Tsimshian Nation.
Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 217.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 24, no. 1, Q epethet ye Mestiyexw, 2000, pp. 7-13
Description
Presents author's personal life experiences using traditional Stó:lõ narrative style and metaphor and the importance of reviving the Halq'emeylem language.
Review of International American Studies, vol. 6, no. 1-2, Decoding American Cultures in the Global Context, Spring-Fall, 2013, pp. 187-214
Description
Comments on aspects of literary ethnic/cultural shape-shifting in Canadian and American literature since the Millennium.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 187.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 2000.
Examines works by Rudolfo Anaya, Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, Ana Castillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Paula Gunn Allen and Sandra Cisneros.
Four women from across Canada who are artists, scholars, activists discuss topics such as racism, leadership, contemporary life, culture, popular misconceptions about Aboriginal peoples, and cross cultural relations.
Duration: 1:22:38.
[English] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2017.
Refers to the works of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Simon Pokagan, E. Pauline Johnson, and Alex Posey.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 31-70
Description
Discusses how farmers and gardeners define food sovereignty and how the concept has been put into practice to attain the goals of promoting health and traditional culture.