File containing a newspaper article from the Globe and Mail regarding the court's underapplication of Diefenbaker's Bill of Rights, including reference to cases involving the Indian Act.
Commodifications of the Past? An IPinCH Knowledge Base Bibliography
Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage: Theory, Practice, Policy, Ethics
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Herbert
Description
Lists 208 publications (articles, letters, websites, webpages, government documents, and books) deemed to be of interest to the Commodifications of the Past? Working Group from the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) research project.
Discusses the challenge of Aboriginal leaders to ensure their communities and enterprises take full advantage of the opportunities that information technology and the information economy have to offer, while at the same time protecting and strengthening their culture.
Comments on public artworks by artist Edgar Heap of Birds, including a video presentation at Times Square and a large installation for the Denver Art Museum.
Aboriginal Concerns: Self-Government, Nunavut, Repatriation, Representation, and Aboriginal Media
E-Books » Chapters
Description
Book based on presentations given at a colloquium of the same name. Part V contains Aboriginal content.
To access chapter, scroll down to appropriate page.
Chapter 36: Converging or Diverging Pathways to Aboriginal Self-Determination? Indigenous Peoples, Self-Government, and the Federation by Frances Abele and Michael J. Prince. (p.443)
Chapter 37: Keynote Address on Nunavut: Convergence and Divergence in North America: Canada and the United States by Donat Savoie. ( p.
Wide-ranging discussion among elders touching on many topics including kinship; illegitimate children; ceremonialism; therole of the elder; financing the elder who incurs some costs associated with the organization of a ceremony.
Western American Literature, vol. 45, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 228-251
Description
Looks at how role reversals and racial imitations in Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre transforms the stereotypical trappings of Indian roles by redescribing and incorporating a sense of the past into the present.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 26, no. 3, Autumn, 1973, pp. [81]-102
Description
Draws on historical documents retrieved from Libraries and Archives Canada to reconstruct the narrative of the mass murder that occurred in 1873 near Battle Creek. Challenges the sources which name the date as May 1, asserting that it was June 1 based on trial testimony; examines press coverage following the event.
Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 81.
Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 35, no. 1, 2010, pp. 85-108
Description
Compares newspaper coverage of the deaths of two Aboriginal children while in care. One was placed by provincial authorities, the other by the Xyolhemeylh agency of the Stó:lö Nation. Survey looked at stories in the National Post, Vancouver Sun, Province, Abbotsford Times, Chilliwack Times and Mission City Record.
DIAMA (Digitizing the Inuit and Aboriginal Media Archive)
Description
DIAMA preserves archives by cleaning, reformatting, digitizing and uploading materials collected since the 1970's. The website is searchable by language/culture, topic and location.
Post Script , vol. 29, no. 3, Indian Cinema, Summer, 2010, pp. 27-[?]
Description
Discusses impact two women filmmakers have had on the National Film Board of Canada's productions and their re-imagining of western cinematic traditions.
Looks at portrayal newspapers put in articles printed in the Calgary Herald, the Montreal Gazette, the Vancouver Province and the Edmonton journal pertaining to the diversion of the Oldman River by a group called the Lone Fighters from the Peigan First Nation.
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2010, p. 1
Description
Introductory editorial to themed issue on how different epistemologies and cultural values inform power relations in different locations, situations and contemporary contexts.
Teacher resource developed in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name. Case studies are supplemented by articles from the newspaper. Unit of study for First Nations 12 students in British Columbia.
Provides information and suggestions centered around stereotypes, inaccuracies, omissions and biases in potential educational resources.
Revised edition.
Post Script, vol. 29, no. 3, Indian Cinema, Summer, 2010, pp. 94-[?]
Description
Discusses various documentary and narrative fiction films and shows how embedded historical and cultural information is meant to educate the viewer and undermine the notion of fixed genre.
Fort Belknap College Radio Program Enhances Retention Effort
Articles » General
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 18, no. 1, The Winding Road to Student Success, Fall, 2006
Description
Discusses a student retention program, developed by the Fort Belknap College in Montana, that uses a radio program as one mechanism to encourage students to stay in school.