Website makes accessible 570 objects, 2600 written documents, 500 black and white photographs and 8 sound recordings from the Shotridge collection featuring southeastern Alaskan Native history and culture.
Report (Conference Board of Canada) ; December 2010
[Publication (Conference Board of Canada) ; 11-092]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Centre for the North
Conference Board of Canada
Description
Examines the current and potential economic contributions of the oil and gas, mining, forestry, fishing, utilities, and construction industries in the Northern Regions of Canada.
Basic information about Buffalo Lake, East Prairie, Elizabeth, Fishing Lake, Gift Lake, Kikino, Paddle Prairie, and Peavine settlements and each First Nation in Alberta.
Website includes material addressing Native issues and links to art gallery samples, online and print resources, Indian Affairs annual reports, audio and video collections, etc.
Report has information about demographics, reservations and land maps, community issues, educational issues, schools types, Indian Education Legislation and Native organizations.
"Consists of lists of students who attended Old Sun Industrial School (also known as St. John's Boarding School or Old Sun Residential School) on the Blackfoot (Siksika) reserve in southern Alberta. The registers give the students' names, ages, and band, and include comments on their health and progress."
Provides an overview of the issues with a focus on injection drug users, young people, women, and factors of incarceration. Gives strategies to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Collection of audiotapes featuring lectures by historians, researchers or interviews with local First Nations individuals. Some are accompanied by written or visual material.
Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 1-28
Description
Discussion on creating an appropriate library collection of resources and works reflective of Aboriginal women's cultural diversity and their cumulative life experiences.
Although aimed at people applying for citizenship in the Métis Nation of Ontario, contains some useful general information about genealogical research.
[Resources for Teaching Aboriginal Languages in the Northwest Territories: An Annotated Bibliography]
Documents & Presentations
Description
Contains links to lists of materials available for Chipewyan, Cree, North and South Slavey, and Tlicho. Each book is keyed for language (single or accompanied by English) and grade level.
Technical Report (Atlantic Institute of Criminology) ; TR1999-4e
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Don Clairmont
Description
Report commissioned by the Department of Justice to provide a review of pertinent literature, which the author found lacking and therefore supplemented with knowledge of individuals who were contacted directly.
This volume focuses on academic and scholarly materials.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, 1999, pp. 149-207
Description
Book reviews of:
American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk edited by Troy Johnson, Joane Nagel, and Duane Champagne.
As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity edited by William S. Penn.
Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World edited by Timothy R. Pauketat and Thomas E.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 4, 1999, pp. 195-238
Description
Book reviews of:
Beyond the Lodge of the Sun: Inner Mysteries of the Native American Way by Chokecherry Gall Eagle.
Chippewa Families: A Social Study of White Earth Reservation, 1938 by. M. Inez Hilger.
David Zeisberger: A Life Among the Indians by Earl P.