Includes discussion of friction in the East coast fishery and issues in post-secondary education, interviews with leaders from the Prairies, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories, and commentaries. Also includes statistics from survey of Canadian's attitudes about important Aboriginal issues.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 6, no. 1, 2017, pp. 63-81
Description
Discusses the experiences of members of the Hamilton-Halton Animal Liberation Team (HALT) while demonstrating in support of Haudenosaunee-negotiated hunting rights in Short Hills Provincial Park in Ontario which are being protested against by local property owners and animal rights activists.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, 1983, pp. 23-40
Description
Describes how this project, which included 6 dams, destroyed over 550 square miles of tribal land and displaced more than 900 Native American families.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, Indigenous Women, 2004, pp. 22-27
Description
Examines female circumcision in ethnic groups in Kenya and gives an overview of attempts to eradicate the practice.
To access this article, scroll down to page 22.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 115-122
Description
Essay situates the #NoDAPL movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), within the historical context and the longer histories of Oceti Sakowin resistance against the trespass of settlers, dams, and pipelines across the Mni Sose, the Missouri River, and into Sioux territory.
States that because colony was established on Peepeekisis reserve without permission, and students from other bands were brought there to live and farm, members of the original band were displaced and unable to use communal lands.
Reports results of document search and interviews with representatives from regional First nations data governance centres. Focus of environment scan and research included: state and history of initiatives, regional considerations around the government-First Nation relationship, and regional data sovereignty, Nation building and intergovernmental relationships.
Discussion Paper Series in Aboriginal Health. Legal Issues ; no. 2
NAHO Discussion Paper Series ; no.2
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Yvonne Boyer
Description
Uses historical analysis to argue that federal government has a clear obligation to provide health care to Aboriginals but has failed to provide adequate services.
Journal of Ecological Anthropology, vol. 8, 2004, pp. 24-46
Description
Looks at the structure and function of grassland ecosystems in British Columbia from pre-European contact through the present; and discusses grassland restoration ecology from a First Nations perspective.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, 2017, pp. 105-130
Description
Examines the reoccurring flooding in Kashechewan as a case study; finds that the repeated flooding and the corresponding damage to housing and community resources is a result of colonial practices, disregard for traditional knowledge, and forced relocations of First Nations people to flood zones.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, 2004, pp. 29-56
Description
Examines the National Reclamation Act and how many people in the Gila River and Casa Grande valleys, including government officials, thought that the first reclamation project would be built in Arizona.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, January 31, 2019, pp. 102-110
Description
A Copy of the Canada-Métis Nation Accord, 2017, the signing of which makes official a Nation-to-Nation relationship between Canada and the Métis Nation.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 31-53
Description
Builds on Linda Tuhiwai Smith's short essay "Twenty-Five Indigenous Projects," and in acknowledgement of the essay and its 20th anniversary offers four more projects specific to Native American Humanities:
• Continuing
• Reknowing
• Sociologizing
• Valuing
Indigenous Policy Journal of the Indigenous Studies Network, vol. 15, no. 2, Special International Indigenous Issue, Summer, 2004, p. [?]
Description
Discusses an interview session with George Manuel on his vision of international solidarity towards human rights promotion where social, cultural, economic, civil and political justice prevail and people live with respect and dignity.
Access through table of contents.
Five-part documentary series about the Shoal Lake 40 Anishinaabe Nation's battle to build a road after their community was forcibly relocated and cut off from the mainland so that water could be supplied to the city of Winnipeg.
Related material:
Mini-Lesson.
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 1, no. 1, Governance of Aboriginal Health, January 2004, pp. 115-116
Description
Book reviews of: Beyond Intellectual Property: Toward Traditional Resource Rights for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities by Darrell A. Posey, Graham Dutfield and
Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge by Marie Battiste, James (Sa'ke'j) Youngblood Henderson.
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 1, no. 1, Governance of Aboriginal Health, January 2004, pp. 26-27
Description
Book reviews of 2 books:
Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives by James B. Waldram, D. Ann Herring, T. Kue Young and
Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation: Australia, Canada and New Zealand by Andrew Armitage.
New Scientist, vol. 184, no. 2468, October 9, 2004, pp. 8[-?]
Description
Signed agreement between Pacific island nation of Samoa and the University of California, will split equally revenues from potential prostratin-based drugs, extracted from the mamala tree bark. Samoan healers were the first to recognize the trees medicinal potential.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, June 18, 2019
Description
Article compares the processes and findings of the Truth Commissions in Canada and Guatemala; discusses how the idea and crime of genocide appears in national narratives, and how the findings of these commissions are part of a larger evolution of the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention.
Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, vol. 20, no. 1, 2019, pp. 495-517
Description
Article provides a comparative analysis of guidelines from Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States for research involving Indigenous peoples. Identifies areas that need attention, support Indigenous-led governance, and advocates for research policy framework for genomic research and health care that has international relevance for Indigenous peoples.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter, 2019, pp. 101-132
Description
Examines how, between 1900 and the 1930s, some of the female students at Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon were able to advocate for and affect change in their curriculum and in the limitations on their access to education.
Sets out context for Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDS) movements, and gives survey of networks and their foundational principles, such OCAP and the Māori principles of rangatiratanga, manaakitanga, and kaitiakitanga.
Chapter two of Good Data edited by Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt, and Monique Mann.
Scroll to p. 26 to read paper.
Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 4, Winter, 2004, pp. 429-450
Description
Argues that Native Americans experimented with their identities and dramatized their resistance to white society and culture during the Haskell Institute homecoming of 1926.
Briefly defines rights, explains rights of Status and Non-Status Indians and Métis people, and discusses conservation, public and safety rules, and where to get help if charged with a harvesting offence. Information specific to British Columbia.
Third edition.