Comments on the violent confrontations between Aboriginal people, their supporters and the police over notions of Black Power and dispossession of land.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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Murray Sinclair
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Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, discussing cultural conflicts inherent in the justice system and suggesting "not only must we undertake reforms to the exiting system ... reforms that allow and empower Aboriginal people."
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
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Peter Niemczak
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Briefly looks at efforts made in Maine, Scandinavia, New Zealand and Canada to provide some form of political representation which would increase Aboriginals' ability to influence government operations.
1994 version.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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Jim Harding
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Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, discussing self-government challenges in the context of the "urban social crisis," inherent rights, shifting demography and future prospects for change.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 25-32
Description
Argues that the Alcatraz event was mainly a civil rights movement protest against the very oppressive conditions faced by Native Americans, somewhat like the Ku Klux Klan gathering in 1957 was for the African-American population.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 131-134
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Argues that the occupation of Alcatraz Island set the stage for Native American peoples spiritual rebirth and was the beginning of the reclaiming of pride and dignity for all Indian nations.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 59-74
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Gives different perspectives on the Alcatraz story, including insider-outsider and Native-Non-Native. The author comments how the occupation is still told like a legend or a folk tale would be.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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James Youngblood Henderson
pp. 423-432
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Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, provides some concluding remarks on the Conference discussions of the justice system, its failing of Aboriginal peoples and the necessary reform and commitment to change required.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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Robert W. Mitchell
pp. 303-314
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Article from 1993 Conference proceeding, discussing justice reform, self-government in the context of inherent rights and facing the challenge of overlapping roles among the levels of government.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 253-300
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Argues that the occupation of Alcatraz Island started a process of Government repression of Indigenous activists that was without parallel in its virulence and lethal effects.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 1994, pp. 1-31
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Book review of 10 books:
Indians Are Us: Culture and Genocide in Native North America by Ward Churchill.
Thresholds of Differences: Feminist Critique, Native Women's Writings, Postcolonial Theory by Julia Emberly.
Nation to Nation: Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Future of Canada edited by Diane Englestad and John Bird.
Arctic Dreams and Nightmares by Alootook Ipellie.
The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories: The Original Tsimshian Texts of Henry Tate by Ralph Maud.
Ethnophilosophical and Ethnolinguistic Perspectives on the Huron Soul by Michael Pomedli.
First Nations Journeys of Justice: A Curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade Seven
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Anne Goodfellow
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Students explore the basis of Aboriginal rights.
Chapter Seven from First Nations Journeys of Justice: A Curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade Seven by Anne Goodfellow.
Non-profit, national organization developing and implementing solutions for environmental issues affecting First Nations lands and resources. Website contains links to full text articles in the CIER library and CIER publications and products.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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Martin [Marty] D. Irwin
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Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, discusses challenges facing municipalities and First Nations in the formation of urban Reserves.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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Kathleen Makela
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Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, discussing Metis rights to self-government, lands, and how these pertain to law and justice.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
Western Legal History, vol. 7, Winter/Spring, 1994, pp. 113-141
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Analyzes proposals regarding self-government in the Charlottetown Accord, and asses the impact of the defeat of the accord on future relations between aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 75, no. 4, December 1994, pp. 543-557
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Discusses the development of Aboriginal rights from the outlawing of the potlatch to the rejection of anthropological evidence given at the Gitksan Wet'suwet'en land claim.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 1986, pp. 333-349
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Indian reservations were surveyed regarding their consumption of wildlife. Calls for increased joint management efforts between provincial and Indian governments to identify all forces affecting wildlife populations and to create equitable conservation programs.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 213-232
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Expresses hopes that the Alcatraz occupation created a consciousness that would reach into the lives of Native American youth and perhaps white Americans.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 1, The History of American Indian Leadership, Winter, 1986, pp. 65-82
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Challenges the stereotype of static Indigenous political organization with an investigation of the historical adaptability of Indigenous leadership on the Great Plains.