Comments on the violent confrontations between Aboriginal people, their supporters and the police over notions of Black Power and dispossession of land.
Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia
Description
Offers practical advice and guidance on how to work effectively within the context of the differing viewpoints, expectations and concerns of Aboriginal peoples.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Murray Sinclair
Description
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.
Background Paper (Law and Government Division, Parliamentary Library) ;
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Peter Niemczak
Description
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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Author/Creator
Jim Harding
Description
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.
ssert, Defend, Take Space: Aboriginal Youth Conference on Identity, Activism and Film
Media » Film and Video
Description
Video presentation of Assert, Defend, Take Space: Aboriginal Youth Conference on Identity, Activism and Film, hosted by the Museum of Anthropology. Continuation from part one. Shows short films followed by discussion and question period with filmmakers and artists. Companion to exhibition: Claiming Space: Voices of Urban Aboriginal Youth
Duration: 2:55:59.
Part 1.
American Journal of Public Health , vol. 104, no. S3, Supplement 3, June 2014, pp. S255-S247
Description
Uses links to Indian Health Services (IHS) patient records to lessen misclassification of race and identify eligibility for services from federally recognized tribes.
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
Description
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
Description
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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Author/Creator
James Youngblood Henderson
pp. 423-432
Description
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.
Chronicles the studies of Peter Elkin, an early anthropologist whose writings formed the basis of a key land claim case in 2007, dismissing the Wongatha native title claim.
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, Developments and Challenges of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Five Years On, Spring, 2014, pp. 1-18
Description
Contends that the UNDRIP will impact on the respect for the fundamental rights of indigenous people.
Research project sought to comprehend the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation's (AAFN) traditional spiritual ecology and compare it to Ontario government resource development strategy.
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, Developments and Challenges of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Five Years On, Spring, 2014, pp. 1-16
Description
Study looks at the events, processes and consequences of the eviction of the Batwa in the early 1990s.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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Author/Creator
Robert W. Mitchell
pp. 303-314
Description
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
Description
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.
American Literature, vol. 86, no. 2, June 2014, pp. 391-393
Description
Book reviews of:
The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination by Mark Rifkin.
Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization by Scott Morgensen.
Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading by Martin Joseph Ponce.
American Literature, vol. 86, no. 3, September 2014, pp. 611-614
Description
Book reviews of:
Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period by Drew Lopenzina.
The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism by Jodi A. Byrd.
On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory Andrew Newman.
Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies by Chadwick Allen.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 1994, pp. 1-31
Description
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.