Text of lecture given by the Canada Research Chair in Native -Newcomer Relations. Examines the Native-newcomer relationship, including treaty negotiations from first contact forward.
Discusses differences between Western and Indigenous understandings of what maps are, how they are made, how they look and what they do using two examples: one a drawing of north-eastern Siberia by a Chukchi man, the other by Sami of Lapland using marks on a drum in conjunction with Shamanistic performances as a means of mapping physical, spiritual and temporal elements of the environment.
Aboriginal History, vol. 10, no. 1, 1986, pp. 47-58
Description
Presents comments from two Spanish officers on the state of relations between the Aboriginal people and the English settlers including excerpts from their reports and documents.
Film chronicles the voyage of a northern expedition lasting five months and covering 16,000 kilometres through the Northwest Passage. Accompanying material: The Great Adventure [Study Guide].
Duration: 52:03.
Guide to accompany film, The Great Adventure. Target audience senior elementary, secondary school and adult education. Contains pre and post viewing activities related to geography, human and physical systems, global issues, local environments, climate change, history, explorers and technology themes.
Discusses the introduction of the fur trade in Southern Alberta and the role of the Siksika leader.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
Entire book on one pdf. To access paper, scroll to p. 81.
Through the eyes of a young Ojibwe woman this film illustrates one down side of contact between cultures, the introduction of small pox and its dire impact on Native Americans.
Duration:57:00.
Prairie Forum, vol. 28, no. 1, Spring, 2003, pp. 27-43
Description
Examines the relationship between Chief Big Bear and Henry Ross Halpin, a Hudson's Bay Company clerk during the 1885 Riel Resistance, and how Halpin came to Big Bear's defense after he was charged with treason.
Chronicles the promises made by Shell Oil to the residents regarding oil development and the negative environmental impact it has had on the region.
To access this article scroll down to page 23.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, 2003, pp. 1-32
Description
An investigation into Native Americans worldviews in relation to many versions of the life and death of Sacajawea, the interpreter who accompanied Lewis and Clark.
Briefly discusses trapping from the fur trade to present day, methods of trapping and process of tanning hides for use later in items such as clothing and bedding.