Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum ; 2004
The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rob Huebert
Description
Looks at historical understandings of security and the Arctic: traditional, environmental, and human.
Presentation from: Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum: The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change, Yellowknife, NWT, 2004.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2, Militarization, 2001, pp. 60-65
Description
Delivers a background on the Zapatista uprising in Mexico and the political initiatives introduced to solve the situation.
To access this article scroll down to page 60.
Maclean's, vol. 111, no. 52, December/January 1998, pp. 114-[?]
Description
Discussion of mini-series based on the historical novel The Temptations of Big Bear about the Plains Cree leader and his fight to gain a fair Treaty settlement for his people. Filmed in Saskatchewan by Gil Cardinal of Alberta.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 16, no. 1, Sovereignty in Indian Country, Fall, 2004
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Report on class from Blackfeet Community College winning top honours for the play, "The Trial of Major Baker," at the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC)conference, March 2004.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Special Issue on Teaching Leslie Marmon Silkos Ceremony, 2004, pp. 23-33
Description
Relates the historical source for Silko's information about the Bataan Death March and discusses some of the changes made in portraying the march. All this was done in an effort to aid the reader in understanding the forces that put the main character, Tayo, in need of the ceremony.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, 2001, pp. 179-190
Description
Book reviews of 6 books:
Your Fyre Shall Burn No More: Iroquois Policy Toward New France and Its Native Allies to 1701 by José Antonio Brandao.
Into the Daylight: A Wholistic Approach to Healing by Calvin Morrisseau.
Talking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Oral Texts by Laura J. Murray and Keren Rice.
"Keeping the Lakes' Way:" Reburial and the Re-creation of a Moral World Among an Invisible People by Paul Pryce.
Grandmother's Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life by Alma Hogan Snell.
Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism by Craig S. Womack.
An hereditary leader of the Nez Perces, is widely known for leadership during the Nez Perce War of 1877 and his essay "An Indian's Views of Indian Affairs," published in North American Review, April, 1879.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 4, 2004, pp. 107-130
Description
A deconstruction of the phrase 'clash of cultures' to show how it hides more than it reveals, oversimplifies issues, disregards the historical realities and why the phrase is used and implications of its use.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3, The UN Decade: Expectations and Realities, 2004, pp. 36-39
Description
Gives a historical overview of the last ten years with links to present circumstances of the Indigenous people.
To access this article, scroll down to page 36.
Psychiatric Services, vol. 52, no. 1, January 2001, pp. 68-74
Description
Study using a cross-sectional survey of 621 veterans living in the American Southwest and Northern Plains during the period 1992-1995 found that service use depended on need for health care, while choice of the services used depended on availability.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 13, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 2001, pp. [91]-95
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Book review of: Contrary Neighbours: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory by David La Vere.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 19, no. 2, Autumn, 2004, pp. 33-48
Description
Article contends that the United States, as the last significant colonial power, still dominates indigenous peoples in external territories without their full consent. The paper argues that images of cowboys and Indians are a part of colonial history that asserts white supremacy and Indigenous inferiority.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 3, Special Issues on Reservation Economies, 1998, pp. 31-78
Description
Looks at the coercesion of the Navajo, by the United States government, through military domination, the threat of starvation, and finally relocation along the Pecos River in eastern New Mexico.