This paper, based on his many field interviews, represents Mr. Rain's views on why the Indians in the Treaty 6 area wereanxious to sign treaty, the problems of language, and therefore of their understanding of the terms.
Part III: Repatriation and Protection of First Nations Culture in Canada
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Trudy Nicks
University of British Columbia Law Review, no. 2, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [143]-147
Description
Reviews developments since the release of the Task Force report 2 years earlier and the things still required to be done if the recommendations of the report are to be fulfilled.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1995, pp. 79-86
Description
Discusses how the live interaction between the speaker and listener is a different experience than the solitary activity of reading in teaching courses with many cultural
perspectives.
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Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 13, no. 3, May 1974, pp. [20-26]
Description
Introduces the course content of: Intercultural Communication: The American Indian, which states that confrontation is the best way to learn another culture.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1993, pp. 51-62
Description
Outlines how to teach a three-unit course in Literature of the American Indians with a focus on Leslie Silko's Storyteller.
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Looks at possibilities for technology to help reestablish and strengthen cultures, and issues surrounding accurate and authentic representations.
Excerpted from Telecommunications Technology and Native Americans: Opportunities and Challenges.
MELUS, vol. 20, no. 4, Maskers and Tricksters , Winter, 1995, pp. 75-90
Description
Argues that Chippawa author Gerald Vizenor's Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart is radical and traditional at the same time and makes extensive use of oral tradition while employing postmodern narrative strategies within a written text.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1993, pp. 31-35
Description
Discusses Vizenor's use of law and literature in the sentencing of Thomas White Hawk.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, Winter, 1995, pp. 31-73
Description
Article relates a prophetic narrative recorded by the ethnologist Frank Cushing, and explores possible interpretations of the story and potential results.
Discusses early authorities' attitudes about the upbringing of Aboriginal children, residential schooling in Canada, judicial responses to culture in child protection cases, and the origin and functioning of intertribal child protection agencies in Manitoba.
Includes scences from a play entitled by Rod Langley about the Northwest Rebellion during the opening of Canada's west by white settlers. Includes commentary from the members of the audience.
Duration: 27:35.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 4, Autumn, 1995, pp. 451-465
Description
Literary criticism article that considers Humishuma’s (Mourning Dove, aka Christine Quintasket) novel; examines the ways that the text was influenced and edited by Humishuma’s friend and mentor Lucullus V. McWhorter.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 45-63
Description
Discusses how the characters provide the poets with a playful, sometimes painful, way of speaking about American Indian women’s experiences and encompasses both traditional beliefs and contemporary reality.
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 1974, pp. 17-28
Description
Focuses on conflicts between settlers and Indigenous peoples of New England, and the justifications used to condone acts such as the bounty placed on scalps.
Museum Anthropology, vol. 17, no. 1, February 1993, pp. 22-32
Description
Development of an exhibition on the Northwest Coast has challenged assumptions about assigning artifacts to a particular timeframe and representation of cultural matters; some photos included.