The Northern Review, no. 41, Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic, 2015, pp. 3-12
Description
Introduction to special issue covering research on the best way to increase benefits that northern communities receive from resource development. Features research from the Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic (ReSDA) Project.
Identifies barriers to doing business or becoming employed, opportunities for employment, companies directly employing Aboriginal women, what is being done to facilitate participation, impacts of development, and types of training needed.
Website has links to: community businesses, information on duty to consult, economic development, tax programs and bulletins, initiatives, directory, federal benefits and rights, and treaty land.
Education lead for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation discusses ways in which everyone can incorporate reconciliation into daily life.
Duration: 41:56.
Presents examples of how reconciliation can be enacted in everyday life and talks about the National Center for Truth and Reconciliation, Project of Heart and the film Students in the Classroom.
Duration: 41:56.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2015, pp. 47-68
Description
Interviewed 75 Cree and Stoney women and found a feeling of loss and geographic separation from elders, family and community as pregnancy care moved out of the community.
Ethnohistory, vol. 36, no. 4, Fall, 1989, pp. 392-410
Description
Examines the legal and ethical issues surrounding the 1988 return of the belts, the Iroquois sense of proper behaviour on the occasion and the mutually satisfying outcome for both parties.
BC Studies, no. 188, Winter, 2015/2016, pp. 108-111
Description
Book reviews of: Return to the Land of the Head Hunters edited by Brad Evans and Aaron Glass.
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To read this review scroll to p. 108.
Canadian Public Administration, vol. 32, no. 1, Spring, 1989, pp. [135]-137
Description
Book reviews of: Aboriginal Self-Government Arrangements in Canada by Evelyn J. Peters, Completing Canada: Inuit Approaches to Self-Government by the Inuit Committee on National Issues, and Future Issues of Jurisdiction and Cooperation between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Governments by Ian B. Cowie.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, 1989, pp. 97-128
Description
Book reviews of:
The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories by Robert J. Conley.
Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880 by Thomas D. Hall.
Collections Arctiques by Yvon Csonka.
New Directions in American Indian History edited by Colin G. Calloway.
Hasinai: A Traditional History of the Caddo Confederacy by Vynola Beaver Newkumet, Howard L. Meredith.
Sous le signe de l'ours.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, 1989, pp. 107-138
Description
Book reviews of:
A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians by Joan Mark.
Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots and Affixes by D. G. Frantz and N. J. Russell.
The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors From European Contact Through the Era of Removal by James H. Merrell.
American Women Writing Fiction edited by Mickey Pearlman.
New Voices From the Longhouse: An Anthology of Contemporary Iroquois Writing edited by Joseph Bruchac.
Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore, 1620-1984 by William S.
Revisiting RCAP: Towards Reconciliation: The Future of Indigenous Governance
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Institute on Governance
Description
Summary of conference discussions which focused on six themes: state of reconciliation; imaging possibilities, assessing priorities for immediate action, identifying best practices, restoring trust to relationships with governments, and building relationships with industry.
Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Caroline Laurent
Description
Comments on the ways the museum has been actively promoting culture and creating connections between visitors and the Mile Lacs Band.
Presented at the Tenth Native American Symposium, November 14-15, 2013.
Chapter from Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs edited by Mark B. Spencer.
Speakers discuss their background, collaboration, and the difficulties encountered when trying to locate examples of the facial tattoos historically worn by Inuit women once they had come of age.
Duration: 26:48.
Tool to help advocates, educators and communities develop a vision for language education, understand their current situation and resources, and create a comprehensive plan to execute their vision.
Collection of Dr. Peter Purdue, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan.
Images include:The Riel Insurrection in Canada. Half-breed Insurgents on Picket Duty and Mounted Police.
Published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, April 11, 1885 [Page] 125.
No article associated with this image in the newspaper.
Collection of Dr. Peter Purdue, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan.
Published in Harper's Weekly, May 9, 1885 [Page] 297.
No article associated with this image in the newspaper.
Drawn by T. De Thulstrup from sketches in the Toronto "War News."
A series of 1885 newspapers with articles covering the Saskatchewan Uprising. Includes The Penny Illustrated Paper and Illustrated Times of May 16, 1885, the Montreal Daily Herald and the Daily Commercial Gazette of July 8, 1885. Papers cover the battles of Batoche and Cut Knife Hill.
Riel Rebellion troops (Canadian militia?) in the Touchwood Hills, east of Humboldt, en route to Long Lake, N.W.T. Man on white horse is General Middleton, according to Aboriginal archivist Wes Fineday. (See RDB). There were several successive HBC fur trade ports in Touchwood Hills. Note telegraph poles.
Journal of Western Archives, vol. 6, no. 1, Native American Archives Special Issue, 2015, p. article 2
Description
Examines the historical context and major achievements of the national Indigenous archives movement utilizing the framework established by Native American activist, Vine Deloria, Jr.
Looks at the traditional role of grandparents and options available for maintaining a connection when a grandchild is in the care of the Alberta Government.
Duration: 21:20.