American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 2, 1996, pp. 173-185
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Describes how the Navajo fabric of life was disturbed by uranium mining in the 1940s and 1950s and how the United States Government knew the health risks, but neglected to inform Navajo workers.
Identifies resources, practices and instructional methods that would support Aboriginal students in the Intermediate-Advanced English as a Second Language Program (ESL) at Mount Royal Collegiate in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 8, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1996, pp. [13]-24
Description
Discusses treatment of these subjects in the work of Ella Doloria, LeAnne Howe, Mary Crow Dog, Louise Erdrich, and Janet Campbell Hale.
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Fifth Estate documentary about St. Joseph's Mission School in Williams Lake, British Columbia and the residential school system in Canada.
Originally aired on Jan. 9, 1991.
Duration: 51:50.
Science News, vol. 150, no. 14, October 5, 1996, pp. 216-217
Description
Contends that rock and cave art may offer insights about the trance-induced, supernatural journeys and spiritual sightings of shamans around the world.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3/4, To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality (Parts 1 & 2), Summer/Fall, 1996, pp. 467-[?]
Description
Explains the dialogue between those who know spirituality through direct experience and those whose have written about Native Spirituality from the outside.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 1, Winter, 1996, pp. 91-[?]
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Introduction to a special issue on interpretation and presentation of Native American history and culture; eight authors present perspectives on methods, ethics and issues of the non-Native American as the historian.
Walter Deiter, former president of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians and first president of the National Indian Brotherhood, talks about the importance of Malcolm Norris in Metis politics and the splitting of the National Indian Council into the National Indian Brotherhood and the Metis Association of Canada.
Book review of: We Don't Live in Snow Houses Now. Interviews by Rhoda Innuksuk and Susan Cowan, translated by Rhoda Innuksuk, Maudie Qitsualik and Luci Marquand, edited by Susan Cowan.
National Forum, vol. 71, no. 2, Spring, 1991, p. 7
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Brief general discussion of Montana's American Indian enrolment statistics, problems encountered when tribal colleges apply for accreditation and a cooperative effort by three institutions to ease the transition from tribal colleges to four-year institutions.
File contains a photocopy of Arthur O. Wheeler's daily diary from March to July, 1885. Wheeler served in the Survey (scout) Corp for the Government, and was present during some of the battles of the 1885 rebellion.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 8, no. 2, Series 2; Teaching American Indian Literatures, Summer, 1996, pp. [47]-58
Description
Discusses a class in which each lecturer took a different approach to the novel; one from the perspective of Native American literature as unique, the other from the perspective of similarities to any work of great literature.
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