Speaker argues that negotiations between the Red River Métis and the Canadian government prior to passage of The Manitoba Act constituted treaty-making.
Duration: 1:04:03.
Article reports on a Koorie art club that eventually evolved into an art class; discusses elements and approaches implemented that allowed the class to become a site of exploration and self-discovery for the youth that participated.
Author of libretto for the ballet Going Home Star, composer of piece based on poem I Lost My Talk by Rita Joe, and director of Jack Charles V The Crown discuss the healing potential of artistic collaborations.
Followed by question and answer period.
Duration: 1:08:34.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 65-76
Description
An examination of the art world's control over Indigenous art, placing the importance of art over tribal sovereignty, in regards to the Jimmie Durham Cherokee ancestry debate.
Human Organization , vol. 75, no. 1, Spring, 2016, pp. 59-70
Description
Using the 2011 evacuation of Hatchet Lake Denesuline First Nation to explore the way that evacuations can utilize existing social and cultural strengths of Indigenous populations.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 93-114
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A discussion of the recent trend for white French-descendants to "self-Indigenize" by using genealogy to create identity. Uses the example of Edmée and Catherine Lejeune, two Acadienne sisters born prior to 1635, who have been turned into “Mi’kmaw” women.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 26, no. 3, 2019, pp. 38-57
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Qualitative study uses focus groups to examine the interest in, and potential strategies for culturally and developmentally adapted contingency management (CM) for Indigenous youth aged 18-29.
Research uses a computer simulation calculate Reindeer’s heat balance, and then assess the climate conditions at 70 different locales, results show that thermal and climatic factors are very important in Indigenous reindeer herding styles.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
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Study includes 731 people, assess the assumption that dog ownership might be a protective factor in relation to Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) given reported beneficial effects on physical activity and emotional wellbeing. Research found that in the group of people around 70 years of age dog ownership did not reduce the odds of developing T2D.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities, 2019, pp. 13-24
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Uses artist Jimmie Durham and the exhibition Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World to illustrate the issues connected with Indigenous identity. Jimmie Durham is a self-proclaimed Cherokee artist, whose ethnicity has been challenged by the Cherokee Nation.
Book reviews of: At the Hearth of the Crossed Races by Melinda Marie Jette.
Great Lakes Creoles by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy.
Scrol down to page 137 ro read reviews.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 116-134
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Author uses a transnational framework for engaging with Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel; argues that this approach allows the reader to see similarities between Indigenous people in North America and other colonized nations, and to compare settler-colonial and colonial contexts.
Presents key findings and conclusions resulting from research and an outreach and engagement process with relevant stakeholders. Includes findings from an online survey, an analysis of current and future labour supply and demand dynamics in the region, and the implications for an Aboriginal Employment Strategy.
A short article on Louis Riel's defeat and capture in the Northwest Resistance and a large sketch of a steamer. Description and accompanying sketch possibly depicts the attack on the Northcote at Batoche, although the vessel's name is not given.
Survey meant to assess progress towards reconciliation across four dimensions: race relations, unity, material equality and cultural security and historical acceptance. Sample consisted of 500 Indigenous and 2277 non-Indigenous participants.
Annotated list of material includes reading level, curriculum areas, themes and topics, publication dates and number of pages.
Updated version. Originally published in 2011.