Database with a searchable online photograph collection, including by subject, date, location and tribe. The database attempts to provide students, researchers and the general public with direct access to primary material on the Plains Indian cultures.
Indian Reservation Labor Markets: A Navaho Assessment and Challenge
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard Pottinger
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 9, no. 3, 1985, pp. 1-20
Description
Author questions conventional conclusions and argues that there is, in fact, a sizable pool of individuals with very credible educational qualifications.
Report on the activities of the independent, quasi-judicial tribunal which administers the Independent Assessment Process for claims related to acts committed at the schools which resulted in physical and/or psychological injury.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring, 1983, pp. 67-80
Description
Discussion on the Indian Rights Association and its goal of the assimilation of American Indigenous nations, in particular through the allotment policies in Oklahoma during early twentieth century.
Minutes of Proceedings of the Special Committee on Indian Self-Government
Penner Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Keith Penner
Stan Schellenberger
Warren Allmand
Jim Manly
Frank Oberle ... [et al.]
Description
Committee investigated numerous issues related to self-government including: social conditions, need for a new Canadian/Aboriginal relationship, structures and powers of First Nations governments, fiscal arrangements, land and resources, and trust relationship with the Crown.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 24, no. 3, Fall, 2012, pp. 53-70
Description
Looks at a prolific author who used his wilderness experience to write about the Native American experience in the United States.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 53.
File contains one negative showing an assembled group of delegates at an Indian Youth Heritage Days Committee meeting, presumably in Prince Albert, SK, on May 22, 1985.
File contains 2 negatives of a panel discussion group from the Indian Youth Heritage Days conference (presumably in Prince Albert, SK) on July 3, 1985.
Saskatchewan Law Review, vol. 48, 1983-1984, pp. 122-128
Description
Explains that section 87 of The Indian Act has been interpreted as exception from income tax, but Nowegijick v. The Queen held that section 87 did not exempt people from income tax.
Discusses issues of scholarly attention to settler colonialism in the context of race, white supremacy and links to Native studies.
Chapter from Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century edited by Daniel Martinez HoSang, Oneka LaBennett, and Laura Pulido.
Looks at how government support for Indigenous art is organized in different countries, main principles and activities apparent in policies, and challenges to participation in cultural life. Largely based on analysis of responses to a 2011 survey.
Internal Medicine Journal, vol. 42, no. 2, February 2012, pp. 184-191
Description
Results from search of peer-reviewed journal papers suggest five themes: concerns about toxicity of treatment; disconnect with physician; fears about absence from home during treatment; different beliefs about causes of the disease; and failure to address holistic health.
International Journal of Children's Rights , vol. 20, 2012, pp. 279-299
Description
Looks at policies and consequences relating to Indigenous children in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand effected by boarding schools and transracial adoption.
Examines the gendered element of settler-colonialism in terms of the Indian Act, the treatment of Indigenous women in the legal system, and the struggles to achieve self-determination.
CAEPR Indigenous Population Project 2011 Census Papers ; no. 2
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mandy Yap
Nicholas Biddle
Description
Findings suggest that patterns of Indigenous females differ from those of non-Indigenous females both in level and timing of fertility. Uses data from the 2006 and 2011 Australian Censuses of Population and Housing.
CAEPR Indigenous Population Project 2011 Census Papers ; no. 3
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nicholas Biddle
Description
Using data from the 2006 and 2011 Australian censuses, analysis found that although need was greatest in remote areas, there were still large disparities with the non-Indigenous populations in urban areas.
Recorded lecture delivered at the 2011 Toronto SpecFic Colloquium. Speaker discusses the role that Indigenous writers play in the decolonization by contributing to a body literature(s) that "imagines otherwise."
Duration: 48:42