Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
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Sketch showing the surrender to French's Scouts, led by Lord Melgund, General Middleton's chief of staff. Sketch caption : "Three Dakota scouts told their captors that they had been forced to join Riel."
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 32, no. 1, October 1992, pp. [12-20]
Description
Study examined four areas deemed critical for success in college: preparation in high school, quality of college instruction, study skills, and attitudes about attending college.
Provides overview of survey and its strengths, compares data collection and results to other surveys, and gives statistics for four variables: age, labour market activity, education and immigrant status.
Aboriginal History, vol. 16, no. 2, 1992, pp. 143-145
Description
Book review of: Sustainable Development for Traditional Inhabitants of the Torres Strait Region edited by David Lawrence and Tim Cansfield-Smith.
Review located by scrolling to page 143.
Part III: Repatriation and Protection of First Nations Culture in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
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.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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.
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.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 3, Summer, 1992, pp. 309-335
Description
Author examines the narratives and discourses surrounding different Indigenous prophets and warriors; argues that the dichotomy between the secular and the sacred breaks down in consideration of Indigenous leaders.