Native Studies Review, vol. 5, no. 1, Native Health Research in Canada, 1989, pp. 187-213
Description
Discusses the decentralization strategies of the health care system by the government, and the implications of the policy for the health of Aboriginal people.
Discusses the long history of the practice of non-Indigenous people appropriating and performing Indigenous cultures.
Chapter from volume four of the Handbook of North American Indians edited by William C. Sturtevant.
Prepared in 1996 and revised in 2003 for the Political and Social Affairs Division, Parliamentary Library; provides historical background of federal legislative control of "status" and "membership."
Comments on some great Saskatchewan athletes like Paul Acoose and Alex Wuttunee Decoteau. Also discusses the 1996 Indian Summer Games at Ahtahkakoop Reserve in Saskatchewan.
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 22, no. 3, Special Issue: First Nations: The Politics of Change and Survival, 1990, pp. 19-39
Description
Analyzes three types of political action First Nations' people have undertaken: acts of civil disobedience, general policy protests and international protests.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 1, 1996, pp. 87-129
Description
Examines the 1896 law case Ward v. Race Horse which brought in new doctrines that constricted treaty rights, elevating State's rights above Federally sanctioned treaty rights.
Biographies of six First Nation women from Saskatchewan: Chief Mary-Ann Day Walker of the Okanese First Nation, Jean Goodwill of the Little Pine First Nation, Lefa Buffalo of the Day Star First Nation, Betty Spence, Joan Greyeyes and Theresa Stevenson.
Journal of American Ethnic History, vol. 15, no. 4, Summer, June 1, 1996, pp. 53-59
Description
Book review of:
The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization by Daniel K. Richter,
A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and its Peoples by Michael C. McConnell,
The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians Through the Era of Revolution by Tom Hatley,
The Founders of America: How Indians Discovered... by Francis Jennings.
Native Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 2, 1996, pp. 23-50
Description
Examines the past and present relationship between academics and the Aboriginal community and discusses the issue of repatriation of cultural property and human remains.
Discusses computer and electronic networking projects addressing education, development and self-determination that Australian Aboriginal and Native American people are doing.
Serials Review, vol. 16, no. 3, Autumn, 1990, pp. 7-22
Description
Uses the example of the Miskitua-Sandinistas conflict in Nicaragua to highlight publications of certain international organizations: International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs, Survival International, Cultural Survival, Inc., World Council of Indigenous Peoples
Describes the opposition of the Indigenous Women's Network with the Meadow Lake (SK) Tribal Council over the building of a nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal land.
Historical background and submission to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) whether Aht-Len-Jees I.R. 5 ceased to be a reserve by virtue of its dis-allowance by Commissioners Ditchburn and Clark, acting under the British Columbia Land Settlement Act. ICC recommended settlement be negotiated and fast tracked under the Specific Claims Policy. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Historical background and submission to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding Canada's fiduciary obligation to the Band in regard to the allotment of land on Cormorant Island. ICC recommended that the claim be accepted for negotiation under the Specific Claims Policy. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Historical background, submissions and recommendations from the Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearing to determine the appropriate date to use in calculating the population for Treaty entitlement and whether the First Nation qualified under the Saskatchewan Treaty Land Entitlement Framework Agreement. ICC recommended the claim not be accepted for negotiation under the Specific Claims Policy. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Historical background, submissions and recommendations from the Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearing to determine if population count for land entitlement was accurate at date-of-first-survey. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Historical background, issues, and recommendations from an Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearing to determine whether Crown fulfilled its obligation to provide reserve land to bands under Treaty 6. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
A typed copy of Inspector Francis Dickens's North West Mounted Police journal from Fort Pitt in 1885. Recounts the events of the Resistance, the skirmish and subsequent abandonment of Fort Pitt by Dickens who was in command of the installation when hostilities broke out.
Divided into seven sections: Legal Frameworks and Analysis; DNA and Property Rights; Historical and Theoretical Accounts of Intellectual Property Rights; Case Studies; Biological Resources and Ethnomedicine; Websites on Intellectual Property Rights and Related Issues; and Organizations.
Group photo taken on the grounds of Fort Pitt, NWT. Numbered from L to R: 1. Fire Sky Thunder; 2. Sky Bird (Big Bear's son); 3. Natoose; 4. Napasis; 5. Big Bear; 6. Angus McKay (HBC); 7. Dufrain (HBC cook); 8. L. Goulet; 9. Stanley Simpson (HBC); 10. Alex McDonald; 11. Rowley; 12. Corp. Sleigh (NWMP); 13. Edmond; 14. Henry Dufrain.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 20, no. 2, March/April 1996, pp. 37-39
Description
Approaches the topic of injury as a public health problem by looking at risk factors, interventions, planing of programs and implementation and evaluation.