Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 30, no. 1, October 1990, pp. [8-16]
Description
Study examined four aspects of instructional accommodation: what faculty were willing to provide, whether provision compromised academic integrity, had students requested it and had it been provided in the past.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3, Summer, 1990, pp. 277-287
Description
Uses postmodern discourse and theory to discuss the realities created in Indigenous narratives; focuses on the the trickster role as one that is both comic and critical in Indigenous story telling and meaning-making.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, Winter, 1990, pp. 19-33
Description
Article examines the significance of the Gourd Dance in Kiowa culture from the 1800's on. Discusses the evolution of the dance, the meaning of the regalia used, and how it was used as a method of cultural survivance when the Sundance was outlawed.
Two From the Island: Recent Work Relating to the Mi'kmaq of Prince Edward Island
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
John Crossley
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, 1990, pp. 143-150
Description
Review of the article: "Theophilus Stewart and the Plight of the Micmac" by Alan Andrew MacEachern in The Island Magazine, 28:3-11 (Fall/Winter 1990) and the book Micmac by Choice: Elsie Sark, and Island Legend by M. Olga McKenna.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 1, 1996, pp. 147-194
Description
Looks at the several billion dollars in profits from gaming and how the gaming money has helped sovereignty for the Navajo and Pequot Nations. The article also compares results it compiled against the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, Special Issue on International Year of Indigenous Peoples: Discovery and Human Rights, 1993, pp. 103-114
Description
Takes a second look at celebrating the arrival of Columbus, an event that led to five hundred years of the dismantling of Aboriginal cultures and land expropriation.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 155, no. 11, December 1, 1996, pp. 1609-1611
Description
Describes the work of the J.A. Hildes Northern Medical Unit in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories and discusses the University's program designed to recruit and retain Aboriginal health practitioners.
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 7, no. 1, New Series, 1996, pp. 55-80
Description
Discusses strategies employed by the Chief in an effort to influence Canadian Indian Policy and ensure his peoples' livelihood during a time of rapid social and political change
Anglican Journal, vol. 122, no. 3, March 1996, p. 6
Description
Briefly discusses the lawsuit launched by former students of Alberni Indian Residential School in January 1996, now jointly and severally naming United Church of Canada and the Federal Government.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 22, no. 1, January 1993, p. 1
Description
Two Canadians, Mary Simon of the Inuit Tapirisat and National Chief Ovide Mercredi, were invited to address the forty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 2, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Spring, 1996, pp. 197-208
Description
Article describes the phenomenon of site-looting, or artefact collecting by amateur or hobbyist archeologists; discusses the motivations of the collectors and the effects for the scholarly archeological community.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, Breaking Out of the Tourist Trap Part 1, Spring, 1990
Description
Brief news updates including opposition to an expansion of low-level military flights over Newfoundland and Labrador, lobbying to prevent the issuance of logging permits by the Algonquin of Barriere Lake, a spill of radioactive contaminated water in Saskatchewan, and opposition to pulp and paper mills in Alberta.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 2, Breaking Out of the Tourist Trap Part 2, Summer, 1990
Description
Brief updates on the proposed expansion of the Goose Bay air base, reprieve in the issuance of forest license agreements for the Algonquin of Barriere Lake, mercury contamination at James Bay and more.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3, Cambodia, Fall, 1990
Description
Looks at the placement of a military training facility that would impact the Innu people of Labrador, logging in Barriere, Quebec, the James Bay dispute, and the demands of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai of northern Ontario being met.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3/4, To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality (Parts 1 & 2), Summer-Autumn, 1996, pp. 527-562
Description
Author examines the different ways that Mexican national culture and Indigenous Nahua culture interact, adopt each other’s practices, and blend together at intersections of meaning and practice.