Author speaks about book: Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water, an anthology of Aboriginal stories, poetry, nonfiction, and speeches.
Duration: 44:40.
Book review of: Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe edited by Martine J. Reid.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 113.
Legislative Summary (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) ; 41-1-S2-E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Marlisa Tiedemann
Description
Brief description of background and contents of Act, which involves provision for First Nations' power to enact laws relating to use, occupation and possession of family homes and the division of value of rights and interests held by spouses or common-law partners.
Revised version.
Legislative Summary (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) ; 41-1-S8-E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tonina Simeone
Shauna Troniak
Description
Brief description of background and contents of the Bill, which provides for federal regulations relating to provision of drinking water, water quality standards and disposal of waste water.
Revised version.
Journal of Ethnopharmacology, vol. 51, no. 1-3, April 1996, pp. 45-57
Description
Emphasizes the need to provide immediate, short and medium-term benefits, rather than waiting the 8-10 years it may take for monetary reimbursement, when new plant derived therapeutics based on Indigenous Knowledge are being explored. The article uses examples of initiatives taken by Shaman Pharmaceuticals and the Healing Forest Conservancy.
American Antiquity, vol. 77, no. 1, January 2012, pp. 99-114
Description
Findings indicate relatively diverse backgrounds with little gene flow between the two groups, each presumably having arisen from relatively distant common ancestry.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 15, no. 6, June 2012, pp. B-3
Description
Comments on Simon Bird, fourth Vice-Chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, who broke protocol by speaking to Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall out of turn.
Article located by scrolling to page B-3.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 1, Winter, 1996, pp. 135-138
Description
Book review of: Bitter Feast: Amerindians and Europeans in Northeastern North America. 1600-64 by Denys Delage; translated from the French by Jane Brierly.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 2, Series 2: Special Issue, Summer, 1993, pp. 46-48
Description
Discusses Brian Moore's fiction Blackrobe, and the use of obscene language, stereotyping and racial discrimination.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Conservation and Society, vol. 10, no. 3, July-September 2012, pp. 232-242
Description
Discusses the potential for cultural reclamation and renewal by the Blackfeet due to the parks natural state. Suggests co-management of parklands in the future.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 2, Series 2: Special Issue, Summer, 1993, pp. 29-33
Description
Discusses self-discovery and self-creation in the poetry of Wendy Rose, and her growth as a poet.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 8, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1996, pp. [49]-62
Description
Discusses characters which exhibit traits of the opposite sex and cross the borders of expected behaviour.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Highlights from an exhibit of "nearly 200 images of everyday objects, art pieces” and tools made from natural, barter, and/or modern materials by Canada's First Nations in the 18th-20th centuries.
Public Historian , vol. 18, no. 4, Representing Native American History, Fall, 1996, pp. 119-143
Description
Discusses the history of collecting skeletal remains and associated objects for study or display purposes and the Indigenous movement to have scientific or cultural institutions return them to their nations for proper funeral and burial rights. Looks at the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and similar State-enacted legislation.
Justice as Healing, vol. 1, no. 3, Fall, 1996, p. [?]
Description
Book review of: Return to the Teachings by Rupert Ross.
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 1, Winter, 1993, pp. 102-110
Description
Review of 6 books:
Mud Woman: Poems from the Clay by Nora Naranjo-Morse.
Red Clay: Poems and Stories by Linda Hogan.
Night Perimeter: New and Selected Poems: 1958-1990 by Carroll Arnett (Gogisgi).
Fire Water World: Poems by Adrain C. Louis.
Another Distance: New and Selected Poems by Lance Henson.
Drawings of the Song Animals: New and Selected Poems by Duane Niatum.
American Ethnologist, vol. 23, no. 1, February 1996, pp. 148-150
Description
Book reviews of: Who Needs the Past? Indigenous Values and Archaeology edited by R. Layton, Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions edited by R. Layton, and Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity edited by S.J. Shennan.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 28, no. 3, 1993, pp. 491-493
Description
Book review of: Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi'kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia by Isabelle Knockwood.