American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 25-32
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Argues that the Alcatraz event was mainly a civil rights movement protest against the very oppressive conditions faced by Native Americans, somewhat like the Ku Klux Klan gathering in 1957 was for the African-American population.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 131-134
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Argues that the occupation of Alcatraz Island set the stage for Native American peoples spiritual rebirth and was the beginning of the reclaiming of pride and dignity for all Indian nations.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 59-74
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Gives different perspectives on the Alcatraz story, including insider-outsider and Native-Non-Native. The author comments how the occupation is still told like a legend or a folk tale would be.
Outlines potential recipients, effective treatments, and principles guiding application. Uses evidence-based approach supplemented by expertise of members of the National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee.
Exhibition was part of the Mendel Art Gallery's Post-Colonial Landscape series, featured 60 paintings from 1960-1990 selected from the Thunder Bay Art Gallery's retrospective The Art of Alex Janvier: His First Thirty Years, 1960-1990.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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James Youngblood Henderson
pp. 423-432
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Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, provides some concluding remarks on the Conference discussions of the justice system, its failing of Aboriginal peoples and the necessary reform and commitment to change required.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring, 2000, pp. 219-246
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Examines how the writer, Thomas King, explores the conflicting storytelling traditions of Native Americans and European/North Americans regarding colonialism.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 3, Summer, June 1, 2000, pp. 420-440
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Wynema: A Child of the Forest, by S. Alice Callahan, originally published in 1891, contains one of the few literary critiques of the Dawes Act (commonly known as the General Allotment Act).
Chronicles the studies of Peter Elkin, an early anthropologist whose writings formed the basis of a key land claim case in 2007, dismissing the Wongatha native title claim.
Discusses the poem A Dead Nation by DeWitt Clinton Duncan, the short story A War Maiden by Charles A. Eastman and My Mother a short story by E. Pauline Johnson.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 23, no. 6, July-August 1994, p. 14
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First Nations Justice System provides future opportunity to apply alternative forms of treatment in correcting the behaviour of First Nations people who violate Provincial Wildlife Regulations/Law.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 12, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2000, pp. [97]-101
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Book review of: Always a People collected by Rita Kohn and W. Lynwood Monteil.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Indigenous Peoples' Access to Justice, Including Truth and Reconciliation Processes
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Denise K. Lajimodiere
Description
Comments on the physical and psychological experiences of boarding school survivors.
Chapter 16 from Indigenous Peoples' Access to Justice, Including Truth and Reconciliation Processes edited by Wilton Littlechild and Elsa Stamatopoulou.
Contains links to extensive list of full-text documents pertaining to Canada, United States and Mexico, maps, visual galleries, online exhibitions, brief biographies, and features cross-searching capability with the American West website.
Material is drawn from the Newberry Library's Edward E. Ayer Collection.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 189-212
Description
Discussion of "place" being incorporated into people as in Leslie Marmon Silko's and N. Scott Momaday's novels. Alcatraz, for example, became a "place of cultural emergence" though the process of reciprocal approriation.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 53, no. 1, 2014, pp. 54-60
Description
Looks at two instances in which the Department overrode community concerns: closure of two off-reservation boarding schools and the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act.