File containing a newspaper article from the Globe and Mail regarding the court's underapplication of Diefenbaker's Bill of Rights, including reference to cases involving the Indian Act.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 2, no. 2, June 1978, p. 3
Description
Editorial discusses global terminology practices and the suggestion for Indigenous health workers to file health records by clan rather than alphabetical order.
Book review of: The Collected Writings of Louis Riel / Les Ecrits Complets de Louis Riel, general editor George F. G. Stanley; edited by Raymond Huel, Gilles Martel, Glen Campbell, Thomas Flanagan and Claude Rocan.
The author, a member of the Ogoki (Martin Falls) band in northern Ontario, expresses concern with the Canadian government's plan to dam rivers in Canada and divert the water to the United States. He notes that Aboriginal land will be flooded, according to government proposals.
A copy of an oral history research project report that was designed to help Trent University develop a class in Oral history research methods. Appendix one is the proposed outline for such a class. The report outlines the issues encountered in their oral history research and suggests ways of solving problems.
Constitutional documents and Pre- and Post-Confederation statutes. Post-Confederation category is further divided into administrative, constitutional, federal grants, federal-provincial agreements, lands, Manitoba, Northern Canada, Saskatchewan and Alberta, and miscellaneous,
Starting with the Revised Statute of 1886, relevant portions of each amending statute of the revised Indian Act are inserted following the provision affected.
Separated into provinces, and then further divided by areas of education, electoral provisions, game, lands, liquor provisions, grants, taxation and miscellaneous.
Prairie Forum, vol. 3, no. 2, Fall, 1978, pp. 157-174
Description
Looks at the controversy between the English and French Canadians surrounding the Red River Resistance of 1869-1870. Suspicions raised fears of extremism and deteriorated relationships between the French and English.
Wide-ranging discussion among elders touching on many topics including kinship; illegitimate children; ceremonialism; therole of the elder; financing the elder who incurs some costs associated with the organization of a ceremony.
Elders discuss a variety of matters relating to Indian culture and traditions and what can be done to retain or regain these. Most topics are touched on only briefly
Loss of Indianism through white education.Founding of White Fish Lake Reserve. Problems on reserves as a result of electing 'young' chiefs. Loss of Indian ceremonies and healing.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, 1986, pp. 1-30
Description
Article tries to overcome the perception that the arrival of "civilization" brought improved nutrition to the Navajos when the reality was quite the opposite.