File contains 17 negatives showing Tawney Ahdeman of Prince Albert off posing for a portrait before leaving for an Indian Princess Pageant, on August 8, 1991.
Justice as Healing, vol. 2, no. 2, Summer, 1997, p. [?]
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Story from The Mishomis Book : The Voice of the Ojibway by Edward Benton-Banai; tells of the predictions made for the future of the Anishinabe.
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
The Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3, July 1983, pp. 261-276
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Discusses reasons why white Americans found Tecumseh to be a great man and warrior, compared to his brother Tenskwatawa the Holy man, who was thought of as a coward and pretender.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, Summer, 1997, pp. 385-407
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Author examines three different autobiographies of Indigenous women that were published between the late 1920s and mid 1930s with an eye to the ways that gender influences the construction of the text.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring, 1997, pp. 149-164
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Examines use of the bear as a literary device with possibilities for human animal relations, transformations, and the bear's connections to the beginnings of literature.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 4, Winter, 1997, p. 144
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1995 Margaret Laurence lecture at Trent University by the artist and quilt maker Alice Olsen Williams. The version given here has been adapted, revised and edited.
Photograph. On information card: Ten year old log cabin with extended tent porch in Chipewyan trappers camp. Dungevan Lake Camp, Mackenzie District, N.W.T.
Catalogue of important acquisitions between 1987-1997 at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, featuring Aboriginal artists include Edward Poitras and Jane Ash Poitras, both prairie artists.
The Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 2, April 1983, pp. [165]-180
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Discusses the reasons for the failure of the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA), which brought into effect policies designed to devolve federal responsibility for tribes and transfer it to the state governments. This in turn was used as a method to force integration and assimilation into the dominant culture.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. 153-170
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Author examines attempts by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to terminate Indian tribes’ status and recognition in the United States following the second world war. Focuses on the Eastern Cherokee and the conditions surrounding the Nation’s fight for continued recognition.
Explores the work of Blackfeet author James Welch who presents Native American and Western humanistic cultures in equally forceful ways in order to have a meeting of the two worlds.
Justice as Healing, vol. 2, no. 3, Fall, 1997, p. [?]
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Reprint of a lecture given by Chief Justice of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal (SaskCA), at the University of Saskatchewan in 1997.
This is a two-part sample article, courtesy of the Native Law Centre of Canada. Subscriptions are available from the NLC.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 171-193
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Literary criticism article that explores the underlying themes at work in the Autobiography of Delfina Cuero. Discusses bi-culturalism, borderlands theory, ethnocriticism, and transculturation.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 1997, pp. 315-328
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Outlines cultural assumptions of the Canadian justice system in contrast with Aboriginal conceptions of justice and argues that Canada must implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples to neutralize the impact of criminal law on Aboriginal peoples.