Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, 2017, pp. 117-135
Description
Argues that the Government of Canada has not learned from previous mistakes and its failure to change its behaviour has led to the ongoing trauma inflicted by residential schools and the high number of missing and murdered women.
Adapted for the Alberta context from the KAIROS Blanket Exercise, an interactive learning experience focusing on the historical and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples of Canada. Themes explored are: assimilation, discrimination, Indigenous rights and reconciliation.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 7, no. 2, Autumn, 1991, pp. 58-77
Description
Delves into the protest by Elijah Harper to block the progress of the Meech Lake accord in the Manitoba legislature and the protest by the Mohawk Warrior Society at Oka, Quebec to stop development of a golf course.
Native American Classics: Graphic Classics ; vol. 24
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Joseph Bruchac
John Smelcer
Description
Excerpt from Native American Classics: Graphic Classics, volume 24 edited by Joseph Bruchac, John Smelcer and Tom Pomplun.
American Indian writers often reference boarding school experiences in their poems, short stories, essays, novels and plays. Provides a list of suggested readings on American Indian boarding schools in Canada and the United States.
Northern Review, no. 45, Innovation in the Circumpolar North, June 2017, pp. 141-160
Description
Researchers interviewed female participants between the ages of 18 and 23 and found that all participants experienced BID as young adults. Participants provided suggestions for working with Indigenous Alaska females who suffer from BID.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 2, 2017, pp. 289-310
Description
Discusses failure of new protocols put in place to ensure safe drinking water on reserves and contrasts the response to the failure of water system in Walkerton, Ontario, which took place the same year.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, 2013, p. article no. 21032
Description
Book reviews of: Alaska Native Medical Centre: A History 1953-1983 by Robert Fortuine.
Circumpolar Health Atlas edited by T. Kue Young, Rajiv Rawat, Winfried Dallmann, Susan Chatwood, Peter Bjerregaard.
Healing Histories: Stories From Canada's Indian Hospitals by Laurie Meijer Drees.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 1, Spring, 2013, pp. 89-94
Description
Book review of Living with Koryak Traditions: Playing with Culture in Siberia by Alexander King.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 89.
American Literature, vol. 85, no. 2, June 2013, pp. 399-401
Description
Book reviews of:
Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature by Birgit Brander Rasmussen.
Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause by Melanie Benson Taylor.
English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830 by Hilary E. Wyss.
American Literature, vol. 85, no. 3, September 2013, pp. 591-593
Description
Book reviews of:
On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sovereignty in the New World by Jonathan Elmer and Dislocating Race.
Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism by Robert S. Levine.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 1991, pp. 155-191
Description
Book reviews of 13 books:
The Collected Works of Edward Sapir, Volume V edited by William Bright.
Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders by Julie Cruikshank (in collaboration with Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith & Annie Ned).
Yellow-Wolf & Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence by Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspe.
Blackfoot Grammar by Donald G. Frantz.
Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots, and Affixes by Donald G. Frantz and Norma-Jean Russell.
Californian Indian Nights complied by Edward W.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, 1991, pp. 351-395
Description
Book reviews of 17 books:
wanisinwak iskwesisak; awasisasinahikanis/Two Little Girls Lost in the Bush; A Cree Story for Children told by Nehiyaw/Glecia Bear, edited and translated by Freda Ahenakew and H. C. Wolfart.
The Geography of the Canadian North by Robert Bone.
The Queen's People: A Study of Hegemony, Coercion, and Accommodation Among the Okanagan of Canada by Peter Carstens.
Being and Becoming Indian: Biographical Studies of North American Frontiers by James A.
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, 1991, pp. 157-159
Description
Book review of:Writing the Circle: Native Women of Western Canada: An Anthology edited by Jeanne Perreault and Sylvia Vance with preface by Emma LaRocque.
Journal of Reading, vol. 35, no. 1, September 1991, pp. 66-69
Description
Book reviews of:
The American Indians in America (volume 2) by Jayne Clark Jones.
America's Fascinating Indian Heritage.
Canyons by Gary Paulsen.
Girl in Buckskin by Dorothy Gilman.
The Night the White Deer Died by Gary Paulsen.
The Owl's Song by Janet Campbell Hale.
The Shadow Brothers by A.E. Cannon.
Review of the filmstrip: A Look at Native Americans
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing - Te Mauri: Pimatisiwin, vol. 2, no. 1, June 2017, pp. 29-46
Description
"... shares reflections from participatory action research (PAR) and Indigenous approaches to research (IAR) team members on how they developed personally and professionally through involvement on two Indigenous-focused studies".
House of Commons Canada, 42nd Parliament, 1st Session ; June 2017
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
MaryAnn Mihychuk
Romeo Saganash
David Yurdiga
Gary Anandasangaree
Mike Bossio ... [et al.]
Description
Reports on information gathered through a series of public hearings involving approximately 100 witnesses, including government officials, Aboriginal organizations, communities, service providers, and professional organizations, and a meeting with 50 Indigenous youth. Concludes with 28 recommendations
Report addresses call from United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous issues (UNPFII) for United Nations agencies and the United States to contribute to the study of violence against girls and women, particularly in areas where armed conflict is taking place.
Discusses book which explores the enslavement of American Indians by French colonists and their Native allies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Duration: 35:09.