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.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, Special Issue on Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans, 1999, pp. 119-142
Description
Investigates an order, from the Office of Indian Affairs (OIA), that requested that all OIA physicians learn to perform the approved operations for the cure of trachoma, a disease of the eye(s), and how this policy may have caused even more suffering for patients.
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.
American Literature, vol. 71, no. 1, March 1999, pp. 93-116
Description
Discusses the debate about what constitutes American Indian identity by contrasting U.S. government's standard of blood quantum with N. Scott Momaday's trope of "memory in the blood" as a sign of racial authenticity.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, Special Issue on Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans, 1999, pp. 47-61
Description
Examination of the religious and cultural responses, of two California Native American groups, to new diseases, which were of Spanish origin, and to colonization.
Historical background and submissions to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) about whether a clerical error by the federal government resulted in 440 acres of mineral-rich land being taken without consent or compensation. No determination by ICC as parties agreed to negotiate a settlement under the Specific Claims Policy. Commissioners include: P. E. James Prentice, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and Carole T. Corcoran. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
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.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, 1999, pp. 193-211
Description
Book review of:
The Iroquois in the War of 1812 by Carl Benn.
The Lakota Ritual and the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice by Raymond Bucko.
The Legacy of Shingwaukonse: A Century of Native Leadership by Janet E. Chute.
The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory by Julie Cruikshank.
Looking North: Art from the University of Alaska Museum by Aldona Jonaitis (Editor).
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 19, no. 2, 1999, pp. 381-404
Description
Book reviews of:
Legends of our Times: Native Cowboy Life by Morgan Baillargeon and Leslie Tepper.
The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America by Conlin Callway (Editor).
Women in Trouble: Connecting Women's Law Violations to Their Histories of Abuse by Elizabeth Cormack.
Leonard Bloomfield's Fox Lexicon: Critical Edition by Ives Goddard (Editor).
White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence by Sidney L. Harring.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 19, no. 2, 1999, pp. 386-388
Description
Book review of: Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times by Olive Patricia Dickason.
For this article scroll down to Page 386.
Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place
Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border Crossing, and Loose Canons
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David Payne
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1999, pp. 84-89
Description
Book reviews of:
Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place by Louis Owens.
Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border Crossing, and Loose Canons by Paula Gunn Allen.
To Access Reviews, scroll to Page 84-89
Native Studies Review, vol. 12, no. 2, Aboriginal Peoples and National Rights Issues in Quebec, 1999, pp. 149-150
Description
Review of: Never Without Consent: James Bay Cree's Stand Against Forcible Inclusion Into an Independent Quebec by the Grand Council of Crees (Eeyou Astchee).
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
Studies in American Indian Lilteratures, vol. 3, no. 3, Series 2 , Fall, 1991, pp. 88-90
Description
Looks at a number of noteworthy books and articles that were not reviewed in the issue.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
Australian Indigenous Law Reporter, vol. 4, no. 3, 1999, p. 67
Description
Follow up on the progress of Australian Governments’ responses to recommendations made by National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families in its Bringing Them Home Report (1997).
Explores reasons why the epidemic figures prominently in First Nations' histories; includes oral remembrances of the devastation the disease brought to First Nations communities.
Report of investigation into factors that may have led to the suicide of an 18-year-old Métis youth who was under the care of the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development.