Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 69, no. 2, Negotiating the Culture of Indigenous Schools, Winter, 1994, pp. 115-139
Description
Reviews programs designed to transition and retain students, with emphasis on experiences of Alaska Natives attending the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 23, no. 7, September/October 1994, p. 15
Description
This is the third in an ongoing series of stories on successful First Nations women. Features Lenore Stiffarm who holds a doctorate in Education from Harvard, teaches with the Indian and Northern Education Program (INEP) in Educational Foundations, University of Saskatchewan.
California Law Review, vol. 82, no. 4, July 1994, pp. 981-1049
Description
Describes how the five Confederated Tribes of the Iroquois attempted intercultural communication and encounters between the early sixteenth through late eighteenth centuries with Europeans.
Mr. Laliberte was involved in the early establishment of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan and talks about conditions in the north and how the Metis Association has improved them.
Author draws on Schmidt’s diary to create a biographical sketch of his life. Includes some details on Lois Riel, the Red River and North-West Resistances, St. Boniface, the Métis freighters, and other historical events and figures.
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, 1994, pp. 55-65
Description
Discusses the gathering, organized by San Marocs librarians at California State University, of secondary information on Luiseño artifacts and information from a variety of museums, libraries, and private collections.
The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 89, no. 353, July-Sept. 1976, pp. 271-293
Description
Jokes played on the first whites by Native American Indians living in southwestern Washington State became known as a folkloristic reception and were used by Aboriginal storytellers to translate historical fact into record.
A set of 25 photographs of Jemima Charles and Lydia McKenzie showing the making of bannock in a pan. Bannock can be made quickly and is ideal for life in the bush as it needs no long rising time in a warm place like bread does.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 23, no. 5, Special Insert, June 1994, p. 1
Description
Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority (SLGA) and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) join to become partners in casino development in Saskatchewan.
Public Health Reports, vol. 109, no. 1, January-February 1994, pp. 99-103
Description
Looks at challenges for a health care center to get services to eligible women and address non-financial barriers such as language, transportation and gender issues.
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 5, no. 1, 1994, pp. 63-86
Description
Illustrates how Indian agents were responsible for the interpretation and implementation of Indian policy and could influence decision-making through their field knowledge.
Discusses Europeans' refusal to believe that sophisticated artificial mounds could have been constructed by the ancestors of contemporary aboriginals; author presents her alternate theories regarding builders.
Three elders from Goodfish Lake Reserve talk about problems of defining accurate boundaries, their rights to a timber berth, and hay meadows which they believe are part of their reserve.
Focuses on three issues: appropriate forms of internal organization, community capacity to manage institutions, and optimum framework for relationships with other governments.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, Racism and Gender, Spring, 1994, p. 114
Description
Author discusses the influence of oral traditions, storytelling, and the "grandmother's voice" on her work, with emphasis on characters Coyote Girl and Rat Lady in the play Albeit Aboriginal.
Reminiscences of relatives, friends and acquaintances of Louisa Anderson, a Tsimshian Elder from Hartley Bay, British Columbia. Supplemented by contextual information.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 4, Series 2. Critical Approaches, Winter, 1994, pp. 51-76
Description
Looks at how the negative representations of women in N. Scott Momaday’s novels demonstrates a lack of harmony and balance, and an underlying of dislike, or mistrust of women.
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