Pacific Health Dialog, vol. 8, no. 2, Health of the Hawaiians, 2001, pp. 407-416
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Looks at a small-scale pilot study that empirically assesses one measure of religiousness and spirituality for Native Hawaiians, the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality (BMMRS)
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 8, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1996, pp. [13]-24
Description
Discusses treatment of these subjects in the work of Ella Doloria, LeAnne Howe, Mary Crow Dog, Louise Erdrich, and Janet Campbell Hale.
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Journal of Social History, vol. 22, no. 1, Autumn, 1988, pp. 113-128
Description
Discusses the specific case of Amanda Chingren, who oversaw the "outing" (transition from residential schools or reservations to domestic employment) of Native American girls.
Highlights the Europeans role change, exploration, and colonization of New France. Includes links to genealogy, explorers, First Nations, and daily life.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, 2001, pp. 105-135
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Argues that the current federal vision of self-government is unacceptable and that any attempt to renew the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society, must be established as Nation to Nation relations.
Science News, vol. 150, no. 14, October 5, 1996, pp. 216-217
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Contends that rock and cave art may offer insights about the trance-induced, supernatural journeys and spiritual sightings of shamans around the world.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3/4, To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality (Parts 1 & 2), Summer/Fall, 1996, pp. 467-[?]
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Explains the dialogue between those who know spirituality through direct experience and those whose have written about Native Spirituality from the outside.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 1, Winter, 1996, pp. 91-[?]
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Introduction to a special issue on interpretation and presentation of Native American history and culture; eight authors present perspectives on methods, ethics and issues of the non-Native American as the historian.
Survey showed that half of respondents were HIV positive, many of whom did not seek medical treatment because of discrimination.
Access Voices of Two-Spirited Men [Part 2].
Saskatchewan History, vol. 41, no. 1, Winter, 1988, pp. 1-17
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Examines the political and economic motives of both the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) and the Northwest Company (NWC), their role in the development of capitalism in North America, and how these factors affected their labour relations policies and practices.
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Walter Deiter, former president of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians and first president of the National Indian Brotherhood, talks about the importance of Malcolm Norris in Metis politics and the splitting of the National Indian Council into the National Indian Brotherhood and the Metis Association of Canada.
Journal of American Studies, vol. 35, no. 3, December 2001, pp. 371-410
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Contrasts Aboriginal concepts of war, in which generalizations are avoided, to that of Western thought, in which there is an attempt to be precise, categorize, and create a unified theory.
Australian Journal of Teacher Education, vol. 26, no. 1, 2001, pp. 1-8
Description
Argues that creating space involves more than simply allocating positions and places to those who identify as Indigenous. It also includes recognition of world-views and knowledge bases that are distinctly Indigenous.