Reports include the Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation Inquiry, the Peguis First Nation Inquiry and the Cowessess First Nation Inquiry. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Reports include rulings on Government of Canada objections relating to First Nations: Athabasca Denesuline, Lac La Ronge, Mikisew Cree, Walpole Island, Sand Bay. Alexis, James Smith, Kluane, Peepeekisis, and rulings on First Nations objections regarding First Nations of: Canupawakpa Dakota and James Smith. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Book review of: Indian Education in Canada. Volume 2: The Challenge. Nakoda Institute Occasional Paper No. 2 edited by Jean Barman, Yvonne Hebert, Don McCaskill
Triptych Case Framing: Economics, Social-cultural and Political Frames
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Shalin Hai-Jew
[Alan Parker]
Description
Brief discussion of American legislation, tribal sovereignty, and financial, social, and ethical issues. Includes interview with Alan Walker, Commissioner with Washington State Gambling Commission.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 25, no. 3, 2001, pp. 143-159
Description
Paper introduces complexity theory as a new conceptual approach to research in Native American studies and to gaming in particular. The paper argues that although gaming can have positives, it can also spawn major and irreversible changes in a community, perhaps even weaken a tribe and its sovereignty.
Call for a Federal policy to recognize the cultural importance of Indian languages and to expand the teaching of them beyond the current situation where only those people of Indian ancestry in Saskatchewan Provincial schools are funded for instruction.
Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.
Issue features the established policy for accessions to the collections.
Prairie Forum, vol. 13, no. 1, Spring, 1988, pp. 25-42
Description
Examines the aftermath of the North-West Rebellion and the consequences of a pass system established by Indian Affairs intended to control Native Peoples movements.
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
Journal of the West, vol. 40, no. 4, Fall, 2001, pp. 26-33
Description
Analyzes art works from the Plains ledger drawings produced at Fort Marian between 1875 and 1978, carved wooden figures by a Hopi artist, and contemporary paintings by a Navajo artist.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2003, pp. 84-86
Description
Book review of: The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge edited by Wayne R. Kime.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 386-393
Description
The author details some of the barriers faced by Indigenous students in both attending and preparing to attend post-secondary institutions; explores the experience of both staff and students with systemic racism at the college they are employed at.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 177-188
Description
Author draws on their experience working within the academy to illustrate institutional discrimination against Indigenous scholars, graduate students, and allies who choose to confront issues of genocide, land theft, and colonization in their work.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 4, Indigenous Peoples in Africa, 2003, pp. 8-13
Description
Looks at the cultural survival of the hunter-gatherer peoples and their land rights. Focuses on the Pygmy and Twa people.
To access this article, scroll down to page 8.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 3, May/June 2001, pp. 33-35
Description
Assesses the percentage of Indigenous content to be 1.9% in Australia where health in rural/remote areas lags consistently behind the country as a whole.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 264-266
Description
Author articulates many of the differences between Indigenous ways of learning and knowing and mainstream Western pedagogies and epistemologies; suggests considerations and strategies for integrating the different worldviews in postsecondary education settings.
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, vol. 47, no. 2, Summer, 2001, pp. 196-201
Description
Book review of: Indigenous Education Models for Contemporary Practice: In Our Mother's Voice edited by Maenette Kae'ahiokalani Padeken Ah Nee-Beham and Joanne Elizabeth Cooper.