Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Monday, January 19, 1981 regarding actions taken to date and the progress made towards developing an Affirmative Action Program for the City by the City's Director of Personnel Services. Includes discussion of meetings with Native Outreach and Native Placing and Training-on-the-Job Units of the Canada Employment Centre, as well as feedback from civic Unions and women's groups.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 11, no. 7, July 1981, pp. 7-10
Description
Aboriginals across Canada given time to study and understand the proposal of a new self-government model adopted at the Assembly of First Nations in Quebec City, May 18-22, 1981.
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Description
Looked at housing delivery problems related to funding, government policy, and delivery system and explored factors essential to new policy such as methods of financing and changes to administration processes.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 19, no. 3, May/June 1995, pp. 24-29
Description
Paper given at the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 30th Congress held in Cairns, Queensland, May 1994. Discusses the issue of dispossession,
Describes fiscal arrangements in the Yukon and Northwest Territories between 1980-1995, discusses factors which influenced public finance and budgeting, and the implications for self- and public government.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 171-179
Description
Literary Criticism Article in which the author explores the ways which Indigenous storytelling and the worldview it conveys have affected her scholarship and her individual understanding and experience of the world.
Covers topics such as defining parameters, international context, community and devolution, case studies, alternative models of justice, and lessons and future directions.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, 1995, pp. 61-74
Description
An exploration of regional literature in the American West showed it was rare to find Métis in these novels. The article suggests Canadian and American authors can be distinguished by how they develop the image of the Métis.
Canadian Literature, no. 144, Native, Individual, State, Spring, 1995, pp. 98-111
Description
Previously-lost creation story transcribed in October 1900. Includes English translation.
Entire journal one pdf. Scroll down to page 98 to read article.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 3, Summer, 1995, pp. 301-317
Description
Literary criticism article which engages the text Black Eagle Child: The Facepaint Narratives. Author asserts that Young Bear’s narrative centers Mesquakie voices and perspectives and in doing so challenges mainstream perspectives.
An Essay Commissioned by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Ottawa, Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Peter Jull
Description
Looks at the history of policy-making from the 1950s to the early 1990s and conflicts which have arisen between Indigenous peoples and governments. Compares developments to those in Australia's Northern Territory.
Revised 3rd edition.
Review essay of, They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever: Rock Writings in the Stein River Balley of British Columbia by Annie York, Richard Daly and Chris Arnett.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 76, no. 1, March 1995, pp. 103-104
Description
Book review of: Rebirth edited by Anne-Marie Mawhiney. A collection of presentations from the Third Annual Conference of the Institute of Northern Ontario Research and Development (INORD) of Laurentian University.
Discusses birthing procedures introduced to the Northwest Territories in 1982 and how the government is now incorporating traditional Aboriginal knowledge into its mandate.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 19, no. 2, March/April 1995, pp. 2-3
Description
Comments on video dealing with Aboriginal community members, Aboriginal health workers and non-Aboriginal health workers views on the lack of health services use by Aboriginal people.
Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Monday, October 26, 1981 regarding certain archaeological and anthropological pre-European contact artifacts from the Saskatoon area that were given to depositories in Winnipeg, and some that reside at the University of Saskatchewan. Reference is made to an associated document further discussing these matters.
An "excerpt from Rupert Ross's discussion paper, Surfing the Flux: Exploring the Roots of the Aboriginal Healing Perspective (Draft, March 1994)."
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
Text taken from a brochure produced by Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Citizenship summarizes events which took place in 1869-1870 in and around Winnipeg.
American Indian Law Review, vol. 20, no. 1, 1995/1996, pp. 281-282
Description
Discusses a case in which evidence was manipulated (including false affidavits that caused Peltier to be extradited from Canada) and the individual was convicted when he clearly should not have been.
Based on working group's discussions over six two-day meetings and background research. Group was comprised of Aboriginals active in urban issues and chief administrators from Toronto, Fredericton and Winnipeg.