Looks at media coverage of the incident and use of the term, 'Black Velvet'.
Note from author: "Terms historicised in this article remain offensive and have continuing power to offend. This article attempts to dispel and challenge the meanings conveyed by the term ‘Black Velvet’ by tracing its use in print media and thereby intervening in the attitudes it disseminated"
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.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 4, Indochina, October/November/December 2000, pp. 16-21
Description
Discusses relations between the Akha highland peoples and the lowlanders as well as the role opium production and consumption plays in their lives.
To access this article scroll down to page 16.
Native American Classics: Graphic Classics ; vol. 24
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Joseph Bruchac
John Smelcer
Description
Excerpt from Native American Classics: Graphic Classics, volume 24 edited by Joseph Bruchac, John Smelcer and Tom Pomplun.
American Indian writers often reference boarding school experiences in their poems, short stories, essays, novels and plays. Provides a list of suggested readings on American Indian boarding schools in Canada and the United States.
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.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, 2013, p. article no. 21032
Description
Book reviews of: Alaska Native Medical Centre: A History 1953-1983 by Robert Fortuine.
Circumpolar Health Atlas edited by T. Kue Young, Rajiv Rawat, Winfried Dallmann, Susan Chatwood, Peter Bjerregaard.
Healing Histories: Stories From Canada's Indian Hospitals by Laurie Meijer Drees.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, 2000, pp. 197-229
Description
Book review of:
kwayask-ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik: Their Example Showed Me the Way translated and edited by Freda Ahenakew and H. C. Wolfart.
A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas: 1492 to the Present by Ward Churchill. Incorporating the Familiar: An Investigation into Legal Sensibilities in Nunavik by Susan G. Drummond. The Indian History of British Columbia: The Impact of the Whiteman by Wilson Duff.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 2000, pp. 487-516
Description
Book reviews of:
Living Relationships: The Treaty of Waitangi in the New Millennium by Ken S. Coates and P. G. McHugh.
Aboriginal Rights and Self-Government: The Canadian and Mexican Experience in North American Perspective edited by Curtis Cook and Juan D. Lindau.
Tribal Honors: A History of the Kainai Chieftainship by Hugh A. Dempsey.
The Myth of the Savage, and the Beginning of French Colonialism in the Americas by Olive Patricia Dickason.
The Pawnee Mythology by George Dorsey.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 1, Spring, 2013, pp. 89-94
Description
Book review of Living with Koryak Traditions: Playing with Culture in Siberia by Alexander King.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 89.
American Literature, vol. 85, no. 2, June 2013, pp. 399-401
Description
Book reviews of:
Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature by Birgit Brander Rasmussen.
Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause by Melanie Benson Taylor.
English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830 by Hilary E. Wyss.
American Literature, vol. 85, no. 3, September 2013, pp. 591-593
Description
Book reviews of:
On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sovereignty in the New World by Jonathan Elmer and Dislocating Race.
Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism by Robert S. Levine.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1981, pp. 217-257
Description
Book reviews of 23 books:
The Forces Which Shaped Them: A History of the Education of Minority Group Children in British Columbia by Mary Ashworth.
Forty Years a Chief by George Barker.
A History of Native Claims Processes in Canada, 1867-1979 by Richard C. Daniel.
The Metaphysics of Modern Existence by Vine Deloria
The Covenant Chain: Indian Ceremonial and Indian Trade Silver by N.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1981, pp. 363-375
Description
Book reviews of 6 books:
Urban Indians: The Strangers in Canada's Cities by Larry Krotz.
Report of the Indian Child Welfare Sub-Committee Manitoba.
Inuit Songs from Eskimo Point [edited] by Ramon Pellinski, Luk Suluk and Lucy Amarook.
Song of Sedna by Robert D. San Souci.
Gathering What the Great Nature Provided: Food Traditions of the Gitksan by the People of 'Ksan.
Pitseolak, A Canadian Tragedy by David F. Raine.
Journal of American History, vol. 87, no. 2, September 2000, pp. 641-643
Description
Book review of 2 books:
Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature by James D. Hartman.
Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century New England Writing by Jim Egan.