American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 209-228
Description
Author traces the history and development of “North American Indian Place Names Studies” as a discipline in the field of anthropology; analyzes a successful model of cooperative research on Tlingit place names.
Contesting Art: Art, Politics, and Identity in the Modern World
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jeremy MacClancy
Description
Introduction to themes in the volume which include: anti-colonialism, anti-racism; painting propaganda, picturing power; individuals, groups, categories; art as property; concepts and objects; and the marketing of art.
Chapter 1 from Contesting Art: Art, Politics, and Identity in the Modern World edited by Jeremy MacClancy.
Journal of Indigenous HIV Research, vol. 9, Winter, 2018, pp. 22-37
Description
Using data collected by Canadian Observational Cohort (CANOC) to compare the risk of interruption and quality of HIV treatment between Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 23, no. 1, October 1983, pp. [23-28]
Description
Claims that standardized test measurements of student performance do not adequately measure the quality of instruction and curricula of a school since other factors such as socio-economic status, school attendance and stability within a particular school have an impact on achievement.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 25, no. 1, Special issue, 2018, pp. 19-29
Description
Describes process of convening the meeting, audience response system, collection of feedback, and collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data.
Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 26, October 1997, pp. 465-485
Description
Social hierarchies in the Mississippian Period. Increased importance of cosmography and iconography in the period of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 1983, pp. 95-116
Description
Although Church Missionary Society (CMS) policy stated their intention to promote Indigenous people in the church, historians question whether it was biased in its practises in late 1800s.
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 16/17, no. 1, 2018, pp. 67-84
Description
Discusses the role archival material plays in common law and the consolidation of state power, and questions whether this circumscribes the courts’ ability to address historical injustices. Uses the case of R v Van der Peet to illustrate two different approaches to the question of Aboriginal title.
Refers to cases:R v Van der PeetDelgamuukw v British Columbia
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, 2018, pp. 19-39
Description
Analyzes data from surveys collected at 6 professional sporting events to understand which selected social groupings hold which opinions. Results show that university graduates and political liberals are more offended by the team name Redskins than non-university graduates and political conservatives.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 29, no. 3, Job Creation, Spring, 2018, p. [?]
Description
Brief discussion on solar gardens installed on the reservation that provide energy assistance to 100 low-income families and how the College is leveraging the new infrastructure to connect with solar energy training and careers.
Arsene Fontaine describes a curing by a medicine man and a brief description of how to make a canoe. She also gives a description of transportation by dog team.
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 2, The Entangled Gaze, 2018, pp. 185-206
Description
Article explores the history of the book The Savage Hits Back or the White Man Through Native Eyes and contextualizes it within the global social and political events contemporary to its writing.
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 90, Spring, 1997, pp. 83-85
Description
Reports on research into theatre methodology based on native performance practices, as a means of avoiding confusion between native traditions and the world at large.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 53, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 379-392
Description
The authors describe their experience in a graduate course on arts-based research methods. Their research touches on contexts of and relationships with/as land, Indigenous peoples, settlers, environmental crisis, and personal journey and the art they created in the process of the course.
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 3, September 2018, pp. 260-276
Description
Reviews the literature of 36 international research studies; discusses research methods involving artistic practices. Identifies areas in which arts based methods may offer benefits to an Indigenous research agenda: (a) participant engagement, (b) relationship building, (c) Indigenous knowledge creation, (d) capacity building, and (e) community action.
Looks at the At Home/Chez Soi project and the unique governance model which evolved through collaboration between community organizations, government and researchers as they modified Housing First approach to suit to the city's context.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, 1988, pp. 295-302
Description
Audio reviews of: "Une Chanson de vérité": Folksongs of the Prairie Métis by Linda Clemons;
Dakota Hotain Singers by Dakota Hotain Singers;
Old Time O'odham Fiddle Music by Gu-Achi Fiddlers;
Changes, Cycles, Journeys, Carry the Gift by R. Carlos Nakai and
Traditional Mesuqakie Songs by The Woodland Singers.