Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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David Arnot
pp. 233-234
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Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, discussing the Battlefords area Katapamisuak Society, a project focussed on mediation and diversion from court working to find alternatives, yet remain within the current justice system.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 61, no. 1, The Transcultural Education of American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Teachers and Students ..., Autumn, 1983, pp. 86-108
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Discusses several components of cross-cultural teachers: identification and criteria of effective teachers and the important knowledge to have.
Consists of an interview with non-Indian employed at the Gabriel Dumont Institute in Regina. At the time of the interview he was writing a book on the history of the Metis nation.
Canadian Poetry, no. 46, Spring/Summer, 2000, p. [?]
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Discusses how the world wide web makes the author invisible, but not the content or "object" of knowledge. The original text was published in Textual Studies in Canada, no. 13/14, 2001.
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 84, no. 9, September 1994, pp. 1402-1406
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Concludes that daily drinking, binge drinking and heavier drinking were each associated with an increased
likelihood of injury and the underlying cause of death.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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Rupert Ross
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Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, questions current punitive processing system and compares a justice-as-healing approach grounded in community-driven counsel and education for alcohol, violence, abuse as an alternative.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
Describes the "naming" system created by federal government that assigned a number to each Inuit person, for purposes of census and birth registration of each Inuit person.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 213-232
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Expresses hopes that the Alcatraz occupation created a consciousness that would reach into the lives of Native American youth and perhaps white Americans.
Review of Social Economy, vol. 58, no. 3, September 1, 2000, pp. 295-317
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Overview of studies comparing earning differentials by ethnicity and gender; very significant difference in the raw earnings gap for First Nations females, which is 51% less than the national average; for males, earnings are 85% less than the national average.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 4, Series 2. Critical Approaches, Winter, 1994, pp. 94-106
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Examines the ritual-based relationship between human beings and their natural environment. The article also discusses a reconciliation between human cultures and nature.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Consists of an interview where she discusses Medicine Men and their purported powers. She briefly mentions Indian superstitions (being born with a caul on her face; being the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter).