Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, 1994, pp. 40-58
Description
Identifies and examines two main discrepancies in the federal government's Indian band governance policy during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Historical Studies in Education, vol. 7, no. 1, 1995, pp. 45-69
Description
Discusses government policy, the relationship between the Federal government, its officials and missionaries, and the impact of the government's move away from residential to local schools. The article includes the results of interviews with former Indian agents.
Prairie Forum, vol. 11, no. 2, Fall, 1986, pp. 171-183
Description
Looks at the First Nations commitment to continue the tradition to hunt, fish and garden despite the introduction to modern farming by the government, European traders and missionaries.
Describes how the Heard Museum created interest in Native American and Indigenous peoples art and discusses how some of this art attempted to make comprehensible what was incomprehensible.
Overview of 1994-1995 activities of the Indian Specific Claims Commission (ICC), an independent body of inquiry whose mandate includes review of rejected federal claims. [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:
Cold Lake and Canoe Lake (Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range) Inquiries, Interim Ruling: Athabasca Denesuline,
Treaty Harvesting Rights Inquiry, Related Materials on Specific Claims, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada / Outstanding Business: A Native Claims Policy - Specific Claims, First Nations Submission on Claims, Response of Minister Siddon, March 21, 1991. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Includes reports for Athabasca Denesuline Inquiry, the Fond du Lac claim, Black Lake and Hatchet Lake First Nations; Lax Kw'alaams Indian Band Inquiry and claim, Young Chipeewayan Inquiry, claim regarding Stoney Knoll Indian Reserve No. 107, Micmacs of Gesgapegiag Inquiry, claim to Horse Island, Chippewas of the Thames Inquiry, Muney Land Claim.
Reports include the Athabasca Denesuline Inquiry, Lax Kw'alaams Indian Band Inquiry, Young Chipeewayan Inquiry, Micmacs of Gesgapegiag Inquiry, Chippewas of the Thames Inquiry and responses from the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, 1994, pp. 91-119
Description
Examines whether the protections of the Charter guaranteed to Canadian citizens should apply to First Nations people in their relationship with their own tribal members who are also Canadian citizens.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Autumn, 1994, pp. 91-97
Description
Brief examination of one form of communication, Indian newspapers, that is a cultural solution allowing identities to be maintained.
See also : "A Journey into Sacred Myth" (pages 98-99)
Native Studies Review, vol. 2, no. 1, 1986, pp. 1-43
Description
Summary of policy developments, under Mulroney government, which examined the recommendations of Nielsen's task force and the resulting controversy. Part II to appear in Vol. 2, No. 2 of NSR.
Native Studies Review, vol. 2, no. 2, 1986, pp. 1-45
Description
Paper attempts to provide an overview of Indian policy
developments in context of recent policy initiatives of the Minister of Indian Affairs, Concludes with with observations on the current status of policy reforms.Part I appeared in NSR, Vol.2, no.1
Pacific Historical Review, vol. 86, no. 2, May 2017, pp. 290-321
Description
Argues that while school officials regarded the practice of placing male students as farm labourers during the summer months as a method of assimilation, many used their employment to serve their own purposes.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 93-102
Description
Argues that there were eight themes in the story of Alcatraz which anthropologists ignored, and these are: self-determination, unity, equal educational opportunity, cultural revitalization, mutual assistance, changes to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, ecolog, and the land base for Aboriginal self-sufficiency.
Indian Tribal Studies Programs in the Tribally Controlled Community Colleges
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wayne J. Stein
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 2, no. 2, Autumn, 1986, pp. 29-33
Description
Argues that academic process can be used to restore traditional knowledge and that the Tribal Community College provides a forum for discussion of concerns.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 1-17
Description
Explains how Louise Erdrich uses "survival humor" to compare a white world that is spirituality bankrupt, with no meaningful tradition and ceremony, to that of the Ojibway culture that tends to have coherent meaning.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, 1994, pp. 75-89
Description
Critical examination to investigate if Wingina, a Roanoke leader, organized a plot to attack the settlement, located on Roanoke Island, with the assistance of Algonquian bands.
Curator of the exhibition entitled Americans at the National Museum of the American Indian discusses the exhibition about the pervasiveness of the image of the American Indian in popular culture and the controversy surrounding the validity of artist Jimmy Durham's Cherokee identity.
Duration: 58:51.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 235-249
Description
Discusses the fallout from the lack of proper medical treatment from railway physicians, after a horrific train crash, and the intense legal battle that followed.
AlterNative, vol. 13, no. 4, December 2017, pp. 235-245
Description
Focuses on the experience of facilitators and leaders in the program dealing with the challenges associated with adapting Western research methods to the Indigenous context.