President Regan's policy statement reaffirms the government-to-government relationship of Indian Tribes with the United States and supports special development of reservation economies.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, September 1988, pp. 18-20
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Promotes idea that aboriginal health workers can use their knowledge and cultural and social background to help city nurses understand the needs of their patients.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 43, no. 3, Fall, 2009, pp. 101-123, 245
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Discusses the Conservative and Liberal views of politicians regarding the federal Indian education policy, the administration of industrial schools, and the terrible conditions in the schools causing high mortality rates.
Anglican Journal, vol. 128, no. 9, December 2002, pp. 1-2
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Church's liability for residential school abuse lawsuits will be $25 million over five years, but agreement does not address cultural and language claims.
Expands on a previously published research brief.
Outlines three areas in which the interests and goals of government and Aboriginals may differ: scope of injustices, government's attempt to draw a line through the past and legitimate current policies, and government's use of the process as an attempt to assert authority.
Contends that worldwide Indigenous peoples are gaining recognition and status and that the Canadian government has an important role to play in helping its Indigenous population preserve their culture and gain similar success.
Displays Indigenous population of Canada and the northern United States. Shows groups by size, name, linguistic family and extent of areas known by Europeans directly, through Aboriginal accounts, and unknown. Also shows locations of French and English agricultural settlements.
Literature review of works that encompass identity and how it intersects with economic and social issues. Also discusses concerns and recommendations for future policy research and development in the context of Indigenous peoples.
SA-eDUC Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, Special Edition on Education and Ethnicity, November 2009, pp. 100-116
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Supports the need to understand First Nations history from an Aboriginal perspective and the effects the Indian Act and residential school systems had on First Nations people in Canada.
Introduction to the 'nuts and bolts' of Canadian treaty making activities as part of the treaty section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies , vol. 29, no. 1/2, 2009, pp. 19-44
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Discusses Indigenous literary nationalism, a philosophy that places Indigenous intellectual and cultural values at the center of analysis by looking at creative and critical endeavors in Canadian contexts.