Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 1988, pp. 18-23
Description
Illustrates the history of the Sioux Nation and United States government's legal relationship, the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, and the protection of the Black Hills for Sioux people.
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"
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 2, Series 2: Special Issue, Summer, 1993, pp. 46-48
Description
Discusses Brian Moore's fiction Blackrobe, and the use of obscene language, stereotyping and racial discrimination.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 2, Series 2: Special Issue, Summer, 1993, pp. 29-33
Description
Discusses self-discovery and self-creation in the poetry of Wendy Rose, and her growth as a poet.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Native American Classics: Graphic Classics ; vol. 24
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Author/Creator
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.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 1, Winter, 1993, pp. 102-110
Description
Review of 6 books:
Mud Woman: Poems from the Clay by Nora Naranjo-Morse.
Red Clay: Poems and Stories by Linda Hogan.
Night Perimeter: New and Selected Poems: 1958-1990 by Carroll Arnett (Gogisgi).
Fire Water World: Poems by Adrain C. Louis.
Another Distance: New and Selected Poems by Lance Henson.
Drawings of the Song Animals: New and Selected Poems by Duane Niatum.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 28, no. 3, 1993, pp. 491-493
Description
Book review of: Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi'kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia by Isabelle Knockwood.
Prairie Forum, vol. 13, no. 1, Spring, 1988, pp. 125-127
Description
Book reviews of:
Public Administration Questions Relating to Aboriginal Self-Government by C. E. S. Franks.
Future Issues of Jurisdiction and Coordination between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Governments by Ian B. Cowie.
The Political and Legal Inequalities Among Aboriginal Peoples in Canada by Delia Opekokew.
Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada: A Bibliography 1986 by Evelyn J. Peters.
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. 13, no. 1, 1993, pp. 145-170
Description
Book reviews of 11 books:
Kwakuitl String Figures by Julie Averkieva and Mark A. Sherman.
Food and Spirits by Beth Brant.
Aboriginal Governments and Power Sharing in Canada by Douglas Brown.
A First Nations Province by Thomas J. Cochene and Lisa M. Powell.
Victims of Benevolence: Discipline and Death at the Williams Lake Indian Residential School, 1891-1920 by Elizabeth Furniss.
The Ojibwa of Berens River, Manitoba: Ethnography into History by A. Irving Hallowell.
Tales of the Anishnaubaek by Basil H.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, 1993, pp. 327-371
Description
Book reviews of 14 books:
Proceedings: First National Conference on Cancer in Native Americans. "Proceedings" reviewed by Rene R. Gadacz.
Gabriel Dumont Speaks translated by Michael Barnholden.
The Early Years of Native American Art History: The Politics of Scholarship and Collecting edited by Janet Catherine Berlo.
Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization by Alfred W.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 1988, pp. 155-162
Description
Book reviews of 3 publications:
American Indian Culture and Research Journal Vol. 10, No. 2: Special Issue: American Indian Governments in the Reagan Era1885 Métis Rebellion or Government Conspiracy? by Don McLean.
Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes by Carl Waldman; with illustrations by Molly Braun.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, 1988, pp. 303-328
Description
Book reviews of 13 books:
Kishinahamwakan-acimowinisa - Student Stories edited and translated by Freda Ahenakew.
waskahikaniwiyiniw-acimowina - Stories of the House People edited by Freda Ahenakew.
Kinship and the Drum Dance in a Northern Dene Community by Michael Asch.
Pisiskiwak kâ-pîkiskwêcik Talking Animals. Memoir 5. Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics edited and translated by H. C.