History Thesis (M.A.)--Univerisity of Saskatchewan, 2005.
Discusses the history of Guatemala, begining with the August 1790 find of a stone carving identified as the image of Coatlicue, the mother of the Aztec pantheon.
International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 88, no. 862, June 2006, pp. 295-310
Description
Mainly consists of tables.
Table 1: country, years of operation, dates covered, and creating body.
Table 2: country, key language or terms of reference, principle acts documented, and violations not investigated.
Table 3: commissioners, number of staff, budget, number of cases presented, and name of final report.
Examines the criticisms of theories advanced in his 1963 book Early Voyages and Northern Approaches, originally published in 1963; includes some illustrations.
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 95, no. 5, May 2005, pp. 973-880
Description
Concludes that tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a significant health problem and requires vigilance and collaboration among states, the federal government and TB control programs.
Statistics revealed the highest rate in Canada was in Nunavut and the lowest was in Nova Scotia; includes tabulations demographic and clinical factors.
Analysis on tuberculosis (TB) assessments in the Correctional Service of Canada from 1999 to 2001. The highest rates were observed among foreign-born and Aboriginal inmates.
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, vol. 37, no. 4, December 2005, pp. 38-60
Description
Describes the perspectives of community-based stakeholders on their experience in designing, implementing, and evaluating care for pregnant and parenting Aboriginal women and families.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, 1988, pp. 33-48
Description
Reviews the history of the Turtle Mountain reserve and how the author portrays it's unique Native American development in fictional pieces based on the facts of the Chippewa Indians.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 25, no. 1, 2005, pp. 207-214
Description
Discusses the shortcomings of the current natural resources management policy, which has resisted change; cites illegal logging as one reason for change.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, 2006, pp. 89-116
Description
Considers oral tradition, Native kinship rationale, socio-cultural traditions, Tutelo history and consideration of anthropology when reviewing the letters.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 2, 2006, pp. 63-84
Description
Analysis of the inititiatives by the Tutelo of the Six Nations Reserve at Grand River, Ontario to protect their identity and culture amid the Great League of the Iroquois Nations in 1934-35.
Bill was meant to correct gender-discrimination with respect to loss of Status, for both women and their children, due to marriage to non-Status men. Amendment created new issues in terms of band membership, two-tiered system of Status and second-generation cut-off rule, and insufficient funding for First Nations to provide housing and services to new registrants.
Indigenous Policy: Journal of the Indigenous Studies Network, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring, 2006, p. [?]
Description
Discusses the author's perspectives regarding the steps that have been taken towards addressing race equality issues in South Dakota.
Full issue on one page.
Resources for Nation Building: Governance, Development, and the Future of American Indian Nations
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Stephen Cornell
Joseph P. Kalt
Description
Describes the standard and nation-building approaches to development, and discusses why one works and the other does not. The authors also make suggestions as to how Indian nations can move from one approach to the other.
Discussion of the late Mary Kam also known as Mary Wuttunee and the late Bobby Bird who was an executive member in the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations.
Aboriginal History, vol. 12, no. 1, 1988, pp. 103-112
Description
Review article of seven books:
Aboriginal Australians and Christian Missions: Ethnographic and Historical Studies edited by Tony Swain and Deborah Bird Rose.
Christianity and Aboriginal Australia by John Harris.
I'd Rather Dig Potatoes: Clamor Schurmann and the Aborigines of South Australia, 1838-1853by Edwin A. Schurmann.
Black Robinson: Protector of Aborigines by Vivienne Rae-Ellis.
Thomas Dove and the Tasmanian Aborigines by R. S. Miller.
Dark Deeds in a Sunny Land or Blacks and Whites in North-West Australia by J. B.
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 20, no. 3, 1995, pp. 349-366
Description
Examines the evolution of Native education policies in both the United States and Canada comparing which is closer to bringing Native control over eduction.
Anthropology and Education Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 2, June 1995, pp. 193-212
Description
Focuses on the development and implementation of a post-secondary health science career preparation program in the context of the contradictions between Indigenous and European approaches to science.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3/4, Summer/Fall, 2006, pp. 619-631
Description
Asserts that the National Museum of the American Indian fails to provide enough context for Aboriginal history and does not challenge colonized perceptions.
First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada
Description
Summarizes some of the issues impacting the well-being of First Nations children living on reserve including jurisdictional disputes, inequitable funding, lack of respect for Indigenous laws and ways and using the Indian Act to clarify the rights of children and their families. Concludes with recommendations.
Paper presented to the Ipperwash Inquiry includes a general discussion of relations between Aboriginals and Euro-Canadians and specific issues and incidents involving fishing and resource rights, and sacred burial grounds.