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
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Discusses Brian Moore's fiction Blackrobe, and the use of obscene language, stereotyping and racial discrimination.
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Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, 2017, pp. 117-135
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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.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 4, Indochina, October/November/December 2000, pp. 16-21
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Discusses relations between the Akha highland peoples and the lowlanders as well as the role opium production and consumption plays in their lives.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 2, Series 2: Special Issue, Summer, 1993, pp. 29-33
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Discusses self-discovery and self-creation in the poetry of Wendy Rose, and her growth as a poet.
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Native American Classics: Graphic Classics ; vol. 24
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Joseph Bruchac
John Smelcer
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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
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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.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, 2000, pp. 197-229
Description
Book review of:
kwayask-ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik: Their Example Showed Me the Way translated and edited by Freda Ahenakew and H. C. Wolfart.
A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas: 1492 to the Present by Ward Churchill. Incorporating the Familiar: An Investigation into Legal Sensibilities in Nunavik by Susan G. Drummond. The Indian History of British Columbia: The Impact of the Whiteman by Wilson Duff.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 2000, pp. 487-516
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Book reviews of:
Living Relationships: The Treaty of Waitangi in the New Millennium by Ken S. Coates and P. G. McHugh.
Aboriginal Rights and Self-Government: The Canadian and Mexican Experience in North American Perspective edited by Curtis Cook and Juan D. Lindau.
Tribal Honors: A History of the Kainai Chieftainship by Hugh A. Dempsey.
The Myth of the Savage, and the Beginning of French Colonialism in the Americas by Olive Patricia Dickason.
The Pawnee Mythology by George Dorsey.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 1, Winter, 1993, pp. 102-110
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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.