Sport in Society, vol. 13, no. 1, To Remember is to Resist: 40 Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008, January 2010, pp. 143-156
Description
Discusses contrast between representations of settler-Indigenous relations put forward by countries hosting the games and reality of governments' denial of Aboriginal rights.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1995, pp. 27-43
Description
Looks at what is real and what is magical in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water by weaving the traditional world of oral Indigenous story telling with the individualised western written text.
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Undergraduate Honors Theses (Utah State University) ; paper 70
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brooke D. McNaughton
Description
Evaluates two novels which address identity issues: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko and Wolfsong by Louis Owens.
American Studies Honors Thesis--Utah State University, 2010.
Nineteenth-Century Music Review, vol. 11, 2014, pp. 255-272
Description
Discusses the roles of Fist Nations peoples in two musical works: Arthur A. Clappé and Frederick Augustus Dixon's Canada's Welcome from 1879 and Joseph Vézina, Alex Villandray and Louis Fleur's Le fétiche from 1912.
Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, vol. 35, no. 1, Special Issue on Aboriginal Health Information, April 2014, pp. 24-26
Description
Provides background on the program, differing perspectives on the legal and treaty requirements for service provision, health literacy implications, and the role of a Treaty 7 NIHB Navigator in service delivery.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 26-44
Description
Discussion on the metacritical inquiries that Native American literary study raises; and the best methods of connecting Native American literary texts to the cultural contexts.
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Scandinavian Studies, vol. 82, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 257-286
Description
Discusses the stereotypical portrayal of the Finnar (the Sami and the Finns) in various stories. The most negative depiction being Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla.
State Center for Health Statistics And Office Minority Health and Health Disparities
Description
Facts about mortality, chronic diseases, HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, access to health and health of children from infant to adolescent in the American Indian population.
Assessment focuses on developing a community profile of the local food system in order to provide a base for capacity building for food related security initiatives.
Related material: Appendices.
Open Women's Health Journal, vol. 4, What We Have Known About Community Characteristics, Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality among Aborig, 2010, pp. 46-54
Description
Concludes that North-South place of residence does matter in regards to adverse birth outcomes, but the effects may differ by ethnicity and this situation could require different intervention strategies.
Northern Review, no. 38, Political and Economic Change in Canada’s Provincial North, 2014, pp. 223-238
Description
Looks at the capacity to handle opportunities and challenges that come along with economic diversification, the Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridor, and the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline.
Sources are divided by two areas, "Chipewyan" (Northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, North West Territories) and British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon and Northwest Territories, grouped together. Each area is then divided into a social and cultural section and a language section. Bibliography includes citations from the Hearne Bibliography. The article is current as of 1998.
Discusses rights and benefits under the agreement, compares intended to actual implementation, identifies key issues, and makes recommendations for future agreements.
Agreement between Canada, Province of Manitoba, Manitoba Hydro, and Northern Flood Committee reached as a result of hydro-electric mega project.
Analysis of grocery suppliers across 103 northern communities eligible for either full or partial subsidy by Nutrition North Canada. Also examines how delivery of the program influences the industry.
Database of material at University of Saskatchewan Archives and University of Saskatchewan Library (Special Collections) relating to the Northwest Resistance of 1885. Includes some digitized images linked to descriptions in database, biographies of key participants and a chronology of events.
Information on the Ojibwe artist (1932-2007). Includes links to biography, genesis of medicine or legend painting, images of artworks, a short bibliography of Morriseau, Woodland painting and painters.
Author asserts that language policies and ideologies have been at the foundation of attempts to remove Native inhabitants and create a "White America".
Whispering Wind, vol. 43, no. 2, Issue 294, December 2014, pp. 14-17
Description
Discusses misconceptions found in the book, The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper and traces the history of the Mohegan and Stockbridge-Munsee.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 3, Summer, 1995, pp. 389-405
Description
Author examines 19th century liturgical texts adapted and translated to the Cherokee language. Semantic analysis reveals several representational and conceptual problems that had to be overcome in order to create effective translations of the texts.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1998, pp. 83-85
Description
Author describes his experience in writing a piece for a test and the reasons for his subsequent rejection.
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