Blood-Speak: Ward Churchill and the Racialization of American Indian Identity
Alternate Title
Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication ; 123
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Casey Ryan Kelly
Description
Discusses backlash from controversial article Some People Push Back which resulted in public scrutiny of the author's identity.
Blood Tribe / Kainaiwa Big Claim Inquiry - Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Examines whether the rejected claim was properly resolved. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde and Alan C. Holman.
[These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
Blood Tribe/Kainaiwa Inquiry: 1889 Akers Surrender
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Historical background and submissions to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) about whether a clerical error by the federal government resulted in 440 acres of mineral-rich land being taken without consent or compensation. No determination by ICC as parties agreed to negotiate a settlement under the Specific Claims Policy. Commissioners include: P. E. James Prentice, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and Carole T. Corcoran. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Blood Tribe/Kainaiwa Inquiry: Akers Surrender 1889 Claim, July 2008
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains letters/memos, submissions, band council documents, and reports in regards to the dispute over the federal government taking over 440 acres of mineral-rich reserve land without full consent or compensation.
Blood Tribe/Kainaiwa - The Big Claim
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Documents include Treaties, correspondence/letters, reports, submissions, maps and other related historical materials regarding The Big Claim by the Blood Tribe/Kainaiwa. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde and Alan C. Holman. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
Boarding and Public Schools: Navajo Educational Attainment, Conduct Disorder, and Alcohol Dependency
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eric Henderson
Stephen J. Kunitz
K. Ruben Gabriel
Aaron McCright
Jerrold E. Levy
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 8, no. 2, 1998, pp. 28-49
Description
Discusses study investigating risk factors for alcohol dependency among the Navajo.
The Boarding School Experience in American Indian Literature
Alternate Title
Native American Classics: Graphic Classics ; vol. 24
E-Books » Chapters
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.
The Book as a "Contact Zone": Textualizing Orality in James Welch's Fools Crow
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Tea Bartulović
Sanja Runtić
[sic], vol. 2, no. 1, The Book and Beyond, December 2011, p. [article 7?]
Description
Discusses novel about the Lone Eaters band living near the border between the Canadian rocky mountains and America in the 1870s.
Book Review Essay
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
William H. Katerberg
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 36, no. 4, Winter, 2006, pp. 644-648
Description
Reviews Origins: Canadian History to Confederation; Destinies: Canadian History Since Confederation; Journeys: A History of Canada by R. Douglas Francis, Richard Jones, and Donald B. Smith.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Thomas S. Abler
Canadian Journal of Native Studies , vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 199-201
Description
Book review of: William Bartram on the Southeast Indians by Gregory A. Waselkow and Kathryn E. Holland Braund (Editors). Historical reprint with extensive notes and analysis of Bartram's 18th century perspectives.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Various Authors
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 22, no. 2, 2002, pp. 399-402
Description
Book reviews of 10 books:
An Overview of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights and Compensation for their Breach by Robert Mainville. Black Elk Lives: Conversations With the Black Elk Family by Esther Black Elk DeSersa, Olivia Black Elk Pourier, Aaron DeSersa Jr., Clifton DeSersa.
Black Elk Speaks, Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux told through John G. Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow) by Nicholas Black Elk.
Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timer Region by Sandra Faiman-Silva.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Frank Kelderman
American Literature, vol. 86, no. 3, September 2014, pp. 611-614
Description
Book reviews of:
Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period by Drew Lopenzina.
The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism by Jodi A. Byrd.
On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory Andrew Newman.
Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies by Chadwick Allen.
BookCorner
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Peter J. Durkin
Whispering Wind, vol. 37, no. 1, Issue 257, July-August 2007, pp. 28-29
Description
Book reviews of:
The Tipis: Traditional Native American Shelter by Adolf Hungry-Wolf.
The Buffalo Hide Tipi of the Sioux by Larry Belitz.
Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters by Paul Goble.
Tipis, Tepees, Teepees: History and Design of the Cloth Tipi by Linda Holley.
The Boom Province: A Syndemic Approach to the HIV/AIDS Explosion Amongst Aboriginal Persons in Urban Saskatchewan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrea Paige Cessna
University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, February 2014, pp. 15-20
Description
Analyzes connection between co-infection, injection drug use, poverty, gender, and ethnicity/race to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Border Crossing Issues and the Jay Treaty
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lillian Eva Dyck
Dennis Glen Patterson
Lynn Beyak
Tobias C. Enverga
Sandra M. Lovelace Nicholas ... [et al.]
Description
Committee contends that measures must be implemented to facilitate legitimate travel for day-to-day activities by First Nations people.
Boundaries of Person, Boundaries of Place: Wilderness, "Indians" and the Mapping of Canada's Northwest Interior in 1857
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sabina Trimble
Mount Royal Undergraduate Humanities Review, Review 2, December 2014, pp. 1-12
Description
Discusses document produced by the British Parliament in 1857 about the land, inhabitants and Hudson Bay activities between the Great Lakes and Rocky Mountains in order to see what lands should be ceded from HBC to Canada for settlement.
Brave New Digs: Archaeology and Aboriginal People in British Columbia, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eldon Yellowhorn
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, 2012, pp. 87-99
Description
Discusses the socio-political history of archaeology, and the emergence of alternative approaches that emphasize community engagement and heritage stewardship.
Brian Cladoosby: The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community's Approach to Governance and Intergovernmental Relations
Alternate Title
Leading Native Nations Interview Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Brian Cladoosby
Ian Record
Description
Discusses a unique governance system and challenges facing tribal governments and communities.
Duration: 41:32. Includes textual transcript.
Requires creation of a free account to access materials.
Bringing the Past to Life: Extracting Spatial Information from Historical Maps for a Digital Atlas of American Indian Treaties and Territories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Daniel G. Cole
William J. Gribb
Description
Project had three main objectives: access to land tenure and population statistics for U.S. tribal groups, create maps in digital form referenced to the U.S. Geological Survey maps, and to create a printed atlas from information collected.
Bringing Them Home and the Contemporary Criminalisation of Indigenous Young People
Alternate Title
Bringing Them Home and the Contemporary Criminalization of Indigenous Young People
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chris Cunneen
AILR, vol. 12, Special Edition, pp. [46]-54
Description
Overview of juvenile justice over the past ten years in Australia and discussion about lack of action on reforms to the system as suggested in the report Bringing Them Home.