Genealogy
Lakota Documentaries: The Legacy of Don Moccasin
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jurgita Antoine
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 23, no. 3, Technology and Culture, Spring, 2012
Description
Comments on a language preservation project created by a man who wanted to keep histories, stories and genealogies recorded for generations to come.
Land Claims [Part Two]
Alternate Title
A Framework for Recognition of Métis Rights and Aspirations
Métis Land: Rights and Scrip Conference
Métis Nation of Alberta's Registry: A Digital Approach to Connecting Historical and Contemporary Communities
MNA's Registry: A Digital Approach to Connecting Historic and Contemporary Communities
Reconciling Métis Rights: Strategies for Negotiations with the Crown
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Douglas Eyford
Ryan Shackleton
Harry Slade
Description
Three presentations: "Reconciling Métis Rights: Strategies for Negotiations with the Crown"; "MNA's Registry: A Digital Approach to Connecting Historic and Contemporary Communities"; and "A Framework for Recognition of Métis Rights and Aspirations". Followed by question and answer period.
Living in a (Schrödinger’s) Box: Jimmie Durham’s Strategic Use of Ambiguity
Alternate Title
Living in a (Schrodinger’s) Box: Jimmie Durham’s Strategic Use of Ambiguity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Suzanne Newman Fricke
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 55-64
Description
A discussion of how the artist and his supporters continue to identify him as Cherokee, despite his own admission of not being a member of the Cherokee Nation.
Localization of a Recessive Gene for North America Indian Childhood Cirrhosis to Chromosome Region 16q22 - and Identification of a Shared Haplotype
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christine Bétard
Andrée Rasquin-Weber
Carl Brewer
Eric Drouin
Suzanne Clark
et al.
American Journal of Human Genetics, vol. 67, no. 1, July 2000, pp. 222-228
Description
Results from a genome wide scan on three DNA pools of samples from 13 patients, 16 unaffected siblings, and 22 parents from five families of Ojibway-Cree in northwestern Quebec.
Manitoba's Red River Settlement: Manuscript Sources for Economic and Demographic History
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Douglas Sprague
Roland Frye
Archivaria, no. 9, Winter, 1979-80, pp. 179-193
Description
Discusses Hudson's Bay Company's engagement (employment) registers, settler's accounts, census returns, and land registries and parish registers and genealogical affidavits, 1875.
Métis Identity
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Darren R. Préfontaine
Leah Dorion
Patrick Young
Sherry Farrell Racette
Description
Traces the roots of Métis sense of uniqueness as a cultural group, discusses how other groups have viewed them, and presents some sources for tracing genealogy.
[Métis Registries]
Alternate Title
Wahkootowin as Methodology: How Archival Records Reveal a Metis Kinscape
[Daniels: In and Beyond the Law]
[Big Historical Data: Strategies for Leveraging Colonial History]
[Métis Identification and Registry]
[The Daniels Decision, Métis Registries, and Métis Research]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Brenda Macdougall
Mike Evans
Ryan Shackleton
Tracee Mcfeeters
Description
Presenters discuss importance of family relationships and kinship rather than just bloodlines, the Métis Nation of British Columbia's BC Métis Mapping Research Project, and administration of the Métis Nation of Alberta's identification and registration process.
Duration: 1:32:26.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
[Métis Scrip Affidavits]
Alternate Title
Record Group 15-D-II-8-a-i / vols. 1319-1324, 3171
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Library and Archives Canada]
Description
Finding aid lists Record Group no., vol., number of microfilm reel, names of individuals requesting land, number of the electronic copy, and dates. Affidavits were made by Métis families living in Manitoba to support their claim to the land set aside for Métis children and heads of families under the Manitoba Act (33 Vic., c. 3). Finding aid lists Record Group no., vol., number of microfilm reel, names of individuals requesting land, number of the electronic copy, and dates.
Miwok Moieties
Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.12, no.4
E-Books
Author/Creator
Edward Winslow Gifford
Description
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 12, (pp139-194).
Molecular Death and Redface Reincarnation: Indigenous Appropriations in the US and Canada
Alternate Title
Daniels v Canada, Beyond Jurisprudential Interpretations: What to Do When the Horse as Left the Barn
Daniels: In and Beyond the Law
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kim TallBear
Chris Andersen
Description
Speakers discuss the issue of who and what defines Indigenous identity, settler-state's practice of imposing their definitions, the phenomenon of "playing Indian", and broader social interpretations of court decisions such as Daniels.
Duration: 1:59:35. Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
Monsieur Batoche
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Diane Payment
Saskatchewan History, vol. 32, no. 3, Autumn, 1979, pp. 81-103
Description
Author used government records, correspondence of the Oblats de Marie Immaculée, homestead files, and Métis testimony to illustrate the far reaching influence of the Métis generally, and specifically of the family and community of François-Xavier Letendre dit Batoche in the North West in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to p.81.
My Grandfather's Family Secrets: Unravelling Layers of Race and Belonging in an Australian Mixed-Race Family
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kim Burke
Victoria Grieves
Journal of the European Associating for Studies of Australia, vol. 4, no. 1, Indigenous Marriage; Family and Kinship in Australia:The Persistence of Life and Hope, 2013, pp. 92-102
Description
Discusses the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901 and the White Australian Policy.
Notes on Hopi Clans
Alternate Title
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; v.30, pt. 6
E-Books
Author/Creator
Robert H. Lowie
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
Description
Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v.30 (p.303-370).
On the Creation of the Multimedia Project "the Memory of a Settlement", Dedicated to the Genealogy, Oral History, and Photographic Archives of Vupik Families from the Settlement of Novoe Chaplino, Chukotka
Alternate Title
On the Creation of the Multimedia Project "the Memory of a Settlement", Dedicated to the Genealogy, Oral History, and Photographic Archives of Vupik Families from the Settlement of Novoe Chaplino, Chukotka (Research Note)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dmitriy Oparin
Etudes Inuit Studies, vol. 45, no. 1/2, Chukotka: Understanding the Past, Contemporary Practices, and Perceptions of the Present, 2021, pp. 519-529
Description
Highlights of a the digitization project to preserve the genealogical history of the Novoe Chaplino settlement.
[Once Were Pacific: Māori Connections to Oceania]
Alternate Title
[Once Were Pacific: Maori Connections to Oceania]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Brendan Hokowhitu
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 2, Tribalography, Summer, 2014, pp. 94-97
Description
Book review of: Once Were Pacific by Alice Te Punga Somerville.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 94.
Origins and Influences: The Family Ties of the Reverend Henry Budd
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Raymond M. Beaumont
Prairie Forum, vol. 17, no. 2, Native Studies, Fall, 1992, pp. 167-200
Description
Looks at the background of Reverend Henry Budd, one of the first Church of England missionaries, and comments on the trials in his life and the skills he used to overcome his struggles.
The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis
Alternate Title
The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660-1900
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Brenda Macdougall
Heather Devine
Native Studies Review, vol. 16, no. 2, 2005, pp. 151-157
Description
Book review of: The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660-1900 by Heather Devine.
"The People Who Own Themselves": Recognition of Métis Identity in Canada: Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Vernon White
Lillian Eva Dyck
Lynn Beyak
Jacques Demers
Marjory LeBreton ... [et al.]
Description
Provides background information relevant to identity, summary of evidence heard, and committee's key observations and recommendations to the federal government. Includes seven community profiles.
Plains Cree Identity: Borderlands, Ambiguous Genealogies and Narrative Irony
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Neal McLeod
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 2000, pp. 437-454
Description
Argues that the trend toward organizing along language specific lines is misleading and limiting because it oversimplifies familial and linguistic relationships.