History

Assessment focuses on six key areas: livelihoods, infrastructure, community participation, education/recreation, children and parents and mental and physical health.

File contains three photographs of Joan Beatty from the early 1970s.

Historical note:

Joan Beatty was the first Aboriginal woman elected to the Saskatchewan Legislature. Prior to this Beatty had a career in journalism and production, as well as management at SaskTel.

Book review of: The Beaver Hills Country: A History of Land and Life by Graham A. MacDonald.

Discusses its significance to several North American Indigenous tribes.

Recalls the achievements of the Hudson's Bay Company magazine and its evolution through the years as a forum for Northern issues.

Speaker discusses stereotypes of both Indigenous men and women, Canada 150 celebrations, and reactions to the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald erected on the Wilfred Laurier University Waterloo campus, including the video she made, Canadian Conversation. Duration: 34:22.

Book review of: Becoming British Columbia: A Population History by John Douglas Belshaw.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2000.

[Anthropology] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2010.

Presents personal story about the process of being adopted into an Aboriginal family.

Book review of: Becoming Visible edited by Terje Brantenberg, Janne Hansen and Henry Minde.

Book review of: Before the Country by Stephanie McKenzie. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 87.

Examine issues surrounding the practice of attaching names to sports teams during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Review of film produced by the women's film collective Arnait Video Productions. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 45.

Media, Culture, and Communication Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2013.

Outlines the modernist beginnings of Aboriginal literature in Canada. Part two.

Explores the relationship between with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police(RCMP) and First Nations people in Alberta and ways it can be improved. Duration: 24:35.

Social Work Thesis (MSW)--University of Victoria, 2014.

Teachers' guide developed in conjunction with exhibition mounted to dispel the misrepresentations of cultural beliefs created by Stephanie Myer's Twilight books.

Contends that the depiction of the 1890 Lakota Ghost Dance and the Wounded Knee massacre in Sophia Alice Callahan's novel, the first known novel by an Native American woman, provides a Native American perspective on self-identity in the late nineteenth century. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.

Photographs of Aboriginal people in prison shows the colonial violence against the Indigenous people at the turn of the century in north western Australia.

Discusses how the Ktaqamkukeweq Mi’kmaq are working to revitalize traditional practices to reclaim their cultural and ethnic identity.

Health and Social Sciences Thesis (MSW)--Massey University, 2011.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 1995.

History of the institution of chattel slavery with a focus on the relationship between the Chocktaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, and Mvskokean Cherokee and African slaves; including the forced relocation known as the "Trail Where We Cried" or the "Trail of Tears".

Comments on the lack of impact Bennelong's presence had on British society.

Filmmaker screens and briefly discusses the short Share the Wealth, and the documentary Weaving Worlds. Duration: 1:22:37.

Website focuses on the prehistoric, Algonkian-speaking peoples of Newfoundland.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 1983.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University, 2002.

After examining the development of Indian policy in the Yukon Territories, government agents were required to adjust procedures and policies from a national perspective to better meet regional realities.

Analysis of negotiated demands for work and encounters with labour politics, class, colonialism and capitalism.

[History] Thesis (M.A.)--Southern Connecticut State University, 2005.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Oregon, 2013.

Final report regarding the two specific claims arguing that reserve lands taken for highway construction were never surrendered to Canada and/or transferred to the Province of Quebec. Commissioners include : Sheila G. Purdy 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.]

Studies history of legislation by which individuals could renounce Indian "status" and gain Canadian citizenship through the Department of Indian Affairs.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2007.

Book review of: Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors by Frances E. Karttunen and Between Indian and White Worlds edited by Margaret Connell Szasz.

Discusses how administrators of the school modified the curriculum to reflect economic realities of the region. Students returned to their villages but were still disconnected from their communities.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, 2003.

Book review of Beyond the Blood by Pamela Palmater.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 1992.

Study suggests that by moving beyond church and state officials, we can better understand ourselves and the history of the incidents in order to heal and reconcile.

Book review of: Beyond Conquest: Native Peoples and the Struggle for History in New England by Amy E. Den Ouden.

Looks at creative ways of expressing human experience, along with creative critical approaches that tear down artificial boundaries. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.