Organizations

Antagonism Sours Relations With First Nations

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, April 5, 2007, p. A11
Description
Comments on a Canadian Forces counterinsurgency manual citing the Mohawk Warrior Society as an example of a "radical" group.
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Antoine Lonesinger 11 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Antoine Lonesinger
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Description
Interview includes two stories: the first about a boy who saves a boy and wins a wife in the process; a second about a boy who upon returning to his band with a wife becomes chief.
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Appendix C: Who is Calling for What?

Alternate Title
Families First: A Manitoba Indigenous Approach to Addressing the Issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Joëlle Pastora Sala
Byron Williams]
Description
Lists names of Indigenous, national and international organizations, municipal and provincial/territorial governments and political parties, who they represent, and whether they were calling for an inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls or some alternate actions. Part of Families First: A Manitoba Indigenous Approach to Addressing the Issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
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The Arctic Council: A Brief History, Its Partnership with Indigenous Groups of the Arctic, and Its Role in Uncovering and Addressing Health Issues in the Far North

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathleen Murray
Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, vol. 35, no. 1, Special Issue on Aboriginal Health Information, 2014, pp. 27-31
Description
Brief overview of the organization, with a focus on health-related publications and how to locate them.
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The Arctic: Organizations Involved in Circumpolar Cooperation

Alternate Title
In Brief (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) ; 2008-15-E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Thai Nguyen
Tim Williams
Description
Brief description of international, European, research and Indigenous peoples' organizations. Revised version. Original published August 2012.
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Arctic-The North

Articles » General
Description
File contains an article from the Globe and Mail involving the Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories' claim on the western portion of the North West Territories.
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Arnait Video Productions: Women Telling Their Own Stories

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Author/Creator
Sonia Gunderson
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2, Summer, 2009, pp. [10]-[13]
Description
Brief history of the Inuit collective since its establishment in 1992. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 10.
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Art K. Davis Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Art Davis
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
Art Davis, a professor of sociology, hired Jim Brady as a research technician/interviewer for work in the north. Davis discusses Brady's work, his personality, his politics and compares Brady to Malcolm Norris.
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Artist-Run Organizations and the Restoration of Indigenous Cultural Sovereignty in Toronto, 1970 to 2010

Alternate Title
National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples, 2011
Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: [Fostering Biimaadiziwin]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Adrian Foster
Description
Discusses contributions of organizations such as A Space, the Theatre Centre, Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts, V-Tape, and Centre for Aboriginal Media/ImagineNATIVE Festival, and the National Film Board's Challenge for Change program. Excerpt from Well-Being in the Urban Aboriginal Community edited by David Newhouse, Kevin FitzMaurice, Tricia McGuire-Adams, and Daniel Jetté. Originally presented at the 2011 National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples.
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Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Secretariat Inc.

Web Sites » Organizations
Description
Official site of AMC (Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs), includes information and links for stakeholders and potential stakeholders about child and family services, education, environment, gaming, policy, press, health, housing and more..
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‘At the centre of it all are the children’: Aboriginal Childhoods and the National Film Board

Alternate Title
"At the center of it all are the children"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Heather Norris Nicholson
London Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 17, Quality, Equality & Inequality, 2001/2002, pp. 73-100
Description
Uses NFB productions to illustrate the changing attitudes toward Aboriginal people, specifically Aboriginal children, in the films, Pied Piper of the Three R's (1953), Kevin Alec (1977), and Richard Cardinal: Cry from the Diary of a Metis Child (1986).
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Athabasca Basin Development Wins Skookum Jim Award

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Mike Gosselin
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 5, May 2008, p. 19
Description
Looks at the award that honored the success of the Athabasca Basin Development and comments on the economic benefits this organization has provided to northern Saskatchewan. Article located by scrolling to page 19.
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Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat

Alternate Title
APCFNC
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs
Description
Website offers an events calendar, Atlantic Policy Congress files, current news, media releases, employment opportunities, and links to First Nations organizations regionally and nationally.
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Australian History: Lifting Haze or Descending Fog?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Maynard
Aboriginal History, vol. 27, 2003, pp. [139]-145
Description
Comments on the Australian Aboriginal historical experience and the necessity of dealing with the past in order to move forward.
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Background on the Media Corporation

Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, Winter, 1987, p. 4
Description
Description of the formation and history of the Saskatchewan Indian Media Corporation and its goal of delivering media services to the Treaty peoples in Saskatchewan.
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Bama Wadu Wadu Mara Mara - Young Aboriginal Men and Women

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Ernest Hunter
Patricia Fagan
Tiffany Wilkes
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, March/April 1998, pp. 12-18
Description
Reports on three day Pacific Rim Indigenous Adolescent Health Conference held in Cooktown, Queensland, Australia.
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The Beginning

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Virginia Watt
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3, Fall, 1999, pp. 6-16
Description
Overview of the organization which began as the Canadian Handicrafts Guild and the events which preceded the first exhibition of Eskimo Art in 1949 as well as the following four years. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 6.
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Being Idle No More: The Women Behind the Movement

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Febna Caven
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, The Electronic Drum: Community Radios Role in Indigenous Language Revitalization, March 2013, p. [?]
Description
Discusses the grassroots movement that is challenging the legislative onslaught upon Indigenous treaty rights, sovereignty, and the environment.
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Beyond Justice: What Makes an Indigenous Justice Organization?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marianne O. Nielsen
Samantha Brown
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 36, no. 2, 2012, pp. 47-73
Description
Studies seven indigenous justice service organizations in four countries to determine the essential characteristics specific to Indigenous organizations.
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Big Sisters Saskatoon Hiring of Aboriginal Staff

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
City of Saskatoon
Description
Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Monday, March 24, 1980 regarding a petition by individuals supporting a proposal to hire an Aboriginal staff person for the Big Sisters Association of Saskatoon.
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Bill Meawasige Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Bill Meawasige
Alex Cywink
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview with Bill Meawasige where he gives a general account of his life.
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Bill Wilson Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Bill Wilson
Carol Pearlstone
Indian History Film Project
Description
Bill Wilson was born in Lac La Biche, Alberta in 1934 and raised by Indian people west of Calgary. His father was 3/4 Sioux from the U.S. but his parents broke up when he was little. He discusses his negative attitude toward the RCMP.
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Billy Day Awarded NAAA

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Mosha Folger
Inuktitut, no. 100, Spring, 2006, pp. 6-7
Description
National Aboriginal Achievement Award (NAAA) presented to Inuvialut Elder who advocated for Arctic environmental preservation.
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The Birth of WINHEC

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Thomas Davis
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 16, no. 4, International Indigenous Education, Summer, 2005, p. 21
Description
Poem written on the occasion of the World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium (WINHEC) on the Stoney Reserve in Alberta on August 7, 2002.
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