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Aboriginal Autonomy: Issues and Strategies

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
M.C. Dillon
Aboriginal History, vol. 19, 1995, pp. 228-230
Description
Book review of: Aboriginal Autonomy: Issues and Strategies by H. C. Coombs. Review located by scrolling to page 228.
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Aboriginal Children and Early Childhood Development and Education in Canada: Linking the Past and the Present to the Future

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margo Greenwood
Sarah de Leeuw
Tina Ngaroimata Fraser
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 30, no. 1, Indigenous Approaches to Early Childhood Care and Education, 2007, pp. 5-18, 189-190
Description
Argues that early childhood is an area of politicized potential for beneficial transformative change for communities and nations.
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Aboriginal-Crown Treaty-Making in Canada: A Many-Splendoured Thing

E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jim R. Miller
Aboriginal Policy Research, vol. 7
Description

Looks at commercial compacts, peace and friendship treaties, territorial treaties, differing interpretations of treaty history, and difference between history and legal history. Chapter one from A History of Treaties and Policies, which is vol. 7 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the third annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2009.

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Aboriginal Tribes (North America, New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land and British Guiana) Return to Several Addresses to His Majesty, Dated 19 March 1834, for, Copies or Extracts of all Such Reports from the Governors or Lieutenant-Governors of British Possessions in North America ...

Alternate Title
Parliamentary Papers / Great Britain. Parliament (1833-1841), House of Commons ; 617, 1834
Return to Several Addresses to His Majesty, Dated 19 March 1834, for, Copies or Extracts of all Such Reports from the Governors or Lieutenant-Governors of British Possessions in North America, and of the Answers Thereto, as May Throw Light on the Present
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Great Britain. Colonial Office
Description
Contains correspondence, or copies of dispatches, of Upper and Lower Canada regarding "Aboriginal Tribes in British Possessions" which also included Australia.
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Aboriginality and the Violence of Colonialism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Irene Watson
Borderlands E - Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1-8
Description
Explores the dichotomy between cultural relativism and universalism and examines how these tensions are used to legitimize assimilation by the Australian colonial state.
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Aborigines in Colonial Victoria 1835-86

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
K. R. Howe
Aboriginal History, vol. 4, no. 2, 1980, pp. 205-206
Description
Book review of: Aborigines in Colonial Victoria 1835-86 by M. F. Christie. To access review, scroll down to page 205.
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Addressing the Persistence of Tuberculosis Among the Canadian Inuit Population: The Need For a Social Determinants of Health Framework

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kassandra C. Kulmann
Chantelle AM Richmond
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, Health and Well-being, 2011, pp. 1-16
Description
Describes the medical and socio-economic influences contributing to the high rate of tuberculosis. Includes recommendations for future research and policy changes.
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Adventures of a Surveyor in the Canadian Northwest, 1880-1883

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lewis H. Thomas
W. T. Thompson
Saskatchewan History, vol. 3, no. 3, Autumn, 1950, pp. 81-98
Description
Memoir of surveyor William Thomas Thompson; introduction by Lewis H. Thomas. Describes Thompson’s route, work, and experiences in Western Canada; includes encounters with Tatanka Iyotake (Sitting Bull), Chief Sakimay, Métis and Saulteaux people, the RCMP, and several government representatives. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 81.
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American Indian Policy in the Old Northwest, 1783-1812

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reginald Horsman
The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, 3rd Series, January 1961, pp. 35-53
Description
Outlines methods used by U.S. government to acquire lands between Ohio and the Mississippi from unwilling Native Americans.
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[Appraising Cole Harris' Making Native Space]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Keith Thor Carlson
Sarah Carter
Kate McPherson
James Murton
Cole Harris
Native Studies Review, vol. 16, no. 2, 2005, pp. 125-149
Description
Book review of: Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia by Cole Harris. Comments by Cole about the review also included.
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At the Court of the Strange God

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Valerie Kerruish
Law and Critique, vol. 13, no. 3, October 2002, pp. 271-287
Description
Discussion of the Australian High Court decision of Mabo (No. 2).
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At the Intersections of Empire: Ceremony, Transnationalism, and American Indian–Filipino Exchange

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alyssa A. Hunziker
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 116-134
Description
Author uses a transnational framework for engaging with Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel; argues that this approach allows the reader to see similarities between Indigenous people in North America and other colonized nations, and to compare settler-colonial and colonial contexts.
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Atonement Among the Haudenosaunee

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Doug George-Kanentiio
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, Fall, 2009
Description
Looks at the fundamental elements of Iroquois society, and the founding constitution of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, which provides an efficient institution of democratic governance, social and economic stability, and a moral equation to achieve peace.
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The Bagot Commission: Developing a Corporate Memory for the Indian Department

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Leslie
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association: Historical Papers, vol. 17, no. 1, 1982, pp. 31-52
Description
Examines how an investigation into reforms needed to improve living conditions and reduce operational costs instead resulted in a permanent and expanded Indian Department.
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'Battlin' For Their Rights': Aboriginal Activism and the Leper Line

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Scrimgeour
Aboriginal History, vol. 36, 2012, pp. 43-65
Description
Comments on the breach of legislation made by Australian Aboriginal people illegally crossing the twentieth parallel as form of activism challenging restrictive legislation.
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