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The Missing Women's Commission of Inquiry

Alternate Title
The F Word
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Laura Wood
Jeannette Corbiere Lavell
President of the Native Women's Association of Canada discusses the validity of British Columbia's inquiry, the reasons for the organization's withdrawal from the process, and the need for a national inquiry. Duration: 44:31.
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The Moralization of Genocide in Canada

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Prairie Perspectives on Indian Residential Schools, Truth, and Reconciliation, The Forks, Winnipeg, MB, Thursday 17 June 2010
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Christopher Powell
Using historical comparisons, examines present concepts and Indian residential school policy as part of a larger government plan to assimilate Indigenous people.
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Mother Tongue: Old Debates and New Initiatives in San Education

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Maitseo Bolaane
Sidsel Saugestad
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1, Africa and the New Millennium Development Goals, 2006, pp. 46-54
Citing examples from research done in Botswana, article discusses several factors effecting education: spatial distance, cultural distance and a failure to accommodate local language and culture. To access this article, scroll down to page 46.
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The Murder of Melaityappa and How Judge Mann Succeeded in Making ‘the administration of justice palatable’ to South Australian Colonists in 1849

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Skye Krichauf
Aboriginal History, vol. 41, no. 1, December 2017, pp. 23-45
Uses the prosecution of Henry Valette Jones and Henry Thomas Morris for the murder of an Aboriginal man to illustrate the shortcomings of the colonial legal system in Australian when it came to prosecuting settlers for violence towards Indigenous peoples.
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My Journey of Magic Realism

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jeffry Feeger
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 3, The World on Our Shoulders: Cultivating Indigenous Youth Leadership, September 2013, p. [?]
Author discusses his beginnings, achievements, and use of art to raise awareness of the social and political realities of life in Papua New Guinea.
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NAGPRA After Two Decades

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephen E. Nash
Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh
Museum Anthropology, vol. 33, no. 2, Fall, 2010, pp. 99-104
Celebrates twenty years since the passing of the single most important piece of legislation affected museums in the United States.
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NAGPRA as a Paradigm: The Historical Context and Meaning of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in 2011

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 9th, 2011
Where No One Else Has Gone Before: Proceedings of the Ninth Native American Symposium
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Thomaira Babbit
A brief history of Native American Indian and United States relations; examines the similarities between the historical experiences of Native Americans and Palestinians; and discusses the movement to recover the objects and remains of their ancestors.
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The National Inquiry on Murders and Disappearances of Indigenous Women and Girls: Recommendations from the Symposium on Planning for Change - Towards a National Inquiry and an Effective National Action Plan

Alternate Title
Murders and Disappearances of Indigenous Women and Girls: Planning For Change - Towards a National Inquiry and an Effective National Action Plan, January 30-31, 2016
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Feminist Alliance for International Action
Native Women's Association of Canada
Discusses twenty-two recommendations from symposium for the design of a national inquiry into murders and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls in Canada.
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Native American Religious Liberty: Five Hundred Years after Columbus

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Walter R. Echo-Hawk
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, Special Issue on Encounter of Two Worlds: The Next Five Hundred Years, 1993, pp. 33-52
Looks at two cases that deny religious protection, a right under the First Amendment, regarding ancient religious practices that predate the founding of the United States and the writing of its Constitution.
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Native American Women: Our Voice, the Air

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Linda Hogan
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, Autumn, 1981, pp. 1-4
Discusses the ways in which Native American women influence their communities and the larger Euro-American society.
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Native Languages Supporting Indigenous Knowledge

Alternate Title
International Expert Group Meeting on Indigenous Languages: 8 - 10 January 2008, New York
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Priscilla Settee
Illustrates how language is essential to the survival of a culture and how state-imposed destruction of Indigenous languages has caused the loss of traditional knowledge systems.
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Native Peoples' Cultural and Human Rights: An Unfinished Agenda

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Suzan Shown Harjo
Arizona State Law Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, Spring, 1992, pp. 321-328
Comments on the American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA) and the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)
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Native Women's Assn. of Canada v. Canada

Alternate Title
Her Majesty The Queen v. Native Women's Association of Canada, file 23253
Native Women's Assn. of Canada v. Canada, [1994] 3 S.C.R. 627
The Queen v. Native Women's Association of Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Supreme Court of Canada
Supreme Court Reports, vol. 3, October 27, 1994, pp. 627-669
Association argued it suffered from inequitable funding and insufficient rights of participation in comparison to the four male-dominated national Aboriginal organizations.
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Native Women's Association of Canada's Report in Response to Canada's Fourth and Fifth Reports on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Covering the Period of September 1999-December 2004

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)
Presents the Native Women's Association of Canada's (NWAC) perspective on Canada's compliance with articles in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
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Natives Say Spirituality Led to Firing

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Diane Paquette
Anglican Journal, vol. 125, no. 1, January 1999, p. 1
Ministry of Labour investigates claim of three justice workers, removed from their jobs by Lac La Ronge Indian Band in 1997, alleging that job loss was due to practising traditional spirituality.
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“Neoliberal Apartheid”: Challenges for Decolonization from South Africa to Palestine (An Interview with Andy Clarno)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chandni Desai
Andy Clarno
Decolonization, vol. 6, no. 1, 2017, pp. 96-98
Author of Neoliberal Apartheid discusses commonalities between two states, including the patterns of extreme inequality, racialized poverty and advanced securitization which are symptomatic neoliberal regimes.
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Nepal: Indigenous Youth and the Armed Conflicts

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Luisang Waiba Tamang
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3-4, Indigenous Youth, 2005, pp. 50-53
Looks at historical and contemporary conflicts between the government, the Maoists rebels and the youth movement. To access this article, scroll down to page 50.
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New Directions in American Indian History

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
A. Blair Stonechild
Prairie Forum, vol. 15, no. 2, Fall, 1990, pp. 383-385
Book review of: New Directions in American Indian History by Colin G. Calloway.
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A "New Partnership" for Indigenous Peoples: Can the United Nations Make a Difference?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Russel Lawrence Barsh
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, Special Issue on International Year of Indigenous Peoples: Discovery and Human Rights, 1993, pp. 197-228
Brief history of the United Nations' involvement and move towards being a part of the decision making process that would affect Indigenous peoples throughout the world.
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