The Dialogues Project: An Aboriginal Point of View (Intervention)

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Wade Grant
Canadian Issues, Aboriginal Immigrant Relations Today, Summer, 2012, pp. 24-25
Description
Introduces project that brought together new immigrants, urban Aboriginals and local First nations to discuss their ancestral histories. To access article scroll to p. 24.
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Diefenbaker, Rt. Hon. John - Western Trip

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Description
File contains correspondence from the First Baptist Church in North Battleford, SK to Prime Minister Diefenbaker summarizing the work the Church has undertaken in the Aboriginal community there.
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The Difference a Community Worker Makes

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Phyllis Doty
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, June 1985, pp. 39-42
Description
Author comments that an effective community worker must establish mutual trust between the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian populations.
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Differences in Homeownership Rates Between Aboriginal Peoples and White Canadians in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area: Does Race Matter?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joe T. Darden
Sameh M. Kamel
Native Studies Review, vol. 14, no. 1, 2001, pp. 55-81
Description
Research conducted on distribution of housing market opportunities show race matters in CMA housing market after excluding age, marital status, family type, education, occupation and income levels.
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Digging for Identity: Reflections on the Cultural Background of Collecting

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Curtis M. Hinsley
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 2, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Spring, 1996, pp. 180-196
Description
Author examines and discusses the narrative of a civilization—the Moundbuilders of America—that inhabited the Mississippi River valley prior to contemporary Indigenous peoples.
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Digital Ethics and Reconciliation: Digital Ethics Report

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Author/Creator
Karine St-Onge
Description
Report offers 26 recommendations for library staff and researchers seeking to decolonize their services in regards to collaborative research with Indigenous communities, the products of that research, and previously acquired archival materials. Multiple case studies included; majority are Canadian, but also includes cases from Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, and the United States.
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The Dilemma of Equality and Diversity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Jindra
Current Anthropology, vol. 55, no. 3, June 2014, pp. 316-334
Description
Examines the sources of tension rising from the relationship of culture and poverty.
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Dimensions of Native American Stereotyping

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeffery R. Hanson
Linda P. Rouse
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 11, no. 4, 1987, pp. 33-58
Description
Seeks to add to the understanding of current stereotypes through the use of survey sampling and quantitative measuring instruments.
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The Diminishment of the Great Sioux Reservation: Treaties, Tricks, and Time

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alan L. Neville
Alyssa Kaye Anderson
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 4, Fall, 2013, pp. 237-251
Description
Looks at several treaties and acts which all contributed to loss of land belonging to the Sioux: Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851; Homestead Act of 1862; Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868; Act of 1877; Allotment Act of 1886; Act of 1889 and Wheeler-Howard Act; Pick-Sloan Flood Control Act of 1944; Indian Land Consolidation Act.
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Diné Clans and Climate Change: A Historical Lesson for Land Use Today

Alternate Title
Dine Clans and Climate Change: A Historical Lesson for Land Use Today
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Klara Kelley
Harris Francis
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 1, 2019, pp. 55-82
Description
Authors describes the Diné system of clans and kinship, and suggest that rooted as it is in an ethic of universal relatedness, it might hold solutions for dealing with environmental and political instability.
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Direct European Immigrant Transmission of Old World Pathogens to Numic Indians during the Nineteenth Century

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard W. Stoffle
Kristine L. Jones
Henry F. Dobyns
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 181-203
Description
Examines the writings of Brigham Young to reconstruct some of the epidemiological events that affected Indigenous people in what is now Utah while was being colonized.
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Director, Journal Of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain, "The Mixed or 'Half-Breed' Races of North-Western Canada", by A. P. Reid, 1875.

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Description
Note: The title and description of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library. A typed transcript of an old document, "The Mixed or 'Half-Breed' Races of North-Western Canada", by A. P. Reid, Director of the Journal Of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 4 (1875): 45-52.
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"Dirty Domestics and Worse Cooks": Aboriginal Women's Agency and Domestic Frontiers, Southern Australia, 1800-1850

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lynette Russell
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 28, no. 1 & 2, 2007, pp. 18-46
Description
Discussion on the domestic relationships of Aboriginal women and non-Aboriginal men who worked in the sealing industry. The article also discusses how the women were able to maintain traditional activities and practices, and how the teaching of native languages ensured the cultural and physical survival of the Aboriginal community.
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Disability

Alternate Title
2011 Census Paper Series
CAEPR Indigenous Population Project 2011 Census Papers ; no. 6
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nicholas Biddle
Mandy Yap
Matthew Gray
Description
Uses data from 2006 and 2011 Australian censuses to analyze geographic and demographic distribution of disability within Indigenous population and compare results to non-Indigenous population.
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The "Disappearance" of the Abenaki in Western Maine: Political Organization and Ethnocentric Assumptions

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David L. Ghere
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring, 1993, pp. 193-207
Description
Article examines the ways that the settler colonial narrative “erased” the reality that members of the Abenaki nation continued to reside in Western Maine following Dummer’s War (1722-1727) and present evidence to support this case.
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Discerning Connections, Revising the Master Narrative, and Interrogating Identity in Louis Owen's The Sharpest Sight

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chris LaLonde
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 305-325
Description
Contends contemporary authors like Owen's explore the complexites of relationships fundamental to individual and cultural identity in an attempt to rediscover a sense of place and community, but also to bring about political and cultural change.
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Disciplining the Savages: Savaging the Disciplines

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Donald L. Birchfield
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 28, no. 2, 2008, pp. 445-446
Description
Book review of: Disciplining the Savages by Martin Nakata. Scroll to page 445 to read review.
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Discourse Practices in Nuuk, Greenland: Language Usage and Language Attitudes of Students at the Gymnasium, a Pilot Project

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karen Langgård
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, 2001, pp. 235-274
Description
Reports on language use after Grade 10 and prior to university and warns of possible future problems resulting from conflicts between the Danish and Greenlandic languages. Some comparisons are drawn with Nunavut.
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Discovering Differences: Maaori-White Relationships in New Zealand

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Te Kotahi Mahuta
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, Special Issue on International Year of Indigenous Peoples: Discovery and Human Rights, 1993, pp. 55-78
Description
Focuses on the Tainui people's efforts to seek redress for the confiscation of their lands in the mid 1860s.
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Discrimination and Indigenous Identity in Chicago's Native Community

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James V. Fenelon
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, Special Issue on American Indians and the Urban Experience, 1998, pp. 273-303
Description
Examines the discrimination and Indigenous identity in Chicago's Native community.
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