Documenting the Dakota: Lucy Margaret Baker

Alternate Title
Lucy Margaret Baker Fonds (F 375)
Archival » Collections (primary materials)
Author/Creator
Saskatchewan Archives Board
Description
Records in the Margaret Baker fonds collection tell the story of the development of the Wahpeton reserve and Lucy Baker's activities as a missionary teacher. Reflects stereotypical views of the time.
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Documenting Tradition: Territoriality and Textuality in Black Hawk’s Narrative

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark Rifkin
American Literature, vol. 80, no. 4, December 2008, pp. 677-705
Description
Discusses how Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk contextualizes the Battle of Bad Axe within previous conflicts between the U.S. government and Indigenous peoples of the Great Lake region over conceptions of landholding, diplomacy and trade.
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Documents: Introduction

Alternate Title
[Document One]: Lake of Two Mountains Petition
[Document Two]: Response By the Under Secretary of State
[Document Two]: Response [to Lake of Two Mountains Petition] by the Under Secretary of State
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
F. Laurie Barron
E. J. Langevin
Native Studies Review, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 129-131
Description

Introduction and documents regarding Lake of Two Mountains Petition which speak to the social gulf, that by the mid-1870's, separated the Mohawks and Oka townspeople

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Documents: Introduction

Alternate Title
Document One: Department of Indian Affairs Canada, Ottawa, October 13th, 1926
Document Two: Department of Indian Affairs Canada, Office of the Deputy Superintendent General, Ottawa, Ottawa, October 13th, 1926
[Document One]: Health and Disease at the Norway House Indian Agency
[Document Two]:Report of Medical Services to Indians Located Along the Line of the Canadian National Railways from Cochrane, Ont. to La Tuque, Que., June to October, 1926
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
James B. Waldram
Native Studies Review, vol. 5, no. 1, Native Health Research in Canada, 1989, pp. 233--274
Description

Introduction and two archival items on social and economic conditions of Aboriginal people. The first report is on the socio-economic conditions that contributed to the spread of tuberculosis, and the economic measures needed to be taken to improve the lives of the Swampy Cree Indians. The second report is an account of the socio-economic conditions of Aboriginal people and recommendations for improving their health status.

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Does Climate Change Redefine Sovereignty?

Alternate Title
Inuit Studies Conference ; 17th, 2010
[Inuit People and the Aboriginal World]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Eric Digman
Description
Looks at state sovereignty, climate change, political activity and Inuit influence.
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Does the Residential School ADR Process Effect Reconciliation?

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Gregory R. Hagen
Description
Argues that the alternate dispute resolution (ADR) process relies too heavily on tort law without incorporating Aboriginal perspectives, has been arrived at without agreement or census of those affected, and may lead to re-victimization. Based on presentation at Residential Schools Legacy: Is Reconciliation Possible? conference.
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Doin' the Locum Motion

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Chris Rolton
Inuktitut, no. 91, 2002, pp. 103-[?]
Description
Book review of: Doin' the Locum Motion by Dr. Chris Rolton. Accompanied by autobiographical note and excerpt.
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Doing Everything and Nothing: A First-Year Experience

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeane Breinig
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 103-112
Description
Author describes the hiring process and their first year as a Professor in the English department of University of Alaska Anchorage; offers discussion of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) hiring practices and of the process of learning “how universities work.”
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"Doing Everything Possible to Encourage a British Sentiment": The Rise of Film Censorship and Regulation of Picture Houses in British Columbia, 1910–15

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brian McIlroy
BC Studies, no. 205, Spring, 2020, pp. 79-101
Description
Investigates how the implementation of film censorship in British Columbia complements established legislation regarding Indigenous and Asian populations during the early twentieth century. Censorship was used to advance and maintain British-influenced values.
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Doing It Right: A Best Practice Guide to Attracting, Training, Employing, and Retaining Aboriginal People in the Trades

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
ita [Industry Training Authority] Aboriginal Initiatives
Description
Discusses challenges and issues and the essential elements in employment counseling services and training programs including finding candidates, defining program's purpose, assessing participant readiness, and providing support and resources. Based on experiences of organizations in British Columbia.
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Doing Research on Effective Cross-Cultural Teaching: The Teacher Tale

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Judith Kleinfeld
G. Williamson McDiarmid
Steve Grubis
William Parrett
Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 61, no. 1, The Transcultural Education of American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Teachers and Students ..., Autumn, 1983, pp. 86-108
Description
Discusses several components of cross-cultural teachers: identification and criteria of effective teachers and the important knowledge to have.
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Domestic Laws versus Aboriginal Visions: An Analysis of the Delgamuukw Decision

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Candice Metallic
Patricia Monture-Angus
Borderlands E-Journal: New Spaces in the Humanities, vol. 1, no. 2, 2002, p. [?]
Description
Examines significant court decisions from an Aboriginal perspective to illustrate the problems facing First Nations when dealing with the Canadian judicial system's inherent legal colonialism.
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Domestic Service and Frontier Feminism: The Call for a Woman Visitor to "Half-Caste" Girls and Women in Domestic Service, Adelaide, 1925-1928

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Victoria Katharine Haskins
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 28, no. 1 & 2, 2007, pp. 124-164
Description
Examines the significance of the feminist campaign to ensure proper treatment of domestics through the appointment of "Women Protectors of Aborigines" in central Australia.
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Don McLean Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Don McLean
Christine Welsh
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview with non-Indian employed at the Gabriel Dumont Institute in Regina. At the time of the interview he was writing a book on the history of the Metis nation.
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Don Nielson Interview 1

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Don Nielson
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
Don Nielson was one of the original organizers of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan in 1964. He talks about the differences between Metis groups in the north and south and Norris's fight against government funding.
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Don Nielson Interview 2

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Don Nielson
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
One of the original organizers of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan in 1964 discusses problems within native organizations between north and south, status and non-status, Liberal and CCF.
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"Don't Even Talk to Me if You're Kinya'áanii [Towering House]": Adopted Clans, Kinship, and "Blood" in Navajo Country

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristina Jacobsen
Shirley Ann Bowman
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 43-76
Description
Uses historical resources (oral histories, interviews, and archival materials) and contemporary popular culture to describe and discuss the elaborate Diné clan systems and extended kinship relationships and networks.
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Don't You Hear the Red Man Calling?

E-Books
Author/Creator
[Samuel Hume Blake]
Description

Includes correspondence and quotes from a range of public and private individuals including Hume, Frank Pedley, John Hines, church officials, a Report of Special Indian Committee (1908) on policies, the state of health, death, and education in industrial and residential schools.

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"Double Culturedness": The "Capital" of Inuit Nurses

Alternate Title
Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Circumpolar Health
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Helle Møller
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, Supplement 1, 2013, p. article no. 21266
Description
Due to the strong non-Inuit nature of nursing instruction, Inuit nurses are well versed in both languages and cultures.
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“Down the Memory Spilling Out into the World” (Silko): The Spiral Cycle of Repetition With Variation in the Serious Comedy of Native American Traditional Mythoi as an Adaptive Bridge into the Future

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
Joseph Faulds
Description
Discusses how the spiral journey of mythic heroes is used to provide a shift in viewer perspective.
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The Downtown Eastside and Aboriginal Women

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shawna Narayan
Selina Demetrick
Canadian Journal of Native Studies , vol. 38, no. 2, 2018, pp. 165-168
Description
Authors examine the intersecting social, economic, racial, and colonial/systemic factors that create a reality for Indigenous women living in the Vancouver DTES that includes elevated incidences of poverty, violence, substance use, and health concerns. Provide commentary and recommendations surrounding the creation of policy, programs, and interventions.
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Dr. Russell's Carlton Trail

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ralph Russell
Description
Various historical notes on the Carlton Trail composed by Dr. Ralph Russell. Includes discussion of the trail itself, posts along it, and prominent persons connected with it (such as John Palliser and Gabriel Dumont).
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Drama by Contemporary Native American Women

Theses
Author/Creator
Sharon L. Sullivan
Description
Theatre and Film Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2004. Discusses the plays: Flight of the Army Worm by Geraldine Keams, Strength of Indian Women by Vera Manuel, Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots by Monique Mojica, Ghost Dance by Annette Arkeketa and The Unnatural and Accidental Women by Marie Clements.
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Drawing the Western Frontier: The James E. Taylor Album

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Description
Website includes discussion and links to exhibit of 748 gallery items from American illustrator James E. Taylor, a professional artist known for his newspaper illustrations created during the post-Civil War years in the United States.
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Drawing upon the Wealth of Indigenous Laws in the Yukon

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Darcy Lindberg
Northern Review, no. 50, Law in the Canadian North, April 07, 2020, pp. 179-189
Description
Editorial article discusses the need to for non-Indigenous legal systems to engage with and normalize the legal traditions of the First Nations in the Yukon.
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“A Dreadful Little Glutton Always Telling You about Food”: The Epistolary Everyday and the Making of Settler Colonial British Columbia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Ishiguro
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 99, no. 2, Summer, May 2018, pp. 258-283
Description
Article examines communications between settlers in British Columbia and the United Kingdom highlighting the ways that settlers aligned themselves with metropolitan Europeans and disregarded local Indigenous and other racialized peoples in a way that reflected a broader politics of daily life that underpinned the settler colonial project.
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