Cross-Cultural Relations
Addressing Inequities In Access to Quality Health Care for Indigenous People
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Peiris
Alex Brown
Alan Cass
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 179, no. 10, November 4, 2008, pp. 985-986
Description
Commentary on issues which influence accessibility and service utilization.
Addressing Shared Stereotypes of Native Americans and Veterans in a Composition Course’s Reading Sequence
Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 12th, 2017
Representations and Realities
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Tara Hembrough
Description
Discusses using the character Jackson in Sherman Alexie’s short story “What You Have Pawned I Will Redeem” in a post-secondary classroom to draw parallels between stereotypical representations of Indigenous people and American veterans.
Adolescence: A Window of Opportunity for Positive Change in Mental Health
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christine Wekerle
Randall L. Waechter
Eman Leung
Monika Leonard
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Special Issue: Adolescent Development, Mental Health, and Promising Research Directions, 2007, pp. 8-16
Description
Argues that Aboriginal youth have acculturation pressures, that do not exist for other adolescent populations, and discusses how community workers can effectively intervene and support youth during this vulnerable developmental period.
Adoption, Incorporation, and a Sense of Citizenship and Belonging in Indigenous Nations and Culture: A Haudenosaunee Perspective
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kevin J White
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 4, Special Issue: Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, December 2018, pp. 333-342
Description
Discusses the myriad of legal and customary protocols that contemporary Aboriginal citizens must negotiate in the regards to adoptive cultural practices. Describe the Creation and Great Law narratives which help members of the Iroquois Confederacy makes sense of these conventions.
The Adoption of Aboriginal Children: An Annotated and Selected Bibliography
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adje van de Sande
Josephine C. Naidoo
Frederick Gloade
Native Studies Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 1989, pp. 163-183
Description
Bibliography reflects scholarly and research interests of Canadian authors as well as usefulness for professionals working with Native children.
Adrian Hope Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Adrian Hope
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
Adrian Hope has been active in Metis politics since the 1920s. He was involved in the organization of the Metis Association of Alberta, the Ewing Commission hearings, and the development of Metis colonies in Alberta.
Adult Māori Patients’ Healthcare Experiences of the Emergency Department in a District Health Facility in New Zealand
Alternate Title
Adult Maori Patients' Healthcare Experiences of the Emergency Department in a District Health Facility in New Zealand
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sneha Grace Abraham
Marama Tauranga
Deborah Moore
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 13, no. 1, A Barrier-free Health System for Indigenous Communities, August 2018, pp. 87-103
Description
Researchers conducted semi-structured interviews with four female participants who identified three main areas for improvement: physical environment, interactions with practitioners, and unique factors faced by elders.
The Advancement of Knowledge in La Pérouse's 1782 Expedition to Hudson Bay
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Denis Combet
Constance Cartmill
Manitoba History, no. 59, October 2008, pp. 25-33
Description
Looks at the 1782 expedition of Count Jean François de la Pérouse, his leadership of the mission, encounters with Indigenous Peoples, and observations made by the crew.
Advancing Aboriginal English
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lorna Fadden
Jenna LaFrance
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 32, no. suppl., Aboriginal Englishes and Education, 2010, pp. 143-155
Description
Looks at a sociolinguistic view of Aboriginal English; approaches to minority dialects in institutional settings; dialectal damage; a modified immersion model to address Aboriginal English needs; and Aboriginal English in British Columbia schools.
Advancing Reconciliation Resource for School Councils
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alberta Regional Professional Learning Consortium
Description
Basic information on terminology, cultural diversity, history of First Nation peoples in Alberta, Alberta treaties and treaty relationships, legacy of residential schools, theTruth and Reconciliation Commission and respectful ways to interact with Elders.
Adventures in Rainbow Country and the Narration of Nationhood
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Heather Macfarlane
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 40, no. 3, Fall, 2006, pp. 100-119, 221
Description
Discusses contradictions of a harmonious co-existence of anglophone, francophone, and Indigenous populations in the adventure series, Adventures in Rainbow Country.
Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium: Being Notes of Eight Years' Travels ... [vol. 2]
Alternate Title
Adventures of the Ojibewa and Iowa Indians in England, France, and Belgium: Being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe With His North American Indian Collection
Adventures of the Ojibwa and Iowa Indians in England, France, and Belgium
[Catlin's Notes in Europe]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Geo[rge] Catlin
Description
Third edition.
Affirmative Exclusions: The Indigenous Exception in Oklahoma's Official English
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathryn Walkiewicz
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 3, no. 2, 2016, pp. 25-44
Description
Presents an analysis of the exception made for Indigenous languages in the amendment to the state constitution.
"African and Cherokee by Choice": Race and Resistance under Legalized Segregation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura L. Lovett
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 203-229
Description
Article explores the pride expressed by Black Americans in a mixed ancestry that included Indigenous lineage; considers the discourses created by social Darwinism and scientific racism.
After Chiapas: Aboriginal Land and Resistance in the New North America
Alternate Title
After Chiapas Aboriginal Land and Resistance in the New North America
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah Simmons
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, 1999, pp. 119-148
Description
Analysis the relationship between economic restructuring and Aboriginal land rights in light of the 1994 conflict in Chiapas, Mexico and suggests that fundamental differences can provide directions for finding solutions.
After Native Claims? The Implications of Comprehensive Claims Settlements For Natural Resources in British Columbia
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jim Aldridge
BC Studies, no. 87, Autumn, 1990, pp. 94-97
Description
Book review of: After Native Claims? The Implications of Comprehensive Claims Settlements For Natural Resources in British Columbia by Frank Cassidy and Norman Dale.
To read review, scroll to page 94.
[After Native Claims?: The Implications of Comprehensive Claims Settlements for Natural Resources in British Columbia]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Torn Weegar
Native Studies Review, vol. 6, no. 2, Advocacy and Claims Research, 1990, p. 195–196
Description
Book review of: After Native Claims?: The Implications of Comprehensive Claims Settlements for Natural Resources in British Columbia by Frank Cassidy and Norman Dale.
After the Apology: Reframing Violence and Suffering in First Australians, Australia, and Samson and Delilah
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Felicity Collins
Continuum, vol. 24, no. 1, Interrogating Trauma: Arts & Media Responses to Collective Suffering, 2010, pp. 65-77
Description
Discusses the way an archival history series, feature film and budget drama addresses politics of reconciliation and the media's obsession with violence in remote Australia.
After the Healing: Safeguarding Northern Nishnawbe First Nations High School Education
Alternate Title
Commentary (Northern Policy Institute) ; no. 16
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Paul W. Bennett
Description
Focuses on addressing the needs of students making the transition from small, often isolated reserves, to schools in Thunder Bay, Sioux Lookout, and other towns and cities.
After the Spirit Sang: Aboriginal Canadian and Museum Policy in the New Millennium
Alternate Title
How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture
E-Books
Author/Creator
Heather Devine
Description
Chapter 10 in: How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture edited by Bart Beaty, Derek Briton, Gloria Filax, Rebecca Sullivan.
Discussion of the exhibition After the Spirit Sang and the ensuing boycott and controversy.
Go to page 217 to read the chapter.
After the Storm: Ojibwe Treaty Rights Twenty-Five Years after the Voigt Decision
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patty Loew
James Thannum
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, Spring, 2011, pp. 161-191
Description
Looks at the socioeconomic, political, and cultural factors that contributed to the spearfishing crisis in northern Wisconsin and the battered attempts by the Ojibwe to exercise their treaty-based fishing rights. The article also examines the state of relations between Native and non-Native residents.
Afterward: A Response Essay
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 2, Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways, 2018, pp. 97-102
Description
Discusses three themes that emerged from “Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways” issue of American Indian Culture and Research Journal:
(1) structural genocide in settler-colonial states' attempts at deracination;
(2) Indigenous peoples' agency with regard to anti-normalization; and
(3) decolonial resistance outside of imposed settler-colonial binaries.
Against the Law: Indigenous Feminism and the Nation-State
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrea Smith
Affinities, vol. 5, no. 1, 2011, pp. [56]-69
Description
Contends that Native Studies must go beyond the intellectual to the political to address the reality of conditions faced by Indigenous women.
Agents of Change: How American Indians Helped Change the World in Only Seven Years
Alternate Title
Contemporary American Indian History
[Yale National Initiative National Seminars]
Curriculum Units by National Fellows of the the Yale National Initiative ; 2016 Volume 1
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Michael R. McClellan
Description
Unit lloks at how the Seven Years' War restructured the balance of power between Europeans and Indigenous peoples in North America. Designed for Grade 8 students.
Agnes Fox and Maria Sinclair Interviews
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Agnes Fox
Maria Sinclair
Mary Mountain
Iris Baker
Indian History Film Project
Description
Interview includes stories about the power of the medicine man and the abilities to foretell the future. It also includes information regarding traditional attitudes toward education, marriage and lifestyle.
Agriculture: The Relationship Between Aboriginal Farmers and Non-Aboriginal Farmers
Alternate Title
Winning the Prairie Gamble
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Eric Tang
Description
Covers the past 100 years of contact between First Nations farmers and non-Aboriginal farmers which in many circumstances depended on the level of respect they had for each other.
Ainu and Anishinaabe Stories of Survivance: Shigeru Kayano, Katsuichi Honda, and Gerald Vizenor
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Benjamin D. Carson
East Asian Cultural Interaction Studies, vol. 2, 2009, pp. 443-449
Description
Looks at Gerald Vizenor's, Hiroshima Bugi, Katsuichi Honda's Harukor: An Ainu Woman's Tale and Shigeru Kayano's Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir and the importance of the survivance narrative.
Aki, Anishinaabek, kaye tahsh Crown
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aaron Mills (Wapshkaa Ma'iingan)
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 9, no. 1, 2010, pp. 107-166
Description
Looks at Anishinaabek beliefs pertaining to the land, natural resource development, and ensuing conflicts with Canadian law.
Alaska Native People's Perceptions, Understandings, and Expectations for Research Involving Biological Specimens
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vanessa Y. Hiratsuka
Jennifer K. Brown
Theresa J. Hoeft
Denise A. Dillard
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 71, 2012, p. article no. 18642
Description
Study found greater desire for disclosure of researcher's intentions and goals.
Alaskan Claim
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Terry Fenge
Alternatives Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, Winter, 2003, pp. 58-61
Description
Book review of: Take My Land, Take My Life: The Story of Congress's Historic Settlement of the Alaska Native Land Claims, 1960-1971 by Donald Craig Mitchell.
Albert E. Broome
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Albert E. Broome
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
Ed Broome was a government employee at the time the CCF government took power. He talks about the NDP programs in northern Saskatchewan, particularly government trading posts, the conversion of trading posts into cooperatives and his brief impressions of Norris and Brady.