Gender Roles

Discusses unanswered questions on education status and experiences of undergraduate, graduate and professional native women and explains the current state of research.

Literature review of works about Aboriginal women with the focus on early works and those published between 1960 and 1980.

Comments on efforts to improve lives of women, children and spouses through renewal of traditions, educational improvements, self rule, and healing.

Book review of: Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances by Andrea Smith. Scroll to page 309 to read review.

Discusses the history, thought patterns and debate that accompanies the term native feminism.

Architecture Thesis (M.Arch.)--McGill University, 1998.

Discusses books and bibliographies on Native American women.

Argues that the roles and status of women in this region did not decline after contact, but instead they moved from a position of strength in the traditional era to strength in the mission era.

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).

Examines Navajo patriarchy within different aspects of the Navajo nation such as government, ceremonies, music, sports and social life.

A look at the commercialization of art form and how the Navajo's flexible division of labor allowed for both men and women to participate in its productions for economic gain.

Discusses two law suits involving Countryborn women, Foss v. Pelly in 1850 and The Queen v. Corbett in 1863.

Looks at case law involving customary law, human rights and gender equality.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Lethbridge, 2004.

Author discusses three conclusions reached by surveying the available academic research: Indigenous women were viewed as inferior to men according to white men's accounts, their daily routines were similar to those of white women, but in may instances they were afforded more social, political, and economic opportunities than their white counterparts.

Argues that sentencing circles are of little use to the victim and that only a solution which addresses the imbalance of power between men and women produced by colonial policies will make a substantive difference.

Describes the construction methods, various types, cultural significance, and traditions associated with the traditional tent.

Looks at the connection between sexual violence and colonialism and the effects on contemporary U.S. policies regarding Native Americans.

Study of intercultural contact and identification resulting from the building of a radar station in the community of Kaktovik on Barter Island.

Article explores how the relationship between Indigenous peoples and nationalism as well as gender and tradition have has developed in Nunavut, Canada.

Community Health and Epidemiology Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2011.

Uses a widely accepted model of Great Plains women’s roles and status to appraise and explore the problems inherent in past evaluations.

Book review of: Oglala Women by Marla N. Powers.

Physical Education and Recreation Thesis (M.A.)--2016.

Discusses novel Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism.

Book review of: The Old Lady Trill, The Victory Yell by Patrice. E. M. Hollrah. Entire issue on one pdf. Scroll to page 154 to access review.

Includes discussion of gender, sex, and sexuality including gender roles and third gender or berdache.

Reports on responses to 13 questions about experiences of Indigenous girls, consultations with community members about what is happening, and what is needs to be done, and concludes with four recommendations based on research.

Book review of: On the Edge of Empire by Adele Perry.

Authors use bills of sale for horses from 1909-12 as primary documents to explore the roles women on the Yakima reservation played in their nation’s economy and their resistance to conforming to Western or Christian gender roles.

Autobiographical article of Aboriginal health worker in Northern Territory, Australia and how he has made a positive impact in his community.

Examines Native American people within the New Charismatic movements focusing on the Promise Keepers organization.

Discusses the texts Halfbreed (Campbell, 1973) and Prison of Grass (Adams, 1975), contrasting their treatments of gender in the discussion of colonial violence; calls on contemporary scholars to consider in their works “the way gender is animated in a decolonizing political movement.”

Family and Child Ecology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 1997.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2010.

Looks at use of Cree traditional law in relation to sexual diversity, regulation of Cree two spirit people by government and the church, and the Idle No More social movement. Accompanying interview. Accompanying presentation.

Discusses appropriate health care treatment and support by community prevention practitioners, volunteers and organizations for Trans-People or Two-Spirit people with HIV/AIDS.

Discusses why gender organization was used as a reason to control Aboriginal people and set up reserves.

Provides an analysis of the First Nations women who served as chiefs and councilors across Canada, and explores whether gender makes a difference in their experiences as leaders.

Discusses Tsimshian women's experience as laborers and producers and their exclusion from wage work and independent harvesting over the past 100 years.

Statement by author regarding the posthumous pardoning of Everett George Klippert, the last man in Canada charged, convicted, and sentenced to life for being gay.

Discussion on gender roles and reasons for the existence of residential schools.

Explores the phenomenon of the fa'afafine, boys who are raised as girls, their traditional and contemporary roles in Samoan culture and how they relate to issues of culture, gender and the complexities of sexual identity. Duration: 52:00.

Comments on the unsuccessful plebiscite and lessons learned from the experience.

Psychology Thesis (PHD) -- McGill University, 2019.