Social Organization

Presents information from the journals of an Anglican missionary, Isaac O. Stringer, detailing Mackenzie Inuit life.

Overview of the Kolchan inhabitants of the upper Kuskokwim River.

Forms part of the Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 10 (p. [383]-842). PLEASE NOTE: Title page is inaccurate does not reflect the actual document.

Eight women were appointed to their Senate by Saskatchewan Women's Indian Association.

Forms part of Anthropological Paper of the American Museum of Natural History, v.19 (p.133-292 , 22 figures).

Determines the function of the arts in Lakota society before the move to the reservation.

Maori Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Canterbury, 2006.

Social and Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Edinburgh, 2014.

Investigates the needs and social experiences of an Inuit urban community in Ottawa, Ontario through interview findings.

Curriculum Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 1998.

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 1996.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2001.

Ha-sa-no-an'-da, Ely S. Parker, a Seneca, co-researched this work, presented in three parts: Structure of the League; Spirit of the League; and Incident to the League. "A new edition, with additional matter, edited and annotated".

Introduces the special Issue and argues that decolonization requires forms of education that reconnect Indigenous peoples to land and land-based knowledges, languages, and social relations.

Article discusses the translation of a various English legal terms into Choctaw by leader and intellectual, Peter Perkins Pitchlynn; considers the decisions he made in conveying those terms to Choctaw and how those terms were translated back into English when his notes were translated and published in 2013.

Origins of the shared social identity of this groups and the history of their struggle to continue as a distinct nation.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Ontario, 1998.

Author describes a range of non-academic racism that they have been subject to—micro and macro aggressions enacted by campus security, administrators, and other staff—while employed as an instructor at a university.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 1, (pp1-88, 30 plates).

Looks at how Sami 80 years and older supported themselves before economic modernization. Uses nineteenth-century census registrations and ethnographic sources.

Forms part of Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 4 (p. [193]-300).

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2001.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, 1997.

Describes the policies and procedures of liquor licensing and regulation and examines issues of non-compliance and barriers to enforcement. Stresses the parliamentary prohibition of sales to Indigenous peoples. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 81.

Information on traditional Inuit culture and present day Nunavut. Links include: A Journey into Inuit Traditional Knowledge, Development of Government Services in the Arctic and The Creation of Nunavut. Each section includes oral histories and Elders' personal narratives.

Contends that Native American literature has become a monument that reveals representations of distinctive Indigenous peoples as unique culturally, linguistically and living in a particular geographic region.

Examines the influence of Quaker education on the Allegany Seneca Reservation in western New York in the 1800's.

Summarizes the evaluation report of program run by Métis Child, Family, and Community Services in Winnipeg. Aimed at family reunification, the program involves parents and children moving into a full-time foster home with comprehensive support including parenting skills, household management, social support, sobriety, financial stability and employability. Paper briefly describes outcomes, relates these to literature review, describes innovative funding model, and discuses program's potential as prevention tool.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--Lakehead University, 2001.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University, 2006.

Video follows Dave Arden, an Indigenous Australian musician/songwriter and a group of Indigenous people called "Parkies' who congregate in the park. Duration: 26:06.

Discussion of the pressures brought to bear on Aboriginals to conform with Victorian notions of privacy and home life.

Sociology and Equity Studies in Education Thesis (Ed.D)--Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, 2010.

Examines a shift in the practices of the Tamang ethnic community in Nepal; argues that the Choho institution is still present, and many practices are still present enacted as resistance against the modern state. Considers how the meaning of these practices may have changed in a contemporary context.

Poetry, excerpt from Always a Broken Sleep: in the days I was known as Papillon.

Discussion of power and class in Protestant mission work in British Columbia.

Extracted from The Forum February, 1898, at pages 676 to 689.

American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Iowa, 2001.

Discusses the impact the Mennonite missionaries had on the Hopi from 1893 to 1933.

Talks about the cessation and revival of lurugu (circumcision) ceremony on a northern Australian island.

Focuses on the cycle of employment and unemployment on a reservation in Wyoming.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2011.

Argues that Aboriginal organizations are managed quite differently than their mainstream counterparts and explores the influence of cultural foundations such as consensus and the use of Elders as advisers.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen's University at Kingston, 1999.

Explains a different type of female personality and their role among the North Piegan Indians.