Social Organization

Discusses the relationship between the North-West Mounted Police and Aboriginal people of Canada.

Kinesiology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Western Ontario, 2005.

Deals with the political power Aboriginal women traditionally exercised and how Western political systems have excluded these women from decision-making, thereby undermining Indigenous cultures.

Ethnomusicology and Musicology Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2001.

Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 1970.

Discusses Métis' role as intermediary between First Nations and settlers in the18th and 19th centuries

Image of men setting up an Officers' Mess at unknown location during the Northwest Resistance. Group of men prepare food in pots over a fire at left, and men in background moving barrels and pots.

Key statistics regarding income and living conditions of urban Aboriginal peoples and their effects on children.

Study involved 6,657 children from 238 First Nations in Canada.

Assert that preventative programs offered at Aboriginal Friendship Centres, have been positively backed by existing research and should be expanded and supported further.

Article examines the Indian Policy of the United States government; argues that the policies hold at their core an evolutionary perspective on social development which places the United States government in a paternalist role, guiding Indigenous people through the evolution of their race.

Provides information regarding proposal-driven programs at Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC).

Contends that museums of the future will need to take the initiative in designing their relationship with Indigenous peoples regarding responsibilities in collecting, preserving, and interpreting Indigenous heritage.

Discusses the concept of new middle classes and its implications in regards to the social interactions, economic possibilities, and political alignments that are affecting Aboriginal people and their relations with both one another and within Canadian society. Chapter from Not Strangers in These Parts: Urban Aboriginal Peoples edited by David Newhouse and Evelyn Peters.

Linguistic study that provides an understanding of Algonkian society and how it evolved as different groups dispersed geographically.

Offers an alternative model of Micmac settlement patterns.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2006.

Advocates models of housing based on First Nations’ Longhouses in order to promote social cohesion and combat social isolation. Argues that this strategies would be especially helpful to seniors.

Examines the relationship between pottery and Pueblo culture.

Argues that the author employs a fictionalized version of the Canadian colonialism affecting Aboriginal people in order to relay truths to a mass audience.

Book review of: The Imaginary Indian by Daniel Francis.

Discusses government's strategy for environmental conservation and protection of the land by evicting pastoralists from grazing lands. Recent cases are described. To access this article, scroll down to page 22.

Canadian Plains Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 2003.

Book review of Qaluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput edited by Ann Fienup-Riordan; transcribed and translated by Alice Rearden. Text in Yupik and English.

Discussion of Wayne Suttles' work on Northwest Coast cultures, including an analysis of marriages, that has become the predominant theory of the region's social organization.

Book review of: The Queen's People, A Study of Hegemony, Coercion, and Accommodation Among the Okanagan of Canadaby Peter Carstens.

Article seeks to disrupt the critical discussion surrounding Silko’s novel and the narratives it contains, asserting that the text demonstrates that mainstream culture forces people with divergent traits to choose between acceptance of their own difference and membership in the majority culture.

Looks at different marriage categories, tracing the matrilines and patrilines, and the relation to land ownership and inheritance.

Differing socio-political structures among the Pai bands prior to 1860.

Argues many scholars still look at Native literary texts as mainly interpretive literature about different cultures. In this article the author examines whether this concern with relationship is a necessary scholarly pursuit or a distraction from more pressing issues.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Texas at Arlington, 1998.

Examines the removal of the constitution as an excuse by the government when negotiating Métis Aboriginal rights and socioeconomic needs on Non-Status Indians.

Discusses the doctrine of impartiality and its implications in relation to racism and feminism.

Argues that the play illustrates how the traditional concept of gender has been corrupted by the model imposed by colonization.

Discusses the decolonization process, which the author states is accomplished by, "moving the center", in this case, from Europe to their own centers. The writer concludes that "underneath the new globalized skin" is the same Euro-defined ethnicity, carrying the same biases that are written into scripts.

Examination of Rudy Wiebe's novels and his use of conventional 19th-century depictions of women.

Adult Education and Counselling Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2010.

Discusses the intricacies and nuances of Lakota performances of popular culture. Challenges perspectives which dismiss Indigenous engagement in contemporary culture as mimicry or assimilation, and that portray contemporaneity as opposed to indigeneity.

Argues that the decline of marriages between European officers of the Hudson's Bay Company and Métis women before 1870 was caused by the creation of a capitalistic labour market and not racism as regarded largely due to Sylvia Van Kirk's book, Many Tender Ties.

Political Studies (M.A.)--Queen's University, 1997.

Discusses different categories and concepts to re-imagine and reconstruct co-operative research futures by drawing on cultural, postmodern, and postcolonial studies.

Authors argues that under systems of treaty relations and Aboriginal law Indigenous peoples have the authority to regulate the way in which they are re-peopled, and that Canadian laws and policies have worked to obscure this authority.

Architecture Thesis (M.Arch)--Dalhousie University, 2016.

Examines the fundamental role played by the Iroquois in the evolution of democracy in the USA and illustrates use of that knowledge by other countries.

Book review of: 'Real' Indians and Others by Bonita Lawrence.

Authors examine rebirth accounts, the commentary of elders, and a varied of socio-cultural circumstances to explore the relationships between Yukaghir reincarnation cosmology and current cultural resurgence, historic contexts, kinship and identity recognition—both on a personal and a cultural level.

Provides first person analysis of the nation building and issues of Algonquian identity.

Book review of: Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory by Lucien M. Turner, with an introduction by Stephen Loring. Review in French. Book is reprint of paper which originally appeared in the Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, published in 1894.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oklahoma, 2011.

Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 1997.