Social Organization

Study uses survey data from 207 males and 279 females from 2 Ontario First Nations to examine whether or not social support can offset the negative results of perceived racism, historical trauma and loss on depression and/or anxiety.

Architecture Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Waterloo, 2007.

History of the struggle by the Inuit to achieve sovereignty over a portion of the Northwest Territories.

Book review of: The Burden of History by Elizabeth Furniss.

Conceptual article argues that Indigenous sovereignty remains valid throughout the Americas and that the settler colonial laws are therefore illegitimate and illegal; all systems that function on the assumption of settler colonial sovereignty must be re-centered around Indigenous laws and ethics.

Examines ethnographic survey of Huron-Wyandot culture conducted between 1911-1914.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2017.

Book review of: By Snowshoe, Buckboard and Steamer by Kathryn Bridge.

Introduction to papers collected for publication using a theme of interpersonal relations to explore a new social archaeology.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 12, (pp339-296).

Author offers commentary on the lack of discrimination that he has experienced as an Indigenous journalist and journalism instructor.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--Univerisity of Saskatchewan, 2010.

Surveys statistical data dealing with population, economy, health, family integrity and social conditions which demonstrate persistent inequalities and relationships among poverty, health and social structure.

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 41 (p. [1]-225).

Book review of: The Canadian Indian by Fraser Symington. Scroll down to page 63 to read review.

Verifies the social and economic impoverishment of urban Aboriginal women, especially female lone parents, and the increasing poverty of women in metropolitan Toronto.

Compares and contrasts Sartre’s play and Harjo’s short film; focuses on the setting, characters, and themes of confinement and social / personal interaction.

Short video on researcher's interests in Indigenous health, social justice, and the challenges faced by women.

Presents cultural analysis of internal change, post-modern Maasai identity, and interaction with the western world.

Study surveyed 100 households on use of traditional knowledges in production of leather hides for clothing. Identifies opportunities and barriers for sustained poverty reduction, and makes recommendations for both improving the perception, transmission, and use of traditional knowledge and techniques, and for integrating methods.

Focuses on positive developments in the areas of self-government, organizational capacity, structures of opportunity, and resistance to oppression.

Compares patterns in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Edmonton, Alberta, between 1971 and 2001, to the traditional Chicago school model.

Discusses the changes in socioeconomic structures and the cooperative hunting/herding model resulting in loss of land and resource rights.

Impact of contact with Europeans on the traditional diet of Native Americans in this state.

Looks at a study that examined school community relations and parental involvement in schooling.

Volume I

Looks at the use of the modern day Cheyenne tipi and compares it to pre-European influence.

Chief Bruno and a councillor at Rae, N.W.T.

Chief Bruno meeting with councillors [of the Carrothers Commission] at Rae, N.W.T. which was studying the future directions of government in the Northwest Territories.

A photograph taken at Paulatuk, N.W.T. Dated "'94-8-31".

Looks at attitudes and factors involved in the resistance.

Explains the learning of sex roles, for men the way of bravery, fortitude, generosity and wisdom and for women the goals of industry, hospitality, kindness and chastity. Discusses naming ceremonies, the mysterious and unexplainable wakan ki, and other aspects of culture.

Proposes that “Indigenous futurism is a deliberate, intentional, and purpose-driven position that addresses not only inclusion but intersectionality for its protagonists and themes;” and ask the reader to consider it both an aesthetic and a framework for critical theory. Examines different dystopian YA texts in this context.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 5, (pp293-380).

Book review of Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia edited by Robert T. Boyd, Kenneth M. Ames, and Tony A. Johnson. Entire book review section on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 144.

Book review of: Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timber Region by Sandra Faiman-Silva.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Chicago, 2004.

Article attempts to examine some of the reasons the Chumash people elected to be baptized, the consequences for that choice, and the resistance (both overt and subversive) that they offered to Christian missionaries.

Author engages with the narrative surrounding Christopher Columbus and the sociocultural implications of that narrative in the USA.

Forms part of Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 11 (p. [537]-733).

Nursing Thesis (D.N.P.)--North Dakota State University, 2007.

Discusses the poor socio-economic conditions faced by many Aboriginal people in Canada and initiatives undertaken to address these problems.

Examines the different definitions of Indigeneity used by the different nation-states in the Arctic regions. Finds that Russian definitions exclude large Indigenous groups (Sakha & Komi) and shows that not all Arctic Indigenous groups are included in the Arctic Council.

Ethnography and Social Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D)--University of Aarhus, 2001.

Historical overview of a murder that suggests two Cherokee legal systems may have existed and not have been consistent with one another.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 33, (pp351-422).