Social Organization

Discussion of the "firewater myth," assumptions about binge drinking, differences in social attitude towards drinking, and the move away from the presumption of the existence of single-factor explanations about drinking.

Describes how this sporting event provides opportunities for cultural innovation and experimentation.

Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, provides some concluding remarks on the Conference discussions of the justice system, its failing of Aboriginal peoples and the necessary reform and commitment to change required. Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.

Communication and Culture Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 2005.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1997.

Looks at size, geographic distribution and family and household structure of the American Indian and Alaska Native child population.

Educational Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Texas, 2012.

Looks at how ethnicity and culture influence American women in leadership roles.

Report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1974, declassified in 1992. Presents chronology of violence attributed to the American Indian Movement.

Book review of: American Indian Politics and the American Political System, Second Edition by David E. Wilkins.

Includes Culture Areas : Volume 1: Tribes and Traditions: Abenaki-Missouri Volume 2: Tribes and Traditions: Miwook - Zapotec (Be patient download is very slow)

Study shows that American Indians and Alaska Natives are being placed in nursing homes prematurely due to a shortage of social services and demographic changes within the community.

Discusses the way in which some members of the Society of American Indians (SAI) advocated for a model of “Americanization” of Indigenous people that allows for the “performance of both American and Native allegiances,” and enfranchised Indigenous peoples as full citizens.

Author attempts to imagine the ways that the Navajo people would have viewed others by considering Diné stories, historical events in which the Navajo expressed ideas about or initiated actions towards other peoples, and the words of Navajo spokespersons.

Discusses data gathered from field work on Kwakiutl life and examines Boas' account of winter dances and potlatches between 1895-1896.

Analysis of the Nets'aii Gwich'in settlement economy, which combines the traditional, the hunt and other subsistence activities, with the modern.

Describes Mi'kmaq life just before European contact, based on oral history related by a Mi'kmaq shaman, Arguimaut, to Father Pierre Maillard about 1740.

Website contains links to map, photographs of villages, ways of life, activities (includes video clips with transcripts), and teacher resources.

Comments on a Canadian Forces counterinsurgency manual citing the Mohawk Warrior Society as an example of a "radical" group.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carleton University, 2006.

Depicts Quebec as an ethnically polarized province that inhibits First Nations from developing their own styles of ethnology.

Authors discuss Western, Euro-centric research traditions in which Indigenous perspectives are marginalized, use a reflexive approach to examine a project that incorporated methodologies from Costa Rica and Malaysia.

Social hierarchies in the Mississippian Period. Increased importance of cosmography and iconography in the period of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex.

Although Church Missionary Society (CMS) policy stated their intention to promote Indigenous people in the church, historians question whether it was biased in its practises in late 1800s.

Examines research literature and finds that biochemical studies do not support this theory; cautions against simplistic approach to a complex issue.

From: Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Section II, 1892.

Article reports on a Koorie art club that eventually evolved into an art class; discusses elements and approaches implemented that allowed the class to become a site of exploration and self-discovery for the youth that participated.

Article explores the history of the book The Savage Hits Back or the White Man Through Native Eyes and contextualizes it within the global social and political events contemporary to its writing.

Review of an art exhibit entitled, Inuit Women: Life and Legend in Art.

Book review of: 'As Their Natural Resources Fail' by Frank Tough.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Guelph, 1997.

Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--Montana State University, Bozeman, 1997.

Provides overview of society including spirituality, organization. kinship, culture, customs, ceremony, ritual, and law. Chapter 2 from: Aboriginal Benchbook for Western Australia Courts by Stephanie Fryer-Smith. Chapter 2 located by scrolling to page 2:1.

Results of the study support earlier research reviewed; authors conclude there is no "prototypical American Indian cultural lifestyle."

Qualitative study uses focus groups to examine the interest in, and potential strategies for culturally and developmentally adapted contingency management (CM) for Indigenous youth aged 18-29.

Book review of: The Assiniboine by Edwin Thompson Denig (1812-1858), edited by J. N. B. Hewitt, with a new introduction and index by David R. Miller. Originally published as Forty-sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1928-1929.

Originally published as the Forty-Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. This edition published with a new introduction by David Reed Miller.

Book review of: The Assiniboine by E. T. Denig and edited by J. N. B. Hewitt.

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v.4 (p.1-270 , 3 plates)

Educational Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 2000.

Uses the 1964 strike by women workers in Dunnville, Ontario in a discussion of the relationship between class, gender, ethnicity and identity.

Book review of: The Autobiography of a Meskwaki Woman.Original title: The Autobiography of a Fox Indian Woman. (In the series: Memoir 18, Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics). Scroll to page 199 to read review.