Social Organization

Authors document the life the Californian Indigenous man purported to be 121 years old and "last of his race" in 1873 and contemplate what can be learned from investigating the true stories of Indigenous centenarians; discusses the discourse of extinction surrounding centenarians, and the role it plays in the imagination of settler culture.

Sociology, Gender and Social Work Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Otago, 2012.

English Thesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, 2013.

Book review of: Historical Atlas of Canada Geoffrey J. Matthews, cartographer/designer. Final volume of three volume, 18-year, $8.5 million dollar documentation

Depicts the status of Iroquoian Matriarchy, focusing on its structures, powers and functions, and presents recommendations for the matriarchal system within the Canadian Constitution and the Charter.

The authors explore the ways that the design of two different Indigenous video games compels players to enact survivance, and how that experience of survivance creates a space for teaching and learning about culture and for decolonizing perspectives.

Mid-20th century study of the power politics of the Beaver peoples and how the supernatural plays a part in their quest for social power.

Examines how the author's knowledge of the Navajo culture and the concept hozho allow her to transform a character who could be viewed as victim into a powerful individual. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Discusses some of the challenges resulting from the transition of clan-based bush societies to multi-clan town societies.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2011.

Examines those communities that succeed, or fail, in getting their environmental health problems addressed.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 31, (pp1-14).

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--Dalhousie University, 2002.

Authors describe Micro-Reconciliation as “a pervasive and transformative moral refashioning of everyday interpersonal interactions between First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples and Canada’s settler population.” They stress the need for micro-level changes in day-to-day operations to be linked to overall structural reform if they are to be sustainable.

Book review of: The Middle of Nowhere: Rediscovering Saskatchewan selected and with an introduction by Dennis Gruending.

Presents a unique system of identity construction in an internationally designated protected area.

[Anthropology] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.

Explores the ways that Black and Indigenous identities intersect and manifest in mixed raced people in Canada; specifically looks at the marginality factors of erasure, racism, and fractured identity and at the representation of these identities and marginality in the Proclaiming our Roots project.

Humanities Thesis (Ph.D.)--Concordia University, 2015.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994.

Discusses traditional economies and lifeways of Indigenous peoples living in the subarctic boreal forest, focusing on hunting, fishing, gathering and small-scale reindeer herding. Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.

Overview of reindeer biology, life style of herders, circumstances which led to intensification of herding and subsequent changes in Sami social organization. Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.

Description of villages, livelihood, and cultural systems of the Mohawk people.

Looks at various tribal land tenure systems as well as fish and wildlife management practices in British Columbia.

Examines why the Montagnais choose the lifestyle that the Jesuit missionaries offered.

Social Sciences Thesis (MSocSc)--University of Waikato, 2015

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wyoming, 1994.

Study forms part of the larger project called "Transforming Inner-City and Aboriginal Communities".

Biographical essay reexamines the legacy of a nineteenth-century Cheyenne leader named Vóóhéhéve (Morning Star or Dull Knife); draws on statements from his family and community members to decolonize the historical narrative surrounding the chief.

History Thesis (MPhil)--University of Western Australia, 2017.

Describes the Reverend James Nisbet’s journey what in now Prince Albert, where he set up the mission and later founded the town, both by the same name. Details many of the different people and communities that Nibet was able to engage and form relationships with. Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 34.

Analyzes the complexities of family relationships in Erdrich's novels.

Film examines the pressure put on traditional matriarchal societies. Duration: 57:55.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003.

Discusses origins of policies and general research on multiculturalism as well as the minority perspectives.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Madurai Kamaraj University, 2015. Includes discussion of Jeanette Armstrong's Slash and Beatrice Culleton's In Search of April Raintree.

Uses the prosecution of Henry Valette Jones and Henry Thomas Morris for the murder of an Aboriginal man to illustrate the shortcomings of the colonial legal system in Australian when it came to prosecuting settlers for violence towards Indigenous peoples.

Overview of traditional Navajo leadership and western influences.

Case study examines the roles and relations of Aboriginal women and the nursing profession during the early twentieth century.

Armstrong gives her personal account of the Indigenous rights movements that took place in British Columbia and across Canada, connecting the events and attitudes of the time to the larger Civil Rights Movement taking place across the continent and to other contemporary social/cultural shifts.

Discussion of hereditary name-titles which outlive the individuals who inherit them and carry with them specific duties and authority.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 1999.

Book review of: Nation, Ideas and Identities edited by Michael D. Behiels and Marcel Martel.