Social Organization

Demonstrates the use of the concept of social class for understanding of reservation politics and argues why most theoretical models for class analysis are inadequate.

Describes events and discussions at the second annual conference in 1972.

Excerpt from the Daythal Kendall Guide to Native American Collections at the American Philosophical Society.

Sociology Thesis (M.Sc.)--Southern Connecticut State University, 2004.

Argues that in the 1980s lack of a professionally guided research academic recognition is a major obstacle for Indigenous Studies and that the greatest success has been the development of Tribal Colleges, e.g.. Navajo Community College.

Examines the abuse of Native American women's reproductive rights in the 1970s.

Arts Thesis (M.A.)--University of Montana, 2001.

Examines dropout rates and suggests an alternative to the usual explanation of cultural dissonance.

Criminology Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 1989.

Surveys the legislative basis used to create Indigenous 'communes' and specifying territories.

Traces the history of the Appeals Commission over the course of 30 years. Case illustrates the difficulties involved when integrating court systems into societies organized by kinship.

Reviews recent history of Indigenous people of Russia from Tsarist times to the USSR period and into post-communist era Russia.

Comments on the report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP), which was two years overdue and cost about $10 million a year for six years.

Chapter 7 in book: Gender Ironies of Nationalism: Sexing the Nation edited by Tamar Mayer. Discusses customary practices and protection of tribal ceremony. Scroll down to page 163 to read chapter.

Provides some insight into the differences between the value systems of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginals.

Author discusses the effects of Euro-American cultural content control in early Native American autobiographies to give the appearance that personal narratives and colonial policy were not in conflict.

[From the Proceedings of The American Association for the Advancement of Science, vol. xxxiv, Ann Arbor meeting, August, 1885.]

Argues that the roles and status of women in this region did not decline after contact, but instead they moved from a position of strength in the traditional era to strength in the mission era.

Association argued it suffered from inequitable funding and insufficient rights of participation in comparison to the four male-dominated national Aboriginal organizations.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 1998.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2002.

Looks at William Duncan's cultural imperialism that produced a religious movement of mixed Christian and Native rites in the Metlakatla Tsimshian groups.

Discusses Navajo cultural identity and its significance to the Native American society.

Describes the situation preceding the establishment of the Center, which provides materials dealing with Navajo history, language, and culture.

Social Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--Syracuse University, 2002. Discussion of the Innu, Inuit and Métis peoples of Labrador.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999.

Articulates the lessons of a collaboration between the University of Manitoba, the First Nation Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba (FNHSSM), and eight First Nation communities in Manitoba.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Manitoba, 1999.

Article examines some of the barriers to the engagement and participation of urban Indigenous communities in municipal policy-making. Author asserts that racial and cultural stereotyping and discrimination against Aboriginal peoples and communities are key issues.

Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Manitoba, 2001.

Presents argument that authors cannot disengage themselves from their Western learning and acculturation.

New relationship with goal of reconciliation and cultural, spiritual, social and economic independence for Aboriginal peoples.

Discusses similarities in the socio-economic realities faced, with a focus on the lack of power faced by Native Americans and African Americans and and their need to find artistic outlets of exchange.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Ontario, 2007.

Article examines the role that was played in the formation of Indian Policy in the United States by the Women's National Indian Association (WNIA). Describes the influence of evangelical Christianity, the Protestant ethic, and Victorian ideals of womanhood in this organization.

Looks at the socio-political status and organization of this village at the onset of European contact in 1787.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 42, (pp303-443).

2nd edition.

While others celebrate the 'discovery' of the New World, the 1.5 million Aboriginal peoples in the United States will celebrate their survival against centuries of genocide, legal restrictions on religion and language and other oppressive measures.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 1971.

"Appointed to investigate the physical characteristics, languages, and industrial and social conditions of the people of British Columbia."

1 file containing: An Introduction to the Geography of the Canadian Arctic. Chapter VI, Pages 75-86, discusses the way of life of the Canadian Inuit including: population and distribution; social organization; hunting and fishing; language, art and religion; and regional groups. -"The Awakening North", an excerpt from the annual report of Seagrams Ltd. including a portfolio of pictures of the north, several of which are of Inuit peoples.