Social Organization

Discusses the factors contributing to the inclusion of Indigenous doctors and institutional change into the health care system.

Recreational Management Thesis (M.R.)--Acadia University, 2005.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2001.

Discussion about locating Aboriginal thought in academia.

Critical analysis of Malaeska including differences between the original 1839 version and the reprint produced in 1860.

Book review essay of: American Indian Societies: Strategies and Conditions of Political and Cultural Survival by Duane Champagne.

The file contains a transcript of the sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at the Lethbridge Lodge, Ballroom A, Lethbridge, Alberta on Tuesday, May 25, 1993. File contains presentations by a variety of individuals, Aboriginal and community groups.

This file contains an individual presentation by Ernie Benedict focusing on broken treaties promises or treaties ignored altogether by the Canadian government. Benedict provides some history on early European contact in the Akwesasne. He questions where in his First Nations treaty was it stated that the St. Lawrence Seaway could be built without input from Aboriginals living in that area: "Where is the law in which an engineering drawing can supersede a treaty?"

File contains an introductory presentation by Henry Wetelainen of the Ontario Metis and Aboriginal Association. He introduces five zone presidents of the Association: Sheilagh Chief, Howard Restoule, Ron Swain, Joe Major and Agnes Lidstone. The zones include 63 communities; Metis communities, off-reserve Aboriginal people, those with band membership, those who are treaty, and have chosen to work within the organization. Wetelainen introduces the first speaker, Ron Swain.

This file contains a presentation by Andrea Curley focusing on the Six Nations Red Feather Teen Group, formed after a number of Curley's friends were killed in an alcohol-related car accident. The group holds dances, car washes, movie nights, camping trips, bingos, and raises funds to attend Toronto Blue Jays games. The group's goal is to acquire a space for rent as a meeting place, as the group's membership is growing dramatically. A question-and-answer session with the Commissioners follows the presentation.

File contains a presentation by Jim Carberry. Carberry discusses his favourable impressions of Canada as a youth in Northern Ireland, and his shock and disgust at the position of Aboriginal people in Canadian society when he arrived here. Carberry discusses how he sees Aboriginal problems as mirroring those of other minorities around the world, and makes some suggestions to increase Aboriginal pariticipation in the wider society. Following the presentation is a discussion between Commissioners Chartrand and Blakeney with Carberry on some of these topics.

This file contains a presentation by Kahn-Tineta Horn and Dale Dione focusing on Iroquois democracy. The speakers provide a brief history of the Mohawk Nation and then discuss their form of democracy, their structure for resolving issues and their present struggles. The speakers also discuss the Oka Crisis of 1990. A question-and-answer session with the Commissioners follows the presentation.

File contains a presentation by Winnifred Felker, Skookum Jim Friendship Centre. Felker discusses the activities and programming of the Friendship Centre, and protests that the National Association of Friendship Centres was only granted 17% of a funding request, when these Centres do work dealing with 15 of the Commission's 16 points of mandate. Following Felker's presentation the assembled Commissioners discuss some of the issues raised with him.

Illustrates a connection between fiduciary and legal failures of the Crown and disregard for the rule of law.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 1990.

Educational Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2000.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida State University, 2008.

Book review of: The Salish People edited with introduction by Ralph Maud. Scroll down to page 60 to read review.

Author articulates the problematic roots of anthropology as salvage ethnography. Discusses the discipline's contemporary relationships with Indigenous peoples in the context of a tribal college library.

Examines rationales for social exclusion, discrimination and increased risk factors for children.

Reviews the laws from 1850 to the present and concludes that real equality cannot be achieved without political and territorial rights.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2002.

Saskatchewan's first Northern Municipal Council election, and the controversy regarding jurisdictional concerns voiced by the Executive of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians (FSIN).

Examines the film Saskatchewan, noting several errors in landscape (the movie was filmed in Alberta and contains a scene in the Rocky Mountains), provincial culture, costuming (the uniforms of the NWMP), and portrayals of the Sioux who sought refuge in the Cypress Hills following the Battle of Little Big Horn and the defeat of General Custer. Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 28.

Describes the development of the (Saskatchewan Indian Women's Association) SIWA.

Reviews the first year of the SIWA (Saskatchewan Indian Women's Association) and announces the newly elected executive.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California Davis, 2003.

Focuses on colonists' perspectives of Vancouver Island First Nations including Aht, Nootka, Niinaht, Klah-oh-quots (Claqoquot); includes some Aht vocabulary.

American ethnologists used "science" to justify racism and the theory of superiority that fuelled expansionism.

Descriptions of Inuit social life and customs, circa. 1866. Volume covers January to June, 1866.

Examines the difficulties involved in reconciling tikanga Māori (traditional law) which is based on whanaungatanga (familial relationships), whakapapa (lines of descent) and iwi (tribes), and contemporary New Zealand law which has its basis in individualism.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Western Ontario, 2012.

Study examines the inter-generational effects of the Diné relocation experience under Public Law 93-531; author interviews 10 and surveys 72 participants.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2002.

Short speculative fiction piece.

Uses one woman's fight to obtain title to her land as an illustration of the Aboriginal response to colonization.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen's University, 1998.

Article describes the Dene healthy housing research project, a collaboration between the University of Manitoba, the Northlands Denesuline First Nation, the Sayisi Dene First Nation, and the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC). Project worked with university students and Dene senior high school students to create concepts/plans/designs for future implementation.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Madurai Kamaraj University, 2014

Bibliography of current literature written in English. List includes guides, periodicals and general works.

Authors discuss the need for researchers to acknowledge and examine their own positionality in relation to health and wellness narratives; suggest that being mindful about the privilege implicit to the position of “researcher” is essential in working respectfully and reciprocally within the community.

Author compares President Bush and the American state’s response to 9/11 to 19th century foreign and domestic policies under the ideology of Manifest Destiny.

Discusses the social life and customs of the Seri Indians of Sonora, Mexico.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 1998.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 1979.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Director by J. W. Powell The Seri Indians by W. J. McGee Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians by James Mooney

Contrasts British male colonial attitudes to women in general and Indigenous women in particular to their status in traditional Indigenous societies; traces the development of stereotypes about both men and women; looks at the impacts of government-church alliances, the role of contemporary media and incidence and types of violence perpetrated against Indigenous women; and argues that restoring safety will mean recognizing and attempting to correct harms done by non-Indigenous societies, and decolonization of communities so that they may heal from historic trauma.

Book reviews of: Whispering in Shadows by Jeannette C. Armstrong and In the Shadow of Evil by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier.

Author investigates the relationship between the Shaker Church and the Indigenous peoples of northwestern California; argues that the relationship is one of dialogue rather than conversion.