Social Organization

History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Manitoba, 2002.

Discusses recommendations from a United Nations conference on effects of racism and discrimination on social and economic relations between Indigenous peoples and countries they live in.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Montreal, 2017.

Author examines the different ways that Mexican national culture and Indigenous Nahua culture interact, adopt each other’s practices, and blend together at intersections of meaning and practice.

Focuses on women who are strong, but low key activists, who extend many services to other urban community members and play many different roles to the people around them.

Book review of: Urban Indian Reserves edited by F. Laurie Barron and Joseph Garcea.

Impact on Treaties as a result of the Aboriginal population moving from reserves to the cities.

Reports on the profound shift to urban centres by the Maori in New Zealand. To access this article scroll down to page 60.

Uses cases studies from Nicaragua and South Africa to compare colonization and imperialistic practices and how these experiences helped with the formation of what the author describes as Indigenous internationalist feminism.

Examines pre-emptive use of the words America and American by mainstream, effects of denial of right of Indigenous peoples to use the name of their own land and resulting terms like "Native American" and "American Indian."

Study conducted to test the hypothesis that the longer the contact with Euro-Canadian lifestyles, the higher the risk of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM).

Article documents the author’s interview with the novelist Anna Lee Walters about her novel Ghost Singer and includes corrections and clarifications sent by Walters after reading the transcript of the interview. Includes commentary on the text, literature, cultural interactions.

Argues the writings reveal a consistency between his poetry and his role as the Deputy Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs (1913-1932) in Canada.

Author comments on his historical research into the impact of the 1908 statute on the Cheyenne River Sioux and an opportunity to examine everyday life of American Indian communities.

Controversial report sparks conversations about hidden forms of violence and colonization. Part 2.

Discusses the impact that broadcasting of Maori rituals on social networking sites are having in New Zealand.

Article examines the influence of Beckett in Vizenor’s work, especially in political and post-colonial terms.

City Planning Thesis (M.C.P.)--University of Manitoba, 2005.

Discusses the evolution of Inuit social organization towards that of Eurocanadians and the problems that are associated with this change.

Examines the political and economic motives of both the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) and the Northwest Company (NWC), their role in the development of capitalism in North America, and how these factors affected their labour relations policies and practices. Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 1.

American Culture Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Michigan, 1986.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Oregon, 2000.

Book includes illustrations and his observations during travels in 19th century; an 1846 census is included.

Examination of Jackson's popular 1884 novel on reform.

Book review of: Warriors of the North Pacific by Charles Lillard. Scroll down to page 52 to read review.

Book review of: A Way of Life That Does Not Exist by Colin Samson.

Tanya Talaga, prize-winning journalist and author of Seven Fallen Feathers delivers the fifth of the 2018 Massey Lectures in Thunder Bay. In this lecture Talaga links the similarities between contemporary nations with a history of colonization and describes some of the effects for Indigenous peoples and communities, and advocates for Indigenous sovereignty and self-governance. Duration: 53:59

Authors survey participants, volunteers, and sponsors of the 2016 Arctic Winter Games (AWG) and then analyze the data to examine different identities that are on display at the games: "panarctic," "contranational/regional," Indigenous, and "autocommunicating" national identity.

Considers Potawatomie’s address at the 1893 World’s Fair, in which he used the platform to expose the realities of the U.S. Government Indian policy, as a rhetorical strategy of resistance and an attempt to garner sympathy from the public at large. Discusses the implications and potential fallout of Potawatomie’s move.

Looks at socio-historical conditioned challenges confronting Aboriginal fathers.

Looks at a project that brought together low-income mothers of preschool-aged children who wanted to learn more about making their community a healthier place to live. Published by the Prairie Women's Centre for Excellence.

Geography and Planning Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2015.

Study surveys members of 19 Anishinabek First Nations in northeastern Ontario, about perceived impact of devolution of federal and provincial programs and services on mino-bimaadiziwin (good health). Results suggest that interventions have reduced community solidarity, led to higher unemployment, poorer health, and reliance on materialism, technology, and social programs.

Presents a study that explores the meaning of social networks for environmental movement participants in British Columbia.

Argues that emphasis on vocational curriculum not only stemmed from the belief that Native Americans were not fit for higher education, but was also intended to erase tribal identity, history, and communalism, and foster individualism.

Article explores the phenomena of cultural resilience and resistance to assimilation on the Grand Ronde reservation, additionally considers those settler practices that were adopted and the cultural hybridity that came of that space.

Short article describes the history of Inter-Communal Body of Women of the Capaincy of Izozog, CIMCI. To access this article, scroll down to page 46.

Looks at the role and impact of wealth in hunter-gatherer societies.

Discusses how OMAK (The Organization of Aymara Women of Kollausyo, Bolivia) works to improve communication among rural Bolivian women. To access this article scroll down to page 26.

Relates how colonization and Western influences have caused societal problems in Indian cultures. Restorative justice models by the Navajo and Haudenosaunee are also explored.

Book review of: The West Coast (Nootka) People by E. Y. Arima. Scroll down to page 68 to read review.

Examines evidence, from the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, on how the involvement in the fur trade altered the social and economic lives of the Western James Bay Cree.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 33, (pp1-137).

Arts Thesis (M.A.)--University of Auckland, 2014.

Looks at the Ahousat, a Central Nootkan group and the establishment of a Ahousat chieftainship.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Waikato, 2001.

Analyzes whether protest can be explained by resource mobilization, political opportunities or the construction of PanAboriginal collective identity.