Social Organization

Discusses the terms "settlement" and "community" and how they relate to contemporary Inuit residential places.

Book review of: Coast Salish Essays by Wayne Suttles.

Book review of: Coast Salish Essays by Wayne Suttles.

Author describes and analyzes community planning and design sessions they participated in with Indigenous nations in Oklahoma in 1991 and 1992.

Article describes the ways that colonial governments identified and signaled out “criminal tribes” in India, how the identity, language and culture of these tribes was stigmatized and consequently diminished. Describes present-day efforts to protect and revitalize these languages and cultures and provides commentary on the effectiveness of these efforts.

Provides overview of project and its contribution to the deliberate shift to a post-colonial mode of curation and community-centred research process.

Opinion piece in which the author works to document their efforts to close the spatial distance between researcher and researched through a series of vignettes, and later reflects on the results of their work.

Examines how the fur trade altered gender relations and enhanced the position of males relative to females.

Author details their experience of systemic and personal racism as graduate student and lecturer in the Anthropology department of a University in the United States.

Poem that deals with skin tone and self-image.

The story of how Boas changed academic biases about Blacks, Afro-Americans and Native Americans.

Explains how practices of feeding the spirits and honouring the deceased are vital to understanding different societal customs.

Excerpt from thesis, "The Teachings of the Bear Clan: As Told by Saulteaux Elder Danny Musqua", a historical account of the Anishanabe.

Author offers criticism on Dobyns’ analysis and use of archival resources in his article " Sixteenth-Century Tusayan," published in AIQ 15:2. Dobyns responds to the author’s criticism in " Superhuman Hearing, Superhorses, and Miraculous Maize."

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 1998.

Using Ted Binnema's "Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains" the author discusses long-term environmental change in the development of societies.

Book review of: Common and Contested Ground by Theodore Binnema.

Graduate School of Cornell University Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 2004.

Argues that these animal remains are complimentary evidence of communal ritual which operated as a force of social integration and distinction.

Overview of iSisters Technology Mentoring, a program that helps Inuit women obtain technology training to address literacy, basic skills upgrading, and find jobs.

Social Work Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Manitoba, 1999.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado, 2006.

Ojibwe Traditional Elder briefly discusses the pipe ceremony, language, clan system, legends/stories, code of conduct, beginning of man and womanhood, and the eagle feather.

Science Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of New Mexico, 2017.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Gonzaga University, 1998.

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

Author uses the writings of early Euro-American explorers and anthropologists to describe the gender roles of male and female Lenni Lenape people; covers household/familial duties, lineage tracing, ceremony, social/political agency. Discussion queer individuals is not present.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Lethbridge, 2011.

Looks at alternate ways to define Indigenous families and the limitation of using one definition over another.

Looks at the community of Inuvik, the infrastructure and factors affecting urban adaptation for "Northerners".

Article introduces the second section of this is issue of AIQ and the articles contained therein. Focuses on issues of identity, cultural hybridity and marginality.

Archaeological Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 1999.

Literary criticism article discusses themes of survivance and transmotion in Vizenor’s (1978) and Jones’ (2000) debut novels, considers contexts of postmodernism and carceral theory, and the generational difference between the two authors.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1996.

Author explores the different characteristics and purposes of storytelling, comparing Indigenous and Western traditions, oral vs written storytelling, and the different cultural values that are embedded in the stories.

Author lists and describes many of the associations that were formed in Australian in the early part of the 20th century; discusses the agendas of the different organizations and how they affected government policy and social discourses.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 1992.

Forms part of Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 8 (p. [1]-300).

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2012.

Describes the case of Jeannette Corbiere Lavell, of the Wikwimekong First Nation on Manitoulin Island, and her appeal to the Federal Court of Canada to retain status under the Indian Act.

Discusses the enfranchisement of eastern First Nations by Macdonald’s Electoral Franchise Act in 1885, the participation of Indigenous voters in the Brant South and Haldimand ridings in elections between 1886 and 1897, and their disenfranchisement when the Electoral Franchise Act was repealed by Laurier’s government. Also considers conflicting perspectives on enfranchisement within the First Nations community.

Study examines postmarital residence at two ancestral Tewa Indian pueblos located in north-central New Mexico as well as the genetic relationships among pueblos.

Province believes JRC contributed to understanding justice from First Nation and Métis perspectives, and factors contributing to the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the mainstream justice system. Province's action plan will address socioeconomic issues, crime reduction and victimization.

[Social Work] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Denver, 2009.

Disputes the creation of chiefdom concept before recorded history.