Social Organization

A biographical piece about the Longmore family and the roles they played in the history of Western Canada, including as freighters, soldiers, guides and explorers.

Book reviews of 2 books: Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives by James B. Waldram, D. Ann Herring, T. Kue Young and Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation: Australia, Canada and New Zealand by Andrew Armitage.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2002.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 1999.

Looks at the evidence that suggests status was mediated by class as well as by gender.

Analyzes the effects of inequality on populations based on three aspects of socioeconomic inconsistencies: Indigeneity, gender and geography.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 1998.

Examines gender differences in five Native American societies in order to see the extent to which social conditions have molded gender roles in Native American cultures.

Discusses the challenges faced by Canadian First Nations' women as they seek to rebalance the role of women in governance.

Examines changes in 1983 and 1985 constituencies and legislative amendments reversing the consolidated Indian Act of 1876.

Uses the example of the Iroquois of upper New York to illustrate how Europeans interpreted social structure in terms of their own cultures and belief systems. In this case, the view that Indian men were lazy and the women "drudges" who nevertheless possessed a great deal of power.

Compares three environmental assessment (EA) cases: Voisey's Bay Mine and Mill in Nunatsiavut; Meadowbank Mine in Nunavut; and the Mackenzie Gas Project in the Northwest Territories. Discusses gendered nature of the resource decision-making processes and argues that EA process privileges resource extraction, re-inscribes gender hierarchies, and undermines Indigenous mixed economies.

Book review of: Gendering the Vertical Mosaic by Roberta Hamilton.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Massachusetts, 1993.

Literary criticism article that examines the social and historical commentary contained in Vizenor’s novel, Heirs of Columbus, and how that commentary works to dismantle mainstream realities.

Literary criticism article in which the author explores Vizenor’s use of trickster tropes and transnational narrative to explore different expressions of Indigenous identity and how it adapts to and is affected by sites solidarity and sovereignty.

Discusses the implications of using Geronimo's name as code for Osama Bin Laden when he was killed by the United States military and how Indigenous masculinity has been represented and misrepresented.

Article from the 1993 conference proceedings, discussing how successful justice reform can only come with wide community involvement, leadership and confidence in the changes. Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.

Article pulls together several elements that when implemented together into ethnographic research create a process of Indigenization. These elements include: respecting distinct cultures and nations, rooting methods in culture, understanding the importance of story, language, place, and relationality, committing to an ethic of reciprocity.

Study results indicate a deep sense of reciprocity underscoring all human thought and action in the Cherokee sense of being.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Melbourne, 1986

Explores the definitions and differences between government and governance, how the term "good governance" creates controversy and why the significance of governance is likely to grow.

Examination of the Navajo Nations government, encompassing politics, structure, and institutional context.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1972.

Qualifies traditional Indigenous ideas concerning healing and justice for Aboriginal people.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carleton University, 1986.

Describes the historic and shifting family and kinship structures of the Muscogulge or Creek people highlighting practices of marriage/divorce, gender roles, and division of labour.

Exhibit including the people and the land, Haida art, and Haida villages; based on book Haida Art by George F. MacDonald.

Book review of: Handbook of the North American Indians, vol 12: Plateau edited by Deward E. Walker. Smithsonian Institution Series

Article looks at mission guest books from Indigenous reservations in Victoria, Australia in order to examine the mind set and fixations of visitors participating in mission tourism in the region.

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 29 (p.81-392).

Literary criticism essay which examines Mathew Kaopio’s novels. Highlight the construction of an Indigenous world through the subversion of settler–colonial expectations; discusses frameworks of resurgence and Chadwick Allen’s notion of purposeful Indigenous juxtapositions.

Comparison among three groups: individuals who attended residential school and those who did not, as well a non-Aboriginal group.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the health and welfare of Australia's Indigenous population.

Describes how recreational programs provide support to vulnerable individuals.

Reasons for poor health among the Indigenous groups (about 200 million) around the world.

Reports on the Christmas social that was held for the elderly and disabled people on Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Australia.

Describes how musical group becomes a vehicle for expressing urban Canadian aboriginal identity in a group setting.

Book review of: The Heiltsuks by Michael E. Harkin. To read review, scroll down to page 82.

Discusses Herbert Basedow's work for the better treatment of Aboriginal people and improvement in Aboriginal health.

Book review of: Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization by Alfred W. Bowers.

Focuses on U.S. off-reservation boarding school program of 1878-1928 and its impact on the traditional roles of women.

Article presents two different narratives surrounding the treaty rights of the Chippewa people, the first is the perspective of the author, Chippewa band member and Journalist, Patty Loew. The second narrative is one that has been constructed through ethnohistorical research.

Highlights that communalism is found in households with highly developed social hierarchies, as opposed to households where social hierarchies were less developed.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1961.