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Comments on a movement that has influenced mainstream attitudes towards the body, fashion, and personal aesthetics.

Looks at media coverage of the incident and use of the term, 'Black Velvet'. Note from author: "Terms historicised in this article remain offensive and have continuing power to offend. This article attempts to dispel and challenge the meanings conveyed by the term ‘Black Velvet’ by tracing its use in print media and thereby intervening in the attitudes it disseminated"

Discusses early anthropological misconceptions about Blackfeet women and the construction and maintenance of the tipi.

Note: The title of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library. An image of an Aboriginal woman and her baby in a portrait style photograph. Colours and perhaps extra beads and rings have been added to the picture in a chromolithograph process. The quality of the colours gives it a definite air of artificiality.

A photograph of Blanche Mann (later Askie) and her mother Sarah Mann inside the Saddle Lake Indian Agency house between 1900 and 1904. Blanche was the agency secretary for her father Indian agent George Mann. The agency house was home to the Mann family from 1900 to 1905. Note the Victorian decor.

A photograph of Blanche Mann, later Askie, taken circa 1900. She was George G. Mann's eldest daughter and acted as his secretary and assistant in all three Indian agencies he worked at. Blanche was a fluent Cree speaker.

A portrait photograph of Blanche Mann, later Askie, taken circa 1900. She was George G. Mann's eldest daughter and acted as his secretary and assistant in all three Indian agencies he worked at. Blanche was a fluent Cree speaker.

Discusses a play which depicts the life work and murder of the American Indian Movement's (AIM) member, Anne Mae Pictou Aquash.

Describes the use of song and music as an effective method of healing and assistance in preventing Aboriginal women from reoffending.

Book review of: Blonde Indian by Ernestine Hayes. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 78.

Humanities Thesis (M.A.)--California State University Dominguez Hills, 1999.

Book review of: Blue Jay's Dance by Louise Erdrich. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Montana State University, 2007.

Researchers interviewed female participants between the ages of 18 and 23 and found that all participants experienced BID as young adults. Participants provided suggestions for working with Indigenous Alaska females who suffer from BID.

Talks about body types in art of women from cultures where colonization has taken place across the Pacific.

Explores how body-related experiences of young Aboriginal women living in urban and reserve settings has been researched but not those of young Aboriginal women living in rural settings.

Discusses Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn's film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open set in Vancouver, BC. The film is about the interactions between two Indigenous women in a lower income neighborhood.

Discusses a play, The Book of Jessica, that illustrates the struggle women have in understanding what being "a woman" means, including across the barriers of race, culture, privilege and age. Entire journal on one pdf. Scroll down to page 10 to read article.

Book review of: Unjust Relations: Aboriginal Rights in Canadian Courts edited by Peter Kulchyski.

Book review of: Wynema: A Child of the Forest by S. Alice Callahan.

Book review of: Against All Odds edited by M. Dawson and H. Radi. The book contains fifteen essays written by professional women, who share stories of their lives and careers.

Book review of: Black Elk and Flaming Rainbow: Personal Memoirs of the Lakota Holy Man and John Neihardt by Hilda Neihardt.

Book reviews of 12 books: Native Nations: Cultures and Histories of Native North America by Nancy Bonvillain. The Place of the Pike (Gnoozhekaaning): A History of the Bay Mills Indian Community by Charles E. Cleland. Medicine Trail: The Life and Lessons of Gladys Tantaquidgeon by Melissa Jayne Fawcett. A Feather Not a Gavel: Working Towards Aboriginal Justice by A. C. Hamilton.

Book reviews of 12 books: Prison of Grass: Canada from a Native Point of View by Howard Adams. From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare: Why Indian Policy Failed in the Prairie Provinces by Helen Buckley. To Please the Caribou: Painted Caribou-Skin Coats Worn by the Naskapi, Montagnais, Cree Hunters of the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula by Dorothy K. Burnham. Manitoba's Metis Settlement Scheme of 1870 Paul L. A. H. Chartrand. Disputed Waters: Native Americans and the Great Lakes Fishery by Robert Doherty. Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains by Charles A.

Book reviews of: Living Relationships: The Treaty of Waitangi in the New Millennium by Ken S. Coates and P. G. McHugh. Aboriginal Rights and Self-Government: The Canadian and Mexican Experience in North American Perspective edited by Curtis Cook and Juan D. Lindau. Tribal Honors: A History of the Kainai Chieftainship by Hugh A. Dempsey. The Myth of the Savage, and the Beginning of French Colonialism in the Americas by Olive Patricia Dickason. The Pawnee Mythology by George Dorsey.

Book reviews of: Legends of our Times: Native Cowboy Life by Morgan Baillargeon and Leslie Tepper. The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America by Conlin Callway (Editor). Women in Trouble: Connecting Women's Law Violations to Their Histories of Abuse by Elizabeth Cormack. Leonard Bloomfield's Fox Lexicon: Critical Edition by Ives Goddard (Editor). White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence by Sidney L. Harring.

Book reviews of 3 books: Too Few To Count: Canadian Women In Conflict With The Law edited by Ellen Adelberg and Claudia Currie. The Foot of the River by George Lalor. Ste. Madeleine, Community Without a Town: Métis Elders in Interview by Ken Zeilig and Victoria Zeilig.

Book reviews of 4 books: A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood by Kim Anderson. Firewater: The Impact of the Whisky Trade on the Blackfoot Nation by Hugh A. Dempsey. Tales of Ghosts: First Nations Art in British Columbia by Ronald Hawker. Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal by Patty Loew.

Book review of 10 books: Indians Are Us: Culture and Genocide in Native North America by Ward Churchill. Thresholds of Differences: Feminist Critique, Native Women's Writings, Postcolonial Theory by Julia Emberly. Nation to Nation: Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Future of Canada edited by Diane Englestad and John Bird. Arctic Dreams and Nightmares by Alootook Ipellie. The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories: The Original Tsimshian Texts of Henry Tate by Ralph Maud. Ethnophilosophical and Ethnolinguistic Perspectives on the Huron Soul by Michael Pomedli.

Book reviews of 7 books: A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood by Kim Anderson. Harvest of Souls: The Jesuit Missions and Colonialism in North America by Carol Blackbum. Aboriginal Education: Fulfilling the Promise edited by Marlene Brant Castellano, Lynne Davis, and Louise Lahache. In the Words of Elders: Aboriginal Cultures in Transition edited by Peter Kulchyski, Don McCaskill, and David Newhouse. Suicide in Canada edited by Antoon A. Leenaars, Susanne Wenckstern, Isaac Sakinofsky, Ronald J. Dyck, Michael J. Kral, and Roger C.

Books review of: Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women edited by Paula Gunn Allen. Blood Salt by Doris Seale. Coyote's Journal edited by James Koller, Carroll Arnett, Steve Nemirow, and Peter Blue Cloud. American Indian Autobiography by H. David Brumble.

Book reviews of: Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place by Louis Owens. Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border Crossing, and Loose Canons by Paula Gunn Allen. To Access Reviews, scroll to Page 84-89

Book reviews of 18 books: Before the Country: Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology by Stephanie McKenzie. Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism Since 1900 edited by Daniel M. Cobb and Loretta Fowler. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians by Michale Leroy Oberg. How Choctaws Invented Civilization and Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World by D. L. Birchfield. I Swallow Turquoise For Courage: Poems by Hershman R. John. Long Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians edited by James W.

Book review of Reckonings: Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women edited by Hertha D. Sweet Wong, Lauren Stuart Muller, and Jana Sequoya Magdaleno. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 128.

Book reviews of 5 books: Service Delivery to Remote Communities edited by P. Loveday. Service Delivery to Outstations edited by P. Loveday. Aboriginal Arts and Crafts and the Market edited by P. Loveday and P. Cooke. The NAC Election in the Northern Territory 1981 by P. Loveday and D. Jaensch. Yugul: An Arnhem Land Cattle Station by Steven Thiele. Review located by scrolling to page 196.

Review of: We are Not You: First Nations and Canadian Modernity by Denis Claude.

Review of: First Voices: An Aboriginal Women's Reader edited by Patricia A. Monture and Patricia D. McGuire.

Review of: Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence by Leanne Simpson.

Analyzes connection between co-infection, injection drug use, poverty, gender, and ethnicity/race to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Visual and Cultural Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Rochester, 2009.

Pregnancy calendar provides information for soon-to-be mothers.

Comments on Aboriginal women affected by Bill C-31.

Examines policies which were designed to reinforce the ideology of patriarchal descent, recreate the Aboriginal family in the image of European norms and ultimately undermine the position of Aboriginal women.

Focuses on "boyfriend" method of recruitment. Reports results of interviews with experiential survivors and service providers and literature review.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 1997.

Looks at an alternative way to address Aboriginal subject material, shifting the focus from an essentializing or "othering" exploration of the attributes of Aboriginal peoples to a focus on historical experiences that inform our understanding of contemporary relationships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples.

Note: The title of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library. 2 photographs, same image ("Brave and His Gala Attire" in black and white, "Indian Warrior"in sepia tone). A portrait image of man seated with wife/woman attending to his right. Intricate beadwork on traditional dress is displayed.

Human Development Thesis (M.A.)--Laurentian University of Sudbury, 1998.