First Nations & Reserves

Information on the history and culture of the four Aboriginal groups who inhabit Newfoundland: the Inuit, Innu, Micmac and the Metis.

Book review of: Across a Great Divide edited by Laura L. Scheiber, Mark D. Mitchell.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston College, 1999.

Book review of: The Iroquois in the War of 1812 by Carl Benn. The Lakota Ritual and the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice by Raymond Bucko. The Legacy of Shingwaukonse: A Century of Native Leadership by Janet E. Chute. The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory by Julie Cruikshank. Looking North: Art from the University of Alaska Museum by Aldona Jonaitis (Editor).

Includes Maclean's perspectives on spirituality, regalia, influence of missionaries, signing, camps, particular individuals including Crowfoot, Poundmaker, Hiawatha, Shawundais, Mikasto as well as general commentary on Sarcee, Stoney, Cree, Inuit, Dakota, Nakota, Ojibwa, Mi'kmaq and other peoples.

Examines the history of an ecologically diverse Native American reserve and their endeavours to safeguard the environment.

Maps and information about Indigenous peoples of New France including Southern Algonquians, Northeastern Iroquoians, as well as peoples of the Plains, the Southeast and Inuit.

Website provides student resource for First Nation and Inuit communities at time of first contact across North America. Includes maps and is organized by language.

Committee appointed to research and report on "physical characters, languages, and industrial and social condition of the North-Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada; includes some commentary on the Sarcee peoples, and Inuit.

Overview of the history of First Nations, dealt with by area: North-West, South Saskatchewan, Eastern Canada, British Columbia and Yukon. The author also has sections to discuss Sioux and Eskimo (Inuit)) issues. Excerpt from: Canada and Its Provinces, Vol. VII, edited by Adam Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2004.

Author interrogates the discipline of History, focusing on the long-standing practice of excluding the oral histories of the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit from the Canadian national narrative. Encourages historians to engage in a practice of “self-reflection about their own attitudes and treatment of Indigenous oral histories and to consider why Indigenous oral histories have been othered by the academy.” Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 24

Introduction to the book, kā-kī-pē-isi-nakatamākawiyahk – Our Legacy which grew out of a desire to make materials relating to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples, found in Saskatchewan’s archival and libraries, more accessible.

Virtual exhibit of over 300 digitized images and special narratives and interviews of 21 Inuit artists.

Discussion of the archaeology and historical First Nation and Inuit population estimates of Labrador.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2010.

Book review of: Reindeer Days Remembered by Eliza J. Hart.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 1999.