Fur Trade & Exploration
Summary of Elders' Interviews -- Support from Anthropological Sources
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Lynne Hickey
Indian History Film Project
Description
Author uses various anthropological and historical sources to throw some light on the way in which the Indians of the Treaty 6 and 7 regions might have interpreted the treaty promises.
"The Sunday Flag is Up!": Western Arctic Aboriginal Cultures and the Sports of the Fur Traders
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Heine
Journal of Sport History, vol. 41 , no. 2, Summer , 2014, pp. 313-329
Description
"This paper examines processes of cultural contact and change in the Canadian western Arctic resulting from the dual impacts of the fur trade and of missionary activities between 1850 and 1940."
The Supreme Court's Van Der Peet Trilogy: Native Imperialism and Ropes of Sand
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James (Sákéj) Youngblood Henderson
Russel Lawrence Barsh
McGill Law Journal, vol. 42, Fall, 1997, pp. 993-1009
Description
Comments on R v. Vanderpeet [1996] S.C.R. 507; R. v. N.T.C. Smokehouse Ltd., [1996] 2 S.C.R. 672 and R. v. Gladstone [1996] 2 S.C.R. 723 (Sept. 1997).
Surveying the Forty-Ninth Parallel
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
L. F. Hewgill
Alberta History, vol. 64, no. 4, Autumn, 2016, pp. 15-22
Description
Accounts from a member of the Canadian International Boundary Commission published in the In the Days of Pioneering: Crossing the Plains in the Early 70s.
Survival Skills from the 1800s
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Patsy Cameron
Phyllis Pitchford
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 9, no. 4, December 1985, pp. 7-8
Description
Describes the diet and lifestyle of the inhabitants of the Furneaux Islands, located just north of Tasmania in the Bass Strait.
Sustainable Reconciliation: Unlocking the Economic Potential of an Australian Indigenous Community
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Duncan Ord
Tim Mazzarol
Description
Comments on the detrimental impact of the European settlement on Indigenous Australian population over the past two centuries. Paper prepared for the Second AGSE International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, 10-11 February 2005, Melbourne.
The Swampy Cree and the Hudson's Bay Company at Oxford House
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher Hanks
Ethnohistory, vol. 29, no. 2, Spring, 1982, pp. 103-115
Description
Describes a relationship between the Hudson's Bay Company and the Cree and how that relationship went from mutual dependence to dominance of the trading post.
Swiftly Moving Currents: American Indian History and the Changing Complexity of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Alternate Title
Guest Editor's Introduction: Swiftly Moving currents: American Indian History and the Changing Complexity of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ned Blackhawk
Ethnohistory, vol. 54, no. 4, Between Empires: Indians in the American West During the Age of Empire, Fall, 2007, pp. 583-589
Description
Introduction discusses imperial-indigenous relations in the American west.
T.A.R.R. Workshop -- Louis Rain Oral Report
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Louis Rain
Indian History Film Project
Description
This paper, based on his many field interviews, represents Mr. Rain's views on why the Indians in the Treaty 6 area wereanxious to sign treaty, the problems of language, and therefore of their understanding of the terms.
"A Taste of Paradise": Sacajawea and the Romanticizing of Americanization"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Knowlton-Le Roux
Cercles, vol. 19, 2009, pp. 55-66
Description
Examines the legend of Sacajawea, her importance in the assimilation of Native Americans and argues the impossibility of updating the legend due to American's expectation of popular history.
Taua Nākahi Nui: Māori, Liquor and Land Loss in the 19th Century
Alternate Title
Taua Nakahi Nui: Maori, Liquor and Land Loss in the 19th Century
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tiopira McDowell
AlterNative, vol. 11, no. 2, 2015, pp. 103-117
Description
Describes the use of alcohol as a tool to defraud New Zealand's Maori of their land during the 1800s.
Te Taaepaepatanga O Te Rangi Māori Global Engagement: The Opportunities, Challenges, and Aspirations – Māori Leaders Speak
Alternate Title
Te Taaepaepatanga O Te Rangi Maori Global Engagement: The Opportunities, Challenges, and Aspirations – Maori Leaders Speak
Theses
Author/Creator
Kemp Follet Te Rangipaikura Reweti
Description
Māori Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massey University, 2013.
Teaching the Canadian Arctic Expedition
Articles » General
Author/Creator
David Gray
Canadian Issues, Teaching (in) the Canadian North, Winter, 2013, pp. 36-40
Description
Looks at the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-1918 as an educational tool for teaching science, geography, culture and history.
To access article scroll to p. 36.
Teaching Treaty Relationships: A Timeline Activity for Students
Alternate Title
Treaty Education
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba
Description
Uses date and relationship cards to educate students about First Nations and Newcomer interactions leading up to the signing of Treaty 1 in 1871.
Teaching with Indian Givers
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ruth Norton
Craig Charbonneau Fontaine
Description
Explores the many contributions made by Indigenous peoples to North and South American societies and the long history of settler exploitation of the land, resources, and people of the two continents.
Telling the Stories: Essays on American Indian Literatures and Cultures. Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson and Malcolm A. Nelson, eds.
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Greg Salyer
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 14, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 2002, pp. 75-78
Description
Book review of: Telling the Stories: Essays on American Indian Literatures and Cultures edited by Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson and Malcolm A. Nelson.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
"They Punish Murderers, Thieves, Traitors and Sorcerers": Aboriginal Criminal Justice as Reported By Early French Observers
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Desmond H. Brown
Histoire sociale / Social History, vol. 35, no. 70, November 2002, pp. 364-391
Description
Discusses the intent of Aboriginal justice to restore social cohesion and harmony rather then seek retribution or deterrence.
Thief, Slave Trader, Murderer: Christopher Columbus and Caribbean Population Decline
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tink Tinker
Mark Freeland
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring, 2008, pp. 25-50
Description
Examines the possible role Christopher Columbus played in the genocide of an estimated half million Taino Aboriginals between 1492-1500.
Thomas McKenzie Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Thomas McKenzie
Janet R. Fietz
Indian History Film Project
Description
He talks about traditional lifestyle while growing up in northern Saskatchewan and compares life today with life when he was a child.
The Tiwi and the British: An Ill-fated Outpost
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Morris
Aboriginal History , vol. 25, Aboriginality in Southeastern Australia, 2001, pp. [243]-261
Description
Comments on the relationship between the Tiwi and colonizers using the limited written evidence available.
"To Kyngdoms Strange ..." An Examination of North American Indian Ethnographic Evidence in Richard Hakluyt's Principall (sic) Navigations of the English Nation [1589]
Alternate Title
"To Kyngdoms Strange ..." An Examination of North American Indian Ethnographic Evidence in Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations of the English Nation [1589]
Theses
Author/Creator
Ari David Berk
Description
American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1994.
[To Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of the Dominion of Canada: From the Chiefs of the Shuswap, Okanagan and Couteau Tribes of British Columbia, Presented at Kamloops, B.C. August 25, 1910]
Alternate Title
The Memorial to Sir Wilfrid Laurier: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary, 1910-2010
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Chiefs of the Shuswap, Okanagan and Couteau or Thompson Tribes
Description
Text of letter protesting the misappropriation of land, failure to create treaties, and the policies of the B.C. government. Site also includes information on laws and customs, historical and political context, and timeline from 1763 to 2009.