War & Conflict

Includes post-viewing, comprehension and discussion questions, and activities.

Includes post-viewing, comprehension and discussion questions, and activities.

Includes post-viewing, comprehension and discussion questions, and activities.

Includes post-viewing, comprehension and discussion questions, and activities.

Canadian Heritage and Development Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 1993.

Discusses the spiritual significance and history attached to the Black Hills.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2002.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Arizona, 2010.

Book review of: We Won the Victory by Ian Crawford. Review located by scrolling to page 265.

Author argues that the colonization of Peru by the Spanish created a radical shift in gender identities and roles in Indigenous societies, and that the shift has been made invisible by Eurocentric definitions of gender and gender roles.

Provides a definition of genocide and argues that the vast majority of Native Americans died of diseases.

Reports on the casualties from pro-independence demonstrations. To access this article scroll down to page 66.

Presents six versions of the events preceding and following the massacre to give alternative points of view.

An assessment of the impact of the Métis resistance on areas not directly involved but which were in the process of being settled.

Traces the migration of many Métis to the United States following the Northwest Resistance and their economic marginalization on both sides of the boarder; examines questions of Indian title, treaty-making and the scrip program. Chapter from Métis Settlement in the North-West Territories. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 1.

Essays originally published in Prairie Forum between 1978–2004.

Book review of: The Western Métis edited by Patrick C. Douad. Consists of articles originally published between 1978 and 2007 in . Scroll to page 434 to read review.

Article addresses three main reasons for an evacuation of over 200 Aboriginal people from northern to central Australia.

Examines the forced integration and educational assimilation of the Navajo people which gave rise to the culture of the code talker program.

Author examines three different tenets of colonial thought, “that some persons are things, that matter is inert, and that some humans are autonomous of an ecological matrix,” through the lens of art-based projects that responded to the Guatemalan counter-insurgency war (1960—1996).

Resource Management and Environmental Studies (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2009.

Detailed lesson plan (two class periods) for intermediate/senior level.

File contains a photocopy of Arthur O. Wheeler's daily diary from March to July, 1885. Wheeler served in the Survey (scout) Corp for the Government, and was present during some of the battles of the 1885 rebellion.

Authors comments on the inequities that exist due to the Euro-American conquest of Native Americans by an analysis of Erdrich's Love Medicine.

Book review of: When Rains Become Floods by Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez.

Discusses the author’s experience of seismic and volcanic activity, while visiting Mexico to study the influence of Indigenous knowledge of volcanic topography on the outcomes of historical land/property disputes.

Discusses how Maria Clara Sharupi Jua incorporates the customs and beliefs of her homeland in her poetry to defend the the Shuar culture.

Examines how the establishment of air force installations affected Inuit during the first two decades of the Cold War.

Book review of: When the Sky Fell Down by Keith Wiley. To access review, scroll down to page 204.

Book review of: When the Wolf Came by Mary Jane Warde.

Discussion of the treatment of prisoners taken captive in the Battle of La Belle Famille and what this treatment reveals about Indigenous and European values.

Author explores the United States Government’s termination movement and the resulting resistance from the Menominee people situating the response within the context of the American Indian Movement (AIM), the Red Power Movement, and the social upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Comments on the sesquicentennial of the United States-Dakota War in 2012. Presented at the Tenth Native American Symposium, November 14-15, 2013. Chapter from Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs edited by Mark B. Spencer.

Photo of illustration made from photograph of White Cap, Sioux Chief, pledging friendship to his white brother, taken from Illustrated War News, 25 April 1885.

Author explores the contested historical memory of violent engagement between the Unites States government and Indigenous peoples in the mid to late 1800s, and how those narratives have contributed to the idea of American innocence in relation to the displacement genocide of Indigenous peoples.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 1999.

Book review of: The White Path; The Way South; and The Long Way Home by Robert J. Conley. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Discussion of the Columbus quincentenary celebrations, which ignored the impact discovery on those who were "discovered".

Looks at the struggle Native Americans had with racial classification.

Authors re-examine the discourse surrounding the life and death of the Kiowa leader Satanta; discuss how even contemporary perceptions of Indigenous historical figures are rooted in colonial narratives of conquest which sought to diminish the humanity of Indigenous peoples and extinguish Indigenous title in favour of white settler expansion.

Author presents evidence which suggests that there were not just nine, but ten people killed at Frog Lake on April 2 1885. Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 13.

Discusses reasons Sahnish individuals enlisted in the U.S. Army.

Detailed lesson plan (one class period) for intermediate/senior level.

American Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of New Mexico, 2011