Activism

Looks back four decades to the First Convocation of American Indian Scholars.

Presents the presidential address from the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.

Interviews with Aboriginal artists and community leaders about building new relationships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians now and in the future. Duration: 45:16

Release of John Graham, or John Boy Patton, who was accused of shooting Anna Mae Pictou Aquash.

"Remarks from the 2015 Gwich'in Tribal Council Post-Secondary Academic Conference Series, March 23-27, 2015, Memorial University, St. John's Newfoundland."

Comments on the violent confrontations between Aboriginal people, their supporters and the police over notions of Black Power and dispossession of land.

Traces government policies and legislation and activities of Aboriginal organizations from the colonial period to the 1990s.

Discusses the predicament that Penny Jackson, a painter, poet, activist and single mother, faces as an Indigenous intellectual.

Looks at the links between foreign policy, Indigenous peoples and Quebec. Scroll down to page 107 to read article.

Explores three themes: hegemony, resistance, and identity.

Looks at the uprising of the Mayan people against the Mexican Government over the amendment to Article 27 of the Constitution.

3rd edition updated and expanded.

Topics covered include history, treaties, land claims, Indian Act, self-government, demographic/socio-economic profile, rights, and labour issues.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University, 1996.

Brief overview of the experiences of veterans both during and after the war.

Discussion of an aboriginal consitution success, a recommendation to the government regarding an environmental assessment, and a protest staged in Saskatchewan.

Video presentation of Assert, Defend, Take Space: Aboriginal Youth Conference on Identity, Activism and Film, hosted by the Museum of Anthropology. Continuation from part one. Shows short films followed by discussion and question period with filmmakers and artists. Companion to exhibition: Claiming Space: Voices of Urban Aboriginal Youth Duration: 2:55:59. Part 1.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of Western Ontario, 1998.

Book review of: Aborigines in Colonial Victoria 1835-86 by M. F. Christie. To access review, scroll down to page 205.

Looks at Indigenous efforts to gain equal rights and their reactions to attempts towards integration into the national identity.

Fine Art Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 1998.

Discusses prejudice faced by protagonist Broken Lance a Shoshone Indian, and war veteran returning home to Wyoming.

Environmental Policy (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2014.

Discusses use of tricksters in oral and written narratives of many cultures that can aid in forming new literary histories, articulating resistance, reinterpreting individual author's works and to the colonizing literary theory.

Comments on an activist leading her Indigenous community in a battle against Shell's oil sands expansion project.

Discusses the history of Tribal Colleges and Universities and the positive role that activisits played in their creation.

Mohawks of Kanehsatake and their supporters from Kahnawake, stand-off against the Quebec police and the Canadian military in defense of a sacred burial ground.This film deals with mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised. Duration: 104:34.

File contains a black and white photograph of Dr. Howard Adams, no date given.

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Discusses the relationship between the protest essay and the protest novelsand concludes that essays may actually achieve greater success than novels or poems in achieving desired political goals.

Examines significant historical events, the developments in activism, the current situation, advocacy for women and children and options for dealing with men who use violence.

Chronicles the history of oppression and marginalization against the Adivasis of India. To access this article scroll down to page 54.

Bibliography reflects scholarly and research interests of Canadian authors as well as usefulness for professionals working with Native children.

Essay in which the author summarizes a series of interviews they conducted with Zapatista cultural promoter and artist Gustavo Chávez Pavón; considers how the murals speak to Indigenous solidarity between Mexico and Palestine, and to similarities across the Global South.

Analysis the relationship between economic restructuring and Aboriginal land rights in light of the 1994 conflict in Chiapas, Mexico and suggests that fundamental differences can provide directions for finding solutions.

Discusses the impact of director George Stoney's practice of including subjects in both production and distribution of films, with particular reference to the filming of the 1969 confrontation between Mohawks from the St. Regis Reserve and police on a bridge between Canada and the U.S.

Chapter 10 in: How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture edited by Bart Beaty, Derek Briton, Gloria Filax, Rebecca Sullivan. Discussion of the exhibition After the Spirit Sang and the ensuing boycott and controversy. Go to page 217 to read the chapter.

Discusses three themes that emerged from “Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways” issue of American Indian Culture and Research Journal: (1) structural genocide in settler-colonial states' attempts at deracination; (2) Indigenous peoples' agency with regard to anti-normalization; and (3) decolonial resistance outside of imposed settler-colonial binaries.

Social and Political Thought Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 1995.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 1998.

Looks at Gerald Vizenor's, Hiroshima Bugi, Katsuichi Honda's Harukor: An Ainu Woman's Tale and Shigeru Kayano's Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir and the importance of the survivance narrative.

Panelists Alanis Obomsawin, Gabrielle Fayant and Brock Lewis discuss social issues in Indigenous communities and challenges Indigenous youth face. Duration: 57:00.

Argues that the Alcatraz event was mainly a civil rights movement protest against the very oppressive conditions faced by Native Americans, somewhat like the Ku Klux Klan gathering in 1957 was for the African-American population.

Argues that the occupation of Alcatraz Island set the stage for Native American peoples spiritual rebirth and was the beginning of the reclaiming of pride and dignity for all Indian nations.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Georgia, 2004.

Gives different perspectives on the Alcatraz story, including insider-outsider and Native-Non-Native. The author comments how the occupation is still told like a legend or a folk tale would be.

Mr. Bishop is a long time resident of Green Lake, Saskatchewan He talks about problems in the area, his work for the Metis people and his impressions of Malcolm Norris and Howard Adams.

Examines the strategies used by the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation and Allies (AAFNA) in judicial and legislative settings to make their voices heard.

Discusses a gathering of Kainai, Pikuni and Siksika Nations for a political convention conducted under the surveillance by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.