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Our Native Land: American Indian Movement Shakes Up Canada

Alternate Title
Our Native Land ; June 8, 1974
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Stephen Banker
Phil Stone
Vern Belcourt
Carla Blakey
LaDonna Harris
Lonnie Hindle ... [et al.]
Discusses the American Indian Movement in Canada and its U.S. origins. The broadcast also discusses housing in BC, people against the expansion of Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland, and criticism over the Mackenzie Valley pipeline. Includes synopsis. Duration: 43:33 (this topic begins at 19:00)
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'Our Native Land' Turns Ten

Alternate Title
Indian Magazine
Our Native Land ; February 1, 1974
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Johnny Yesno
John Barbarash
Barry Hussy
Radio clip traces the history of the CBC Northern Service current affairs radio show, which evolved from an earlier show entitled Indian Magazine. Duration: 44:21.
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Our Resistance Will Not Stop

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rucha Chitinis
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 4, The Future We Want: Indigenous Women of the World Unite, December 2013, p. [?]
Comments on corporate and government-led land grabs and other injustices that threaten the survival, dignity, and livelihoods of Indigenous peoples.
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Out of the Woods: The Making of the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dean J. Kotlowski
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 4, 2006, pp. 63-97
Examines the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act signed in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter with the Passamaquoddies and the Penobscots, signifing the first major success in their effort to reclaim land.
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An Overview of the Rough Rock Demonstration School

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert A. Roessel
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 7, no. 3, May 1968, pp. [2-14]
Pioneering Native American school has Navajo peoples directly and actively involved in the operation of the local school.
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Packaging Protest: Media Coverage of Indigenous People's Collective Action

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rima Wilkes
Catherine Corrigall-Brown
Daniel J. Myers
Canadian Review of Sociology, vol. 47, no. 4, 2010, pp. 327-357
Discussion on media coverage across multiple instances of collective action by Indigenous peoples. The article attempts to identify factors associated with the quality and quantity of event media coverage.
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Pan-Indigenous Vision of Indigenous Studies

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Martina Masaquiza (Salasaka Kechwa)
Pakal B'alam (Kaqchikel Mayan)
Indigenous Nations Studies Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring, 2000, pp. 3-9
Looks at the conflict of interests in the groups served by the Indigenous Studies Program. Concludes with suggestions for an ideal program..
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Parallel Voices: Indians and Others, Narratives of Cultural Struggle

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gail Guthrie Valaskakis
Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 18, no. 3, [Crossing Borders: Issues in Native Communications], Summer, 1993, pp. [283-296]
Explores issues of representation and appropriation of culture with particular emphasis on women.
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Parliament of Religions on the Prairie: Standing Rock as Interreligious Event

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 12th, 2017
Representations and Realities
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Peter A. Huff
Examines the Oceti Sakowin water protectors’ camp as an Indigenous-led interreligious meeting and criticizes media representation of the water protectors as “protesters” while ignoring the religious and interfaith elements of the movement.
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Paths of Indigenous Cyber-Activism

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kyra Landzelius
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2, Indigenous Peoples and Information Technology, 2003, pp. 6-13
Overview of the virtual face of Indigenous people expressed through self-authoring engagements, websites, chat, emails or other applications. To access this article scroll down to page 6.
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Paths of Resistance, Tracks of Disruption: On Stereotypes, Native / Women's Spirituality, and the Problems of Functionalism and Cultural Appropriation in the "Nature" of Dominating Western Cultures

Alternate Title
Paths of Resistance, Tracks of Disruption: On Stereotypes, Native/Women's Spirituality, and the Problems of Functionalism and Cultural Appropriation in the
Theses
Author/Creator
Sherry Rowley
Environmental Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2001.
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A People Without Law

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard B. Collins
Karla D. Miller
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 5, no. 1, 2006, pp. 83-117
Examines the history behind the relatively few number of lawsuits launched by Native Americans during the 1830-1968 time period.
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Performativity of Time, Movement and Voice in Idle No More

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Selena Couture
Performance Research, vol. 19, no. 6, On Rupture, 2014, pp. 118-120
Book review of: The Winter We Danced: Voices From the Past, the Future and the Idle No More Movement edited by The Kino-nda-niimi Collective, lead editors Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Tanya Kappo, Wanda Nanibush and Hayden King.
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Personal Memories of Alcatraz, 1969

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Luis S. Kemnitzer
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 103-109
Remembering what turned out to be a significant historical event, one Professor of Anthropology gives his perspective.
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Pete Price, Navajo Medicineman (1868-1951): A Brief Biography

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephen C. Jett
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, Winter, 1991, pp. 91-103
The author uses published documents, archival sources, and family interviews to construct a biography of the Diné medicine man, Pete Price (also called Chief Silagotio in some media accounts).
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Petition Witnessed by George G. Mann

Archival » Archival Items
A photocopy of a petition and letters sent by Indian agent George G. Mann of Onion Lake to Ottawa in November and December, 1887. This correspondence was in regard to the early release of Way-way-see-too-win (Dressy Man), Charlebois and Louison Mongrain who had been convicted of murder in 1885 and sentenced to life in prison. Mann names these three men as the ones who saved his life on 2 April 1885 after the so-called Frog Lake massacre.
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Philosophy of an Indian War: Indian Community Action in the Johnson Administration's War on Indian Poverty, 1964–1968

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel M. Cobb
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, 1998, pp. 71-102
Explores the administration of President Johnson's Community Action Program (CAP) and how its philosophy served as the sign of things to come in terms of band or tribal self-determination.
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Photography Redfern Proof: Exhibition as Medium

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Catherine De Lorenzo
Visual Anthropology Review, vol. 21, no. 1-2, March 2005, pp. 138-162
Comments on an exhibition, Proof: Portraits From the Movement, 1978-2003, featuring 67 framed black-and-white photographs plus 67 digital images on a DVD monitor
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Picturing Transformation: Nexw Áyantsut

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Dorothy Kennedy
BC Studies, no. 186, Summer, 2015, pp. 155-156
Book review of Picturing Transformation by Nancy Bleck, Katherine Dodds, and Chief Bill Williams. Entire book review section on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 155.
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Pipeline Panel Withdraws Over Concerns of Safety

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shauna Lewis
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 2, May 2012, p. 8

Looks at review hearings held for people to express their views about a pipeline project.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.

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The Policy Agenda of Native Peoples from World War II to the 1969 White Paper

Alternate Title
Setting the Agenda for Change ; vol. 1
Aboriginal Policy Research ; vol. 1
Aboriginal Policy Research Conference ; 1st, 2002
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
John F. Leslie
vol. 1

Discusses efforts to resist assimilation and retain unique cultures, treaty entitlements, and inherent rights.

Chapter one from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 1, which is also vol. 1 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.

Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.

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Political Protest, Conflict, and Tribal Nationalism: The Oklahoma Choctaws and the Termination Crisis of 1959-1970.

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Valerie Lambert
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2, Spring, 2007, pp. 283-309
Argues that contrary to accepted wisdom, there was a movement to resist the process of assimilation advocated by Harry J. W. Belvin and that this resistance began with the Choctaw youth movement.
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Political Resistance in a Contemporary Hunter-Gatherer Society: More about Bearlake Athapaskan Knowledge and Authority

Alternate Title
Political Resistance in a Contemporary Hunter Gatherer Society: More about Bear Lake Athabaskan Knowledge and Authority
Political Resistance in a Contemporary Hunter-Gatherer Society: More about Bear Lake Athabascan Knowledge and Authority
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Scott Rushforth
American Ethnologist, vol. 21, no. 2, May 1994, pp. 335-352
Bearlake (Bear Lake) belief systems relating to past experiences of the Sahtu Dene and how they react to externally controlled economic proposals.
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