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Post-Colonial Literature and Hawaii: Teaching Ethnic American Literature in a Colony

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ann Rayson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 1, Series 2: Feminist and Post-Colonial Approaches, Spring, 1994, pp. 1-10
Description
Discusses the political and historical issues surrounding the teaching of ethnic American literature amid the Hawaiian activist movement and racial tensions in a multicultural state. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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The Power of a Single Feather: Meech Lake, Indigenous Resistance and the Evolution of Indigenous Politics in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ian Peach
Review of Constitutional Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, 2011, pp. 1-29
Description
Examines how the Meech Lake Accord resulted in increased activism and the implications for national politics and Aboriginal policy. Also explores how the momentum of that period has been lost and what could be done to renew it.
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Power To The People

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Patty Talahongua
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 22, no. 1, Native Activism, Fall, 2010, pp. 14-19
Description
Discusses the important role activists and advocates had in the success of creating tribal colleges.
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Powerful Medicine: The Rhetoric of Comanche Activist Ladonna Harris

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amanda J. Cobb
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 4, Winter, 2006, pp. 63-87
Description
Focuses on the life and activist work of Harris who devoted her life to her people, playing a critical role in shaping American Native policy working with the nonprofit advocacy organization she founded, Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO). Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 63.
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PowWow at Duck Lake

Alternate Title
Challenge for Change
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
David Hughes
Description
Documentary filmed during a community discussion of Aboriginal issues such as residential schools, lack of employment, and economic opportunism. Duration: 14:30.
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Pre-Occupied

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Heid Erdrich
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018
Description
An experimental video/art poem and accompanying text that examines issues including land rights, resource extraction, environmentalism, the Occupy Movement and the activism of Indigenous peoples.
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Preface [BC Studies, No. 57, 1983]

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Tennant
BC Studies, no. 57, British Columbia: A Place For Aboriginal Peoples?, Spring, 1983, pp. 5-9
Description
Introduction to articles in special edition.
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Preface: [BC Studies, No. 89, 1991]

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Doreen Jensen
Cheryl Brooks
BC Studies, no. 89, In Celebration of Our Survival: The First Nations of British Columbia, Spring, 1991, pp. 8-12
Description
Introduces special issue written, compiled and edited by Aboriginal peoples from British Columbia.
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Preventing Ecological Decline in the Bras d'Or Bioregion: The State Versus the Mi'kmaq 'Metamorphosis Machine'

Alternate Title
Preventing Ecological Decline in the Bras d'Or Bioregion: The State Versus the Micmac 'Metamorphosis Machine'
Preventing Ecological Decline in the Bras d'Or Bioregion: The State Versus the Mikmaw 'Metamorphosis Machine'
Preventing Ecological Decline in the Bras d'Or Bioregion: The State Versus the Miqmaq 'Metamorphosis Machine'
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William T. Hipwell
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 24, no. 2, 2004, pp. 253-281
Description
Discusses the ecological degradation of the central Bras d'Or Lakes watershed region and the active stance the Mi'kmaq people have taken to implement an integrated management approach to the issue.
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Priest Convicted of Contempt

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Anglican Journal, vol. 119, no. 10, December 1993, p. 11
Description
Discussion of the contempt of court charge against Rev. Graeme Brownlee, an Anglican priest, and 23 others who protested against logging in the Clayoquot Sound area of British Columbia.
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Prince Albert - Indians

Archival » Archival Items
Description
File contains information on activism, agriculture, reserve life, medical services, drug prescriptions, land claims, the Indian Act, Metis, Indigenous rights, chiefs, sterilization of indigenous women, the "Red Paper", discrimination, treaties 8 and 11, recreation, Liquor Act, provincial law, housing, Local Initiatives Programs, utilities on reserves, and poverty.
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[Priscilla Settee]

Alternate Title
TEDx Talks : U of S (University of Saskatchewan)
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Priscilla Settee
Description
Priscilla Settee talks about her book, Strength of Women: Ahkamlyimowak. A collection of powerful stories about the resilience of women. Duration: 17:20.
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Priscilla Settee: Engineering Environmental Harmony

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Fiona Muldrew
Herizons, vol. 10, no. 3, Summer, 1996, pp. 22-24
Description
Profile of women's rights activist Priscilla Settee and her contributions to Indigenous rights, women's rights and Earth rights.
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Problematising Aboriginal Nationalism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julia Martínez
Aboriginal History, vol. 21, 1997, pp. [133]-147
Description
Discusses a range of perspectives in relation to theoretical debates by looking at the works of Benedict Anderson and Anthony Smith.
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The Protect Mauna Kea Movement: Since Before the Overthrow in 1893

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Katie Kamelamela
Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol. 1, no. 2, Reterritorialising Social Media: Indigenous People Rise Up, 2015
Description
Speaker discusses ongoing activism by Hawaiians to assert sovereignty and protect their environment, the movement to stop the construction of a new telescope on the sacred peak of Mauna Kea, and how it has been utilizing social media. Duration 51:11.
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Protecting Indigenous Peoples Through Socially Responsible Investment

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Benjamin J. Richardson
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, 2007, pp. 205-234
Description
Assesses a new approach to safeguarding Indigenous people by targeting institutions that finance projects that can potentially alter, in a negative way, Indigenous lifestyles.
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Protecting Indigenous Rights in International Adjudication

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
W. Michael Reisman
American Journal of International Law, vol. 89, no. 2, April 1995, pp. 350-362
Description
Assertion that Aboriginal peoples have legitimate claims for a place in international law to protect them and to help restore lost rights.
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Protest in Prince Albert in Support of Oka Mohawks (4)

Images » Photographs
Description
A slide of two boys holding placards reading "Is Canada a Democracy?" and "Mulroney Balogna Blatant Racism" at a protest in Memorial Square, Prince Albert, in solidarity with the Mohawks during the Oka Standoff in Quebec, 1991.
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Protestors Demand Church Records

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Solange De Santis
Anglican Journal, vol. 134, no. 3, March 2008, p. 7
Description
Describes how protesters picketed in front of the Anglican Church of Canada's national office, February 8, 2008, demanding that the church investigate the cases of children from the residential school system that went missing or died.
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Prudence and Moderation: George H. W. Bush and Federal Indian Policy

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas Britten
Indigenous Policy Journal , vol. 29, no. 1, Spring, 2018
Description
Article discusses the actions and policies of the United States government during the Bush presidency. Argues that actions like renaming the "Custer Battlefield National Monument" the “Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument,” and policies that supported the resolution of land claims and increased sovereignty of Native Americans indicate a more moderate policy than previous administrations.
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Public Art for the Americas: Hock Aye VI Edgar Heap of Birds

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Daina Warren
Brunt, no. 4, September 2008, pp. 35-37
Description
Looks at exhibition held at grunt gallery spanning one year involving four projects; Native Hosts, Wheels, Insurgent Messages and the Words, Trees, Chiapas/In Honor of EXLN . Scroll down to page 35 to read article.
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Putting Anti-Indian Violence in Context: The Case of the Great Lakes Chippewas of Wisconsin

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara Perry
Linda Robyn
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3/4, Special Issue: The National Museum of the American Indian, Summer - Autumn, 2005, pp. 590-625
Description
Authors articulate the relationship between Indigenous resistance to state appropriation of lands and anti-Indigenous violence enacted by the public.
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