Activism

Book review of: Trans-Indigenous: by Allen Chadwick.

Examines the relationship between socially constructed activism, feminism and Indigenous artists.

Explores the link between the two groups' histories and their responses to colonialism. Special combined issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures and American Indian Quarterly. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 241.

Outlines the Treaty position followed during the Constitutional negotiations.

Union of Ontario Indians (UOI) Resource booklet includes timeline and recommendations for action.

Describes campaign of direct actions, including Protect the Inlet and Tiny House Warriors, taken in opposition to the pipeline, currently under construction to carry oil from Alberta Tar Sands to the tide water port in Vancouver. Examines the conflict in terms of traditional cultural values, environmental activism, and discusses the use of art to build a culture of resistance.

Contains several contributing eulogies to the Australian Aboriginal healthcare advocate who died at age 50.

Documentary focuses on Treaty 9 (James Bay Treaty), First Nations' fight to see that treaty rights and obligations are respected, and their lands and resources are protected. Duration: 84:51. Related material: Mini-Lesson.

Documentary about the life of John Trudell, as an American Indian activist, musician and poet. Duration: 1:18:22.

Examines the strategies used by Harry C. Hale to communicate with and gain the trust of Hunkpapa peoples following the death of Sitting Bull in December of 1890.

National Park Service of the United States and their use, and consultation, of Indigenous knowledge. Issues of confidentiality and disclosure.

Presenter argues that true reconciliation requires the exchange of land, wealth and power. Duration: 1:30:31.

Reports on The Defenders of the Land Gathering held in Vancouver.

Looks at the American Indian Movement (AIM), protests and Russell Means.

Argues that Indigenous nations bring a diversity to the dominant society that is unique and contingent upon the integrity of political boundaries within the United States. The article discusses the challenges within this framework.

[History?] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Purdue University, 1994.

Paper presented to the Ipperwash Inquiry includes a general discussion of relations between Aboriginals and Euro-Canadians and specific issues and incidents involving fishing and resource rights, and sacred burial grounds.

Argues that communication based on willing participants who are open-minded and committed are essential if the resolution of land claims is to be successful. The process must also be seen or viewed to be taking place in a timely fashion or activism may become more aggressive.

Self-determination allows for the setting of standards and to set the goal of what is trying to be achieved, for the next, sympathetic era.

Describes the events, activist groups, and preceding organizations which influenced the formation of the Union.

Presents the Declaration for young audience by explaining rights of protection by governments around the world.

Atlantic Canada Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Saint Mary's University, 2003.

Atlantic Canada Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Saint Mary's University, 2012.

Longstanding teacher-education team who teach a specialized Honours BEd course, entitled Indigenizing Perspectives and Practices in Education, outline the obstacles and struggles in settler teacher education; discuss legacies of colonialism in education and systemic racism in curriculum.

Paper presented 54th Adult Education Research Conference, Changing the Landscape of Lifelong Learning: Charting New Territories and Re-defining Education For Adults, May 2013.

Film reviews of: 40 Years Celebrating Wounded Knee directed by Christopher Marshall. The Medicine Game directed by Lukas Korver. Shouting Secrets directed by Korinna Sehringer. Spirit in Glass: Plateau Native Beadwork. Winter in the Blood directed by Alex Smith and Andrew J. Smith. Yellow Fever: The Navajo Uranium Legacy directed by Sophie Rousmaniere.

Geography Thesis (M.A..)--The University of British Columbia, 1997.

Book review of: Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call by A. Manuel and R. M. Derrikson.

Article examines the work of contemporary artists Leah Decter, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, and Caroline Monnet. Discusses the artists’ engagement with current discourse surrounding settler colonialism and their use of the arts to disrupt conceptualization of the Canadian state as inclusive and benevolent.

Gender, Feminist & Women's Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2015.

Overview of Algonquin land claims in Ontario and case studies of Indigenous activism including Chief Theresa Spence's hunger strike on Victoria Island and the Idle No More movement.

Contends that colonialism and patriarchy have attempted to marginalize Indigenous womanhood thus allowing racialised and gendered violence to flourish.

Comments on the connection between Indigenous cultural activism and contemporary First Nations art.

Discusses the history, demographic composition, social problems of the area and the community groups that seek to address these issues.

Looks at the proposed construction of coal gasification plants on the Navajo Reservation in northwestern New Mexico in 1977, and how the interests of local residents were ignored.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2007.

Brief news updates including opposition to an expansion of low-level military flights over Newfoundland and Labrador, lobbying to prevent the issuance of logging permits by the Algonquin of Barriere Lake, a spill of radioactive contaminated water in Saskatchewan, and opposition to pulp and paper mills in Alberta.

Discussion of indigenous political issues in Canada including Meech Lake Accord and the Oka standoff.

Sketched map of the natural resources on the Lakota Nation reservation developed by an activist group.

Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Manitoba, 2011.

Argues that the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples don't address all the needs of First Nations people living in urban Saskatchewan.

Book reviews of: The Urban Indian Experience by Donald L. Fixico. World War II and the American Indian by Kenneth William Townsend.

Discussion about the ideals of assimilation and regaining one's culture.

Article explores how Indigenous opera singers in the Southwestern United States in the 1920's used their platform as performers to publicize Indigenous histories; highlights the mobility of Indigenous peoples and how they helped to create modern urban spaces in the Southwest.