Activism

Discussion, at the structural level, about the kind of education that is provided to Canada’s Indigenous peoples. The article also discusses a social activist, Shannen Koostachin, and her campaign to engage in social action in order to pressure the federal government to build a new school.

Comments on the interpretations and representations of a waving arm in a poem and a video.

History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 2009.

Looks at Apess's historical address given in 1836 in which he uses the power of the role as a Christian minister and the rhetoric of the abolitionist movement to argue for Native rights.

Examines First Nations peoples unique methods to preserve an Indigenous heritage site.

Discusses the anti-blackness within Indigenous communities and how confederate monuments are symbols of the Cherokee and Chickasaws own long history of racial discrimination against African Americans.

Creative piece that examines the relationship between Indigenous people and liberal Americans during the protests following the election of Donald Trump in the United States.

Reports on various recent socio-political developments concerning the alarming number of missing Aboriginal women in Canada.

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.

Argues that rather than being a case cultural differences, the crime was motivated by extreme hunger as well an act of resistance against federal government authority and policies.

Focuses on values of the Mohawk culture, based on interviews conducted after the arrest of Chief Loran Thompson of the Akwesasne Reserve in May 1979.

City Planning Thesis (MCP)--University of Manitoba, 2017.

Book review of: White Flour, White Power by Tim Rowse. Review located by scrolling to page 294.

Gender Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University, 2016.

Criticizes Aboriginal leaders for a lack of adequate consultation at the community level before engaging in political talks.

Brief description of the role of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, formerly Inuit Tapiriit of Canada, the national Inuit advocacy group.

Nationalism Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Central European University, 2014.

Critical analysis of The Surrounded, by D'Arcy McNickle, with emphasis on cultural and racial identity.

Overview of the Crazy Horse Memorial and Standing Bear's connection to it.

Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University, 1998.

Examines the foundations and depth of Indigenous peoples’ claims to and resistance to seceding their traditional territories in British Columbia. Provides a venue for W̱SÁNEĆ and Mowachaht/Muchalaht communities to articulate their relationship to the land, each other, and their understandings of their sovereignty.

Law Thesis (M.LL.)--University of Victoria, 2018

Author offers some perspective on the process of colonization in the period between 1849 and 1890 and on everything that was lost in in that time to the Sioux peoples; also discusses the current moves towards healing, resurgence and cultural reclamation.

Comments on language revitalization and documentation, and the engagement with Indigenous peoples.

Discussion of the 1975 murder of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash and how John Boy Graham is being extradited to the United States for this crime.

Journalism Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.

Discusses the orator's use of the theory that Native Americans were descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel, in arguments for rights and sovereignty, as well as to counteract the popular attitude that they were a "vanishing race". Entire article on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.

Brief description of William Barak's life and leadership at the Coranderrk settlement and his efforts to preserve aspects of Aboriginal tradition in his art.

Book review of: William Cooper Gentle Warrior by Barbara Miller. Scroll down to page 193 to read review.

Explains the purpose of "Idle No More" and the Omnibus bill and other bills that are removing First Nations rights. Duration: 20:14.

Focuses on political aspects of the decision to enlist and the struggle of servicemen and their families to access military wages and repatriation benefits

Documents and analyses settler Canadian discourses surrounding the various actions of the Idle No More movement.

Book review of: The Winter We Danced edited by The Kino-nda-niimi Collective.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2015.

Book review: With Good Intentions edited by Celia Haig-Brown and David A. Nock. To access this review, scroll to page 116.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2014.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2017.

A discussion on how use of the term "women and 2spirit" has been used to advocate gender issues but is also problematic because it can marginalize transgendered people from larger Indigenous activist causes.

Four women from across Canada who are artists, scholars, activists discuss topics such as racism, leadership, contemporary life, culture, popular misconceptions about Aboriginal peoples, and cross cultural relations. Duration: 1:22:38.

Looks at the support the La Ronge Native Women's Council gives to women of the community.

Women's stories illustrate the variety of Aboriginal experiences as they moved from reserves to the city.

Book review of: Words and Silences edited by Peggy Brock. Review located by scrolling to page 296.

Short document contains a Declaration of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas relating to the meeting which took place in December 2000 in Santiago de Chile. To access this article scroll down to page 32.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1986.

Poem that deals with the 1862 removal of the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota from their lands, their forced march to a concentration camp at Fort Snelling, and the execution of 38 men by the United States government following the “Sioux Uprising of 1862.”

Communication Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2000.

Describes the rising role of Indigenous women in a new era of activism that is based on traditional Indigenous values and practices.