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Allan Quandt Interview 1

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Allan Quandt
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Allan Quandt has lived in northern Saskatchewan for over 30 years. He was a friend of Malcolm Norris and Jim Brady.
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Allegations, Secrets, and Silence: Perspectives on the Controversy of Roberta Sykes and the Snake Dreaming Series

Alternate Title
Culture and the State ; v. 2
Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Corey China
pp. 108-123
Examines the controversy over the question of the author's Aboriginality and ethnicity. Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies. Entire book on one pdf. To access paper, scroll to p. 108.
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Alternative Dispute Resolution and Aboriginal-Crown Reconciliation in Canada

Alternate Title
Tendencies in Mediation
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Roshan Danesh
Jessica Dickson
Chapter in book: Contemporary Tendencies in Mediation edited by Humberto Dalla Bernardina de Pinho, Juliana Loss de Andrade. Looks at the use of mediation in reconciliation of lands and resources. Scroll down to page 67 for chapter.
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American Cold War Policies and the Enewetakese: Community Displacement, Environmental Degradation, and Indigenous Resistance in the Marshall Islands

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Martha Smith-Norris
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 22, no. 2, New Series, 2011, pp. 195-236
Case study focuses on the consequences of the weapon tests conducted by the United States in Micronesia. Residents were forced to relocate for more than 30 years, received little assistance to re-establish themselves in the new location and no compensation until they took legal action.
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American Indian Issues: An Introductory and Curricular Guide for Educators

Alternate Title
Wild Rivers Teaching American History Project
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
[Gayle Olson-Raymer
Anne Hartline
Sophie Huntington
David Riesenfeld]

Contains links to historical overview and nine lesson plans, including: Mascots, Symbols, and Name; Federal Indian Policy: Historical Roots and 19th Century Policies; Indian Boarding Schools; Red Power; and American Indian Tribal Gaming.

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American Indian Magazine [Vol. IV, no. 1, no. 3, 1916]

Alternate Title
Quarterly Journal of the Society of of American Indians
Documents & Presentations
"Published as The Quarterly Journal of the Society of American Indians." Independent activist publication. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time. Entire document cannot be downloaded. Must be viewed page by page, by using "jump to" feature, or through table of contents.
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American Indian Magazine [vol. V, nos. 1-3, 1917; Vol. VI, nos. 1-3, 1918]

Alternate Title
Quarterly Journal of the Society of of American Indians
Documents & Presentations
Independent activist publication. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time. "Published as The Quarterly Journal of the Society of American Indians." Document cannot be downloaded. Must be viewed page by page, by using "jump to" feature, or through table of contents.
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The American Indian Movement: A Record of Violence

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Federal Bureau of Investigation. United States
Report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1974, declassified in 1992. Presents chronology of violence attributed to the American Indian Movement.
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American Indian Studies Association Conference Keynote Address – Indigenous Activism: Our Resistance, Our Revitalization, Our Indigenous Native Studies: And Our Healing within Our Indigenous Context (or From Alcatraz 1969 to Standing Rock 2017. Or Perhaps—Truth Be Bold—Liars, Killers, Thieves Invade Sacred Stone Camp)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Simon J. Ortiz
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 106-114
Ortiz’s address to the AISA calls on Indigenous people to recognize the damage done to them by colonization and to find in that recognition the strength and will to participate in contemporary resistance to neocolonial projects rooted in consumer capitalist and extractive resource regimes.
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American Indian Studies Association Conference Presidential Address – Advocacy and Indigenous Resistance: The Ongoing Assault against Indigenous Sovereignty, Community, and Land

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elise Boxer
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 91-105
This presentation text examines different sites and incidents of neocolonial violence and Aboriginal activism as defiance in response; asserts the basis of Native Studies is “indigenousness and sovereignty” and examines the implications of these concepts for activism and resistance movements.
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American Indian Studies: Intellectual Navel Gazing or Academic Discipline?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clara Sue Kidwell
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 1, Winter, 2009, pp. 1-17
Looks at the history of American Indian Studies programs in the United States; information about the activism among Indian communities; the activism efforts of American Indian college students; the presence of American Indian teachers in United States colleges and universities; and other factors contributing to the growing field of American Indian Studies.
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American Indian Women's Activism in the 1960s and 1970s

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donna Hightower Langston
Hypatia, vol. 18, no. 2, [Special Issue: Indigenous Women in the Americas], Spring, 2003, pp. 114-132
Article focuses on the role that women held during three key events: the occupation of Alcatraz Island, Wounded Knee and the Fish-in movement.
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Americanization on Native Terms: The Society of American Indians, Citizenship Debates, and Tropes of "Racial Difference"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cristina Stanciu
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 111-148
Discusses the way in which some members of the Society of American Indians (SAI) advocated for a model of “Americanization” of Indigenous people that allows for the “performance of both American and Native allegiances,” and enfranchised Indigenous peoples as full citizens.
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Among Ghost Dances: Sarah Winnemucca and the Production of Tribal Identity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark Rifkin
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 170-207
Discusses Winnemucca’s 1883 book, Life among the Piutes, and her advocacy work on behalf of the Piutes; focuses on the rhetorical strategies and political positioning Winnemucca uses to represent her people and their interests to settler publics and government officials.
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Angie Debo: Pioneering Historian

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Douglas A. Hurt
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 3, Summer, 2001, pp. 480-481
Book review of: Angie Debo: Pioneering Historian by Shirley A. Leckie.
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Angry Crees Stop Hydro Hearing

Alternate Title
The National ; June 26, 1991
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Neil MacDonald
Very brief news clip reports on opposition to the hydro Great Whale Project, a project that would flood an area the size of France. Duration: 1:52.
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Angry Inuk

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Unikkaat Studios
National Film Board of Canada
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
Bonnie Thompson
Qajaaq Ellsworth
EyeSteelFilm
Award-winning documentary about the Inuit's battle against a new European Union seal ban in an effort to regain their economic independence. Duration: 1:22:19.
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Antagonism Sours Relations With First Nations

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, April 5, 2007, p. A11
Comments on a Canadian Forces counterinsurgency manual citing the Mohawk Warrior Society as an example of a "radical" group.
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Anti-terrorist Unit Raids Native Activist's Home

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 20, no. 7, November 2002, pp. 1-2

Focuses on a tactical RCMP unit, that was created under the Anti-Terrorism Act unit, who evacuated a neighbourhood and then kicked down the door of John Rampanen's home, a member of West Coast Warrior Society.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.1.

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Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Resistance in the Age of Big Oil: Corwin Clairmont's Two-Headed Arrow/The Tar Sands Project

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katie Kane
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 2, Spring, 2021, pp. [152]-195
An analysis of the art installation performed and exhibited in 2018 and discussion of how the artist's works express resistance to the proposed oil pipeline and energy extraction projects going through or near Indigenous lands in the U.S. and Canada.
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Art K. Davis Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Art Davis
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Art Davis, a professor of sociology, hired Jim Brady as a research technician/interviewer for work in the north. Davis discusses Brady's work, his personality, his politics and compares Brady to Malcolm Norris.
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