Activism

Five-part documentary series about the Shoal Lake 40 Anishinaabe Nation's battle to build a road after their community was forcibly relocated and cut off from the mainland so that water could be supplied to the city of Winnipeg. Related material: Mini-Lesson.

Discusses the novel's theme of a political revolution which will ultimately result in the disintegration of European power over Aboriginal peoples. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Focuses on the experiences, possibilities, contradictions and influence on urban Aboriginal activism of Friendship Centres.

Discusses the occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 by students and the American Indian Studies Department at the San Francisco State University.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2000.

Looks at the Miskitu's demands for regional autonomy,.

Canadian Studies and Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 2004.

Video of speech given by professor from the University of Victoria's Indigenous Governance Program. He argues that Aboriginals must regain their authentic cultural identity in order to truly decolonize themselves. Duration: 01:02:12.

Discusses the 'Mohawk Warrior Flag' as a symbol of Indigenous unity.

Reports information gathered through the Indigenous Futures Survey launched in June 2020.

Journalism and Mass Communications Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nebraska, 2012.

Background paper for Just Performance: Enacting Justice in the Wake of Violence symposium held December 1-2, 2011 hosted by the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University.

Describes how there is sunshine everywhere, pride, perseverance, and a reawakening of an ancient culture which, the author contends, all came about due to the occupation of Alcatraz Island.

Briefly examines the history of the relationship between Canada and Indigenous peoples and the birth of the Idle No More movement.

Examines the 'strike' by Gurindji people and their self relocation of their community as an act of activism to regain their land.

Study by Federation of Saskatchewan Indians questions the proposed Churchill River hydro-electric power development.

Six teenagers from Ontario share their stories. Teacher's Guide Duration: 35:26.

Intended for use for secondary school students with film: Full Circle: First Nations, Métis, Inuit Ways of Knowing.

Book review of: The Fur Issue: Cultural Continuity Economic Opportunity. Report of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development by Stan Schellenberger

Book review of: The Future of Women's Rights edited by Joanna Kerr, Ellen Sprenger and Alison Symington.

Book review of: Ganienkeh: Haudenosaunee Labor-Culture and Conflict Resolution.

Examines possibilities and pitfalls of technological enterprises within Aboriginal cultures.

Discusses the challenges faced by Canadian First Nations' women as they seek to rebalance the role of women in governance.

Examines changes in 1983 and 1985 constituencies and legislative amendments reversing the consolidated Indian Act of 1876.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Arizona, 1985.

Keynote address by associate professor of Native Studies at York University. Duration: 1:05:11.

An examination of Gerald Vizenor's jump from the literature to the film medium with the adaption of his story Harold of Orange.

Looks at the life of Indigenous reformer Gertrude Bonnin and her fight to move Indigenous Americans away from a tribal orientation towards a more pan-Indian culture through education.

Discusses artists works in the exhibition "Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art" as part of a wider movement to define Indigenous style.

Examines how, between 1900 and the 1930s, some of the female students at Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon were able to advocate for and affect change in their curriculum and in the limitations on their access to education.

Discusses the Lubicon boycott of The Spirit Sings exhibition which raised issues such as repatriation, political sponsorship and the political involvement of museums. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2008.

Comments on a visit from a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer to a protest organizer with the intent to hopefully silence critical commentaries against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) at the People's Summit in Québec City.

Webcast of Global Encounters Initiative Symposium called Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame held at the University of British Columbia, March 4-6, 2010. Panel discussion begins at 36:41. Duration: 2:24:18.

Looks at spatial tagging using the Idle No More urban flash mob round dance and Walking With Our Sister art installation.

Biographical sketch of a Native American who advocated full immersion into white European culture.

Gives a history of the occupation of Alcatraz Island, with a vacant federal penitentiary, including how Native Americans claimed title to the island under the doctrine of “right of discovery”.

Discussion of the 1933 removal of the Timbisha Shoshone from Death Valley and then the 1994 legal requirement of the Department of Interior to study the ancestral lands within and outside of Death Valley National Park with the purpose of identifying lands suitable for a reservation.

Looks at the movement that began in opposition to federal Canadian policies. Senior Honors Thesis towards International Studies (B.A.)--University of Utah, 2014.

Discusses relationship building, trust and power.

Religious Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, 2008.

Argues that Native Americans experimented with their identities and dramatized their resistance to white society and culture during the Haskell Institute homecoming of 1926.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2016.

Discusses Earth Guardians, the organization devoted to youth environmental activism, and their current work advocating for a statewide ban on fracking in Colorado. Highlights activist, Xiuihtezcatl Martinez.

Looks at strategies employed by the National Congress of American Indians, the National Indian Youth Council, and the Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium in their efforts to combat racial stereotypes.

Hurricane Stan (2005), which affected mostly poor Indians and left hundreds dead and missing, occurred between two other natural disasters and virtually went unnoticed and poorly reported on.

Explores different ways that Indigenous relationships to land and place have been disrupted by settler-colonialism; offers suggestions for disrupting and unsettling neocolonial and neoliberal frameworks surrounding land and place.