Activism
Indigo Girls and Indigenous Women Honour the Earth
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Fiona Muldrew
Herizons, vol. 9, no. 2, Summer, 1995, pp. 8-9
Description
Reports on several Indigenous organizations that advocate
the defence of ecosystems, restoration of sustainable communities, and the protection of sacred sites.
Innu Women and NATO: The Occupation of Nitassinan
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Winona LaDuke
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 2, Breaking Out of the Tourist Trap Part 2, Summer, 1990
Description
Describes the struggle of the Innu women and their families against the expansion of the military base at Goose Bay.
Insurrections: Indigenous Sexualities, Genders and Decolonial Resistance
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Qwo-Li Driskill
Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol. 1, no. 1, Cultured Queer/Queering Culture Symposium, 2015, p. article 2
Description
Looks at oral history performance project called On the Wings of Waddaduga: Cherokee Two-Spirit Lives.
Accompanying interview.
Accompanying presentation.
The International Cancun Declaration of Indigenous Peoples
Articles » General
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3, 2003, p. 39
Description
Excerpt of the declaration issued at the 5th World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference which took place in Cancun, Mexico in September 2003.
To access this article scroll down to page 39.
Internationalization: Perspectives on an Emerging Direction in Aboriginal Affairs
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. Rick Ponting
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 22, no. 3, Special Issue: First Nations: The Politics of Change and Survival, 1990, pp. 85-109
Description
Looks at events such as the Oka crisis that influenced federal Aboriginal policy and reviews activities of the European Parliament.
Interpreting Moments of American Indian Activism
Alternate Title
Curriculum Units by Fellows of the National Initiative ; 2016, Volume 1
Contemporary American Indian HIstory
[Yale Initiative National Seminars]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Travis Bouldin
Description
Discusses the American Indian Movement, the occupation of Alcatraz, Trail of Broken Treaties, the Nebraska Compaign, and Wounded Knee occupation. Designed specifically for Grade 8 students at Walker Jones Education in Washington, D.C.
Intervening in the Archive: Women-Water Alliances, Narrative Agency, and Reconstructing Indigenous Space in Deborah Miranda’s Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shanae Aurora Martinez
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 54-71
Description
Describes Miranda’s tribal memoir as an act of resistance which disrupts archival and mainstream narratives around Indigenous nations, dispossession, and human-land relationships. Focuses of female voices and perspectives, and on narrative sovereignty.
Interview: Sandy Osawa
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lawrence Abbott and Sandy Osawa
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 104-115
Description
Abbott interviews film producer and director Sandra Sunrising Osawa about her work and how it relates to her family's history, her identity and her sense of place, and the larger cultural survivance and resurgence movements.
Interview With Jaime Córtez, Program Manager at the Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 14, 2001
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gérard Selbach
Jaime Córtez
Revue LISA / Lisa e-journal, vol. 2, no. 6, Arts and American Minorities: An Identity Iconography?, 2004, pp. 101-106
Description
Looks at a gallery founded in 1970 by a group of Mexican-American artists and activists.
Interview With José Bailaba Parapaino: "A High Level of Participation is Being Shown"
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Javier Méndez Vedia
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, First Year of Evo Morales Presidency, June 2007, pp. 76-79
Description
Interview with the former parliamentary representative and Constituenty Assembly member from the Chiquitano people.
To access this article, scroll down to page 76.
An Interview With Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, of the Kanien'kehá:ka Nation, Turtle Clan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kim Anderson
Ellen Gabriel
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3-4, Indigenous Women in Canada: the Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 52-58,14
Description
Interview with Ellen Gabriel, president of the Quebec Native Women's Association since 2004.
Interview With Pedro Numi Caiti: "There's a Gap There, In the Dark, To Move Forward"
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Javier Méndez Vedia
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, First Year of Evo Morales Presidency, June 2007, pp. 72-75
Description
Interview with the new vice-president of CIDOB (the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of the Bolivian Oriente/Confereración de Pueblos Indígenas del Oriente Boliviano).
To access this article, scroll down to page 72.
Interview With René Yáñez, Artist, Co-founder of the Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 13, 2001
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gérard Selbach
René Yáñez
Revue LISA / LISA e-journal, vol. 2, no. 6, Arts and American Minorities: An Identity Iconography?, 2004, pp. 107-111
Description
Looks at a gallery founded in 1970 by a group of Mexican-American artists and activists.
An Interview with Tania Willard on Beat Nation, Indigenous Curation and Changing the World Through Art
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jarrett Martineau
Tania Willard
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Art, Aesthetics and Decolonial Struggle, 2014, pp. 218-224
Description
Discusses how young Indigenous artists are using hip hop as a form of storytelling and reinvention of older traditions into new forms of expression.
An Interview with Tom GreyEyes on Street Art, Honor the Treaties and ‘Dreaming a New World into Being’
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jarrett Martineau
Tom GreyEyes
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Art, Aesthetics and Decolonial Struggle, 2014, pp. 225-231
Description
Mixed media artist Tom GreyEyes talks about his art being political messages coming from the Indigenous perspective on colonialism, decolonization and protest.
Interview with W. Richard West, Director, National Museum of the American Indian
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
W. Richard West
Amanda J. Cobb
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3/4, Special Issue: The National Museum of the American Indian, Summer - Autumn, 2005, pp. 517-537
Description
Author and West discuss the ideas and practices that the NMAI is founded on and is responding to: survivance vs genocide, diversity, and perspective.
Interview with Will Seeks: Celebrating the Beginnings of Change; Canadian Indians Want the Government to Protect Indian Rights at
Alternate Title
Celebrating the Beginning of Change
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Elizabeth May
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 3, Speaking For Ourselves, Fall, 1992
Description
Discusses the protest of Spain's 500 years celebration and the boarding of a Columbus expedition to demand an apology for mass cultural genocide. The article also discusses two projects - one for fishing and one to protect the environment.
[Interview With Xavier Albo]
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Julio Peñaloza Bretel
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, First Year of Evo Morales Presidency, 2007, pp. 22-23
Description
Looks at the life of Evo Morales and his many qualities as a politician and activist.
To access this article, scroll down to page 22.
Introduction: Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melanie Yazzie
Cutcha Risling Baldy
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 1-18
Description
Introduction to the special issue “Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water,” discusses water as a fundamental piece in decolonization and as central to autonomy, sovereignty, resistance, and to the survival of Indigenous nations.
Introduction: Locating the Society of American Indians
Alternate Title
American Indian Quarterly ; vol. 37, no. 3, Summer 2013
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chadwick Allen
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 2, The Society of American Indians and Its Legacies, Summer, 2013, pp. [3]-22
Description
Looks at the establishment of the reform organization.
Special combined issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures and American Indian Quarterly.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 3.
Introduction: Manipi Hena Owas'in Wicunkiksuyapi (We Remember All Those Who Walked)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Waziyatawin Angela Wilson
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 151-169
Description
Article recounts the forced removal and executions of the Dakota Sioux following the “Sioux Uprising of 1862” and describes how those events are being commemorated through a memorial walk from the Lower Sioux Reservation on Minnesota to Fort Snelling in St. Paul, MN.
Introduction [Oral History Forum, Vol. 19-20, 1999-2000]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Winona Stevenson
Oral History Forum, vol. 19-20, Indigenous Voices from the Great Plains, 1999-2000, pp. [13]-18
Description
Introduction to articles about personal relationships, alternative world views, and personal introspection.
Introduction: Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
René Dietrich
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 2, Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways, 2018, pp. 1-10
Description
Introduces this issue of the journal; stresses the issue’s focus on settler colonial discourses which racialize, regulate and dismiss Indigenous cultures, ontologies, social/spiritual practices, and bodies. Notes the resulting effect of dispossession and depoliticization of Indigenous peoples.
Introduction to Document Six: The CCF and the Saskatchewan Métis Society
Alternate Title
[Document Six]: Conference of the Métis of Saskatchewan-Proceedings
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
F. Laurie Barron
T.C. Douglas
Native Studies Review, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 89-106
Description
Introduction and document concerning a conference of Métis people to address deplorable conditions found in most Native communities.
Introduction to Documents One and Two
Alternate Title
[Document One]: Draft Declaration as Agreed upon by the Members of the Working Group at its Eleventh Session, 1994
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James (Sàkèj) Youngblood Henderson
Native Studies Review, vol. 9, no. 2, l993-1994, pp. 87-112
Description
Introduction and document concerning the draft declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples.
Introduction to Documents One Through Five: Nationalism, the League of Nations and the Six Nations of Grand River
Alternate Title
[Document Five]: The Canadian Government's Final Statements on the Six Nations' Claim
[Document Four]: The Canadian government's Reply to the League of Nations and the Six Nations' Claim (Excerpt)
[Document One]: Six Nations' Appeal to the Government of The Netherlands
[Document Three]: Van Hamel's Reply [to League of Nations Secretariat]
[Document Two]: League of Nations Secretariat to Dr. Joost van Hamel, Dutch Jurist, Head of League's Legal Section
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Laurie Meijer Drees
Deskaheh
Native Studies Review, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 75-79
Description
Introduction and five archival documents chronicle Chief Levi General's attempts to have his petition regarding Iroquois nationalism heard at the Assembly of the League of Nations, the predecessor to the United Nations.
[An Introduction to Residential School Unit K-7]
Alternate Title
Classroom Resources K-7 (Central Okanagan School District)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Central Okanagan School District]
Description
Lesson plan to be used in conjunction with video Shi-shi-etko.
Introduction: Urban American Indian Women's Activism
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joan A. Weibel-Orlando
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 3/4, Special Issue: Urban American Indian Women's Activism, Summer - Autumn, 2003, pp. 491-504
Description
Lengthy introductory editorial provides some preamble to the special issue on the activist work of Indigenous women in urban centers, and a lead-in for each of the articles contained therein.
Inuit Women Reach a Deadlock in the Canadian Political Arena:A Phenomenon Grounded in the Iglu
Alternate Title
Moving Forward, Making a Difference ; vol. 2
Aboriginal Policy Research ; vol. 4
Aboriginal Policy Research Conference ; 2nd, 2006
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Carole Cancel
vol. 4
Description
Looks at problems between inclusive attitudes regarding women in politics and the reality of the difficulties they actually face from within the traditional Inuit household.
Chapter nine from Moving Forward, Making a Difference, vol. 2, which is also vol. 4 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.
Originally presented at the second annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2006.
Inventing a New Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brian Craik
Native Studies Review, vol. 12, no. 2, Aboriginal Peoples and National Rights Issues in Quebec, 1999, pp. 79-92
Description
Compares the terms of the Cree-negotiated James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement and the Inuit-negotiated Inuvialuit Agreement in the areas of provision of social services, economic development, employment and self-government.
Ironic Confrontation as a Mode of Resistance: The Homeland Security T- Shirt at the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cortney Smith
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3, Summer, 2019, pp. 339-364
Description
Article analyzes the narrative presented on the Homeland Security t-shirt [Graphic tee which has the words “Homeland Security” emblazoned above an image of Geronimo with three fellow Apache warriors and the words “Fighting Terrorism since 1492” located below the photograph]. Discusses how this narrative forms a rhetoric of critique and resistance.
Is Resistance Enough? Reflections of Identity, Politics, and Relations in the “In-between” Spaces of Indigeneity and Settlerhood
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicole Ineese-Nash
AlterNative, March 2020, pp. 10-17
Description
Article explores the liminal position of mixed race Indigenous/non-Indigenous people in the Canadian context, discusses the polarity of Identity and the ways in which identity can be and is used to surveil and police Indigenous people in a settler society.