Activism

Author investigates the colonial violence and race laws in El Salvador in the 1930s, and considers them as a form of terror employed by governing institutions for social control.

Brief history of student activism at Minnesota post secondary educational institutions in regards to the American Indian mascot issue.

File contains correspondence by Ellen Fairclough and John Diefenbaker. Includes a letter from Diefenbaker mentioning a petition from the people of Mistawasis signed by members of the Dreaver family, and a letter from Fairclough to Donald Fleming protesting cuts to her Departmental Budget, stating that such cuts will hurt the Indian Affairs branch.

Analysis of the folk song shows how irony was used as form of resistance in a rural community in northern Norway.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)-- Concordia University, 2003.

Uses the example of an agreement between the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations and British Columbia to demonstrate linkages between environmental and socio-political aspects of natural resources.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Utah, 2010.

Public Policy and Public Administration (Geography Option)Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2004.

Writer and community organizer challenges several young Native men to organize their reserve communities in an effort to change the Indian Act. Duration: 32:06.

Drama and Theatre Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, 2014.

Examines the discourse around two different contested pipeline projects; discusses rhetorical elements including the difference between “claimed” and “government sanctioned” spaces, and whether the perspectives are consistent with or counter to mainstream perspectives. Highlights the differences in worldviews, understandings of cause and effect, and conceptualizations of time and space and the role these differences play.

Review of Engaged Resistance by Dean Rader. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 125.

Discusses how communication is linked to Aboriginal histories, cultures and beliefs. Uses Louise Erdrich's poem Dear John Wayne and the film Smoke Signals by Sherman Alexie as an examples.

Discusses how the game of lacrosse was appropriated by Euro-Canadians who then barred Aboriginal teams from championship competitions, and how the formation of the Iroquois Nationals generated conflict between traditional political structures and new adaptations.

Book review of Enough is Enough, by Janet Silman and Spider Woman's Granddaughters, edited by Paula Gunn Allen.

Investigates the the sustainability, economic, social and cultural importance of seal harvesting in the Northwest Atlantic.

Teacher resource developed in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name. Case studies are supplemented by articles from the newspaper. Unit of study for First Nations 12 students in British Columbia.

Highlights the collector's life and the formation of the collection housed at the North Vancouver Museum and Archives. Includes annotated images.

Using cases studies to examine Indigenous feminist resistance to violence and how the resistance gave Indigenous people more agency in their own history.

Book review of: The Erotics of Sovereignty by Mark Rifkin. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 106.

Discusses political activism that was taking place in Alaska starting in the mid-1960s.

Looks at connections and parallels between the two groups.

Relates the events leading to the forced relocation of the residents of Island Cache in Prince George B.C. in the early 1970s and how community research needs to be ethical.

Author explores historical, cultural, and political relationships to compare potential for new initiatives in the scholarly and activist arenas.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 1985.

Uses Elizabeth Archuleta’s (Yaqui) “ethos of responsibility” as a framework for considering the #NoDAPL Movement; discusses the relationships between Indigenous women water protectors, Indigenous feminisms, Indigenous rhetorics, and Dakota/Lakota/Nakota history and worldviews.

Discussion about missing Aboriginal women from Saskatchewan and an actiion-call for a support group hoped for from the Saskatchewan Sisters in Spirit 2007 Family Gathering. Includes list of 17 women missing

Describes the challenges faced by the Shawnees who attempted to take part in the agricultural initiatives offered by missionaries and the U. S. Government.

Examines four Native Studies programs, in four provinces, and how each University has increased its responsiveness to First Nation needs since the 1960s.

Findings suggest that media coverage perpetuated stereotyping. Honors paper towards undergraduate degree in Environment, Sustainability, and Society--Dalhousie University, 2014.

Looks at injustices perpetrated by the Colombian government and mining companies and discusses how Karmen Ramirez is advocating for Indigenous issues and rights.

Discusses the law passed in 1978 as result of actions initiated by the Devils Lake Sioux in collaboration with the Association on American Indian Affairs (AIAA); the objective was to reverse the trend of out-of-home placement, and in particular trans-racial placements.

Discusses the experiences of members of the Hamilton-Halton Animal Liberation Team (HALT) while demonstrating in support of Haudenosaunee-negotiated hunting rights in Short Hills Provincial Park in Ontario which are being protested against by local property owners and animal rights activists.

Article explores Frantz Fanon's influence on Fausto Reinaga's views of colonialism.

Discussion of various arguments centering on changing the Indian Act so that access to alcohol was permitted.

Analysis of the provincial Liberal administration's 2002 referendum seeking public decision-making on land claims. Article illustrates use of arguments based in economics used and by way of systemic bias disregarding historical context of issues.

Commission developed in response to the brutal murders of three Navajo men and the complaints about the social and economic relationships between the city of Farmington, New Mexico and the Navajo reservation.

Book review of: A Fatherly Eye by Robin Jarvis Brownlie.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 1996.

History of the formation of Canada's first Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan Chiefs.

Relates the role Native American women play in the process of community building.

Comments on the controversy over the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope that would desecrate one of the most sacred sites in the islands.

Essay situates the #NoDAPL movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), within the historical context and the longer histories of Oceti Sakowin resistance against the trespass of settlers, dams, and pipelines across the Mni Sose, the Missouri River, and into Sioux territory.

Book review of Fighting Hard by Richard Broome.

Article examines some of the multi-dimensional aspects of the factors contributing to the coup. To access this article scroll down to page 52.

Human and Social Development Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2010.

Hard questions asked by Metis filmmaker Christine Welsh, regarding 60 missing women from Vancouver's east side, including Dawn Crey; one-third of those missing are Indigenous women.