Indigenous Studies

Presents thoughts on the state of American Indian Studies/Native American Studies.

Analyzes governmental response to development of Aboriginal-controlled post secondary institutions by comparing support given to Aboriginal institutions compared to other provincial institutions. Gives recommendations for policy and legislative support.

Report on the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER), which has created a program to perform environmental assessments from an Aboriginal perspective.

Contends that Aboriginal participation rates will lag behind the non-Aboriginal population until major reforms are executed in elementary and secondary school education and the curriculum used in Aboriginal schools.

Author argues that American Indian Studies is a legitimate discipline, with its own unique perspectives and methodological concerns.

Description of the partnerships undertaken between the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) and Aboriginal communities at the institutional and individual level.

Discusses critical perspectives within American Indian/Native American studies including nationalism, indigenism, cosmopolitanism, and tribal transnationalism.

Describes the Aboriginal Education Research Council's evolution, activities, accomplishments and future directions and development strategies.

Looks at the inclusion of Indigenous knowledges in academic settings to create academic literature that accurately presents the truth of decolonlization struggles.

Book review of: Alaska Native Political Leadership and Higher Education by Michael Jennings.

Content analysis of course curricula revealed varied responses and demonstrated the importance of a TEK course to education.

Introduces a proposal for a composition course that is based on American Indian autobiography, and is designed for upper-level English majors. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Analysis found that the disciplinary status of American Indian studies, as it was then called, suggested that Indigenous studies could retain its crossdisciplinary status or emerge as a unique discipline.

Exploratory article which examines the ways lessons and information on the history and contemporary state of Indian Education are integrated into American Indian/Native American Studies programs and journals.

Overview of program which started in the 1970s with the founding of an American Indian Affairs Committee.

Focuses on the language used by academic inquiry concerning the nature and intent of Native American Studies.

Discusses development of American Indian Studies as a distinct entity within academic institutions by examining criticisms leveled against it and possible directions it might follow.

Discusses how American Indian academic programs have survived and continue to grow.

Reflects on the first 40 years of years of ethnic studies at UCLA.

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.

Argues that there is a place for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal scholars in the field of Native Studies.

Overview of program and development of the unique curriculum.

Profiles five American Indian women who took the first Indian Studies doctoral program.

Examines the importance and increasing prominence of American Indian studies at colleges and universities.

Examines the state of affairs within American Indian Studies, including the problems and possible solutions to those problems.

Lists works grouped by subject matter.

Key findings of the report were an increase in scholarships for Aboriginal students and an increase in institutions offering Native or Aboriginal degree programs.

Explores whether Native American cultural programs can be considered revitalization movements and where the initiative for them originated.

Looks at the program's role in preparing students to take on leadership roles in their communities

Discusses trends and the lack of material on Inuit studies.

Examines how figurative and symbolic language provide significant ways to make sense of the world. and are common forms of communication across many cultures.

Course description of the degree program listing all the classes and outline of how it will provide insights and skills to deal with social trauma.

Comments on a guide that provides a listing of Native American studies programs in the United States and Canada.

Argues that the field of American Studies would not exist without the presence of Native Americans and that their world view and contributions are both valid and desirable. Joint issue with: Indigenous Studies Today Issue 1, Spring 2006.

Author details several methods for teaching Indigenous Studies in a way that engages both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students which he has developed through 16 years of experience teaching “Native history, culture, and current events.

Looks at the reaction of teacher education students to a course in Aboriginal Children's Literature. Discusses issues surrounding stereotyping and learning in a multicultural environment.

Book review of: Aboriginal Self-Government in Urban Areas: Proceedings of a Workshop, May 25 and 26, 1994 edited by Evelyn Peters.

Book review of: Studying Native America: Problems and Prospects edited by Russell Thornton.

Book review of: For an Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay on the Foundation of a Social Ethnic by Georges Sioui.

Book review of: Voices Under One Sky: Contemporary Native Literature by Trish Fox Roman (Editor). Reviewer recommends for use in grades 10-12 and introductory Aboriginal Literature at university level.

Looks at the goals of a Native American studies department which encourages high academic achievement and student contribution back to the community.

Comments on the numerous summer activities of the Native studies department. Article located by by scrolling to page 17.

Discusses Massive Open Online Courses such as the Indigenous Canada course delivered by the University of Alberta.

Minutes from a Native Studies Conference announcing the formation of the Association.

Overview of research on Indigenous matters conducted by Europeans in the 20th century.

Interviews with 23 individuals at a Canadian university revealed three main themes: hidden contributions by Indigenous students, faculty, staff and community members; conflicts in accountability between academia and community; and contradictions and uneven application.

Independent institute working to "restore traditional knowledge through research and education". Includes links to education programs, fourth world papers programs, research, virtual library and media center.

Overview of trends in academic and First Nations discussions surrounding the issue of Native Education.

Special Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Unviersity of Arizona, 2009.

Presentation, by the Director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre, University of Saskatchewan, at the Global Solidarity Symposium, State University of New York, November 7, 2016. Duration: 37:07.