Native American Women, Past, Present and Future
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jacqui Popick
Lethbridge Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 2006, pp. 1-8
Description
Comments on efforts to improve lives of women, children and spouses through renewal of traditions, educational improvements, self rule, and healing.
Native Feminisms: Legacies, Interventions, and Indigenous Sovereignties
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mishuana R. Goeman
Jennifer Nez Denetdale
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 24, no. 2, Native Feminism, Fall, 2009, pp. 9-13
Description
Discusses the history, thought patterns and debate that accompanies the term native feminism.
Native Lives Matter
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lakota People's Law Project
Description
Looks at actions of police departments, incarceration rates, victimization, lack of prosecution for offences committed by non-Native Americans, and inadequate funding for tribes. Focus is on South Dakota.
Native Studies 20: Student Resource Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Saskatchewan Learning
Description
Compilation of readings from various sources.
Can be used in conjunction with Native Studies 20: Case Studies and Readings Package.
"native to the question": William Apess, Black Hawk, and the Sentimental Context of Early Native American Autobiography
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura L. Mielke
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 2, Spring, 2002, pp. 246-270
Description
Author discusses the effects of Euro-American cultural content control in early Native American autobiographies to give the appearance that personal narratives and colonial policy were not in conflict.
The Native Women's Association of Canada Background Paper: Canada-Aboriginal Peoples Roundtable Economic Opportunities Sectoral Session
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)
Description
Proposes a variety of solutions to issues such as inadequate housing and income, low levels of employment, education, and overall economic advancement for Aboriginal women.
Navajo Archaeologist Is Not an Oxymoron: A Tribal Archaeologist's Experience
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Davina R. Two Bears
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3/4, Decolonizing Archaeology, Summer - Autumn, 2006, pp. 381-387
Description
Author examines the ways that the field of archaeology has worked to other Indigenous peoples; discusses the ways that this binary is be disassembled by Indigenous archaeologists.
Navajo Youth and Anglo Racism: Cultural Integrity and Resistance
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donna Deyhle
Harvard Educational Review, vol. 65, no. 3, Fall , 1995, pp. 403-444
Description
Results of a ethnographic study on the lives of Navajo youth, describing the racial and cultural struggle between Native American Indians and non-Native Americans.
Navajo Youth and Anglo Racism: Cultural Integrity and Resistance
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donna Deyhle
Harvard Educational Review, vol. 65, no. 3, Fall, 1995, pp. 403-[444]
Description
Ten-year anthroplogical study tracked students from 1980-1981 to 1988-1989. Author argues problems of retention and success in school are part of conflict in the larger community.
The Need for Accountability and Reparation: 1830-1976 The United States Government's Role in the Promotion, Implementation, and Execution of the Crime of Genocide Against Native Americans
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lindsay Glauner
DePaul Law Review, vol. 51, no. 3, Spring, 2002, pp. 911-962
Description
Discussion on the forced relocation and assimilation of American Indians and the government's responsibilities for those policies and actions.
The Need for Textbook Reform: An American Indian Example
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James P. Charles
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 28, no. 3, May 1989, pp. [1-13]
Description
Findings, consistent with earlier studies, indicate stereotypes being reinforced by unbalanced and under-represented Indigenous writers in literature textbooks.
Need to Excel Has Tragic Consequences
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, September 24, 2004, p. A11
Description
Discusses the ongoing "systemic racism" in Canada, with the case of Clayton Matchee, a paratrooper in the Canadian Airborne Regiment who allegedly participated in the murder of a Somali citizen, being a possible example.
The Neglected Human
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Muriam Fancy
The First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 11, no. 1, 2016, pp. [7]-8
Description
Looks at the under funding of First Nations agencies and continuing discrimination against First Nations children.
Neither Citizen Nor Nation: Urban Aboriginal (In)Visibility and Co-Production in a Small Southern Alberta City
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Yale D. Belanger
Katherine A. Dekruyf
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1-28
Description
Article examines some of the barriers to the engagement and participation of urban Indigenous communities in municipal policy-making. Author asserts that racial and cultural stereotyping and discrimination against Aboriginal peoples and communities are key issues.
“Neoliberal Apartheid”: Challenges for Decolonization from South Africa to Palestine (An Interview with Andy Clarno)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chandni Desai
Andy Clarno
Decolonization, vol. 6, no. 1, 2017, pp. 96-98
Description
Author of Neoliberal Apartheid discusses commonalities between two states, including the patterns of extreme inequality, racialized poverty and advanced securitization which are symptomatic neoliberal regimes.
Networks of Advantage: Urban Indigenous Entrepreneurship and the Importance of Social Capital
Alternate Title
National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples, 2011
Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: [Fostering Biimaadiziwin] National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Rochelle R. Côté
Description
Analysis of data from the Aboriginal Entrepreneurship in Toronto Study. Excerpt from Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: Fostering Biimaadiziwin edited by David Newhouse, Kevin FitzMaurice, Tricia McGuire-Adams, and Daniel Jetté.
Originally presented at the 2011 National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples.
"Never Again": Kevin Gover's Apology for the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher Buck
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 97-126
Description
Discusses an apology by Kevin Gover, on behalf of the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, in regards to the policies and actions that had devastating impacts on Native American peoples.
Never Until Now: Indigenous & Racialized Women's Experiences Working in Yukon & Northern British Columbia Mine Camps
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sue Moodie
Aja Mason
Lois Moorcroft
Description
Research consisted of survey and semi-structured interviews using open-ended questions with 22 respondents. Study found: limited job opportunityand longevity of employment, inadequate pay scale for hours worked, uequal work expectations, limited opportunities for advancement, inadequate harm prevention, gender or race harassement/discrimination with absence of grievance mechanisms, poor environmental practices, and limited economic benefits to Indigenous people.
New Guide On Caring For Indigenous Patients
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Eggertson
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 188, no. 8, May 17, 2016, p. 563
Description
Commemorates the launch of, Health and Health Care Implication of Systemic Racism on Indigenous Peoples in Canada which was prepared by The College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada.
The New Native Intellectualism: #Elizabeth Cook-Lynn,
Social Media Movements, and the Millennial Native American Studies Scholar
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cutcha Risling Baldy
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 31, no. 1, Special Issue: Essentializing Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Spring, 2016, pp. 90-110
Description
Looks how campaigns such as #NotYourTonto and #NotYourMascot challenge stereotypes and racist attitudes and are used to advocate for Native Americans' right to self-determination and self-representation.
New Report Released on Children's Rights
Articles » General
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 1, January/February 2001, pp. 31-32
Description
Report examines the effect of discrimination on Indigenous children in Australia. For someone born female, disabled or Indigenous, a life of disadvantage is the probable outcome.
A New Road and a Dead End in Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Scott Andrews
Arizona Quarterly, vol. 63, no. 2, Summer, 2007, pp. 137-152
Description
Discusses similarities in the socio-economic realities faced, with a focus on the lack of power faced by Native Americans and African Americans and and their need to find artistic outlets of exchange.
Newcomers, Be True to Yourselves
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Robert Joseph
Canadian Issues, Aboriginal Immigrant Relations Today, Summer, 2012, pp. 9-10
Description
Author asserts that we must leave bigotry and racism behind and embrace multiculturalism.
To access article scroll to p. 9.
News Reporting on Aboriginal Child Welfare: Discourses of White Guilt, Reverse Racism, and Failed Policy
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Harding
Canadian Social Work Review , vol. 26, no. 1, 2009, pp. 25-41
Description
Compares coverage of the deaths of two children, one Aboriginal and one non-Aboriginal. Four newspapers were surveyed: Globe and Mail, National Post, Winnipeg Free Press and Telegram (St. John's).