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Urban Rez

Media » Film and Video
Description
Interviews survivors of the 1952 relocation program whereby American Indians were encouraged to leave their home and move to urban centers across the United States. Duration: 56:46.
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Urbanization and Indigenous Peoples in Canada: Responses for the Questionnaire from the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Association of Friendship Centres
Description
Questions were posed about key factors driving urbanization, impacts on social, economic and cultural cohesions, discrimination, identity, recognition and culture, at risk populations, and Indigenous-led initiatives and state responses.
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US Imperialism and the Problem of “Culture” in Indigenous Politics: Towards Indigenous Internationalist Feminism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melanie K. Yazzie
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 3, [Indigeneity, Feminism, Activism], 2019, pp. 95-118
Description
Uses cases studies from Nicaragua and South Africa to compare colonization and imperialistic practices and how these experiences helped with the formation of what the author describes as Indigenous internationalist feminism.
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Use of Biomedical Services and Traditional Healing Options Among American Indians: Sociodemographic Correlates, Spirituality, and Ethnic Identity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Douglas
K. Novins
Janette Beals
Laurie A. Moore
Paul Spicer
Spero M. Manson
AI-SUPERPFP Team
Medical Care, vol. 42, no. 7, July 2004, pp. 670-679
Description
Survey results done on 2,595 people from two different tribes that examined the use of biomedical services and traditional medicine for both physical health and psychiatric problems.
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The Use of Native Language Models in the Development of Critical Literacy

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gloria Dyc
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 211-233
Description
Analysis of the political problems faced by Native American people in United States local government and the lack of consensus attained due to the complexity of some of the issues.
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Using Data Linkage to Identify First Nations Manitobans: Technical, Ethical, and Political Issues

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laurel S. Jebamani
Charles A. Burchill
Patricia J. Martens
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 96, no. Supplement 1, Aboriginal Health Research and Policy: First Nations-University Collaboration in Manitoba, January/February 2005, pp. S28-S32
Description
Describes the process of matching Indian Registry's Status Verification System to the Manitoba Health Registry in order to obtain an accurate picture of First Nations' health status and health services.
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Values of Urban Aboriginal Parents: Food Before Thought

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alison Nelson
Heather Allison
Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, vol. 47, no. 1, 2000, pp. 28-40
Description
Qualitative study involving five urban-dwelling families with children between the ages of 18 months and 25 years. Set of values were, in order of importance, parenting, education, culture, family and community, socio-economics, impact of history, and health care and disability.
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Vanguard Alutiiq Heritage Practice and the Import of Expertise

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Arthur Mason
Études/Inuit/Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, Franz Boas et les Inuit / Franz Boas and the Inuit, 2008, pp. 107-125
Description
Discusses the manner in which environmental remediation funding from the Exxon Valdeztanker spill in 1989 impacted the local communities.
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Variations on a Rite of Passage: Some Recent Navajo Funerals

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joyce Griffen
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 4, A Special Symposium Issue on Navajo Mortuary Practices and Beliefs, 1978, pp. 367-381
Description
A discussion about changes from a traditional Navajo funeral towards a more Anglo-style funeral.
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Various Shades of Red: Diversity Within Canada's Indigenous Community

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cora J. Voyageur
Brian Calliou
London Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 16, Continuities and Changing Realities: Meanings and Identities Among Canadas Aboriginal People, 2000/2001, pp. 109-124
Description
Discusses the legal, social and cultural differences between Indigenous groups in Canada.
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Views and Reviews

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Andrew Houston
Canadian Theatre Review, no. 128, Fall, 2006, pp. 112-115
Description
Critiques various articles within the issue as they pertain to regional identity and discusses Aboriginal Canadian drama in theatre as a mode of engagement.
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Views from the North: Photographs, Generations and Inuit Cultural Memory

Alternate Title
North at Trent 2014 Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Carol Payne
Description
Speaker describes the "Views from the North" project which involved students from Nunavut Sivuniksavut showing Elders from their community photographs housed at Library and Archives Canada and interviewing them about images. Duration: 41:37.
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Violence No More: Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Charlotte
Wolfrey
Barbara Barker
Alex Wilson
Kim Stanton
Description
Panel discussion about government accountability and the forthcoming inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and efforts to strengthen community-based responses. to violence. Duration: 2:16:01.
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Virtual Roundtable on First Nations Citizenship

Alternate Title
National First Nations Dialogue on Citizenship
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Assembly of First Nations (AFN)
Description
Highlights comments made in response to four questions: meaning of citizenship in the past, present and future, roles and responsibilities of citizens and their governments, vision for the future, and tools required to make change.
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Voices of Students: We Are Here! We Are Ready to Care for the Next Generations! “Gathering & Sharing Wisdom

Conference” and the Indigenous Child Welfare Research

Network

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jacquie Green
Rebecca Taylor
Rakiva Larken
Margaret Brier
Trevor Good
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 1, 2010, pp. 15-21
Description
Highlights the presentations of Indigenous youth sharing their stories and knowledge on life challenges.
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Voting and Indigenous Disappearance

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrea Smith
Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 3, no. 3-04, Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Alternatives in Global Context (2): Recuperating Binarism, Sept 13, 2013, pp. 352-368
Description
Author explores some of the reasons that Indigenous communities in the United States have historically had low voter turnout. Compares the difference in perception of enfranchisement between Indigenous and Black American communities.
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Voyage of Domination, "Purchase" as Conquest, Sakakawea for Savagery: Distorted Icons from Misrepresentation of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James V. Fenelon
Mary Louise Defender-Wilson
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 85-104
Description
Describes ideas of discovery, ideologies of purchase, and misinterpretations, for example that of Native American women as battered women, by Lewis and Clark in their explorations, 1804-1806.
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Waasechibiiwaabikoonsing Nd’anami’aami, “Praying through a Wired Window”: Using Technology to Teach Anishinaabemowin

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Noori
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 2, Digital Technologies and Native Literature, Summer, 2011, pp. 3-23
Description
Focuses on the internet site Noongwa e-Anishinaabemjig: People Who Speak Anishinaabemowin Today hosted by the University of Michigan. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 3.
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