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1994 in Review: Dismantling of Indian Affairs, Implementation of Self-Government in Manitoba, Top Stories for 1994

Articles » General
Windspeaker, vol. 12, no. 21, January 1995, p. 2

Assembly of First Nations' elections, postponement of the Great Whale hydroelectric project, and dismantling of the Department of Indian Affairs in Manitoba are but a few of the top stories for 1994 that are discussed here.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.2.

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Aboriginal Community Incomes and Migration in the NWT: Policy Issues and Alternatives

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter Gardner
Canadian Public Policy, vol. 20, no. 3, September 1994, pp. 297-317
Recommends ways to keep Aboriginal people in their communities by offering support for sustaining hunting, fishing and trapping through co-management of renewable resources, better use of under utilized resources, training and support for wildlife harvesters and more support for entrepreneurship.
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Aboriginal Families Migrate - Life in Orange N.S.W

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Duncan Burns
Ted Bell
Mary Patton
Betty Fields
John Press ... [et al.]
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, June 1979, pp. 19-24
Reports on a government program that relocates Australian Aboriginal families from poorer outlying areas into five towns with better employment and education opportunities.
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Aboriginal Family Voluntary Resettlement

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Isabelle McLeod
Des McNamara
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, June 1977, pp. 28-34
Provides an assessment of a resettlement program designed to provide a improved quality of life for aboriginal families in New South Wales, Australia.
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Aboriginal Mobility and Migration: Trends, Recent Patterns, and Implications: 1971–2001

E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Stewart Clatworthy
Mary Jane Norris
vol. 4

Explores various trends: reserve and rural-urban movement, role of migration in Aboriginal populations growth, mobility and turnover. Chapter thirteen 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.

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Aboriginal Mobility and Migration within Canada's Friendship Centre Areas: Patterns, Levels, and Implications Based on the 2006 Census

Alternate Title
Urban Aboriginal Communities in Canada: [Complexities, Challenges, Opportunities]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Mary Jane Norris
Stewart Clatworthy
Catchment-level analysis of associations between mobility and community well-being, as well as individual components of labour force, income, and housing. Chapter from Urban Aboriginal Communities in Canada: Complexities, Challenges, Opportunities edited by Peter Dinsdale, Jerry White and Calvin Hanselmann.
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Aboriginal North American Population and Rates of Decline, ca. A.D. 1500-1900

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Russell Thornton
Current Anthropology, vol. 38, no. 2, April 1997, pp. 310-315
Asserts that pandemics were not the sole cause of population decline but that disease in conjunction with effects of colonialism such as war, relocation and change in diet led to increased mortality and decreased fecundity. Scroll down to page 310.
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Aboriginal Populations in Canadian Cities: Why Are They Growing so Fast?

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Eric Guimond
Norbert Robitaille
Sacha Senécal
Canadian Issues, Journeys of a Generation: Broadening the Aboriginal Well-Being Policy Research Agenda, Winter, 2009, pp. 11-18
Identifies intragenerational ethnic mobility as the primary source of population growth. Entire issue on one pdf. To access issue, scroll to page 11.
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Accrued Many Rights: The Ingenika Tsay Keh Nay, a Mennonite Missionary, and Land Claims in the Late Twentieth Century

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel Sims
Journal of Mennonite Studies, vol. 37, JMS Forum: A People of Diversity, 2019, pp. [87]-104

Examines the interactions between the British Columbia provincial government and Mennonite missionaries and its impact on the Ingenika Tsay Keh Nay's return to a more traditional lifestyle in the 1970's.  

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An Act to amend the Indian Act. [Assented to 19th May, 1911]

Alternate Title
1 - 2 George V. Chap. 14. An Act to Amend the Indian Act.
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Contains amendments on the expropration of land and the removal of Aboriginal people if near a town of more than 8 thousand.
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Ahiarmiut Relocations and the Search for Justice: The Life and Work of David Serkoak

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Karine Duhamel
Warren Bernauer
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 6, no. 1, Redefining the Northern Research Landscape, July 2018, pp. 62-65
Article discusses the multiple forced relocations that the Inuit Elder experienced in his youth, the consequences for his people, and his work to publicize the story of the relocations and to advance a claim for compensation and an apology on behalf of his community.
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Allotment Knowledges: Grid Spaces, Home Places, and Storyscapes on The Way to Rainy Mountain

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marcel Brousseau
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 136-167
Looks at Kiowa responses to allotment by comparing N. Scott Momaday’s canonical literary work to Mark Palmer's "Indigital" cartography in terms of understanding, recording and remembering the process and effects of the United States government’s policy in the Oklahoma territory.
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American Cold War Policies and the Enewetakese: Community Displacement, Environmental Degradation, and Indigenous Resistance in the Marshall Islands

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Martha Smith-Norris
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 22, no. 2, New Series, 2011, pp. 195-236
Case study focuses on the consequences of the weapon tests conducted by the United States in Micronesia. Residents were forced to relocate for more than 30 years, received little assistance to re-establish themselves in the new location and no compensation until they took legal action.
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The American Indian in the Great War: Real and Imagined [Part One, Chapter Two]

Alternate Title
Chapter II: American Indian Affairs Before the Great War
Part I: The Road to WWI
The Road to War: American Indian Affairs
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Diane Camurat
Master's Thesis submitted in 1993 to the Institut Charles V of the University of Paris VII. Content includes: Grant's Peace Policy and Its Developments, 1869-1879; The "Social Gospel", 1879-1897; Allotment and Resistance; A "Progressive Era" for the American Indians, 1897-1917; and Education and Health.
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American Indian Records in the National Archives

Alternate Title
Native American Heritage
Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Information about Native Americans who maintained their association with the federally recognized tribes.
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American Indian Studies Association Conference Keynote Address – Indigenous Activism: Our Resistance, Our Revitalization, Our Indigenous Native Studies: And Our Healing within Our Indigenous Context (or From Alcatraz 1969 to Standing Rock 2017. Or Perhaps—Truth Be Bold—Liars, Killers, Thieves Invade Sacred Stone Camp)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Simon J. Ortiz
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 106-114
Ortiz’s address to the AISA calls on Indigenous people to recognize the damage done to them by colonization and to find in that recognition the strength and will to participate in contemporary resistance to neocolonial projects rooted in consumer capitalist and extractive resource regimes.
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American Indians (U.S. & Canada): A Bibliography of Contemporary Studies and Urban Research. Supplement to The Council of Planning Librarians Exchange Bibliographies No. 376-377

Alternate Title
Council of Planning Librarians Exchange Bibliography ; 594
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James N. Kerri
Supplement to the general bibliography section of American Indians (U.S. & Canada): A Bibliography of Contemporary Studies and Urban Research compiled by James N. Kerri. Dated material. Published in 1974.
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Anaktuvuk Pass Goes To Town

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret B. Blackman
Études/Inuit/Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, Inuit urbains / Urban Inuit, 2008, pp. 107-115
Describes the relationship the residents of a small, isolated community have to the city of Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Anticipation, Climate Change and Movement in Greenland

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark Nutall
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 34, no. 1, Les Inuit et le Changement Climatique / The Inuit and Climate Change, 2010, pp. 21-37
Article focuses on the benefits of being proactive in regards to the topic of climate change in Greenland.
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Aquagenesis: Drowning by Flooding is So Good for You

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph Mercredi
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1981, pp. 331-336
Satirical pseudo-report to the Board of Directors of a hydroelectric project, proposing a solution to the problem of Indigenous people displaced by flooding.
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The Arctic Smoke & Mirrors

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Clarence Tilenius
The Beaver, vol. 75, no. 6, December 1995, pp. 43-?
Book review of: Arctic Smoke and Mirrors by Gerard Kenney.
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Are Indigenous Peoples and Governments on the Same Page? The Innu of the Labrador-Quebec Peninsula

Alternate Title
The Innu of the Labrador-Quebec Peninsula
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Colin Samson
Innu Council of Nitassinan
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3, The International Decade of the Worlds Indigenous People, Fall, 2004
Discussion of cultural, legal and political extinguishment with regard to the Innu and also other aboriginal peoples in Canada.
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Assessment of the Factual Basis of Certain Allegations Made Before the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs Concerning the Relocation of Inukjuak Inuit Families in the 1950s: Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Hickling Corporation
Response to assertions by the Inuit that the ill-considered policy, which resulted in 92 Inuit being moved to two locations on uninhabited and inhospitable High Arctic islands, was solely motivated by the government's goal of protecting and reinforcing Canadian sovereignty in the region.
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B.C. Forest Fires Disaster For Natives There

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, August 29, 2003, p. A11
Describes the racism that First Nations communities faced after being evacuated due to the wild fires in British Columbia.
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Babinski and Ekostrovski: Saami Pogosty on the Western Kola Peninsula, Russia from 1880 to 1940

Alternate Title
Babinski and Ekostrovski: Sami Pogosty on the Western Kola Peninsula, Russia from 1880 to 1940
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert P. Wheelersburg
Natalia Gutsol
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 45, no. 1, January 1, 2008, pp. 79-96
Project chronicles the changes encountered during Soviet rule concerning relocation and centralization of reindeer herding communities.
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Beasts of Burden: How Literary Animals Remap the Aesthetics of Removal

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joshua D. Miner
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 2, 2014, pp. 60-82
Explores how differing genres of Native storytelling process the contemporary literatures of removal within the Trail of Tears, a forced relocation, following passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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