Discusses historical and contemporary reasons for migration to urban centres, the lack recognition of an urban presence based on the belief that identity and cities are incompatible because Indigeneity is solely defined by a relationship to the land, and how this attitude, coupled with government policy, has resulted in the lack of culturally appropriate supports and services available.
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.
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.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2, Militarization, 2001, pp. 45-47
Description
Describes the upheaval suffered by Greenlanders when they were relocated to accommodate the United States military.
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INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sarah Bonesteel
Description
Explores how Inuit Qaujimajatiqamgot has been used to implement traditional social and cultural practices as operational policy.
Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 4, Indochina, October/November/December 2000, pp. 48-55
Description
Article discusses conflicts that have arisen from community relocation and conflicting priorities between the national government and local villagers.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 2, Summer, 2009, pp. 84-91
Description
Reviews of 3 books:
War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indians War Prisoners by Brad D. Lookingbill.
A Kiowa's Odyssey: A Sketchbook From Fort Marion by Phillip Earenfight.
Art From Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection by Joyce M. Szabo.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access reviews, scroll to page 84.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 4, 1999, pp. 71-90
Description
Describes the experiences of Navajo relocatees in Pinon, Arizona, the largest forced relocation of American citizens in the United States since the World War II internment of people of Japanese ancestry.
Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, vol. 5, no. 1, 2007, pp. 57-80
Description
Examines the social and emotional impact of being moved from an island to the mainland as a result of hydro-electric development on an Aboriginal community.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 14, no. 2, 1990, pp. 19-38
Description
Chronicles the effects of government policy, which resulted in the relocation of members of the Chippewa Band to as far away as South Dakota and Montana.
Arbutus Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Special Focus on Indigenous Governance, 2012, pp. 6-19
Description
Reviews scholarship on British Columbia resettlement, examines the Saanichton Marina court case, and discusses ongoing disputes over recognition of the Douglas Treaties.