Relocation & Migration

Educational Foundations Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Alberta, 1972

Archaeology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2014.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Université Laval, 2001.

Addresses the economic feasibility of some First Nations communities.

Links to legislation that contains the Agreement of sale of the Songhees Indian Reserve located on Vancouver Island, in the City of Victoria describing the land exchange and consideration.

[History] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Auburn University, 2009.

Book review of: Stanley Park's Secret by Jean Barman. To access this review, scroll to page 113.

Profiles Inuit people relocated to Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Montreal. Looks at income, employment, education, health, housing, crime and safety, and culture and language.

Statistical data looks at the most popular destinations. 2 tables. Source: 2006 Census of Population.

Statistical data. 2 tables.

Provides late Victorian perspective on the history of Tsimshian peoples, and the then current challenge of government policies, pressures to surrender lands and community relocation. 2nd edition.

Human and Social Development Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2004.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2010.

Book review of: Strange Visitors edited by Keith D. Smith. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 118.

Discusses how migration from the insulated and regulated life on reserves to urban centres has impacted First Nations people, the importance of friendship centres' role in alleviating problems, and their need for additional resources.

Looks at background history of the court case and appeal case filed by Negotiating Team regarding the San and Bagkalagadi people. To access this article, scroll down to page 20.

Looks at the program, covering periods between 2005-06 and 2009-10.

States that the support networks that exist on reserve should be extended to people living off-reserve, in the larger urban centres.

Highlights the dysfunctional and atrocious living conditions on First Nations reserves, arguing that solutions must be locally driven and urban migration only creates different social issues.

Overview of methods used to collect data from a remote Torres Strait Island for research regarding relocation to the Australian mainland.

Looks at how the Houma peole have returned to rebuild their lives after two hurricanes, Katrina and Rita.

Looks at service levels and problems due to a lack of inter-agency collaboration.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of Western Ontario, 1999.

Thomas Major was one of the Metis involved in the early Metis organizations of the province.

Discusses three misconceptions: that there is a large migration taking place from reserves and rural areas to urban centres, that once in these centres they become members of an impoverished ghetto, and that Aboriginals face huge challenges in building culture and community in urban settings.

[History] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2013.

Author describes the forced relocation of the Calapooya, the Clackamas, the Molalla, and the Klickitat peoples from the Willamette Valley to reservations so that the land could be given to settlers for farming.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Houston, 2002.

Presents history of the Garrison Dam and the resulting reservoir, Lake Sakakawea named after a Shoshone women that was a translator for Lewis and Clarke expedition.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2016.

Looks at the major legal implications for today's relocated Native Americans as a result of Termination Era programs.

Discusses how federal Indian law has developed in the United States from the arrival of Columbus through to the self-determination era of today, and looks at the future of the Indian tribes.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 1997.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Georgia, 2013.

[Communication] Thesis (Ph.D)--University of Maryland, 2006.

Chronicles the upheaval suffered by the indigenous Embera people after a hydroelectric dam was constructed. To access this article scroll down to page 28.

Film depicts the family’s progress from a proud Chiricahua Apache family of storytellers in Oklahoma to a multi-talented artistic family in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Duration: 32:17.

Looks at women's experiences in Edmonton, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Toronto, and Montreal. Research involved literature review and interviews with forty-six Inuit women, twenty-two service providers, and, when possible, focus groups. Four objectives of study were to identify motivations for migration/relocation to urban centres, examine challenges faced, discuss primary effects on roles and responsibilities, and to identify supports needed.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California-Berkeley, 2006.

Statistics on population size, marital status and living arrangements, language, mobility, educational achievement, labour force activity and income.

Study conducted with 93 residents of Seattle, Washington looked at levels of economic, social and psychological adjustment, and correlations between those variables and length of residence and strength of cultural identity.