Relocation & Migration

Study findings reveal that a disproportionate number of individuals were subject to childhood sexual abuse.

Planning Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2013.

Comments on the importance of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978 which is meant to address the problem of children being placed outside of their families and communities. Duration: 12:00.

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Author reports on his family's resettlement to better opportunities in Bathurst, NSW, Australia which was aided greatly by the Family Resettlement Aboriginal Corporation (FRAC).

Describes how this project, which included 6 dams, destroyed over 550 square miles of tribal land and displaced more than 900 Native American families.

Discusses government funding that will be used by four communities, Cole Bay, Jans Bay, Beauval, and Île-à-la-Crosse, to promote regional economic development and infrastructure. Article located by scrolling to page 3.

Book review of First Manhattans by Robert S. Grument.

Examines the consequences of community displacement on sustainable livelihoods, homes, health and socio-cultural integrity.

Natural Resources Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2012.

Examines the National Reclamation Act and how many people in the Gila River and Casa Grande valleys, including government officials, thought that the first reclamation project would be built in Arizona.

Focuses on the opportunities and challenges for Nepali Canadians in their response to the two earthquakes that occurred in their South Asia country in 2015.

Provides a short history leading up to the incident and then chronicles the impact on the evacuee's health due to inadequate facilities.

Site of national significance for transportation, trade, and settlement as well as the history of the Canadian West. Site includes natural resources, fur trade, Aboriginal settlement, immigration, online tour, activities, interpretive programs, and visitor information.

History Thesis ( Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska, 2001.

Reproduces the United States Army’s list of the Dakota and Mixed Blood prisoners held at Fort Snelling, in 1862-1863.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1967.

Five-part documentary series about the Shoal Lake 40 Anishinaabe Nation's battle to build a road after their community was forcibly relocated and cut off from the mainland so that water could be supplied to the city of Winnipeg. Related material: Mini-Lesson.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Vanderbildt University, 1998.

Looks at the evolution of the Cherokee legal system, from traditional blood feuds to a traditional tribal court system. However, the signing of the New Echota Treaty in 1835 saw the return to blood feuds within the Cherokee Nation.

Brief biographical article on Mitchell Knight, an Aboriginal track and field athlete.

Describes the move of 150 Innu families from Davis Inlet to the town of Natuashish, 15 kilometres away. Duration: 6:03.

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Looks at fictionalized representation of the James Bay hydroelectric project through the use of Algonquin windigo stories.

Geography and Planning Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2010.

Looks at the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation's (CCF) attempt to urbanize Indigenous groups through the creation of new village communities.

Examines the 'strike' by Gurindji people and their self relocation of their community as an act of activism to regain their land.

Comments on the youthful and increasing community as it relates to education, employment, and future potential.

Looks at the plight of the Cherokee Nation during this period ending with their removal to Oklahoma.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2002.

Book review of: Gathering Together: The Shawnee People Through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600-1870 by Sami Lakomäki.

Social and health problems of the Ojibway of northwestern Ontario in Treaty 9 territory, due in a large part to dams causing flooding of traditional hunting, fishing and trapping lands, and the peoples' subsequent move to reserve.

Study provides additional insights into the relationship between the two ethnic groups.

HLA analysis indicates a higher proportion of Asian ancestry in the Sami than what was shown by previous studies.

[Social Geography] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oklahoma, 1975.

Discusses the characteristics and distribution of Aboriginals in Canada and outlines some of the challenges posed by migration.

Reveals a presidential administration that was determined to implement its own plan regardless of opposition voicing to humanitarian concerns or logical arguments.

Communication Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008.

Book review of: Getting Good Crops by Robert J. Bigart. Review located by scrolling to page 190.

Scholar, teacher and historian looks at the mystery of the vanishing Aboriginals and how colonialism affected Indigenous space in urbanizing Victoria. Duration: 1:17:58

Discusses development of oral history project focusing on the impact the American government's Urban Relocation Programs.

File contains a photocopy of M. Giraud's article "The Western Metis After the Insurrection," as published in Saskatchewan History Vol. IX No. 1 (winter 1956): pp. 1-15. He gives his impression of the lives of the Metis in the North-West Territories after 1885. He argues that many were destitute living on thin strips of crown land, and only a few had small farms, while others settled on reserves. Many got a title to land worth $240 (scrip), but most sold their title for less than it was worth and then spent the money foolishly.

Looks at maintaining cultural identity while living in an urban environment.

Discussion of the 1933 removal of the Timbisha Shoshone from Death Valley and then the 1994 legal requirement of the Department of Interior to study the ancestral lands within and outside of Death Valley National Park with the purpose of identifying lands suitable for a reservation.

Outlines work of the Commission and provides synopsis of each of the documents produced for it.