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Huron Calls on Lay People

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bob Bettson
Anglican Journal, vol. 125, no. 9, October 1999, p. [?]
Description
Discussion of various issues including the diocese being named in a lawsuit based on argument of cultural genocide due to its role in running the Mohawk Institute.
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"I Was Brought to Life to Save My People from Starvation and from Their Enemies": Pahukatawa and the Pawnee Trauma of Genocide

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark van de Logt
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 40, no. 3, 2016, pp. 23-46
Description
Examines the emergence of a spiritual entity during a period of warfare waged by the Lakota and Cheyenne on the Pawnee. Argues that their desperate situation triggered a spiritual crisis since the traditional sacred power of Morning Star seemed to provide no protection from enemy threats.
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Imagining a Poetics of Loss: Notes Toward a Comparative Methodology

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 3-4, Series 2; [Indigenous Intersections], Fall-Winter, 2003-2004, pp. 23-50
Description
Compares the theme of genocide and cultural loss in the the poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes (Chicana) and Joy Harjo (Creek). Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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The Indians America Loves to Love and Read: American Indian Identity and Cultural Appropriation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathryn W. Shanley
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Autumn, 1997, pp. 675-702
Description
Author examines the neocolonial practice of cultural appropriation as “theft of cultural property” and notes its connection to the erasure of history and language performed by colonial states.
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Indians Teaching about Indigenous: How and Why the Academy Discriminates

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James V. Fenelon
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 177-188
Description
Author draws on their experience working within the academy to illustrate institutional discrimination against Indigenous scholars, graduate students, and allies who choose to confront issues of genocide, land theft, and colonization in their work.
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Interview with W. Richard West, Director, National Museum of the American Indian

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
W. Richard West
Amanda J. Cobb
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3/4, Special Issue: The National Museum of the American Indian, Summer - Autumn, 2005, pp. 517-537
Description
Author and West discuss the ideas and practices that the NMAI is founded on and is responding to: survivance vs genocide, diversity, and perspective.
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Interview with Will Seeks: Celebrating the Beginnings of Change; Canadian Indians Want the Government to Protect Indian Rights at

Alternate Title
Celebrating the Beginning of Change
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Elizabeth May
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 3, Speaking For Ourselves, Fall, 1992
Description
Discusses the protest of Spain's 500 years celebration and the boarding of a Columbus expedition to demand an apology for mass cultural genocide. The article also discusses two projects - one for fishing and one to protect the environment.
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Introduction: Manipi Hena Owas'in Wicunkiksuyapi (We Remember All Those Who Walked)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Waziyatawin Angela Wilson
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 151-169
Description
Article recounts the forced removal and executions of the Dakota Sioux following the “Sioux Uprising of 1862” and describes how those events are being commemorated through a memorial walk from the Lower Sioux Reservation on Minnesota to Fort Snelling in St. Paul, MN.
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The Jesuit Republic and Brother Care in The Mission: An Allegory of the Conquest

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jay Hansford C. Vest
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 3, 2005, pp. 25-57
Description
Review of the film, The Mission, that contends the underlying message in it is to free the colonizers of their guilt and doubt, which undermines the film's central allegory of physical and spiritual genocide of conquered Native Americans.
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Killing Them Softly: Forcible Transfers of Indigenous Children

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ruth Amir
Genocide Studies and Prevention, vol. 9, no. 2, Time, Movement, and Space: Genocide Studies and Indigenous Peoples, 2015, pp. [41]-60
Description
Focuses on the transfer of children in North America and Australia to residential schools.
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A Legal Analysis of Genocide: Supplementary Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Description
Represents views and opinions of the National Inquiry after consultations with legal scholars and lawyers with expertise on genocide and international crimes. Topics include: definition, Canada's actions and omissions as genocidal conduct (actus reus), Canada's specific intent to destroy Indigenous peoples (mens rea), and Canada's responsibility for genocide and obligations for reparations.
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[Legal documents relating to abuse of students at St. Anne's Indian Residential School]

Alternate Title
R. v Anna Wesley
Fontaine v. Canada (Attorney General)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Government of Canada]
Description

Court transcripts of Ann Wesley case, in which former nun was charged with assault, assault causing bodily harm and administering a noxious substance and couirt documents which reference the use of the electric chair on students.

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Leslie Marmon Silko's "Lullaby": The Power of Resistance and Healing Force to Cultural and Spiritual Genocide

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Reading Multiculturalism: Contemporary Postcolonial Literatures
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Olga Barrios
Description
Looks at the protagonist whose memories of her roots and traditions help her fight against adversity. Chapter from Reading Multiculturalism: Contemporary Postcolonial Literatures edited by Ana Bringas López and Belén Martín Lucas.
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A Library Matter of Genocide: The Library of Congress and the Historiography of the Native American Holocaust

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Q. Dudley
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research Involving Indigenous Peoples-Part 1, April 2017, pp. 1-30
Description
Analyzes books in OCLC Worldcat with Library of Congress subject heading "Indians of North America", with keywords genocide, holocaust or extermination.
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A Living Memorial

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Molly Schoenhoff
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 289-292
Description
The author, a settler witness to the Manipi Hena Owasin Wicunkiksuyapi (the 2002 walk to commemorate the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota peoples forcibly removed from their lands to Fort Snelling) discusses suggestions for a living monument in memory of the events.
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada: Gender, Indigeneity, and Genocide

Alternate Title
MMIWG in Canada: Gender, Indigeneity, and Genocide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Justine Berezintsev
Katherine James
Laurel Rush
Gabrielle Vallières
Description
Looks at how the intersection of marginalized identities led the National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Women and Girls to conclude that the this femicide was part of the larger act of genocide.
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A Missing Genocide and the Demonization of Its Heroes

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Chris Arnett
BC Studies, no. 188, Winter, 2015/2016, pp. 117-118
Description
Book review of: A Missing Genocide and the Demonization of Its Heroes by Tom Swanky. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 117.
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The Moralization of Genocide in Canada

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Prairie Perspectives on Indian Residential Schools, Truth, and Reconciliation, The Forks, Winnipeg, MB, Thursday 17 June 2010
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Christopher Powell
Description
Using historical comparisons, examines present concepts and Indian residential school policy as part of a larger government plan to assimilate Indigenous people.
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Names of the Condemned Dakota Men

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 175-183
Description
Article lists the names of Dakota men and the sentences imposed on them by the United States government following the “Sioux Uprising of 1862.”
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The Next Generation: Criminology , Genocide Studies and Settler Colonialism

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Andrew Woolford
Revista Crítica Penal y Poder, no. 5, Redefining the Criminal Matter: State Crime, Mass Atrocities and Social Harm, September 2013, pp. 163-185
Description
Discusses the criminology of genocide using the example of residential schools in Canada and Fort Alexander Indian Residential School in Manitoba.
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North American Indigenous Women and Cultural Domination

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Beatrice Medicine
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, Special Issue on Encounter of Two Worlds: The Next Five Hundred Years, 1993, pp. 121-130
Description
While others celebrate the 'discovery' of the New World, the 1.5 million Aboriginal peoples in the United States will celebrate their survival against centuries of genocide, legal restrictions on religion and language and other oppressive measures.
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Ontological Destruction: Genocide and Canadian Aboriginal Peoples

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrew Woolford
Genocide Studies and Prevention, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 81-97
Description
Looks at how Aboriginal groups experienced assimilation in different ways and discusses the separation between cultural and physical forms of destruction.
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The Other Proletarians: Native American Literature and Class Struggle

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tim Libretti
MFS Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 47, no. 1, Spring, 2001, pp. 164-189
Description
Argues that the literature presents an anticapitalist perspective and looks at issues of work and alienation in the larger context of genocide by colonization.
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Press Release / Dave Courchene, President / Manitoba Indian Brotherhood / Winnipeg, Manitoba. - 26 June 1969.

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dave Courchene
Description
This press release expresses the Manitoba Aboriginal organization's "bitterness, frustration and anger" with the Federal Government's "White Paper." Courchene calls for meetings with Aboriginal leaders in Manitoba to present alternatives from the "cultural genocide" he believes will occur if the "White Paper" becomes law.

Historical note:

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