Appropriation

Suggests that Aboriginal scholars need to take control of the uses of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and the process by which it is used. Contends that removing TEK from its context devalues it.

Reports on the conference of the same name held on November 20-22, 2008 at the University of Montreal. (French version also available.)

Looks a a writer's attitude to Aborigines, race and nationalism.

Author argues that American Indian Studies is a legitimate discipline, with its own unique perspectives and methodological concerns.

Relates the experiences of a graduate student and a professor who encountered isolation and attacks on the value of their scholarship.

Research agreements must be structured to ensure mutual benefits which reflect the equal status of both parties.

Discusses issues of reconciliation, the consequences of government policies, and its standards for measuring Indigenous peoples’ cultures, beliefs, and practices.

Discusses the origin and overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and examines how the Ali'i (native Hawaiian chiefs) used their knowledge of law to advance their own existing Indigenous structure.

Resources divided under seven topic headings: resolutions, policy and law, protocols, case studies, intellectual property, traditional knowledges and climate change, and ethics and traditional knowledge. To accompany Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives.

Investigates the concept of cultural appropriation and finds that artists don't act unethically when they engage in "honest" cultural appropriation.

American Indian Studies Program Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Arizona, 1996.

Discusses various aspects of appropriation: historical and modern methods, justifications given, political implications, current legal framework and proposals for protection.

Looks at Ruth Beebe Hill's novel Hanta Yo: An American Saga and how her research for the book presents valuable ethnographic details that are lost in a text that does not accurately portray Dakota culture to mainstream audiences.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 1992.

Papers presented at a two-day colloquium, Libraries and Indigenous Knowledge, in December 2004, Sidney, Australia.

Discusses issues of copyright and ownership relevant to Indigenous peoples' rights with respect to their cultural heritage.

Discusses the phenomena of cultural uptake of the drink, its use for nontraditional practices and subsequent ramifications in the areas of indigenous knowledge, cultural appropriation and intellectual property.

An examination of appropriation of traditional crafts through the creation and marketing of how-to-guides and kits in the early twentieth century. Focuses on works written by George Wharton James.

Author compares the way in which settlers in the Arkansas River Valley made use of the natural land to cultivate orchards and vineyards to the way local Indigenous nations had lived on the land.

Law Thesis (LL.M)--The University of British Columbia, 2000.

Author presents a case study of Indigenous people and biodiversity from Papua New Guinea. Paper presented at the Indigenous Knowledge Conference 2001 held at the University of Saskatchewan.

Public Policy and Public Administration Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2003.

Discusses various uses of art today and the possibilities for copyright laws to accommodate this artform.

Indigenous Nations Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, 2007.

Discussion of the validity of Ian Frazier's nonfiction book On the Rez.

Discusses the consequence of neoliberal globalization and the emergence of Indigenous movements that share many similarities. Access article through table of contents.

Author explores the complicated series of issues around the use of text composed by Indigenous authors and co-created or edited by Euro-American partners; article covers individual vs collective ownership, historical disregard for Indigenous ownership, and inheritance rights.

Argues that Native American women's personal narratives have been marginalized and misinterpreted in academia.

Literature Thesis (M.A.)--Universität Wien [University of Vienna], 2009.

Discusses the Peter Paul case and examines treaty knowledge in the mid 20th Century.

Lists 208 publications (articles, letters, websites, webpages, government documents, and books) deemed to be of interest to the Commodifications of the Past? Working Group from the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) research project.

Discusses the Board's role as an interjurisdictional forum for discussion of ecological issues that are difficult for stakeholders to resolve.

Graduate Studies Thesis / Practicum (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 1999.

Article articulates some of the ethical issues that arise in the study in Indigenous spiritual practices; focuses on misinterpretation, appropriation, corruption of different spiritual practices.

Article focuses on intellectual property, access to information and tribunal law and policy.

Interdisciplinary Thesis (M.A.)--Laurentian University of Sudbury, 1998.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 1999.

Educational Foundations Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2004.

Uses the Haudenosaunee concept of the Great Law of Peace to illustrate the displacement process of Aboriginal peoples.

Examines Carr's writing and the way she depicts the First Nation peoples of the northwest coast.

Discusses cultural bias, practices in teacher education, and changing educational attitudes to include Indigenous knowledge.

Explores the problematic relationship between traditional cultural expressions and intellectual property law (particularly copyright), which fails to protect them and puts most of them in the public domain, and outlines some proposals for concrete policy, legal and practical solutions to end appropriation.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba/University of Winnipeg, 2012.

Description of responses generated by questions posed by four Graduate students on the H-AmIndian listserv.

Discusses the issues involved in integrating the two types of knowledge in the interest of economic development.

Public Policy and Public Administration (Geography Option) (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2004.