Recently added articles from The Canadian Journal of Native Studies:
WAS NEW SPAIN REALLY FIRST?: REREADING JUAN PEREZ'S 1774 EXPEDITION TO HAIDA GWAII1
Jan 01, 2006; ... Abstract / Résumé In 1774, New Spain set its sights on what lay north of San Francisco. Much was at stake since the British and the Russians were both pioneering exploration of western North America. A general assumption maintains the Spanish were the first Europeans to explore that ...
POWER OVER DISCOURSE: LINGUISTIC CHOICES IN ABORIGINAL MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS
Jan 01, 2006; ... Abstract / Résumé In recent years, it has become obvious that First Nations in Canada are growing stronger in their assertiveness as 'nations within,' as distinct peoples with a right to self-determination, land and resources, and treaty concessions. This evolving status of First Nations ...
LES JÉSUITES CHEZ LES HURONS EN 1648-49
Jan 01, 2006; ... Résumé / Abstract Dans la Relation en Huronie de l'année 1648-1649 par Paul Ragueneau, s.j., nous avons voulu savoir qui étaient les jésuites. Pourquoi vinrent-ils en Amérique du Nord et furent-ils si égocentriques qu'ils apportèrent des changements au lieu de comprendre les Amérindiens? ...
CALDER V. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF BRITISH COLUMBIA; ABORIGINAL CASE LAW IN AN ETHNOBIASED COURT
Jan 01, 2006; ... Abstract / Résumé In 1973 the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its judgment over Calder v. Attorney General of British Columbia, a case that ultimately was not decided in favor of the Nisga'a. This paper will examine the Calder case through anthropological concepts of cultural bias and ...
A TUTELO HERITAGE: AN ETHNOLITERARY ASSESSMENT OF CHIEF SAMUEL JOHNS' CORRESPONDENCE WITH DR. FRANK G. SPECK
Jan 01, 2006; ... Abstract / Résumé During the mid 1930s, Chief Samuel Johns entered into a brief correspondence with the noted anthropologist Dr. Frank G. Speck. Examining this correspondence, this essay gives interpretation to the ethno-literary considerations manifest in the Johns' ...
OTHER THAN THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS: THE DANE-ZAA INDIANS AND THE VISION QUEST
Jan 01, 2006; ... Abstract / Résumé The Dane-zaa vision quest, as viewed through the legend of Swan, who originally "set the world right," and vision quest narratives, demonstrates a uniquely Dane-zaa concept of dreams. Specifically, the Dane-zaa example suggests two important points: First, that ...
SEGREGATION OF WOMEN AND ABORIGINAL PEOPLE WITHIN CANADA'S FOREST SECTOR BY INDUSTRY AND OCCUPATION
Jan 01, 2006; ... Abstract / Résumé This study examines employment segregation by gender and by Aboriginal ancestry within Canada's forest sector in 2001. Results show that while gender segregation was principally by occupation, segregation by Aboriginal ancestry was principally by industry sub-sector ....
GOOSE HUNT OR RAP: MEDIA EFFECTS ON A GROUP OF NATIVE-CANADIAN PREADOLESCENTS
Jan 01, 2006; ... Abstract / Résumé The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of popular media on one group of Native-Canadian preadolescents in a remote Cree community, and the effects of media on self-concept and future aspirations. While family and community influences were still ...
COMPARING STORIES: EMBRACING THE CIRCLE OF LIFE
Jan 01, 2006; ... Abstract / Résumé This paper examines two oral traditions: the Anishnaabe and the Irish Celtic, and the roles that their languages and stories play in their respective spiritual traditions. In order to appreciate these spiritual traditions, one needs to see that mythos is more basic than ...
Haida Gwaii: Human History and Environment from the Time of Loon to the Time of the Iron People
Jan 01, 2006; ... Fedje, Daryl W. and Rolf W. Mathewes (editors), Haida Gwaii: Human History and Environment from the Time of Loon to the Time of the Iron People. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005, 448 pp. ISBN 0774809213 Cloth CDN. $99.00 ISBN 0774809221 Paper CDN. $39.95. The ...
Native American Storytelling: A Reader of Myths and Legends
Jan 01, 2006; ... Kroeber, Karl (editor), Native American Storytelling: A Reader of Myths and Legends. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004 viii, 136 pp., photographs, further reading, index. ISBN 1-4051-1542-4 Paper. Karl Kroeber's collection of myths and legends is a marvellously diverse compendium ...
Australian Indigenous Knowledge and Libraries
Jan 01, 2006; ... Nakata, M. and M. Langton (editors), Australian Indigenous Knowledge and Libraries, 2005. Canberra, Australian Academic and Research Libraries, pp. 216, colour and black and white plates. The papers included in this interdisciplinary collection of readings emerged out of a colloquium ...
The Heavens are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity
Jan 01, 2006; ... Neylan, Susan, The Heavens are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity. Montreal: McGill-Queens' University Press, 2003. xvii, 401 pp., photographs, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-7735-2573-4 Softcover. Susan Neylan's The Heavens ...
The Encyclopedia of Native Music
Jan 01, 2006; ... Wright-McLeod, Brian, The Encyclopedia of Native Music. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2005. 451 pp. ISBN 0-8165-2447-5. Wright-McLeod (Dakota Anishnabe) has omitted few to no recorded North American Native artists in this comprehensive work which includes even those artists ...
SOCIAL COHESION? A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE URBAN ABORIGINAL STRATEGY AND ITS APPLICATION TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS IN WINNIPEG
Jul 01, 2005; ... Abstract / Résumé Aboriginal self-determination has been reasserted over the past few decades. The right of self-government is recognised in federal policy. Social welfare goals have been articulated in terms of developing greater social cohesion. Aboriginal people in urban areas have ...
SHARING COMPLEX VISIONS FOR INCLUSIVE SCHOOLS
Jul 01, 2005; ... Abstract / Résumé We will use underlying notions that complexity theory provides as a window into seeing, without assimilating, the ecological metaphors evident in Aboriginal cultures of North America. Weaving together our theoretical understanding of complexity theory and Aboriginal ...
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION: THE CASE OF THE SWEDISH SAMI PEOPLE
Jul 01, 2005; ... Abstract/Résumé This article analyses Swedish Sami policy during more than a century. By this historical perspective the author shows how public policy constitutes a 'true' and 'authentic' Indigenous identity, which both delimits legitimate political action and maintains a political ...
ANGELS OF LIGHT: A MI'KMAQ MYTH IN A NEW ARCHÊ
Jul 01, 2005; ... Abstract / Résumé 2002 marked the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Charles H. Long's Alpha: The Myths of Creation, a book that has become a standard for historians of religion. This essay results from an initial research project that sought to re-read Alpha in relation to ...
ALTERING PERCEPTIONS THROUGH INDIGENOUS STUDIES: THE EFFECTS OF IMMERSION IN HAWAIIAN TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE (TEK) ON NON-NATIVE AND PART-NATIVE STUDENTS
Jul 01, 2005; ... Abstract / Résumé The Hawaiian People have a unique and detailed knowledge of their environment; one that is rarely experienced by most of the inhabitants of the islands. This paper presents a qualitative content analysis of how the students of an undergraduate introductory course on ...
UTILIZATION OF LAND USE DATA TO IDENTIFY ISSUES OF CONCERN RELATED TO CONTAMINATION AT SITE 050 OF THE MID-CANADA RADAR LINE
Jul 01, 2005; ... Abstract / Résumé Abandoned Mid-Canada Radar Line (MCRL) stations in northern Canada are remnants of the "Cold War." Since these stations were not properly decommissioned, contaminants (e.g., PCBs and lead) have entered the environment surrounding these sites. The first MCRL site to be ...