First Nations Newspapers

There are many fine newspapers published by first nations companies and organizations. This list of web links offers a small selection of what is available. Click on the links to view the web pages. In most cases some or all of the issues of the paper are available to readers on the site. If not you can always subscribe!!

First Perspective - The First Perspective (National News) and The Drum (Manitoba & North West Ontario News) are published together every three weeks by Taiga Communications Inc. at Peguis First Nation, Peguis, Manitoba. Click on the link below to go to the Taiga site.

http://www.firstperspective.ca/

Urban NDN - at the moment this excellent periodical is a monthly but it is well worth a look. Publisher Colleen Simard has created a publication that is passionate and positive about indigenous people and what they have to offer.

http://withoutreserve.typepad.com/urban_ndn/

Nunatsiaq News is an English-Inuktitut weekly newspaper that has served the people of [Nunavut] and the Nunavik region of Arctic Quebec since 1973. A wonderful service on this web site is an archive of past issues going back to 1995 which can be searched. Put in a search phrase - Rankin Inlet for example - and get dozens of articles that mention that place.

http://www.nunatsiaq.com/

Native American Times provides a daily digest of news coverage that is specifically tailored to the Native American perspective with the understanding of special issues, such as as sovereign rights, civil rights and government-to-government relationships with the federal government.

http://nativetimes.com/

The Aboriginal Multi-Media Society is an independent Aboriginal communications organization committed to facilitating the exchange of information reflecting Aboriginal culture to a growing and diverse audience. The papers included in this site include Windspeaker, Alberta Sweetgrass and Saskatchewan Sage and parts of these papers are available to be read on line. There are parts of the site that have not been updated for some time.

http://www.ammsa.com/ammsa.html

Scholar Profiles 1. Ann Herring

Scholar Profiles 1. Ann Herring

Scholar Profiles is a series of bibliographies of the work of present day scholars who write about indigenous people.

Ann Herring is a physical anthropologist who teaches at McMaster University in Hamilton. To quote Dr. Herring’s web site:

“Much of my current research focuses on the determinants of health in Canada, with a particular emphasis on Aboriginal health. My current projects examine 19th and 20th century epidemics (especially influenza and tuberculosis), nutrition, and environmental health.”

The books and articles below are a selection of her work.

Books

In press Viral panic, vulnerabilities and the next pandemic. In Health, Risk and Adversity. edited by C. Panter-Brick and A. Fuentes. London: Berghahn Press.

2006 Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives. 2nd edition. (with J.B. Waldram and T.K. Young). Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press. Dafoe RA 449 W35 1995 (1st ed.).


2006 Anatomy of a Pandemic: the 1918 Influenza in Hamilton. edited by D. A. Herring. Hamilton: Allegra Press. Dafoe RC 150.55 C32 H36 2005


2003 Human Biologists in the Archives: Demography, Health, Nutrition and Genetics in Historical Populations. (with A.C. Swedlund, eds) Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press. Dafoe GN 296 H86 2003


2003 Malnutrition among northern peoples of Canada in the 1940s: an ecological and economic disaster. (with S. Abonyi and R.D. Hoppa) In Human Biologists in the Archives: Demography, Health, Nutrition and Genetics in Historical Populations. edited by D. A. Herring and A. C. Swedlund. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Dafoe GN 296 H86 2003

Saunders, Shelley R., D. Ann Herring, and Gerald Boyce. "Can Skeletal SamplesAccurately Represent the Living Populations they Come from? the St. Thomas' Cemetery Site, Belleville, Ontario." IN Bodies of Evidence: Reconstructing History through Skeletal Analysis 1995, 69-89. Dafoe GN 70 B63 1995

Saunders, Shelley R., D. Ann Herring, and Peter G. Ramsden. "Transformation and Disease: Precontact Ontario Iroquoians." IN Disease and Demography in the Americas 1992, 117-125. Dafoe E 59 A5 D57 1992

Articles

(search the journal titles in BISON on the University of Manitoba Libraries web site umanitoba.ca/libraries to see if the Libraries holds these journals and if they are electronic.)

Herring, D. Ann. ""there were Young People and Old People and Babies Dying Every Week": The 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic at Norway House." Ethnohistory 41, no. 1 (1993): 73-105.

Herring, D. Ann, Paul Driben, and Lawrence A. Sawchuk. "Historic Fertility Patterns in a Northern Ontario Ojibwa Community: The Fort Hope Band." Anthropologica v.25, no. 2 (1983): 147-161.

Herring, D. Ann and Lisa Sattenspiel. "Social Contexts, Syndemics, and Infectious Disease in Northern Aboriginal Populations." American Journal of Human Biology : The Official Journal of the Human Biology Council 19, no. 2 (2007): 190-202.

Herring, D. Ann and Robert D. Hoppa. "Endemic Tuberculosis among Nineteenth Century Cree in the Central Canadian Subarctic." Perspectives in Human Biology V 4, no. 1 (1999): 189-199.

Herring, D. Ann and Lisa Sattenspiel. "Social Contexts, Syndemics, and Infectious Disease in Northern Aboriginal Populations." American Journal of Human Biology V 19, no. 2 (2007): 190-202.

Sattenspiel, Lisa and D. Ann Herring. "Structured Epidemic Models and the Spread of Influenza in the Central Canadian Subarctic." Human Biology 70, no. 1 (1998): 91-115.

Sattenspiel, Lisa, Anne Mobarry, and D. Ann Herring. "Modeling the Influence of Settlement Structure on the Spread of Influenza among Communities." American Journal of Human Biology 12, no. 6 (2000): 736-748.

New York Times Historical Database

The New York Times has been an important paper in the United States for over two centuries. What many people don't realise is that it contains a lot of Canadian news as well and in the past it had correspondents in many parts of Canada. For Canadian aboriginal history, therefore, it can be quite useful. To get to our copy of the New York Times Hisstorical database go to the blue menu at the left side of the Libraries web pages. Choose E-Library and then under Find Journal Articles choose Databases by Title (A to Z). Click on N in the display


Choose a letter
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


Then click on New York Times Historical (1851-2003) , type your search terms into the box and click on the search button. If we do a search with Cree Indians Manitoba we get 22 newspaper stories including: "BIG BEAR SET FREE", New York Times Feb 6, 1887, p. 5. The database gives you the full text of the story and a citation.


The articles are usually short but they often provide useful information like dates and names and can give a hint of the attitutdes of the writer who, in this story, tells us that Big Bear "incited his tribe to pillage and massacre".