Native Studies at U of M Libraries

New Books May 2010

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Gabriel Dumont: Souvenirs d resistance d'un immortel de l'Ouest, Denis Combet, Les editions Cornc, 2009. Dafoe FC 3217.1 D85 G33 2009.

The Hero and the Historians: Historiography and the uses of jacques Cartier, Alan Gordon, UBC Press, 2010. Dafoe E 133 C3 G67 2010.

Inuit Shamanism and Christianity: Transitions and Transformations in the Twentieth Century, Frederic B. Laugrand, McGill Queen's University Press, 2010. Dafoe E99 E7 L3895 2010.

Traditional Inuit Stories from Arviat, Mark Kalluak, Nunavut Arctic College, 2009. Dafoe E 99 E7 K35 2009.

Faking Ancient Mesoamerica, Nancy L. Kelker, Left Coast Press, 2010. Dafoe F 1219.3 A7 K455 2010.

New Books November 24, 2009

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Greg Gillespie, Hunting for Empire: Narratives of Sport in Rupert's Land 1840 - 70. UBC Press, 2007. Dafoe SK 151 G54 2007.

Gillespie, who teaches at Brock University, has written an intellectual history of big game hunting on the Canadian prairie as practised by British tourists and army officers. Using the published accounts written by the hunters he examines their attitudes toward nature as they found it and toward the indigenous people who often worked for them as guides. The book provides many insights into the mentality of the colonizers as they blasted their way across the plains.

Joel Pfister, The Yale Indian, Duke University Press, 2009, Dafoe E90 C48 P45 2009.

A biography of Henry Roe Cloud 1884-1950, the first Native American to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees at Yale. Cloud was one of the founders of the Society of American Indians, founded a preperatory school for indian students and while working for the Bureau of Indian Affairs was a "catalyst for the Indian New Deal." (from the book cover).

Shari Huhndorf, Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture. Cornell University Press, 2009. Dafoe E98 E85 H84 2009.

A collection of essays on modern indigenous culture which focuses on the transnational nature of that culture.

Alexandra Harmon, ed., The Power of Promises, University of Washington Press, 2008. Dafoe E 78 N77 P68 2008.

A collection of essays about treaties which grew out of a conference in 2004, Pacific Northwest Indian Treaties in National and International Historical Perspective. Canadian and American writers look at different aspects of the Treaty process in "...some of the finest work on treaties currently available in the literature." (from the Forward).

New Books November 2, 2009

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Todd Leahy and Raymond Wilson, Historical Dictionary of Native American Movements, Scarecrow Press, 2008. Dafoe Reference E93 L43 2008.

This useful reference book, with introductory essay and bibliography by two Kansas academics, contains entries on the political, economic and social movements through which Native Americans have attempted to accomodate themselves to the ongoing pressures of the European invasion of their land.

Dewi Ball and Joy Porter, Competing Voices from Native America, Greenwood Press, 2009. dafoe E77 C743 2009.

Part of the "Fighting Words" series this book presents a collection of first hand accounts and documents dealing with controversial subjects in Native American relations with whites. Differing points of view are represented in original accounts, newspaper stories, letters etc. and the sources are chosen to encourage discussion and further research in high school and University classrooms.

Norman Hallendy, Tukiliit: The Stone People Who Live in the Wind, An introduction to Inuksuit and Other Stone Figures of the North. Douglas and McIntyre, 2009. Dafoe E99 E7 H255 2009.

Hallendy, a former senior civil servant, has travelled extensively in the Arctic and has photographed a huge array of stone figures, both inuksuit and others less familiar. All have meaning as memorials, markers for good fishing, sacred places or guides for important trails. The book is a collection of his photographs with captions and explanations.

Lance Foster, The Indians of Iowa, University of Iowa Press, 2009.

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Foster, a member of the Ioway Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, has written a dictionary style account of the various First Nations cultures in Iowa.

Diane Payment, The Free People - Li Gens Libres: A History of the Metis Community of Batoche, Saskatchewan, University of Calgary Press, 2009.
Dafoe E99 M47 P38 2009.

Payment, an historian with Parks Canada who has written extensively on the Metis gives us a revised and updated edition of her 1990 study. "Her inquiry draws on a range of written historical sources, both Metis and non-Metis, as well as more recent oral history narratives and personal observations". (from the book cover.)

New Books October 23, 2009

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Nicholas Evans, Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What they have to Tell Us. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Dafoe P 40.5E53 E93 2009.

" A fascinating and colorful view of what we are losing as languages die, by a linguist who understands the significance of our loss more deeply than most." from the book cover.

Steven L. Grafe, editor, Lanterns on the Prairie: The Blackfeet Photographs of Walter Mcclintock. University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. Dafoe E99 S54 L34 2009.

A beautiful collection of photos of Blackfoot people taken between 1904 and 1912 by Walter McClintock. Most have never been published before.

J.R. Miller, Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty Making in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2009. Dafoe E92 M5427 2009.

J.R. Miller, who teaches history at University of Saskatchewan has written many books on First Nations issues in Canada. This book is described as "...the first successful comprehensive analysis of the treaty making process and its rationale in Canada."

Gordon Rakita, Ancestors and Elites: Emergent Complexity and ritual practices in the Cases Grandes Polity. Altamira Press, 2009. Dafoe E99 C23 R35 2009.

This book "...examines the prehispanic ritual behaviors of the Cases Grandes region of Chihuahua Mexico." The author explores "...the complex reciprocal relationship between ritual practices and developing social complexity at Paquime, one of the best documented arhaeological sites in the region." from the book cover

Lorne Dufour, Jacob's Prayer, Caitlin Press, 2009, Dafoe E99 S45 D84 2009.

"This book centres around one tragic Halloween evening at Alkali Lake in 1975 when two men lose their lives and another is saved by a friend who chooses not to be destroyed by his own tragedy and devastating loss. Set during the time when the community was struggling to overcome its legacy of colonialism, Jacob's Prayer is the haunting and poetic story of a community's suffering, loss and eventual healing. "
publisher's web site.

McNally, Michael, Honoring Elders: Aging Authority and Ojibwe Religion, Columbia U.P., 2009, Dafoe E99 C6 M346 2009
"Ojibwe people esteem the wisdom, authority, and religious significance of old age...this respect ... is the fruit of hard work, rooted in narrative traditions, moral vision, and ritualized practices of decorum that are comparable in sophistication to those of Confucianism. ... Ojibwe and other Anishinaabe communities have been resolute and resourceful in their disciplined respect for elders. Indeed, the challenges of colonization have served to accentuate eldership in new ways." publisher's web site.

Mi'sel Joe: An Aboriginal Chief's JourneyEdited By Raoul R. Andersen and John K. Crellin. Flanker Press, 2009, Dafoe E 99 M6 J62 2009

"Mi’sel Joe: An Aboriginal Chief’s Journey chronicles both the life of an individual and that of his people. Mi’sel Joe is the traditional and administrative chief of Newfoundland’s Conne River Mi’kmaq Reserve. Through a series of taped interviews with Raoul Andersen and John Crellin, Mi’sel Joe tells his life story..." Publisher's web site.

Northern Exposure: peoples, powers and prospects in Canada's North, Leslie Seidle and France St. Hilaire, Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2009. Dafoe JC 11 A78 v. 4.

"The North is an increasingly important focal point of public policy as melting polar ice transforms the Arctic into the epicentre of new global economic and geopolitical interests. This multidisciplinary edited volume explores how the dramatic changes in Canada's North will affect its peoples, its governments, and the social, economic and political future of northerners." from publisher's web site.

Henderson, James Youngblood, Indigenous Diplomacy and the rights of peoples: achieving UN recognition, Purich Publishing, 2008. Dafoe K 3247 H45 2008.

Dowie, Mark, Conservation RefugeesThe Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples, MIT Press 2009, Dafoe GF 50 D69 2009

"Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been established worldwide, largely at the urging of five international conservation organizations. About half of these areas were occupied or regularly used by indigenous peoples. Millions who had been living sustainably on their land for generations were displaced in the interests of conservation. In Conservation Refugees, Mark Dowie tells this story."

Geniusz, Wendy Djinn. Our knowledge is not primitive : decolonizing botanical Anishinaabe teachings, Syracuse University Press, 2009. Dafoe E 99 C6 G647 2009

LaRue, Frank, Finding Carrie George, Totem Pole Books, 2009. Dafoe PS 8623 A784 F56 2009

LeBeau, Patrick Russell, Term paper resource guide to American Indian history, Greenwood Press, 2009. Dafoe E 76.6 L334 2009

New Books October 1, 2009

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These books are on the New Book Shelf in Dafoe Library. You place a request on them in the Libraries Catalogue and they will be put aside for you when the display period is over.

Want to write a review. Send your review to the comments section and I will post it.

Maggie Wilson, Rainy River Lives: Stories told by Maggie Wilson, University of Nebraska Press, 2009, Dafoe E99 C6 W64 2009.

This is a collection of stories told to anthropologist Ruth Landes by Maggie Wilson, 1879 to 1940, an Ojibwe woman who lived on the Manitou Rapids Reserve on the border of Ontario and Minnesota. The transcriptions of the stories were lost when they were misfiled at the Smithsonian Institute and they are presented in here in a new edition by Concordia University anthropologist Sally Cole. The stories recount every day events but are a rich resource for understanding Ojibwe cultural beliefs.

Charles Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus, Alfred Knopf, 2005, Dafoe E61 M266 2005.

Mann, an award winning science writer who publishes in Science and the Atlantic Monthly, uses recent research results to paint a picture of the cultures of the Americas in 1491. Many of the discoveries and speculations that he reports on differ from the conventional wisdom about indigenous America. The population of the Americas may well have been larger than that of Europe; Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, was not only larger than any European city but cleaner and healthier to live in. An interesting and readable addition to the ever-growing literature on pre 1492 America.

Kathryn Derounian-Stodola, The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature, University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

Dafoe E83.86 D47 2009.

This book is a study of 24 of the many accounts of the war between whites and the Dakota in 1862. A Professor of English at the University of Arkansas, Dr. Derounian-Stodola gives the reader an "ethnography of representative Dakota Conflict narratives and an analysis of the war's historiography." from the cover.

Margaret Jacobs, White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940. University of Nebraska Press, 2009. Dafoe E98 C89 J32 2009.

Jacobs is a History professor at University of Nebraska. In this work she contrasts the role of white women in implementing the policy of removing indigenous children from their families and communities in Australia and the U.S..

New Books September 11, 2009

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These books are now on display in Dafoe. If you wish to request one of them use the Request This Book link in BISON.

Why not write a review? If you want to write a review of any of the titles in this blog send it to me as a comment and I will post it.

Patricia Roberts Clark, Tribal Names of the Americas: Spelling Variants and Alternative Forms Cross Referenced. McFarland and company, 2009. Dafoe Reference E54.5 C55 2009.

This book is a useful reference tool that you might only use a few times in your life but it will be nice to have when you need it. There are 22 entries for variations of the name Ojibwa alone. It encompasses North Central and South American cultures.

Ruth M. Van Dyke, The Chaco Experience, School for Advanced Research Press, 2007. Dafoe E99 C37 V35 2007.

Archaeologist Van Dyke has produced a "...unique volume that does what no other...North American archaeology book does -- develop a phenomenological argument by literally walking us into Chaco" from the cover.

Barbara Perry, Policing Race and Place in Indian Country: Over and Under- Enforcement, Lexington Books, 2009. Dafoe E 98 C87 P44 2009.

Dr. Perry is a professor of criminology at U of Ontario Institute of Technology. This is the first study of how Native American communities are policed in ways that "...perpetuate both the criminalization and the victimization of Native Americans as nations and as individuals."

David J. Meltzer, First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America, University of California Press, 2009. Dafoe E77.9 M45 2009.

"In a remarkably comprehensive and lucid fashion, David Meltzer sythesizes the complex and commonly conflicting evidence of the earliest human presence in the Americas and provides an honestly told lesson about the workings of scientific thought." David Thomas, author of Skull Wars.

Robert G. Doucette, The Archival Resource Guide for Aboriginal Issues, Gabriel Dumont Institute, 2009. Dafoe E 97.9 D 69, 2009.

The current President of the Metis Nation-Saskatchewan, Robert Doucette has produced a comprehensive listing of resources about Saskatechewan Metis and First Nations communities held in the Saskatchewan Archives Board's large aboriginal collection. This is the first time an archival institution has cooperated with a private researcher to create such a guide.

New Books August 24, 2009

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These books are now on display in Dafoe. If you wish to request one of them use the Request This Book link in BISON.

Why not write a review? If you want to write a review of any of the titles in this blog send it to me as a comment and I will post it.

Yale Belanger, Ways of Knowing: An Introduction to Native Studies in Canada, Nelson, 2010. Dafoe E78 C2 B45 2010.

This new introductory text is the work of Yale Belanger who teaches Native Studies at Lethbridge University. In his introduction he explains that it is the product of a number of years of teaching introductory courses at U of Manitoba, Brandon University, Keewatin Community College, Trent University and Lethbridge. When students asked for more information about certain topics or wanted something new covered Professor Belanger added it to his notebook of ideas and the text is the eventual result. He notes that it is the first textbook produced by a Native Studies student/graduate in Canada.

William W. Warren, History of the Ojibway People, second ed., introduction by Theresa Schenk, Minnesota Historical Society, 2009. Dafoe E99 C6 W32 2009.

William Warren, the son of a white fur trader and an Ojibway mother grew up speaking only Ojibway. Then he went to New York state to the home of his paternal grandfather and received a grammar school education. When he went home to Lake Superior he bacame a translator and began to collect the traditional stories of the Ojibway. Eventually he wrote the history presented here using the notes he had made talking to his maternal grandfather and other elders. He was one of the first writers to recognize the importance of oral traditions and he based his history on the Ojibway's own stories. This is the third time the Historical Society has published the history and this edition has a 24 page introduction by Professor Theresa Schenck, who teaches American Indian Studies at University of Wisconsin and is Warren's biographer.

Eugene Hunn, A Zapotec Natural History: Trees, Herbs and Flowers, Birds, Beasts and Bugs in the Life of the San Juan Gbee, University of Arizona Press, 2008. Dafoe F 1221 Z3 H86, 2008.

The Indian community of San Juan Gbee is located in Oaxaca State in Mexico and this book is the author's account of the profound knowledge of the local environment possessed by the inhabitants. An anthropologist who taught at University of Washington, Hunn made many trips to Oaxaca over the years and he records here the "...nomenclature and classification of the local biological taxonomy, the use of plants for treating illnesses and the ritual and decoratifve uses of flowers." (from the dust jacket). The book includes a CD ROM which expands on the text.

Terry Rugeley, Rebellion Now and Forever: Mayas Hispanics and Caste War Violence in Yucatan, 1800 - 1880. Dafoe F 1435.3 W2 R837 2009.

Rugeley, who teaches history at University of Oklahoma and has written about the Caste War before, in this volume places the war in the larger context of Mexican and Mayan history.

NEW BOOKS AUGUST 10, 2009

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Gail Valaskakis, Madeleine Stout, Eric Guimond, eds., Restoring the Balance: First Nations Women, Community and Culture, University of Manitoba Press, 2009. Dafoe E98 W8 P48 2009.

Written by fifteen Aboriginal scholars, activists and community leaders this book brings to light the work First Nations women have performed, and continue to perform, in cultural continuity and community development. It illustrates the challenges and successes they have had in the areas of law, politcs, education, community healing and art..." from the book cover.

Sharon Gmelch, The Tlingit Encounter with Photography, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2009.

Dafoe E99 T6 G64 2009.

This study looks at the vast array of photographs taken of the Tlingit of Southern Alaska in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. The author attempts to answer questions about the reactions of the Tlingit to being photographed and their own early use of photography.

Keith Smith, Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877 - 1927. Dafoe E78 C2 S65 2009.

Professor Smith, the Chair of First Nations Studies at Vancouver Island University, has written a study of the methods used by whites to keep First Nations people in Alberta and B.C. under surveillance with a view to controlling every aspect of their lives. He shows how these activities were informed by the dominant liberal world view of the white community.

Ronald Niezen, The Rediscovered Self: Indigenous Identity and Cultural Justice, McGill Queens University Press, 2009. Dafoe E99 E7 H54 2009.

In a series of thematically linked essays, Ronald Niezen discusses how new rights standards and networks of activist collaboration aid indigenous claims abour culture and increase the coherence of aboriginal histories, institutions, and group qualities.

Rebecca Coulter ed., The Gifts Within: Carrying Eachother Forward in Aboriginal Education, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2009.

Dafoe E96.2 G53 2009.

"This timely volume explores Aboriginal education from the perspectives of those who work within it. The book covers a range of topics relevant to discussions about First Nation education in Canada today and is written in an accessible style by eduators for teachers, parents and others interested in the education of Aboriginal children and youth." from the cover.

New Books July 2009

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Jo-Ann Episkenew, Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing, University of Manitoba Press, 2009, DAFOE PS 8089.5 I6 E65 2009.

Professor Episkenew teaches a the First Nations University of Canada. In this book she "...undertakes a range and depth of analysis that no other investigation of the contxt, aims, and effects of indigenous writing in Canada has yet attempted. It engages with the most painful, vexing, and hopeful matters in terms that are compassionate and unequivocal. We need this book!" Jeanne Perrault, U of Calgary.

Mary Lou Larson, et al, editors, Hell Gap: A Stratified Paleoindian Campsite at the Edge of the Rockies, U of Utah Press, 2009. DAFOE E 78 W95 H45 2009.

This book is a collection of papers on Hell Gap, one of the most important Paleoindian sites in North America. People used the site for 3,000 years as a camp, resource procurement location and workshop. Major excavations were done at the site in the 1960's and these papers report on more recent additional work and reevaluations of the 1960's work. The papers provide us with a "much expanded understanding of Paleoindian settlement, subsistence, technology, paleo environments and archaeological site formation." (from the introductory essay, p. 12.)

Doug Evans, Noah's Last Canoe: the Lost Art of Birch Bark Canoe Building, Great Plains Publications, 2008, DAFOE E 99 C 88 E 93, 2008.

This book gives a step by step account of the construction of a Cree birch bark canoe in 1965 by elder Noah Custer. The Manitoba Museum asked Doug Evans to ac;quire the canoe for their collection and he photographed the process and described Mr. Custer's work and his methods of design and testing the work. Illustrated with color photos the book is a valuable record of the construction of a traditional Cree vessel.

New Books June 2009

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Tom Porter (Sakokwenionkwas), And Grandma Said...Iroquois Teachings as passed down through the oral tradition. Xlibris Corporation, 2008. Dafoe E 99 I7 P676 2008.

Tom Porter is a member of the Bear Clan of the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne. He founded the traditional Mohawk community of Kanatsiohare:ke. "With heartfelt sincerity, tears and laughter, Tom describes the tragic effects of colonization on his people and shares the teachings passed down to him through the oral traditions by the grandmother who raised him." (from the book jacket.)

James Arvaluk, That's My Vision, Nunavut Arctic College, Life Stories of Northern Leaders volume 5, 2007. Dafoe E99 E7 A785 2008.

James Arvaluk, after working at various jobs, joined the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada as Director of Communications and Coordinator of Land Claims in 1972. He was elected President in 1974. This book is his story and recounts the long process of negotiating a land claim settlement for the Inuit.

John Amagoalik, Changing the Face of Canada, Nunavut Arctic College, Life Stories of Northern Leaders, Volume 2, 2007. Dafoe E99 E7 A43, 2007.

"Reading John's stirring life story will reveal the vision of hope that he has nurtured for Nunavut for more than thirty years. It is an inspiring vision of dignity and prosperity that still burns in his words." (from the book cover).

Peter Freuchen Ittinuar, Teach an Eskimo How to Read..., Nunavut Arctic College, Life Stories of Northern Leaders, Volume 4, 2008. Dafoe E99 E7 I85 2008.

Born in Chesterfield Inlet Peter Ittinuar became Canada's first Inuk Member of Parliament. He participated in the Nunavut Constitutional Forum and has been Executive Director of the Inuit cultural Centre and an Assistant Deputy Minister in the Nunavut government.

Luther Standing Bear, Land of the Spotted Eagle, University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
Dafoe E99 T34 S7 2006.

This is a new editon of the 1933 classic with an introduction by Joseph Marshall III. "Luther Standing Bear was, in a sense, part of the Lakota Nation's greatest generation. He lived during the darkest and most traumatic cultural and geographic upheaval expereinced by the Lakotas. His generation knew, firsthand, what they were losing when they gave up their free-roaming and nomadic lifestyle for the static boundaries of the reservation. ... They quickly realized that, though clashes with the military were mostly over, the Lakotas were in a different kind of war, one that would be fought on new and different battlefields. And the fact that there is still a Lakota culture is testament to their successes on those battlefields." (From the Introduction by Lakota historian Joseph Marshall.).

On Line Research Resources on the Web 1. Library and Archives Canada

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There is a growing collection of digital research materials on the Library and Archives Canada web site. If you go to http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/aboriginal-peoples/index-e.html
there is a listing of some of the collections that have been digitized or are in the process of digitization.

The complete text of the Annual Reports of the various agencies responsible for Aboriginal People in Canada, for example, is available full text for the years 1864 to 1990. The collection has a search engine that allows you to do word searches. You can for example put in St. Peter's Reserve and get a long list of "hits" or spots in the annual reports where St. Peter's is mentioned. In the early days the reports included detailed returns from Indian Agents, extensive tables and a lot of information about individual Aboriginal people. After the mid 1920's government annual reports tended to become quite short.

Bibliography of Native North Americans

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Here is a short video tutorial dealing with the Bibliography

http://screencast.com/t/jpa6N3TTeJ

Mini Bib - Community Development Info in Manitoba

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Information about Manitoba's Aboriginal communities, both on and off reserves, is available on the web. The sites listed below have some useful data.

Statistics Canada

ESTAT

Many reserves are census subdivisions and that means that if you go to ESTAT (on E-Library) you can look up a lot of information about these reserves, such as Aboriginal Peoples, age/sex, workforce, on the move, commuting, earnings, education, ethncity, families, housing, immigration, income, language, marital status, place of work, and other social/economic characteristics.

Other sources

2001 Census Aboriginal Population Profiles:
http://www12.statcan.ca/english/profil01/AP01/Index.cfm?Lang=E

Aboriginal Population Profile, 2006 Census
http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/profiles/aboriginal/Index.cfm?Lang=E

Not all reserves would be available, as some may be too small (in which case, they would be included in the Municipality or Census Division), and some may boycott the Census altogether. If students want to go further than ESTAT, they can meet with Gary Strike, (474-7086) the Government Documents Librarian and he can show them how to access and use cross-tabulation data for Census subdivisions.

Manitoba Government Sources

List of First Nations in Manitoba, with some information about them.
http://sdiprod2.inac.gc.ca/fnprofiles/fnprofiles_list.asp?province1=MB

Manitoba. Aboriginal and Northern Affairs. Community Profiles
http://www.gov.mb.ca/ana/community_profiles/index.html

Mini Bibliography 3 - Treaties

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Beal, Bob. "An Indian Chief, an English Tourist, a Doctor, a Reverend, and a Member of Parliament: The Journeys of Pasqua's Pictographs and the Meaning of Treaty Four." Canadian Journal of Native Studies 27.1 (2007): 109-88.

Carr-Stewart, Sheila. "Treaty 6 Education: In Search of Her Majesty's Bounty and Benevolence." Canadian Journal of Native Education 30.2 (2007): 231-47.

Fehr, Rick. "Two Families: Treaties and Government." American Indian Culture & Research Journal 31.4 (2007): 186-90.

Johnson, Miranda. "Making History Public: Indigenous Claims to Settler States." Public Culture 20.1 (2008): 97-117.

Miller, J. R. "Victoria's ''Red Children'': The ''Great White Queen Mother'' and Native-Newcomer Relations in Canada." Native Studies Review 17.1 (2008): 1-23.

Murphy, Michael. "Reconciliation -- First Nations Treaty Making in British Columbia." Canadian Public Administration 50.2 (2007): 312-4.

Peters, Evelyn J. ""[W]e do Not Lose our Treaty Rights Outside the… Reserve": Challenging the Scales of Social Service Provision for First Nations Women in Canadian Cities." GeoJournal 65.4 (2006): 315-27.

Ray, Arthur J. "Constructing and Reconstructing Native History: A Comparative Look at the Impact of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights Claims in North America and Australia." Native Studies Review 16.1 (2005): 15-39.

Rossiter, David, and Patricia K. Wood. "Fantastic Topographies: Neo-Liberal Responses to Aboriginal Land Claims in British Columbia." Canadian Geographer 49.4 (2005): 352-66.

Smillie, Christine. "Treaty 8 and Northern Saskatchewan." Saskatchewan History 59.1 (2007): 16-26.

Stewart, Sheila Carr. "First Nations Education: Financial Accountability and Educational Attainment." Canadian Journal of Education 29.4 (2006): 998-1018.

Whitehouse-Strong, Derek. ""Everything Promised had been Included in the Writing."." Great Plains Quarterly 27.1 (2007): 25-37.

Mini Bibliography 2 - the Canadian Indian Act

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Alcantara, Christopher. "Certificates of Possession and First Nations Housing: A Case Study of the Six Nations Housing Program." Canadian Journal of Law & Society/Revue Canadienne Droit et Societe 20.2 (2005): 183-205.

Bartlett, Richard H. "The Indian Act of Canada." Buffalo Law Review 27.4 (1978): 581-615.

Cannon, Martin John. "Bill C-31 — an Act to Amend the Indian Act: Notes Toward a Qualitative Analysis of Legislated Injustice." Canadian Journal of Native Studies 25.1 (2005): 373-87.

Cole, Douglas. "Underground Potlatch." Natural History 100.10 (1991): 50.

Drees, Laurie Meijer. "Citizenship and Treaty Rights: The Indian Association of Alberta and the Canadian Indian Act, 1946-1948." Great Plains Quarterly 20.2 (2000): 141-58.

McIvor, Sharon Donna. "Aboriginal Women Unmasked: Using Equality Litigation to Advance Women's Rights." Canadian Journal of Women & the Law 16.1 (2004): 106-36.

Retzlaff, Steffi. "What's in a Name? the Politics of Labelling and Native Identity Constructions." Canadian Journal of Native Studies 25.2 (2005): 609-26.

Tester, Frank James, and Paule McNicoll. "With an Ear to the Ground: The CCF/NDP and Aboriginal Policy in Canada, 1926-1993." Journal of Canadian Studies 34.1 (1999): 52.

Wilson, James B. "First Nations Education: The Need for Legislation in the Jurisdictional Gray Zone." Canadian Journal of Native Education 30.2 (2007): 248-56.

Yellowhorn, Eldon. "Heritage Protection on Indian Reserve Lands in Canada." Plains Anthropologist 44.170 (1999): 107.

GOOGLE and the Libraries

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Google and the Libraries

University of Manitoba Libraries has seen Google as an opportunity to improve access to our collections and we have worked with Google to do so. There are two main ways that our collection interfaces with Google:

Electronic Articles

For several years we have had Google Scholar configured on our web site so that when you do a search from the E-Library menu on the Libraries web page the search goes through our proxy server. That means that the results will include links to full text articles and other electronic publications that we subscribe to. When you get a result like this, with a UM links link

CITATION] The Newsmakers: The Media's Influence on Canadian PoliticsD Taras - Canadian Journal of Communication-, 1993Cited by 21 - Related articles - Web Search - UM Links - Find in AMICUS

you need only click on it and then click through to the full text article or, in this case, book review.

If you were searching from outside the U of M proxy server you can configure Google Scholar to access full text material that we pay for. On the E-Library menu on the blue menu at the left side of the Libraries web pages, simply click on Search the Web and then follow the instructions under Google Scholar.

Books

Lisa O’Hara, the librarian in charge of the Libraries Technical Services department has linked our Catalogue, BISON, to Google books. Here is her explanation of how that works:
“Google Books provides access to thousands of digitized books that have been scanned and made keyword-searchable. Many of the books have unrestricted access and are fully viewable; some are available only as previews, restricted by copyright. Whenever Google Books digitizes a book that matches one which the Libraries holds in its collection (please note it must be exactly the same edition as our book), BISON provides access to the electronic version, in addition to our print copy. To see how Google Books works in BISON, try the title search below:

Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba to see the full book (choose the 1883 edition since this is the edition digitized by Google Books)

The record will look like this, with the link to the full text Full book online from Google Books.

Author: Ffolkes, Edward.
Title: Letters from a young emigrant in Manitoba / [Edward Ffolkes]. --
Alternate access:Full book online from Google Books
Published: London, Eng. : Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883.
Description: viii, 181 p. ; 18 cm.

There is a useful bibliography of on line articles about the Google Books project at this web address:
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm

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Mini Bibliographies 1.

The Fur Trade and Aboriginal People

Books

Finding books for your essay is a treasure hunt and can be fun but only if you give yourself plenty of time. Start early - you have to read the books after you find them!! Also, if there are a lot of people in your class doing the same topic many of the available books will already be borrowed by someone else if you delay too long.

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University of Winnipeg has books on your essay topics too and you can use your U of M student card to borrow books there - just in case you can't find anything on the shelf at U of M.

There are many ways to find books: look in the bibliographies of books on your topic, use your prof's reading list, or you can search in BISON the U of M library's list of stuff we have for you to borrow.

For this topic start with a keyword search and put in Indians Fur Trade as your three key words. That will get you a lot of stuff and when you click on the "complete record" link on the results list you'll be able to see which library has the book and what its call number is.

As you are searching you can add the books you are interested in to your "selected list" and save that or print it out so you won't lose track of what you have discovered.

A growing number of our books are electronic which means you can browse through them on the screen of your computer. The easiest way to find the electronic items is to do your BISON search and look through your results list for things that are labeled "electronic resource".

Here are a few books on various aspects of your topic that are in Dafoe Library. Scroll down for articles.

Podruchny, Carolyn. Making the voyageur world : travelers and traders in the North American fur trade University of Nebraska Press, c2006.Elizabeth Dafoe Library E 49.2 F85 P63 2006b

Nelson, George, 1786-1859. My first years in the fur trade [electronic resource] : the journals of George Nelson 1802-1804 Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. Online Access - search title in BISON and click on link.

Lytwyn, Victor P. Muskekowuck athinuwick : original people of the great swampy land Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, c2002. Elizabeth Dafoe Library E 99 C88 L97 2002

Sleeper-Smith, Susan. Indian women and French men : rethinking cultural encounter in the Western Great Lakes, Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2001. Elizabeth Dafoe Library E 78 N76 S54 2001

W. Raymond Wood, Early fur trade on the Northern Plains [electronic resource] : Canadian traders among the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, 1738-1818 : the narratives of John Macdonell, David Thompson, Francois-Antoine Larocque, and Charles Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, c1999. Online Access - search title in BISON and click on link

Ray, Arthur J. Indians in the fur trade : their role as trappers, hunters, and middlemen in the lands southwest of Hudson Bay, 1660-1870 Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c1998. Elizabeth Dafoe Library: E 78 C2 R39 1998

Articles

Articles published in special magazines called "journals" or "academic journals" or "scholarly journals" may be good sources for your essay. Once again looking through other people's bibliographies in books or articles is a good way to find things. Your prof may give you some good articles to look at and they often put photocopies of articles on "reserve" in the library. That means the photocopies are kept in a special area and are loaned out for only short periods, like one hour. You can photocopy the photocopy.

Another way to find articles yourself is to use one of our research databases. Go to the Libraries home page and click on E-Library on the blue menu at the left of the screen. Then look at the first area "Find Journal Articles". This area has links to our list of research databases. You can look at the list organized by subject or, if you know the name, you can click on "title a - z" to get to the one you want. Let's look at the "Bibliography of Native North Americans" to see what we can find about Aboriginal people and the fur trade.

Go to the a - z list and pick "b". Then click on "Bibliography of Native North Americans". This whole database deals with Aboriginal people so we don't have to put in any terms like Indian or First Nations or native american. We can just put in the keywords fur trade in the first box.

I got 623 articles the day I searched but that number will change as they add new articles to the database.

The first one I got was in the Native Studies Review which is a scholarly Canadian journal or magazine dealing with First Nations issues.

It is full text and there is a link which takes you to a complete copy of the article just by clicking. A lot of the articles in this database are full text which means you can click through to the article right from your search screen.

If they are not full text you can click on the gold UMLinks button to see if the U of M has the article electronically or in paper.

Here is the entry from the database.

Note the link for PDF Full Text which would take you to the actual article if you were logged into the database.

Note the link for Add to Folder, which allows you to save the article information to a folder so that you can email articles you were interested in to yourself or print them out.

The UMLinks button will take you to a page that lets you find out whether or not the U of M has access to the article in some form.

Victoria's ''Red Children'': The ''Great White Queen Mother'' and Native-Newcomer Relations in Canada.Preview By: Miller, J. R.. Native Studies Review, 2008, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p1-23, 23p; (AN 31748373)
PDF Full Text

Add to folder

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This database contains entries for lots of articles that are not "scholarly", that is they are newspaper articles or book reviews or some other type of short written piece. If you want to limit your search to the "good stuff" you can click in the box next to "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals" in the search options section on the search page and that will eliminate a lot of the shorter less useful stuff.

Good luck!!

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Scholar Profiles 2. Vine Deloria

Dr. Vine Deloria, 1933 - 2005, was born near the Pine Ridge Reservation and was of Standing Rock Sioux origin. He was a member of a distinguished family and his son Philip is a respcted historian. Deloria became a leading figure in the movement to rethink American History from a Native American point of view. Beginning with Custer Died for Your Sins his books have been very influential and controversial. He taught at University of Arizona and University of Colorado at Boulder.

Works by Vine Deloria

Deloria, Vine, and American Indian Science and Engineering Society. Indian Education in America : 8 Essays. Boulder, Colo.: American Indian Science & Engineering Society, 1991. Dafoe E97 D45 1991.

Deloria, Vine, et al. Spirit & Reason : The Vine Deloria, Jr., Reader. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Pub., 1999. E 98 P D45 1999.

Deloria, Vine, and Clifford M. Lytle. American Indians, American Justice. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983. Dafoe KF 8224 C6 D44 1983

The Nations within : The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignty. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1998. Dafoe E98 T77 D45 1998.

Deloria, Vine, and James Treat. For this Land : Writings on Religion in America. New York: Routledge, 1999. Dafoe E98 R3 D45 1999.

Deloria, Vine, and Daniel Wildcat. Power and Place : Indian Education in America. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum, 2001. Dafoe E97 D47 2001.

Deloria, Vine, and David E. Wilkins. Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. Dafoe KF 8210 C5 D45 1999.

Deloria, Vine. Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties : An Indian Declaration of Independence. 1st University of Texas Press -- ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985. Dafoe E93 D35 1985.

Custer Died for Your Sins : An Indian Manifesto. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. Dafoe E 467.1 C99 D37 1988.

Evolution Creationism and other Modern Myths a critical inquiry, Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum, 2002. Dafoe BL 262 D37 2002.

God is Red : A Native View of Religion. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Pub., 2003. Dafoe BL 2776 D44 2003

The Indian Affair. New York: Friendship Press, 1974. Dafoe E93 D37 1974.

Indians of the Pacific Northwest : From the Coming of the White Man to the Present Day. New York: Doubleday, 1977. Dafoe E78 N77 D44 1977.

The Metaphysics of Modern Existence. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979. Dafoe BL 390 D43 1979.

Of Utmost Good Faith. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1971. Law E 93 D38.

Red Earth, White Lies : Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact. Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Pub., 1997. Dafoe E98 F6 D35 1997.

Singing for a Spirit : A Portrait of the Dakota Sioux. Santa Fe, N.M.: Clear Light Publishers, 1999. Dafoe E99 Y25D45 1999.

The World we used to Live in : Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Pub., 2006. Dafoe E98 M4 D45 2006.

First Nations Newspapers

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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

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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

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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".