American Review of Canadian Studies articles from March 2001

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from March 2001

Introduction: Aboriginal Peoples: The Changing Face of Canada.(Editorial)
March 22, 2001... This theme issue of The American Review of Canadian Studies deals with the Aboriginal People of Canada. To begin, some background information is in order; it may make your reading of the issue more productive. Defining the Aboriginal people of...

CORRECTION.(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
March 22, 2001... The Autumn 2000 issue included a review of Marie Vautier, New World Myth: Postmodernism and PostcoloniaLism in Canadian Fiction, by Paula Ruth Gilbert. Throughout that review, Professor Vautier's name was misspelled. We regret the error.

Historical Foundations of Indian Sovereignty in Canada and the United States: A Brief Overview.
March 22, 2001... As Homi Bhaba and Tom Nairn have asserted, modern nations are Janus-faced constructions. That is, on the one hand, they claim to speak for all those within their borders but, at the same time, they suppress those voices that do not adapt to, or...

Sanctuary: Native Border Crossings and the North American West.
March 22, 2001... The Sioux, Sitting Bull, and the Border The forty-ninth parallel boundary between western Canada and the United States appears like a quiet and unexplained guest in North American history, with its seemingly arbitrary straight line,...

Circles of Disadvantage: Aboriginal Poverty and Underdevelopment in Canada.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2001... Again last year, the United Nations rated Canada the best country in the world to live in. This assessment is based upon a country's Human Development Index. Even so, not everyone in Canada enjoys the advantages of living in a highly developed...

Education for Self-Determination.
March 22, 2001... Control over education is seen as an element of Aboriginal self-government. In the Report of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba, it states, "When Aboriginal people seek the right to self-government, they mean the right to determine how...

Where the Spirit Lives: An Influential and Contentious Television Drama about Residential Schools.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... Where the Spirit Lives has been and remains the most watched fictional representation of an issue that haunts both Canada and the United States--the treatment of Aboriginal children in residential schools. Both countries instituted policies...

The Perfect Disguise: Frank Speck's Pilgrimage to Ktaqamkuk--The Place of Fog--in 1914.
March 22, 2001... Introduction: Who Was Frank Speck? There have been many European visitors to Turtle Island and they have been shaped by both Aboriginal people and places. This is one such story, a story of European science, racism, and the perfect...

Intergenerational Differences in Ethnic Identification in a Northern Athapaskan Community.
March 22, 2001... Introduction This paper is a first attempt to explore various features of ethnicity present in the aboriginal community of Upper Tanana Athapaskans of the Yukon-Alaska borderlands. In particular, I wish to focus on the presence and nature...

Fashioning Selves and Tradition: Case Studies on Personhood and Experience in Nunavut.
March 22, 2001... This past summer's dramatic confrontations between Mi'kmaq fishers of Burnt Church, Nova Scotia, and officers representing the Canadian government splashed the covers of Canadian newspapers and newsmagazines. Those reporting on the clashes did...

Searching for a Place in Between: The Autobiographies of Three Canadian Metis Women.
March 22, 2001... Autobiography and Identity As many critics have noted, the mixed-blood Indian's search for an identity, a community, and a place constitutes the major theme in twentieth-century Native American literature. This search is also the...

Revealing the Storyteller: The Ethical Publication of Inuit Stories.
March 22, 2001... This essay is one story about a search for texts that I would feel comfortable sharing with the next generation of my family. As a person of mixed Polar Inuit and European descent living in the United States, I have had difficulty finding ways...

The Dialectics of "Us" and "Other": Anglican Missionary Photographs of the Inuit.
March 22, 2001... The analysis of Inuit social organization and mythology continues to be hindered by representations of the Inuit that inform both the anthropological and popular consciousness. In an ongoing attempt to locate those Western representations, and...

True North: Inuit Art and the Canadian Imagination.
March 22, 2001... A walk through Canadian souvenir shops, crafts galleries, art galleries, or museum stores affirms that, in the world of tourist art, the terms "Canadian," and "Inuit" or "Eskimo," are synonymous. For most of the second half of this century,...

Re-present-ing Rock Art.
March 22, 2001... Rock art conjures up images of the distant past. Petroglyphs and pictographs on the sheer rock faces above Lake Superior and on those of other waterways, such as the Milk River in Alberta or Canyon del Muerto in Arizona, attract tourists and...

The Children of Someone Else's History: Reading for Restorative Justice.
March 22, 2001... What is wrong with our justice system that Aboriginal people find it so alienating? Murray Sinclair [1] Aboriginal justice issues have been amply studied in Canada, but the studies have not led to many changes in the system. Bridging...

Negotiated Inferiority: The Royal Commission on Aboriginal People's Vision of a Renewed Relationship.
March 22, 2001... It is commonly said that the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) have been shelved by the federal government. In fact, many have argued that RCAP's report was received "dead on arrival." There was a federal...

Globalization and Self-Government: Impacts and Implications for First Nations in Canada.
March 22, 2001... While Canada has moved beyond its colonial relationship with Great Britain, many argue that Aboriginal peoples in Canada continue to be entrenched in colonialism. In recent years, self-government negotiations have been initiated to redress this...

Inuit Dreams, Inuit Realities: Shattering the Bonds of Dependency [1].
March 22, 2001... The Inuit--The People-of Canada have long dreamed of creating their own territory out of the former Northwest Territories. With the birth of Nunavut--Our Land--on 1 April 1999, that dream has come true. Proposed since 1974, Nunavut was approved...

The Social Union Framework Agreement and the Role of Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Federalism.
March 22, 2001... During the past two decades as Canadians have struggled to renovate their constitutional house so as to improve the workings of Canadian federalism, they have also struggled with the question of where the country's Aboriginal peoples fit in...

Aboriginal Rights in Transition: Reassessing Aboriginal Title and Governance.
March 22, 2001... In the past five years, there have been some very significant political and legal developments in relation to the Aboriginal peoples of Canada. On 1 April 1999, Nunavut emerged as a new territory in the central Arctic, under the de facto...

Thunderbirds, Thunder-beings, Thunder-voices: The Application of Traditional Knowledge and Children's Rights in Support of Aboriginal Children's Education.
March 22, 2001... Our dead never forget this beautiful world that gave them being. They always love its winding rivers, its sacred mountains, and its sequestered vales, and they ever yearn in tenderest affection over the lonely-hearted living and often return to...