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"It isn't easy" the politics of representation, "factionalism," and anthropology in promoting Haudenosaunee traditionalism at Six Nations /McCarthy, Theresa L. Preston, Richard J., January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2006. / Supervisor: Richard Preston. Includes bibliographical references (p. 392-416).
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Prehistoric patterns of economic and technological behavior reflected in the 2004 lithic assemblage of site J69E, Espiritu Santo Island, Baja California Sur /Ferrell, Luanne R. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Oregon State University, 2007. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 159-163). Also available on the World Wide Web.
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"Daylight" fails to shine on the reservationMcIntosh, Matthew James. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wyoming, 2008. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 23, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-101).
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Saving and naming the garbage : Charles E. Borden and the making of B.C. prehistory, 1945-1960West, Robert Gerard 11 1900 (has links)
Professional archaeologists firmly control the prehistory of British Columbia (more commonly referred to today as "pre-contact" history). This has been the case since Dr. Charles E. Borden, a German professor at the University of British Columbia, professionalized the archaeological discipline between
1945 and 1960. The purpose of this paper is to critically examine and explain
the process by which this monopolization occurred, and to suggest the massive
ramifications that have followed.
Relevant approaches to the history of archaeology are reviewed, and a
"contextual" strategy is adopted as the best way to unravel, but preserve, the
richness of the local history of archaeology in B.C. A mixture of narrative
and analytical style is employed in explaining the rise Borden and professional
archaeology in the 1950s. It is argued that Borden produced knowledge by
drawing on an existing network of North American archaeology to create, and
substantiate, his authoritative position. In the context of archaeological
site destruction, during the 1950s, Borden was able to pull unrelated members
of the B.C. populous to his cause, including provincial officials, through the
passing of the "Archaeological and Historic Sites Protection Act," in 1960.
Amateur archaeologists and Aboriginal people lacked the means to amass the
powerful alliances that Borden did, and therefore amateurs and Natives were
unable to offer a persuasive alternative to Borden's authority.
It is concluded that because of the professional encapsulation of B.C.
archaeology, we, as non-specialists, have to put our faith in archaeologists,
and assume that the knowledge they produce is truthful and valid It is
suggested that professional archaeologists have joined other human scientists
in a rapidly spiralling scientification of humanity. This is significant
because specialists inform the State about who we are as citizens, and impose
identities on us which partly dicate how the State regulates our access to
resources. The example of Natives in B.C., who have recently appropriated professional archaeology to their own cause of settling land-claim disputes, is offered to show how alienated components of our identities can be returned to us through political action.
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"Give me back the real me": the politics of identity and The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, 1967-1992Krueger, Colleen 11 1900 (has links)
Practically since its celebrated premiere in 1967, George Ryga's drama about urban Native
Canadians, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, has enjoyed canonical status in Canada. Yet the same three decades
that have seen over 200 productions of Rita Joe have also witnessed radical transformations in the ways
First Nations' peoples are represented, heard and perceived in Canada. How has a play written about
Natives by a non-Native man in 1967 managed such a long production history on such contentious and
unstable ground? How do identity politics influence this piece of theatre, and how does the theatre shape
identity politics?
As popular notions about Native identities have changed and as Native people continue to represent
themselves in and put of court, and on and off the stage, this play about Native people in Canada has been
performed and re-performed. But the directors, the venues, the actors, the costumes and sets, the language
itself and (most significantly) the resulting characterizations have changed over the years — in subtle and
rather dramatic ways. While the words and the fundamental plot of Rita Joe have remained the same, its
messages about Native identity has evolved since 1967, in relation to social, political, economic, and
cultural changes. Indeed, historical developments impact the particular ways an "Indian" is
represented in a particular time; what makes a "real Indian" tends to shift with the political and
social needs of the moment. This paper examines the way Native identity is represented in eight
productions of Rita Joe mounted between 1967 and 1992, creating a production history that focuses on the
relationship between representations of identity and particular moments in time and space and, ultimately,
discerns a complex and symbiotic relationship between the aesthetic, creative world and the historio-political
world. Perhaps most remarkably, the play stretches to accommodate diverse cultural narratives,
gathering meaning from the identity politics of its particular performance place and time.
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Power and equality : "one" meets "two" on Burns Lake Indian Reserve no. 18Sam, Cecilia 11 1900 (has links)
This study is about the Burns Lake Indian Band's Indian Reserve No. 18 located
in northwestern British Columbia. It is a case study that spans the 20th century. Through
an analysis of archival documents pertaining to land loss I investigate the long term
process that facilitated the alienation of land from this Indian reserve.
This thesis is about borders, spatial marginality and social geography and it
focuses on power and inequality. Historical records reveal the genesis of growing
polarization and deteriorating social relationships evident in the clearly demarcated
communities which establish the Indian reserve and the Village of Burns Lake.
Theoretical perspectives informing my analysis include social construction,
standpoint theory, and the sociology of storytelling. It includes postmodernist concepts
of authority and power. The storytelling process sets the stage for contested history.
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Genocide, culture, law: aboriginal child removals in Australia and CanadaJago, Jacqueline 11 1900 (has links)
This thesis makes the legal argument that certain histories of aboriginal child
removals in Canada and Australia, that is, the residential school experience in Canada, and
the program of child institutionalization in Australia, meet the definition of 'genocide' in
Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
My primary focus is on that Convention's requirement that an act be committed with an
"intent to destroy a group". My first concern in formulating legal argument around the
Convention's intent requirement is to offer a theory of the legal subject implicit in legal
liberalism. Legal liberalism privileges the individual, and individual responsibility, in order
to underscore its founding premises of freedom and equality. The intentionality of the
subject in this framework is a function of the individual, and not the wider cultural and
historical conditions in which the subject exists. Using a historical socio-legal approach, I
attempt to develop a framework of legal subjectivity and legal intent which reveals rather
than suppresses the cultural forces at work in the production of an intent to genocide.
Having reacquainted the subject with the universe beyond the individual, I move
on with the first limb of my legal argument around intent in the Genocide Convention to
address the systemic means through which child removal policy was developed and
enforced. In this, I confront two difficulties: firstly, the difficulty of locating in any single person
an intent to commit, and hence responsibility for, genocide; and secondly, the
corresponding difficulty of finding that a system intended an action in the legal sense. I
respond to both of these difficulties by arguing for a notion of legal subjectivity which
comprehends organisations, and correspondingly a notion of intent which is responsive
(both on an individual and an organisational level) to systematically instituted crimes such
as genocide.
The second limb of my argument around intent confronts the defence of
benevolent intent. In this defence, enforcers of child removals rely on a genuine belief in
the benevolence of the 'civilising' project they were engaged in, so that there can be no
intent to destroy a group. I reveal the cultural processes at work to produce the profound
disjunction between aboriginal and settler subjectivities, especially as those subjectivities
crystallize around the removal of aboriginal children. I locate this disjunction in the twin
imperatives of colonial culture, those of oppression and legitimation. I argue that colonial
culture exacts a justification for oppression, and that aboriginal people have been
"othered" (in gendered, raced, and classed terms) to provide it. Intent to destroy a group,
then, will be located via an enquiry which confronts the interests of colonial culture and
aligns them firstly with the oppression of aboriginal people, and secondly with the
discourses which developed to render that oppression in benevolent terms. The
interpretation of the Genocide Convention is thus guided by the demands of context: and
in context is revealed an intent to genocide by child removal.
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Le navettage de travailleurs autochtones et sa portée économique pour les communautés du nord de la Saskatchewan /Gagnon, Jean, 1953 Oct. 27- January 1987 (has links)
This dissertation deals with the organized commuting of native labour in northern Saskatchewan, it causes, and the economic consequences for the communities involved. A neo-marxist approach is used towards those objectives. The search for explanations is carried out through the analysis of the scenario of implementation of the commuting programs: the role of Capital, the initiator of the programs, is examined in the light of its imperatives (accumulation, legitimation); State action is discussed with respect to its roles of integration, legitimation, support to accumulation, and that of a capitalist; the participation of the native people is seen from a perspective where their culture and social fabric have been altered, in spite of apparently strong idiosyncrasies. The consequences of participation in commuting, and of the revenues thereby brought to the communities, are consistent with already existing trends among northern native population: a decline of reciprocity; an assimilation to capitalist society (consumption and monetization); a local circulation of income which varies in importance from a place to another, but which everywhere favors exclusively the local bourgeoisie; the survival of subsistence economy; and the enhancement of dependence and economic vulnerability.
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The social and economic impacts of environmental degradation on a northern Ontario Indian reserve community /Spiegel, Jerry M. January 1986 (has links)
No description available.
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Plays on "the Indian" : representation of knowledge and authenticity in Indianist mimetic practiceKalshoven, Petra Tjitske. January 2006 (has links)
Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, is an expression of a typically European fascination with Native American peoples which involves crafting "museum-quality replicas" of clothing and artifacts as well as reenactment of slices of Native American nineteenth-century life by non-Native practitioners in an effort to produce knowledge and meaningful experience through experimentation. Drawing on fieldwork data collected in 2003 and 2004 among play communities of Indian hobbyists in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and the Czech Republic, I formulate an understanding of the social, performative, and mimetic dynamics of this phenomenon by conceiving of Indianist practices as forms of play that constantly shift between different play frames. In terms of knowledge production, I argue that the Indian hobby provides a space in which different (epistemological) traditions meet, as Indian hobbyists draw on, and enact, a hybrid reservoir of indigenous and European knowledge systems and art forms. Especially interesting is the relationship between Indianism and the dynamics of museal display in the West, both historically and contemporaneously. In general, I found that two different approaches to the right way of representing may be distinguished in Indianist methodological practice: a "Renaissance" and a "Translational" mode. / Because of its striking mimetic aspects, Indianism raises questions of identity play and cultural appropriation. An important element of the hobbyist quest for knowledge and experience consists in investing the self in an "other" in ways that elicit criticism from outsiders, including anthropologists. Indian hobbyism is a controversial example of "playing at" cultures that (by all conventional standards) belong elsewhere and to someone else, providing interesting insights for debates on identity politics and the construction of "race"---also among Indianists themselves. Rather than longing to embody someone else's identity, however, Indianists, almost in spite of themselves, enact a social world that is filled with action and life in their European present. Indianist practice and desire for authenticity revolve around craftsmanship and reenactment, resulting in skillful replicas, in the here and now.
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