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| Discipline | Anthropology |
|---|---|
| Language | English, French, Cree |
| Edited by | Dana F. Lawrence (1989–1990), Catherine Littlejohn (1991),Karla Jessen Williamson (1996–1997) |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1989–1997 |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Biannual |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | J. Indig. Stud. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0838-4711 |
| OCLC no. | 19758199 |
TheJournal of Indigenous Studies (French:La Revue des Études Indigènes) was amultilingual, biannual,peer-reviewedacademic journal. It was established in 1989 and was sponsored by theGabriel Dumont Institute,[1] aMétis-directed educational and cultural entity inSaskatoon (Saskatchewan, Canada), affiliated with theUniversity of Regina. The journal's scope wasinterdisciplinary andcross-cultural, with a focus onindigenous people, from the perspectives of a variety ofacademic fields, includingarchaeology,education, law,linguistics,philosophy, andsociology.[2][3] The journal was one of severalNative American newspapers andperiodicals under the auspices of theAboriginal Multimedia Society of Alberta.
While all six volumes were written inEnglish andFrench, three of them (Nos. 3, 5, and 6) were also inCree.[4] The last volume was published in 1997.
Dana F. Lawrence was the foundingeditor-in-chief.
The first issue, Winter (January) 1989, written in English and French, circulated in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Topics included nativeself-government, indigenous values in a colonial education system, Indian/Métis language programs with French immersion, and death/reburial. There were also two book reviews within this issue.[5] The second issue, Summer (July) 1989, featured articles onAboriginal languages,Michif language, andFirst Nations women. There were also threebook reviews within this issue.[6]
There were no issues printed in 1990 during a personnel turnover while Lawrence moved on to theUniversity of British Columbia. Catherine Littlejohn, free-lance historian, researcher, author and consultant,[7] was introduced as the new editor for the third issue, published in Winter (January) 1991. As with her predecessor, Littlejohn urged for international participation. Besides English and French, it was also written in Cree. There were articles on archaeology, health, and spirituality, as well as two book reviews.[8]
Summer (July) 1991, the fourth issue, saw several major changes: the associated editors of previous issues were replaced by areview board entirely made up of participants from Canadian institutions, articleabstracts were written inCree syllabics,APA format was no longer required for articles written in a discipline that used another style, and citations for traditional knowledge had to be validated by the indigenous community. The issue contained articles on education, law, policy, and residential schools, as well as two book reviews within this issue.[9] McNinch wrote the opening editorial of the Winter (January) 1992 issue, as Littlejohn had left the journal. Circulation expanded to New Zealand and included the topics ofMāori language,Māori music, and a literarybiography onNative AmericanpoetPaula Gunn Allen. There was one book review within this issue.[10]
The sixth and final issue did not appear until Winter (January) 1997, and with it, another editor,Karla Jessen Williamson.[11] The previous long list of editorial board members or assistant editors was gone, replaced by a list ofmanuscript evaluators. The topics of this issue included education, employment/training, native/newcomer relations.Indigenous Australians and North AmericanInuit were the subject populations. There were three book reviews within this issue.[12]
The front cover was designed bySherry Farrell Racette and, while the colours of the front cover changed for the different issues, the design never changed. Earlier issues of the journal weretypeset by ABCOM Publishers and the last one was typeset by The Little Print Shop (Saskatoon). All but the last issue were printed and distributed byUniversity of Toronto Press. The journal did not accept paid advertising.[9]
The short-lived journal and individual articles were subsequently cited by other scholars. For example, White's "Forced Sterilization amongst American Indian Women" (1989) was quoted by Davies & Clow (2009),American Indian sovereignty and law,[13] and Douglas' "Māori Language Nests" (1992) was mentioned in Abley (2005),Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages.[14] At least one article was reprinted as a chapter in a later book: Watson's, "The affirmation of indigenous values in a colonial education system" in Stone & MacKenzie (1990),The Excluded past: Archaeology in education.[15] Likewise, a chapter previously published elsewhere (for example, Hubert's, "A proper place for the dead: a critical review of the 'reburial' issue", chapter ten, in Layton (1994),Conflict in the archaeology of living traditions), was reprinted in the journal.[16][17]
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