Articles from Canada and the World Backgrounder (May 1, 2002)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Helplessness and hopelessness." (Native People--The Stoney Cree Of Alberta).		Statistical Data Included	1224
A plague of despair: Davis Inlet and Sheshatshiu are villages in Labrador, populated almost entirely by Innu. Until 1993, only a few hundred people had ever heard of them. That was when a videotape surfaced. It showed a group of Innu adolescents screaming that they wanted to die. They were strung out after sniffing gasoline. (Native People--The Innu Of Labrador).		Statistical Data Included	2156
Becoming visible: Indigenous peoples believe that to prosper they have to regain control over their lands and resources and to do that they must first win widespread recognition that they are entitled to special rights. (Indigenous People--Self-Determination).			2047
Centuries of struggle. (Indigenou Peoples--South America).			3115
Change in progress: Nunavut means "our land" in Inuktitut, the language of Inuit. Canada's newest territory, where 85% of the people are Inuit, is one-fifth of the country's land area--equal to Alberta, British Columbia, and Yukon combined. It is an example of self-government by Indigenous people, where traditional lore is meeting the modern world. (Indigenous People--Nunavut).			1063
First treaty. (Native People--The Nisga'a Of British Columbia).		Statistical Data Included	1466
Generations of betrayal: Mishkeegogamang, called "Mish" by those who live there, is a community that sums up all that is wrong with Canada's treatment of Native people. (Native People--The Ojibway Of Mishkeegogamang).		Statistical Data Included	1518
Guardians of the land: there is a special relationship between those who live on the land that people raised in modern, urban society have lost. (Indigenous Peoples--Comment).		Brief Article	544
Index to volume 67: September 2001-May 2002.			3059
Local knowledge: Indigenous and other traditional peoples have long associations with nature and a deep understanding of it. (Indigenous Peoples--Sustainability).			3098
Nation to nation. (Native People--The Cree Of Northern Quebec).		Statistical Data Included	1357
Quote ... unquote.			288
Same script, different location: Indigenous people in the South Pacific lost more than control of their land when Europeans started to explore the area; as with Native people everywhere, they lost themselves. (Indigenous People--South Pacific).		Statistical Data Included	2132
Showdown at Burnt Church: there were an estimated 10,000 to 35,000 Mi'kmaq living in eastern Canada when European explorers first made contact with them in the 15th century; by the 1840s, there were only 1,300 Mi'kmaq alive. (Native People--The Mi'kmaqs Of Atlantic Canada).		Statistical Data Included	1454
The forgotten people: approximately 210,000 people in Canada identify themselves as Metis. (Native People--The Metis).		Statistical Data Included	1405
The promise of change: when Matthew Coon Come was elected the new Grand Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in July 2000, it was said to be the beginning of a new age for Canada's Native people. (Native People--A New Leader).			1140
Vanishing peoples: since the beginning of human existence there have been about 10,000 languages spoken. Today, there are still 6,000 languages in use, but 90% of them are in danger of disappearing altogether. Each lost language means that a culture somewhere has disappeared, and almost all of these vanishing peoples are Indigenous. (Indigenous Peoples--Status).			3233