American Indian Culture and Research Journal

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF NATIVE STUDIES: An Assessment The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. IV, Number 2, 1984, Society for the Advancement of Native Studies, Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. Pp. 179-388. Subscriptions: Individuals, $20.00, others $30.00. (Canadian funds inside Canada, US funds outside.) Richard T. Price The Canadian Journal of Native Studies presents readers with a microcosm of Native Studies scholarship in Canada. Much solid, scholarly work has been done in the fields of history and anthropology, and to a lesser degree in such fields as law, political science, and education. Academics have been very tentative, however, in moving beyond the comfortable niches of their own disciplines into interdisciplinary native studies research encompassing a broader scope of sources and a wider variety of methodologies. Fortunately, some scholars recently have pointed in new directions, including interdisciplinary, international, holistic and community-based ways of handling native studies research. This review of the Canadian Journal of Native Studies represents, at least symbolically, a desire for greater interaction and cooperation among American and Canadian Native Indian Studies scholars and scholarly publications. The American Indian Culture and Research Journal is to be commended for this initiative. It bodes well for the future of research in the United States, Canada and beyond. This review will describe, and critically analyze, a particular recent volume (Vol. 4, No. 2) of the Canadian Journal of Native Studies (CJNS),which contains a wide-ranging group of articles. Three main topics characterize these articles: history (Indian treaties and Indian policy administration); resource development impacts (reserve land flooding, native health and fishing); and native education (case studies using new methods). Before examining this specific edition of the CJNS, I will present a brief sketch of the journal’s history and make a status report, so that readers have a broader context for the review which follows.