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Video Submission - Mollie Conn
No full textMollie Conn, MUW Student, reads from The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosk
Service-oriented models for audiovisual content storage
No full textWhat are the important topics to understand if involved with storage services to hold digital audiovisual content? This report takes a look at how content is created and moves into and out of storage; the storage service value networks and architectures found now and expected in the future; what sort of data transfer is expected to and from an audiovisual archive; what transfer protocols to use; and a summary of security and interface issues
Punishment in Pre-Colonial Indigenous Societies in North America [original paper]
No full textA revised version of this paper was published in the "proceedings" volume for this conference:
Conn, Stephen. (1991). "Punishment in Pre-Colonial Indigenous Societies in North America." La peine, Quatrième partie. Mondes non européens [Punishment – Fourth Part. Non-European worlds], pp. 97–107. Recueils de la Société Jean Bodin pour l'histoire comparative des institutions [Transactions of the Jean Bodin Society for Comparative Institutional History] #58. Brussels: De Boeck Université. (http://hdl.handle.net/11122/9753).Using northern Athabascan villages as examples, the author discusses how punishment in indigenous societies was traditionally interwoven with other societal functions. The influence of alcohol and the western legal process changed post-colonial societies and their methods of punishment because punishment decisions in indigenous societies were traditionally arrived at through group deliberation, whereas the western legal system works in a hierarchical fashion. The author concludes that imposition of western-style decision-making disrupted tradtional law ways in post-colonial society
Smooth the Dying Pillow: Alaska Natives and Their Destruction [original paper]
No full textA slightly revised version of this paper was published as:
Conn, Stephen. (1990). "Smooth the Dying Pillow: Alaska Natives and Their Destruction." Law & Anthropology: Internationales Jahrbuch für Rechtsanthropologie [International Yearbook for Legal Anthropology] 5: 167–183. Special issue on "Group Rights: Strategies for Assisting the Fourth World." Vienna, Austria: VWGO-Verlag. (http://hdl.handle.net/11122/9786).The policy for Native self-determination in Alaska developed by the Congress and the state has sought to replace a tribal model of governance with a body of legislation which confirms land rights without the direct political involvement of Alaska Native villages. However, the author argues, the absence of tribes as formal political structures has contributed to a loss of self-determination among Alaska Natives and to serious negative effects on Native village life.[Introduction] /
The Pre-Land Claims Agenda: 1955–1965 /
The Land Claims Era: 1967–1972 /
1988 — A Watershed /
Footnotes /
Bibliograph
AC-6-U.S. Naval Planes Flying in Formation, Langley Field, VA/Thank-You Card from Stephen Tury to the Hungarian Defense Council.
No full textThis postcard, which depicts U.S. Naval planes flying in formation, was sent to the Hungarian Defense Council by Private Stephen Tury. The Council was organized in New Brunswick by leaders of local Hungarian churches and societies. During the Second World War it sent supplies, such as the carton of cigarettes Tury is thanking it for, to members of the military of Hungarian descent from the New Brunswick area
Book Review of Village Journey by Thomas R. Berger
No full textThis review is as submitted to the Tundra Times. A revised version of the review, as edited by Tundra Times editorial staff, was published as "Doctrinal Overload Flaws Berger's 'Village Journey'" by Stephen Conn, Tundra Times, 23 Sep 1985, pp. 7, 11–12.This article reviews Village Journey: The Report of the Alaska Native Review Commission by Thomas R. Berger (New York: Hill and Wang, 1985). The Alaska Native Review Commission, headed by former Canadian parliamentarian and justice Thomas Berger, initiated an inquiry into the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) in 1984, visiting 62 villages and hearing 1600 residents to determine ANCSA's impact on Alaska Native lands and communities. Berger found that ANCSA had placed Native land at risk, endangering not only its title but the rights of Alaska Natives to subsist upon it.Book review /
Appendix: Letter to Justice Thomas Berger, October 28, 198
Bush Justice and Development in Alaska: Why Legal Process in Village Alaska Has Not Kept up with Changing Social Needs [original paper]
No full textThis paper was revised in June 1984 as an unpublished manuscript with the same title (http://hdl.handle.net/11122/9771). A later revision was published as: "Rural Legal Process and Development in the North" by Stephen Conn. Chap. 10 in Theodore Lane (ed.), Developing America's Northern Frontier, pp. 199–229. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987.This paper analyzes the evolution of the working legal process in the predominantly Alaska Native villages of rural Alaska after Alaska statehood. Replacement of territorial government by highly centralized state justice agencies led to a weakening in the working relationship between formal law and extralegal mechanisms such as the village council. This change coincided with development and other changes which demanded more formal legal presence in villages rather than less. The paper reviews the fate of various bush justice reform efforts made by state agencies and efforts by villages to respond to justice needs. The author suggests that the inadequacy of legal process in village Alaska is not due primarily to language problems or Native confusion about Western law; rather, the "bush justice problem" is caused by a lack of resources, a lack of legal planning for development, and the state governmental system's lack of accountability to its rural constituency. The author recommends experimentation at village level, better planning, and greater autonomy for villages.Introduction /
Non-legal Social Control /
Extra-Legal Control /
The Structure of the Legal System /
Development in a Village Context /
The Structure of State Law and its Influence /
The 1970s /
What Did Occur /
The State Legislative Approach /
Conceptualization of the Problem and Its Solution /
The Institutional Impetus for Reform /
Institutional Perspectives as Planning Perspectives /
Development in The Villages — The Impact Statements: Planning for Change /
Conclusions from the Pipeline Experience /
Notes /
Bibliography /
APPENDICES [ORIGINAL] /
Appendix 1. Public Officials Assessments of Quality of Justice and Selected Public Services [ca. 1978] /
Appendix 2. Comparison of Alaska Villages, Alaska Statewide, and United States Crime Rates [1977] /
APPENDICES [ACCESSIBLE
Author Stephen Flynn Discusses Resiliency
No full textCenter for Homeland Defense and Security, PRESS RELEASESOn September 25, Author Stephen E. Flynn stopped by the Center’s National Capital Region campus to speak with CHDS Master’s degree students about his latest book, answer questions and discuss..
Letter from Carl Hayden to Stephen Mather, National Park Service
No full textLetter from Carl Hayden to Stephen Mather regarding the sale of Bass properties
Staff Paper on Village Councils
No full textExcerpted from:
Hippler, Arthur E.; & Conn, Stephen. (1975). "The Village Council and Its Offspring: A Reform for Bush Justice." UCLA-Alaska Law Review 5(1): 22–57 (Fall 1975). (https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/uclaak5&i=28).This excerpt from the forthcoming UCLA-Alaska Law Review article "The Village Council and Its Offspring: A Reform for Bush Justice" describes techniques used historically by Alaska Native village councils to resolve disputes. All of these techniques were observed in 1975 in villages where councils still aid in dispute adjustment.Rule Making, Rule Enforcing, and Conciliation /
Council Techniques – Scolding and Probation /
Village Councils and the Modern Legal System /
The Council as a Forum for Dispute Resolutio
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