Winnipeg

Discusses ways to provide Indigenous children from the Point Douglas section of Winnipeg with the best opportunities to succeed in life.

Paper uses interview data to illustrate the constraints faced by Aboriginal organizations when attempting to deliver services and address priorities in their communities.

Researcher discusses how civic spaces can take on meaning and project certain messages. Duration: 28:51.

Lists sources of information in the following areas: urban Indigenous population, settler colonialism, building relationships, Indian Residential Schools, the aqueduct, family history, and Indigenous achievement.

Canadian Studies; Political Economy Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carleton University, 2011.

Focuses on a program for Aboriginal girls aged 9-12. Accompanied by video directed by Catherine Martin. (Duration: 6:34).

Argues that this grassroots phenomena is a combination of three elements: community development, community economic development, and social enterprise.

Focus on Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Book review of: Integrating Aboriginal Perspectives into the School Curriculum by Yatta Kanu.

The author argues for the need for city leaders to change their perspective from working "on behalf of" Indigenous people to working with Indigenous people through partnerships and collaborations.

Comments on the move toward low cost housing following the discontinuation of Federal social housing programs in 1993.

Exhibition reviews of: The Hudson's Bay Company Collection of Inuit Art Winnipeg Art Gallery, May 9, 1992 to August 30, 1992. Inuit Art on the Mezzanine, New Acquisitions Winnipeg Art Gallery, February 1, 1992 to August 23, 1992. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 25.

Exhibition review of: The Inuit Imagination at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, November 7, 1993 to March 13, 1994. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 30.

Curatorial notes for exhibition of the same name mounted at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1999. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 34.

Curatorial notes and Exhibition review from Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1995-1996. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 26.

Study looked at racial segregation patterns using the index of dissimilarity and statistics from the 2001 Census. Concluded that levels of segregation were modest and that the American ghetto model did not apply.

Exhibition review at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1996. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 43.

Jessie Caldwell standing with future Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and his wife Marion. Jessie introduced Mr. Pearson at his nomination convention in Winnipeg. The theme of the convention was Western. Note the cowboy attire on Caldwell and Indian head-dress on Pearson.

File contains a copy of a speech given to the Manitoba Historical Society by Donald G. Creighton called "John A. MacDonald, Confederation and the West." It was given on January 11, 1967-the anniversary of Sir John's birthday. Creighton was concerned about the division of Canada through what he called growing misinterpretations of our history as bi-cultural.

Report on Aboriginal street youth. Consists of literature review, case studies, discussion of findings, and recommendations.

Interview with artist about portrait series Perceptions, which addresses racism. Describes portraits taken of Aboriginal people in two lights. Duration: 19:57.

Report based on interviews conducted with 46 Aboriginal women from Winnipeg and Saskatoon.

Priorities to improve maternal child health in Nunavut prompted a pilot prenatal education class offered to pregnant Nunavummiut women who had been evacuated to Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Educational Administration, Foundation & Psychology Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Manitoba, 2015.

Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Phoenix Sinclair, a five-year-old First Nations child who was beaten to death by her mother and her boyfriend. Specifically investigated whether the child welfare system had been negligent. Access to Volume 2 Access to Volume 3

Describes the findings of the Sisters in Spirit initiative and work with grieving families. Chapter from From Truth to Reconciliation: Transforming the Legacy of Residential Schools edited by Marlene Brant Castellano.

Examines the leisure-like lived experiences of urban-dwelling Metis and First Nations women and men living with diabetes in Winnipeg.

Documentary shot over two years about an Aboriginal teenager living in west end Winnipeg coping with everyday life in his neighborhood. Duration: 30:00.

Carried out as part of a needs assessment for children in care in Manitoba.

Assessment of program for children between three and six which is based on six key components: culture and language, education, health promotion, nutrition, social support, and parental involvement.

Summarizes the evaluation report of program run by Métis Child, Family, and Community Services in Winnipeg. Aimed at family reunification, the program involves parents and children moving into a full-time foster home with comprehensive support including parenting skills, household management, social support, sobriety, financial stability and employability. Paper briefly describes outcomes, relates these to literature review, describes innovative funding model, and discuses program's potential as prevention tool.

Booklet on the life of Louis Riel up to the Red River Resistance (1869-1870), commissioned by the Manitoba Centennial Corporation in 1971 in honour of a new monument of Riel, which is located on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg. Louis Riel is regarded as the founder of the province of Manitoba. Booklet in English / French.

Part one of W.O. Mitchell's article on the life of Louis Riel, from his Manitoba childhood to college life in Montreal, to the Frog Lake Massacre in April 1885.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 1998.

Aboriginal organization established in 1984 to serve the Aboriginal community living in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Examines the concept of Aboriginal education as seen by four urban, inner-city elementary school principals and how they see it being put into practice in their schools.

City Planning Thesis (MCP)--University of Manitoba, 2016.

Brief business case study discusses development of the company which produces traditional-style mukluks in a modern factory setting.

Discusses how standardized testing contributes to class polarization and underdevelopment in Manitoba's core neighbourhoods.

Discussion of retirement from the Hudson's Bay Company and the 1812 colonization project begun at Red River by Thomas Douglas to provide land for Scotish people who had been dispossessed.

Describes community-level project which partnered the International Institute for Sustainable Development with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs. Chapter from Exploring the Urban Landscape edited by Jerry P. White and Jodi Bruhn. Originally presented at the 2009 Aboriginal Policy Research Conference.

Louis Schmidt's memoirs and addendum provide an autobiographical account of his life, the plight of the Metis and their grievances, the causes of the Red River Resistance of 1869-1870, his secretarial responsibilities with Louis Riel, and the struggle leading to the establishment of Manitoba as a province. The memoirs were published in Le Patriote, no. 14, 8 Juin 1911.

Analyzes an inquiry into the death of an aboriginal man in police custody.

Presentation to Phase Three of the Commission of Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Phoenix Sinclair. Inquiry looked into how the Manitoba child welfare system had failed to protect the five-year-old girl.