The Indian Health Careers Program: Preparing Our Youth to Serve First Nations
An overview of the Indian Health Careers Program in Ontario to encourage Indigenous people to enter into the health care services.
An overview of the Indian Health Careers Program in Ontario to encourage Indigenous people to enter into the health care services.
Primarily scholarly peer-reviewed articles written between 1990 and 2020.
Examines the development and work of the Indian and Inuit Nurses of Canada [today known as the Canadian Indigenous Nurses Association (C.I.N.A.)].
Includes profiles of Inuit nurses Jean Cuthand Goodwill, Kathy Bird, Madeleine Dion-Stout, Teresa Fox, Carol Prince, Donna Rear, Claudette Smith, Fran Williams.
Discusses the recommendations from Mohawk elders for pregnant Indigenous women.
Examines the use of Indigenous medicine methods in Indigenous health during the 1980s.
Looks at the use of Indigenous cultural beliefs to address substance abuse among Indigenous populations.
Looks at the retail store Wanepuhnud, developed by the Ontario Native Women's Association, to provide training and employment opportunities for Indigenous women.
A brief look at the creation of the Lovesick Lake Native Women's Association in the 1980s.
Discusses domestic abuse that effects Indigenous woman and children.
Using a fictional account to examine the experiences of Indigenous women in the prison system.
This article first appeared in Tightwire, Vol, XX, No. 4, pp. 26-2.
A telling of a trout lake oral story told by Sarah Keesic Olsen. The story is told in Cree syllabic and orthography.
A personal reflection the author's educational journey paralleled with the growth of Indigenous education in Yukon.
An interview with Maria Seymour about Indigenous languages being taught in Ontario schools.
Discusses the need for Anishnawbe Language immersions in schools.
Discusses the importance of Indigenous languages and the introduction of the Earthtones North Project to provide and teach technology to Indigenous artists.
Two versions of the Chaka-Pesh and the Moon legend presented in Attawapiskat syllabics font.
Looks at the changing roles of Indigenous women in the fur trade into modern times.
A personal reflection of one Indigenous women's journey through adoption and foster-care.
An interview with Alderville Firstion Nation Cheif Nora Bothwell
A brief overview of Mohawk Elder Pearl Antoinette Hill from Tyendinaga Indian Reserve.
A collection of excerpts of writings from Indigenous Elder Gladys Taylor.
Examines literacy and literacy program for Indigenous women in Canada.
A report on literacy programming for Métis and non-status Indigenous people in Canada.
A report on the challenges facing Métis education in Canada, including: control, economic and social factors, sustainability, and capacity building.
Sample of 320 individuals participated in the survey between April 2019 to April 2021. Respondents were primarily First Nations (96%).
A report on the Gabriel Dumont Institute strategic directions. Includes the 2001 financial statements.
Reports on 137 responses from First Nations members, leaders, staff and technicians (primarily in-community) and service delivery organizations (primarily out-of-community). Results are arranged under four themes: understanding homelessness; program and service needs and gaps; improvements, solutions, and best practices; and national action plan.
A training seminar on effective conduct of Board and Committee meetings for the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan.
A handbook outlining the mission, governing structure, central programs, and professional/training programs of the Gabriel Dumont Institute. SUNTEP is mentioned.
A draft of an Operational Review of the Gabriel Dumont Institute conducted by Ernst & Young consulting firm.
Topics include Indian administration, 1760-1845, creation of reserves, the fur trade, relationship with missionaries, and the Inuit.
Discusses six core concepts: self-reflective practice, building knowledge through education, anti-racist practice, creating safe healthcare experiences, person-led care, and strengths-based and trauma-informed practice.
Discusses standards, curriculum practices and issues, school facilities, teaching staff and special education services. Includes list of proposed demonstration projects and comparative survey of Indian and provincial schools.
Related Material: Better Data for Ending Homelessness: Lessons from the Winnipeg Street Census.
Thirteen lesson plans for middle and high school.
Reports on initiatives developed by those who were or had been in the system and by those working within or around it. Seven prototypes and action plans were developed and tested. They were: residential transition house, coordinated access to social housing, youth aging out website, community safety host social enterprise, kinship support initiative, independence board game, and aging out party.
Based on information from two community-based oral history projects; Igloolik in Canada and Lower Kolyma Chukchi in Russia.
Illustrated short stories.
Designed for Grades 10-12.
Three fictional case studies are presented to help teachers approach topics in an appropriate way when teaching science to Grades 10-12. They are: smudging; Can trauma be passed on in your genes?; and frog dissection.
Designed for Grade 11 Biology.
The curator of cultural anthropology at the Manitoba Museum discusses works held in their collection. Duration: 39:38.
Designed for Grade 11 science classes.
Designed with Grade 9.
Designed for Grades 4-6.
Looks at the work of Jennine Krauchi, Whess Harman, Christi Belcourt, Nadia Myre, Bev Koski, Dayna Danger, Lita Fontaine, Catherine Blackburn, and Margaret Nazon and the ways in which their art relates to healing, culture and community. Duration: 29:01.
Discusses the struggle between families and Department of Indian Affairs and school staff about when female students should leave the system. Argues that the schools' main motivation was to retain their supply of manual labour.
Surveyed articles from nine news media sites including: APTN and Windspeaker (Indigenous); The Province and Vancouver Sun (British Columbia); Calgary Herald and Edmonton Sun (Alberta); and CBC, The Globe and Mail, and National Post (national). Ninety articles were analyzed in terms of Indigenous and protest stance, balance, type of impact described, terminology, and quotation distribution. Five case studies are included.
Analyzes 100 reports from the CBC News and APTN National News published in November 2018 in terms of language, content and missing information.
Essay was the winner of the 2018 Jan Rehner Prize for Writing at York University.
Topics include: community language mobilization, land-based learning, Elders roles, integration of technology, adult and early years education, and transitioning to immersion.
Translation of: Fraegd og firnindi.
A brochure for a one-week residential training program.
Lesson plan for Grade 4.
Ten lessons per grade.
A report from the Gabriel Dumont Institute 2009 Annual General Meeting. Document includes: A media release, the slides from the presentation, financial highlights, and the minutes of the annual general meeting.
A proposal for funding to launch of the second phase of the Saskatchewan Training for Employment Program (S.T.E.P.).
Outlines the development an Indigenous economy through education.
Primarily books and articles, with some theses and government publications included.
A brochure for the Gabriel Dumont Institute's 1991 conference in Saskatoon.
Highlights the graduates from the Gabriel Dumont Institute Early Childhood Development Program.
Examines how Taiwanese Indigenous populations are using traditional knowledge to revitalize their identities thought lost through a history of colonialism.
Examines five images of the Indigenous community of Kankuamo from the early 1950's and what they can tell researchers about Indigenous cultural identity and social struggles.
Looks at what Sámi haunting stories can tell about Indigenous colonial experiences.
Discusses the need for diverse culturally safe health service delivery for Métis communities.
Examines the various factors leading to higher mortality rates amongst Indigenous populations in Mexico during the COVID pandemic.
Looks at how the COVID pandemic highlighted settler-colonial capitalism and the chance to discuss value politics regarding Indigenous people with disabilities.
Examines the impact of the COVID pandemic on Indigenous language revitalization projects in Canada.
Divided into those gathered in: 1850s, 1860s, 1878-1880, early 1900s and late 20th and early 21st centuries.
A report on the benefits of education for Saskatchewan Indigenous populations but for the economic growth of the province itself.
A summary of Eric Howe's report on Indigenous educational gap in Saskatchewan.
I-Portal record for the full report can be found here.
A document examines the barriers for Indigenous students in post secondary programs.
A one page document about the development of the Gabriel Dumont Institute.
A manual providing a culturally relevant framework to guide the creation of literacy programs for Indigenous communities.
A report on the Gabriel Dumont Institute. Included in this document are: the history of the institute, its mandate, 1986 audit statement, and plans for the future.
An evaluation the Gabriel Dumont Institutes' Métis Housing Administration Program.
An overview of the Gabriel Dumont Institute and programs offered through it.
An internal report of the demographic, geographic, political, economic, media, legal and social environments are affecting the institutes mandates.
A collection of the Gabriel Dumont Institute annual reports and financials statements starting in 1981.