Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jessica Ball
Description
Recommends seven key elements and guiding principles for strategy to improve literacy development among young Indigenous children.
Proposal Writing for Health Communities: Workbook
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lincoln Heaney
Travis Holyk
Description
Manual takes a systematic approach to developing a well-written and well-organized proposal with all the necessary elements that most funding agencies require.
Prosperity Through Property: An Idea Whose Time has Come
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Patrick Brazeau
Policy Options, vol. 31, no. 7, July/August 2010, pp. 84-85
Description
Book review of:Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property Rights by Tom Flanagan, Christopher Alcantara and André LeDressay.
Protecting the Earth is Everyone's Responsibility
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Winona Wheeler
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 7, July 2010, p. 5
Description
Argues that people should do whatever they can to reduce pollution including driving less, reduce water usage, and stop using disposable diapers.
Article found by scrolling to page 5.
Protesting the "Protest": Understanding "Non-Native" Reactions and Responses to the Six Nations Land "Occupation and Protest" in Caledonia, Ontario
Theses
Author/Creator
Amanda Vyce
Description
Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--McMaster University, 2010.
Provincial Gang Strategy: Forum & Community Consultation Reports
Alternate Title
Building Healthier Communities: Final Report on Community Recommendations for the Development of the Saskatchewan Prevention / Intervention Street Gang Strategy
Saskatchewan Communities Speak: Provincial Gang Strategy Phase 2 Community Consultation Forums
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Robert Henry
Dave Shanks]
Description
Reports on Phase I and II of the project. Five overarching themes emerged: infrastructure and leadership; addressing trauma, colonization, and settler colonialism; knowledge translation and mobilization; addressing systemic oppression and structural issues of poverty and homelessness; and institutional supports. Consultations took place in communities throughout Saskatchewan.
Provisional Government of Assiniboia: Acknowledging the Contribution of Original North American Peoples to the Creation of Manitoba
Web Sites » Personal
Author/Creator
Norma J. Hall
Description
Website contains links to detailed chronology, historical documents, bibliography of online published primary sources, laws, bills, and terminology.
Psychological Decolonization: Getting Back My Indian Soul
Alternate Title
American Academy of Religion Eastern International Regional Conference, Ottawa, Ontario
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Margaret Robinson
Description
Looks at self investigation of identity, racialization and linking to Native history.
Pubic Libraries as Aids to Sense Making in Urban Aboriginal Populations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Monique Woroniak
Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, vol. 5, Spring, 2010, pp. 1-16
Description
Reports on the possibilities that exist in urban library settings for Aboriginal outreach programming.
Public Health Should Promote Co-operative Housing and Cohousing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amy Lubik
Tom Kosatsky
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 110, no. 2, April 2019, pp. 121-126
Description
Advocates models of housing based on First Nations’ Longhouses in order to promote social cohesion and combat social isolation. Argues that this strategies would be especially helpful to seniors.
Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress: Final Report
Alternate Title
Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics
Viens Commission
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacques Viens
Description
Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress: Summary Report
Alternate Title
Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics
Viens Commission
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacques Viens
Description
Public Memory of the Battle of Tourond's Coulee/Ka Nootinikayhk daan la Koolii Dii Tourond
Alternate Title
2010 - The Year of the Métis
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Darren Prefontaine
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 4, April 2010, p. 17
Description
Discusses the 125th anniversary of the Métis victory at Tourond's Coulee and history of the battle.
Article found by scrolling to page 17.
Qalupalik
Alternate Title
Nunavut Animation Lab
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ame Papatsie
Description
Animated short of legend about a half-human sea monster who traps disobedient children if they venture too close to shore. Accompanying material, Qalupalik: Lesson Plan.
Duration: 5:34.
Qalupalik: Lesson Plan
Alternate Title
[Nunavut Animation Lab]
Documents & Presentations
Description
Target audience Grades three to six in the subject areas of First Nations, English, and Fine Arts. Accompanies animated film of same name.
Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Igloolik Isuma Productions
Kunuk Cohn Productions
Zacharias Kunuk
Ian Mauro
Norman Cohn
Stéphane Rituit ... [et al.]
Description
Leaders, Elders and hunters speak about the social and ecological impact of warming in the Arctic. In Inuktitut with English subtitles.
Duration: 54:07.
The Qikiqtani Truth Commission: Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Qikiqtani Truth Commission
Description
Sources relevant to the Commission's research.
Qimmit: A Clash of Two Truths
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ole Gjerstad
Joelie Sanguya
Description
Documentary examines the controversy surrounding the decline in the sled dog population between 1950-1970. Many Inuit believe that dogs were killed as part of government policy, while officials deny this claim.
Some images may be disturbing to viewers.
Duration: 68:08.
QTC Final Report: Achieving Saimaqatigiingniq
Alternate Title
Qikiqtani Truth Commission Final Report: Achieving Saimaqatigiingniq
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Qikiqtani Truth Commission
Description
Commission was established to create a record of how government policies between 1950 and 1975 affected the Inuit living in the Baffin region. Report based testimonies and interviews, and archival research. Includes recommendations.
Quebec First Nations' Health and Social Services Governance Process: Effective Governance for the Wellness of First Nations
E-Books
Author/Creator
Georges A. Legault
Quebec First Nations Information Governance Framework
E-Books
Author/Creator
Emilie Grantham
Quels Sont les Facteurs Favorisant ou Inhibant la Réussite Éducative des Élèves Autochtones?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hélène Archambault
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 107-116
Description
Examines the personal, academic and psychosocial factors that encourage or inhibit educational success. Emphasis is on Aboriginal students in Québec.
Article in French.
Quest for Identity in Native Canadian Fiction: A Study of Jeannette Armstrong, Ruby Slipjack, and Tomson Highway
Theses
Author/Creator
Shyamali Kar
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Assam University, Silchar, 2010.
Focuses on the works Slash, Whispering in the Shadows, Honour the Sun, Silent Words, and Kiss of the Fur Queen.
Questions Need to be Answered, Says Family Member of Pickton's Last Victim
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stefania Seccia
Windspeaker, vol. 28, no. 7, October 2010, p. 8
Description
Reflects on the life and personality of Mona Wilson, a victim of serial killer Robert Pickton, and the naming of a corporation after Wilson's First Nation's name, Running Bear.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
Race, Gender and Colonialism: Public Life Among the Six Nations of Grand River, 1899-1939
Theses
Author/Creator
Alison Elizabeth Norman
Description
Theory and Policy Studies in Education Thesis (Ph.D.)-- University of Toronto, 2010.
Racial Necrogeographies and the Making of White Space: The Life and Death of Nineteenth-Century Indigenous and Black Burial Places in Rural Ontario
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William Felepchuk
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 2, 2019, pp. 73-87
Description
Looks at burial sites desecrated by settlers, how these acts represent an attempt to erase Indigenous and Black existence, and how these communities have pushed back by reclaiming and reconsecrating their scared places.
Racing Solidarity, Remaking Labour: Labour Renewal From A Decolonizing And Anti-Racism Perspective
Theses
Author/Creator
Winnie Wun Wun Ng
Description
Adult Education and Counselling Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2010.
Racism Experiences of Urban Indigenous Women in Ontario, Canada: “We All Have That Story That Will Break Your Heart”
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anita C Benoit
Jasmine Cotnam
Doe O'Brien-Teengs
Saara Green
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, June 18, 2019
Description
Mixed methods research study explores how Indigenous women in two Canadian urban centers experience racism. Findings indicate that participants experience racism in ways that can be classified as individual, collective or institutional, and cultural and rage from historical events to contemporary manifestations.
Rampart House
E-Books
Author/Creator
Yukon Tourism and Culture
Description
Historic site located near the mouth of Boundary Creek (Shanàghan K’òhnjik) and right next to the boundary between the United States and Canada.
Raven Feather and the Tsimshian: A Look at The Mountain Goats of Temlaham illustrated by Elizabeth Cleaver
Alternate Title
Picturing Children and Youth: A Canadian Perspective
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lisa Polkosnik
Description
This story illustrates the importance of respecting and protecting the environment and wild life.
Raven Imagery in Northwest Coast Indian Art
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jessica Finch
Description
Discusses the importance of the Raven image in art to Native American Indian cultural groups of the Northwest Coast.
(Re)covering Oka: Alanis Obomsawin's Representation of the Crisis at Oka
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lindsey Campbell
Offscreen, vol. 14, no. 3, March 2010, p. [?]
Description
Comments on filmmakers's representation of the Mohawk men, women and children in the her documentaries dedicated to telling the story of the Mohawks of Kanawake involved in the 1990 crisis.
Re-establishing Their Lives: Issues Relating to Affordable Housing for Women and Their Children Escaping Violent Relationships in Northern Manitoba
E-Books
Author/Creator
Colin Bonnycastle
Judith Hughes
Marleny Bonnycastle
Kendra Nixon
Allison Groening
Re-reading Photographs through the Lens of Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Andrews
TOPIA, no. 23-24, 2010, pp. 415-426
Description
Discusses the use of photography in conjunction with poetry in Marilyn Dumont's A Really Good Brown Girl and Louis Halfe's Blue Marrow.
Re-visualizing a History: First Nations, Children and Costuming - Exhibition
Alternate Title
Picturing Children and Youth: A Canadian Perspective
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anna Edell
Sydney Houston
Zoe Koke
Description
Examines cultural and historical contexts of particular images and questions romanticization and appropriation.
Reaching Agreement for an Aboriginal E-health Research Agenda: The Aboriginal Telehealth Knowledge Circle Consensus Method
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
M.A. Maar
A. Seymour
B. Sanderson
L. Boesch
Rural and Remote Health, vol. 10, no. 1, January-March 2010, pp. 1-13
Description
Discusses the development of eHealth research agenda initiatives including the knowledge gaps which impede adoption in rural Aboriginal communities in Canada.
Reading Guides: Three Day Road
Alternate Title
A Conversation with Joseph Boyden
Articles » General
Description
Introduction to Joseph Boyden's novel, and brief biography and interview with the author.
A Reading of Eekwol's "Apprentice to the Mystery" as as Expression of Cree Youth's Cultural Role and Responsibility
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gail A. MacKay
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 34, no. 2, 2010, pp. 47-65
Description
Interprets two tracks from Eekwol's award winning Hip Hop album and the Cree and Anishinaabe youth's values and experiences related in each.
Ready for Business: Canada’s Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Businesses as Equal Partners
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Description
Looks at: the economic potential of First Nations lands and Aboriginal peoples; their relationships amongst businesses, the federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal governments and non-Aboriginal peoples; improving educational and labour force outcomes for Aboriginal peoples; and the importance of productive partnerships.
Realizing 'Quality' in Indigenous Early Childhood Development
Theses
Author/Creator
Danielle Nichole Mashon
Description
Language and Literacy Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2010.
Rebuilding From Resilience: Research Framework For a Randomized Controlled Trial of Community-led Interventions to Prevent Domestic Violence in Aboriginal Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Neil Andersson
Beverley Shea
Carol Amaratunga
Patricia McGuire
Georges Sioui
Pimatisiwin, vol. 8, no. 2, Fall, 2010, pp. 61-88
Description
Discusses research conducted to test and develop protocols to prevent family violence. The research involved using a baseline questionnaire and then a follow up survey two years later.
Recalling Traditional Métis Christmas and New Year's Celebrations
Alternate Title
2010 - The Year of the Métis
Articles » General
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 12, December 2010, p. 17
Description
Looks at food, activities, and traditions historically a part of two wintertime celebrations.
Article found by scrolling to page 17.
[Recensions/Book Reviews]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Anne-Hélène Kerbiriou
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 34, no. 1, Les Inuit et le Changement Climatique / The Inuit and Climate Change, 2010, pp. 171-173
Description
Review of Northern Exposures: Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-1945 by Peter Geller.
Review in French.
[Recensions/Book Reviews]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Élise Dubuc
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, Technologies Créatives / Creative Technologies, 2010, pp. 199-203
Description
Review of: Le Monde de Tivi Etok: La Vie et l'Art d'un Aîné Inuit by Joby Weetaluktuk and Robert Bryant.
Review in French.
Recent Experience with Indigenous-Led Assessments: A BC Perspective
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Energy and Mining Council
Description
Discusses general characteristics of Indigenous-led assessments and highlights two projects: the Stk’emlupsemc te Secwepemc Nation's Review of KGHM-Ajax-Abacus Mine proposal and the Squamish Nation's Assessment of Woodfibre LNG Plant.
The Reception of Indigenous Life Stories: The Case of The Days of Augusta
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Linda Warley
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 45-71
Description
Discussses the ethical, political, and aesthetic issues surrounding the narrative exchange and the writing and editing process of Indigenous life stories.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 45.
Reclaiming Power and Place: Executive Summary of the Final Report
E-Books
Author/Creator
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Volume 1a
E-Books
Author/Creator
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Volume 1b
E-Books
Author/Creator
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Reclaiming Power and Place Volume 2: A Supplementary Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls; Kepek--Quebec
E-Books
Author/Creator
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls