Summary Report: School District Number 91 Aboriginal Education Needs Assessment
[Report of the Aboriginal Education Task Force: Appendix One]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Robert A. Malatest
Irene Huse
Sharon Krebs
Mary Bumstead
Description
Summarizes results of both qualitative and quantitative data gathered from students, teachers, parents, and administrators. Highlights responses to questions in the areas of overall perceptions, curriculum, communication, support programs, staffing, and transition / retention.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 13, no. 1, Series 2; Representations of American Indians in Contemporary Narrative Fiction Film , Spring, 2001, pp. 87-90
Description
Book review of: The Sun Unwound edited by Edward Dorn and Gordon Brotherston.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Sources: Statistics Canada, 1996 Census (20 % sample), 1996 Coverage Studies, and Demography Division (population estimates).
From Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM). Data can be added / removed and manipulated.
From Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM). Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table. For example, geography and time frame.
Sources: Aboriginal Peoples Survey 2001, 2006, 2012.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, 2001, pp. 97-104
Description
Contends that Aboriginal scholars are often placed in the position of trying to meet two disparate and contradictory standards, those of the Indigenous community and the larger academic world.
The Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 2, no. 1, Winter, 2001, pp. 93-100
Description
Examines the reasons for the creation of RCAP, commenting that it often takes a major political upheaval to move governments to implement their recommendations.
Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs
Description
Findings and recommendations of hearings regarding Aboriginal housing, including discussion of on and off-reserve housing, the situation in Northern Canada, and Federal Government housing programs.
Reproduction is a copy of an official work that is published by the Government of Canada and it is reproduced in affiliation with, or with the endorsement of the Government of Canada.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, 2001, pp. 45-56
Description
Examines how an emphasis on education based on heritage culture can have unexpected consequences such as differing standards, loss of original program uniqueness, and a distancing from mainstream education.
Argues that traditional indigenous knowledge needs to be respected and protected so that it is neither used out of context nor used inappropriately by researchers. Paper presented at the Indigenous Knowledge Conference 2001 held at the University of Saskatchewan.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 25, no. 2, 2001, pp. 37-61
Description
Examines the work of Frederick Alexie (Frederick Alexcee), a Tsimshian carver and painter and Mathias Joe, a Squamish carver, during the assimilation policy period of 1867-1951 in British Columbia.