Sakawew Partnership Encourages Aboriginal Employment in Saskatchewan
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Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 12, December 2009, p. 19
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Discusses the commitment of a diverse group of business, community, government and First Nation officicials to increase Aboriginal employment in Saskatchewan's growing economy.
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Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 4, April 2009, p. 13
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Comments on the 2009 Sakewewak Artists' Collective Storytellers Festival of which one goal was to bridge modern and traditional storytelling practices.
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Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 11, November 2009, p. 10
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Comments on the importance, and success, of Treaty Education in Saskatchewan for kindergarten to Grade 12 students.
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Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 4, April 2009, p. 11
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Discusses Métis citizens feelings of being rushed to implement Draft Duty to Consult and Accomodate policies without time to respond to the draft in a meaningful way.
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Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 6, June 2009, p. 1,2
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Comments on the eleventh annual SaskTel Aboriginal Youth Awards of Excellence including the nominees, the first female recipient and the necessity of role models.
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Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 12, December 2009, p. 8
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Looks at the story behind the winning logo created to represent the 125th Anniversary of the Battle of Batoche.
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Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 4, April 2009, p. 12
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Comments on the Government of Saskatchewans' willingness to protect, preserve and promote art, culture and heritage in the Aboriginal community by creating a cultural policy for the whole province.
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Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 42, no. 2, June 2009, pp. 363-386
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Discusses the history of injustice against Indigenous peoples and ethnocultural minorities in British Columbia, and a case study that looks at the impact of reparation displacement.
Canadian Diversity=Diversitié canadienne, vol. 7, no. 3, One Path, Many Directions: The Complex and Diverse Nature of contemporary Aboriginal Reality, 2009, pp. 93-101
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Looks at school mobility or changing schools as a contributing factor to school success. Compares kindergarten students both on-reserve and band-affiliated and non-band affiliated Aboriginal students to non-Aboriginal peers.
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Saskatoon Community Youth Arts Programming Played Role in Changing Creighton Jimmy's Life
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Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 2, February 2009, p. 13
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Focuses on a youth who has turned his life around through involvement in an art program which consists of community art projects, skill enhancement workshops and life skills training.
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Aboriginal Peoples and Constitutional Reform. Discussion Paper
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David C. Hawkes
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Discusses negotiations concerning aboriginal peoples and the constitutional reform as of February 1987, the major issues involved and the prospects for successful resolution.
Looks at the results of three different surveys to assess what capacity-building programs currently exist for the Northern youth, and to identify the skills and experience required to move into leadership positions.
Report of the proceedings held in conjunction with the exhibition, The Drawings and Paintings of Daphne Odig, a Retrospective Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Sudbury in October 2007.
[Background Paper (Parliamentary Information and Research Service)] ; PRB 09-16E
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Mary C. Hurley
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"Comprehensive land claims are based on the assertion of continuing Aboriginal rights and title that have not been dealt with by treaty or other legal means".
Pimatisiwin, vol. 7, no. 1, Summer, 2009, pp. 27-47
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Questions whether Aboriginal children are experiencing significantly lower rates of sexual abuse than their parents did or if abuse is being underreported.
Discusses the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre's First Nations Language Deeper's Conference which promoted and celebrated all First Nations languages.
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INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
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Michell Daveluy
Jenanne Ferguson
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Study of the use of multilingual and multigraphic signs in Inuit localities.
Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies Gets 2 Million Dollar Injection From Province
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John Lagimodiere
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 2, February 2009, p. 17
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Discusses the Saskatchewan Instiitute of Technologies (SIIT) plan to use funding received from the Saskatchewan government to improve its facility and develop a space for video conferencing.
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Overview of Conference held in Iqaluit, Nunavut February 2009, which brought together stakeholders committed to economic development for brainstorming and planning.
Documentary about the role clan mothers played in the conflict that took place near Caledonia, Ontario over a proposed housing development on Six Nation traditional territory.
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Duration: 43:24
Developed to accompany the National Film Board documentary Six Miles Deep which deals with the conflict that took place over land development near Caledonia, Ontario.