McGill Journal of Education, vol. 53, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 379-392
Description
The authors describe their experience in a graduate course on arts-based research methods. Their research touches on contexts of and relationships with/as land, Indigenous peoples, settlers, environmental crisis, and personal journey and the art they created in the process of the course.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 53, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 350-361
Description
Three non-Indigenous teacher-educators reflect on the ways their responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action and the corresponding provincial mandates have been positively and constructively influenced by their professional relationships with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 42, no. 1, 2018, pp. 115-130
Description
Discusses decolonizing the research process, beginning with how researchers engage with Indigenous communities; challenges the mainstream scientific idea that there is a “single truth to be discovered and that scientific knowledge is far more valuable than subjective or experiential knowledge.”
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 190, no. 36, September 10, 2018, pp. E1085-E1086
Description
This personal essay describes the author’s experience and learning which resulted from co-teaching about narrative medicine with a Dene colleague. Discusses issues of consent, colonialism and Indigenous world-views.
Following the Trails of Our Ancestors: Re-Grounding Tlicho Knowledge on the Land
Articles » General
Author/Creator
John B. Zoe
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 6, no. Special Issue 1, The Pan-Territorial on-the-Land Summit, July 2018, pp. 18-23
Description
Author uses traditional stories of Yamozha to talk about the relationship that the Tłįchǫ (Tlicho) have historically had and are rebuilding with the land; draws on teachings of Elders to discuss the importance of language, sacred place names, and people “living in spirit with the environment, with the animals.”
Video of conference presentation: Trails of our Ancestors
Duration: 47:22
Future Rivers of the Anthropocene or Whose Anthropocene Is It? Decolonizing the Anthropocene!
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eleanor Hayman
Colleen James (G̱ooch Tláa)
Mark Wedge (Aan Gooshú)
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. [76]-92
Description
Considers how Tlingit and Tagish oral traditions about the sentience of glaciers might be used to inform discussions about the effects of climate change. Argues that concepts of “slow activism” and “narrative ecologies" embedded in these traditions can help to upset mainstream perceptions of environmental realities.
Discussion about band Gyibaaw’s song "Gyitwaalkt", which expresses “warrior-ness” through traditional language, instrumention and heavy reverb, and the ‘audiopolitics’ of the genres of metal and black metal.
Audio File.
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, pp. 27-32
Description
Extract from a presentation at the Indigenous Perspectives on Repatriation: Moving Forward Together symposium Discusses the process and the work of repatriation, the kinship bonds that are formed while doing the work. Also discusses digital repatriation efforts and projects.
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 113-127
Description
Curators of the exhibition Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories describe project which brought together art, activism, history, Indigenous youth, and the wider public to "amplify the artist’s insistence that all of us consider our collective responsibilities to this earth".
Looks at the challenges accessing Canadian residential school records and how the decision to destroy certain survivor accounts regarding abuse in residential schools is a threat to the memory of cultural genocide in Canada.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 53, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 312-330
Description
Author uses perspectives from school teachers and Indigenous writers to argue that “Indigenous literary arts can foster relational understandings between readers and Indigenous communities.” Encourages educators to draw on Indigenous literatures for inspiration and motivation in this work.
Indigenous Perspectives on Repatriation: Moving Forward Together
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jordan Coble
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 23-26
Description
Discusses author's perspective and experience building an Indigenous-led and -focused museum.
Extract from author's presentation at “Indigenous Perspectives on Repatriation: Moving Forward Together” symposium, March 2017.
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 81-94
Description
Author--who is an anthropologist specializing in Coast Salish culture, a member and chair of the collections committee, and a board member of the Museum--discusses several examples of repatriating objects, and the process of developing a formal policy.
BC Studies, no. 197, Spring, April 24, 2018, pp. 107-121
Description
Discusses the text and its critical framework—title page, introduction, and other framing elements. Considers the roles of Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Chief Joe and his wife Mary Capilano as co-authors, and the decolonization of the text by reconnecting it to unceded Coast Salish lands using platform called ArcGIS Story-Map Journals,
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 151-178
Description
Examines themes of testimony, trauma, storytelling, and witnessing in Maracle’s novel; discusses the role that narrating and observing can play as a means of collaborating in the decolonization of settler systems and violence.
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 6, no. Special Issue 2, Connectivity in Northern and Indigenous Communities, October 2018, pp. 38-41
Description
Discusses the potential for improving knowledge and empathy based relationships through the use of augmented reality (AR) technology as a storytelling platform; details an ongoing partnership between the University of Alberta and the Saddle Lake Cree Nation that uses the Wikiup app.
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 2, Genocide Special Issue, December 30, 2018, pp. 153-159
Description
Literary criticism article which examines the ways that contemporary queer and Two-Spirit authors are creating a cultural resurgence and decolonizing Indigenous sexualities.