Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference; 81st, 2009
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Frances Widdowson
James Lawrence Davidson
Description
Discusses the Canadian Radio and Television Commission's (CRTC) decision to make carriage of the network mandatory for cable companies and require those companies to remit 15 cents per subscriber to it.
Describes the questionnaires used by archival and folklore societies in Saskatchewan to gather information on settler histories; discusses how they both showcase settler-Indigenous relationships in some cases and obscure them in others, creating a segregated history of the province.
Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 32.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 12, December 2009, p. 8
Description
Looks at the story behind the winning logo created to represent the 125th Anniversary of the Battle of Batoche.
Article located by scrolling to page 8.
Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies Gets 2 Million Dollar Injection From Province
Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Lagimodiere
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 2, February 2009, p. 17
Description
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.
Article located by scrolling down to page 17.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 1, Destabilizing Canada / Le Canada déstabilisé, Winter, 2017, pp. 37-63
Description
Analyzes representations of activities associated with the Idle No More movement in editorial and commentary of sections in the Globe and Mail and the National Post.
Girlhood Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, Summer, 2017, pp. 97-113
Description
Discusses how the technology, particularly Facebook, has increasingly become a tool to recruit and keep underage girls in the sex trade. Research conducted with 19 staff members of Prince Albert Outreach and 5 survivors indicated the importance of recognizing early signs of exploitation so that intervention could take place, family-based prevention and education, and using survivors as educators.
Analysis of articles published in The Globe and Mail from 2000 to 2007.
Chapter from: Understanding Violence: Contexts and Portrayals edited by Marika Guggisberg and David Weir.
Canadian Diversity=Diversité canadienne, vol. 7, no. 3, One Path, Many Directions: The Complex and Diverse Nature of Contemporary Aboriginal Reality, Fall, 2009, pp. 5-12
Description
Discusses how organizations are using technology to self-define how they are represented to the world.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access this article, scroll to p. 5.
Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Travis Hay
Kristin Burnett
Lori Chambers
Description
Looks at media coverage of the Declaration of Emergency which was issued for the housing crises in the communities of Kashechewan, Attawapiskat, and Fort Albany in 2012, with particular attention to the backlash that occurred against Chief Teresa Spence's hunger strike.
Chapter six from Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide edited by Scott W. Murray.
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 89-108
Description
Author describes the intent and process of designing We Sing for Healing, a musical choose-your-own adventure text game that mimics traditional storytelling and teaching styles with the way that the circular or looping narrative encourages a player to listen, choose, and revisit as a game-play strategy.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, 2017, pp. 61-86
Description
Authors examines the (neo)colonial narratives present the English print media coverage of the Glenbow Museum’s 1988 exhibit The Spirit Sings. The exhibit, a headliner of the 1988 Winter Olympic Arts Festival in Calgary, is often considered to be the “catalyst for Canada's Task Force on Museums and First Peoples (1992).”
Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 2009, pp. [24]-57
Description
Looks at the importance of Indigenous stories for children, raises issues with the process of sharing cultural stories from around the world, comments on trickster stories, and critiques the book Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 11, November 2009, p. 26
Description
Outlines the varied career of Lorne Cardinal, the first Aboriginal graduate in performing arts from the University of Alberta.
Article located by scrolling to page 26.
Study guide to accompany film, Wapos Bay: Lights, Camera, Action!. Oriented toward elementary school students; contains episode description, background information, previewing and post-viewing activities and questions which pertain to the key themes.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 11, November 2009, p. 4
Description
Comments on the Aboriginal Business award received by Eagle Feather News at the 26th Annual Achievement in Business Excellence Awards Banquet.
Article located by scrolling to page 4.