Examines how First Nations may manage aquatic resources in their traditional territories by looking at case studies involving the Yinka Dene, the Syilx Nation, water monitoring practices, the Tla'amin Nation and the Cowichan tribes.
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.
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.
Explores topics such as locating self and practice, Indigenous worldviews and pedagogies, ethical approach and relational protocols, colonization framework in Canada, and building an Indigenous practice.
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Leaders and Administrators.
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Project involved collaboration with five First Nation communities: Sipekne’katik First Nation, Opitciwan First Nation, Eabametoong First Nation, Misipawistik Cree Nation, and T'it'q'et. Communities emphasized that they did not want to merely focus on poverty, but take a holistic approach which would build capacity and strengthen the entire community. Concludes with six recommendations for policy and program change.
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 2, The Entangled Gaze, 2018, pp. 151-156
Description
In this conference extract the author examines the history of Inuit art noting the ongoing self-representation in the work; argues that this allows for a high level of agency in Inuit art.
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.
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 30, no. 3, 2018, pp. 371-397
Description
Argues that prostitution has played a fundamental role in securing the necessary domination over Indigenous peoples and land in the making of the Canadian nation-state. Focuses on four examples: early settlement in British Columbia; the Indian Act; the Pass System; and Vancouver's missing women.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 2, 2019, pp. 73-87
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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.
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.
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 2, The Entangled Gaze, 2018, pp. 300-326
Description
Article considers the early work of Nathan Jackson and discusses the ways that his paintings, prints, and textile works blend traditional Tlingit designs, patterns, and colour schemes with modernist elements.
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 158-167
Description
Article summarizes the results of the mixed-methods research conducted in Kettle & Stoney Plain First Nation that focused on the mental health needs of Indigenous Men. Research examines the factors that contribute to mental health issues, the experience of men seeking supports and services, and identifies ways to address mental health in this community.
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 4, Special Issue: Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, December 2018, pp. 343-353
Description
Authors argues that under systems of treaty relations and Aboriginal law Indigenous peoples have the authority to regulate the way in which they are re-peopled, and that Canadian laws and policies have worked to obscure this authority.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 149-156
Description
Literary criticism article, discusses how in this narrative “the ethics of land” is the central focus of The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River; notes that this focus on land and ethics presents a different historical narrative than we are generally taught about Six Nations
A photograph of Metis positions on the Fish Creek battleground, likely taken shortly after the battle by a Canadian Army photographer. Presumably the Metis soldiers were positioned in the wooded area of the coulee visible ahead in the photograph. This may be the opening scene of the battle where Middleton's Scouts were met by an opening fusilade from the Metis ranks. The farmhouse visible on the right is possibly Tourond's house, for whose family the place takes its Metis name of "Tourond's Coulee."
Pencil sketch of the steamer Northcote. Members of 'C' Company, Infantry School Corps, on shore in foreground, smaller boat in front of Northcote. Trees and landscape in background. Item found within folder 1 of file Rebellion, 1885.
Personal diary of Major Smith of the I.S.C. Toronto Brigade during the Brigade's march west. Observations include health of fellow soldiers, the weather, and the monotony of waiting for next orders. Brief entries after 23 April 1885, final entry on 18 May 1885. Diary has metal clasp, black cloth covers and marbleized end papers. Item found within folder 2 of file Rebellion, 1885.