Articles » General
Author/Creator
Dave Burlinguette
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 22, no. 4, May 1994, p. 6
Description
Venture good investment for Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation and community in Prince Albert.
Photo Vignette – T’łisalagi’ lakw School, ‘Yalis (Alert Bay), BC, early days
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dara Culhane
BC Studies , no. 200, 50th Anniversary, Winter, 2019, pp. 45-47
Description
Describe the creation and early years of the independent school created by Kwakwaka’wakw parents on ‘Namgis First Nation territory; discusses inclusion of cultural and traditional teachings, and its evolution as one of the longest running independent schools in the province.
Photo Vignette – Whale Watching, Salish Style
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lee Maracle
BC Studies , no. 200, 50th Anniversary, Winter, 2019, pp. 27-29
Description
Author shares a personal story as a means of teaching about cross-cultural relationships.
[Photograph]: Kwiakutl Dancer, Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Georgetta Stonefish Ryan
Callaloo, vol. 17, no. 1, Native America Literatures , Winter, 1994, p. 62
Description
Photograph of a Kwiakutl dancer.
Physiological Consequences of Acculturation: A 20-year Study of Fitness in an Inuit Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andris Rode
Roy J. Shephard
European Journal of Applied Physiology and Occupational Physiology, vol. 69, no. 6, December 1994, pp. 516-524
Description
Examination of data from study on physical health of adults in Igloolik, Northwest Territories shows a deterioration due to a sedentary lifestyle.
Picture of Louis Riel's Council in 1885
Images » Photographs
Description
Image of the legal team of Louis Riel at his trial in Regina. On 1st photocopied information sheet (H-380-p2) is a numerical count of the men in the original photograph. On 2nd photocopied information sheet (H-380-p3): "Taken beside the Regina Court House at the time of their trial. 1. Johnny Sansregret 2. P. Paranteau 3. Pierre Gardiepui 4. Philip Garnot (Riel's secretary) 5. Albert Monkman 6. Pierre Vandall 7. Babtiste Vandall 8. Touissaint Lucier (reputed to be the strongest man in North West) 9. Maxime Dubois 10. Timmus Short 11. Jean-Baptiste Tourond 12. Emmanuel Champagne."
Place-Based Readings Toward Disrupting Colonized Literacies: A Métissage
Alternate Title
Place-Based Readings Toward Disrupting Colonized Literacies: A Metissage
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adrian Downey
Rachael Bell
Katelyn Copage
Pam Whitty
In Education, vol. 25, no. 2, 10th Anniversary Online Special Issue: Teaching in the 21st Century Intercultural/Multilingual/Multi, Autumn, 2019, pp. 39-58
Description
Authors discuss ways to teach land-based or place-based literacies and how doing so can expose settler-colonial narrative and disrupt them.
A Place Where It Feels Like Home: The Story of Tina Fontaine
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Daphne Penrose
Description
Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth's report on the investigation into several service agencies' involvement with a troubled teen who was eventually found murdered.
Plan of Position at Battle of Batoche May 12th 1885
Images » Photographs
Description
Sketch of location of the Battle of Batoche.
Planning Around Reserves: Probing the Inclusion of First Nations in Saskatchewan's Watershed Planning Framework
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Warrick Baijius
Robert J. Patrick
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 5, Special Issue: The Impact of Reserve and Reservation Systems on Indigenous Well-Being, November 22, 2019
Description
Results from a study which examines a dozen watershed plans indicates limited inclusion of First Nations in watershed plans created by the Saskatchewan Watershed authority.
Playing for the Future: A Picture Book App for Cultural Reclamation and Reconciliation
Alternate Title
Meaningful Play Proceedings 2018
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mavis Reimer
Description
Describes two games developed as part of a project to convert the book Pīsim Finds Her Miskanaw into an app. The story is inspired by the discovery of the burial site of a young Cree woman who lived in the mid-1600s, a time before contact with Europeans.
Paper from Meaningful Play Proceedings 2018 edited by Rabindra Ratan, Brian Winn, and Elizabeth LaPensee.
Playing with Culture: The Serious Side of Humor
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
William K. Powers
American Anthropologist, vol. 96, no. 3, September 1994, pp. 705-710
Description
Book reviews of 2 books:
Indi'n Humor: Bicultural Play in Native American by Kenneth Lincoln.
Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts by Greg Sarris.
Policing and Security in Four Remote Aboriginal Communities: A Challenge to Coercive Models of Police Work
Theses
Author/Creator
Tammy Cheryl Landau
Description
Criminology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 1994.
The Politics of Slow Progress: Federal Aboriginal Policy Processes (Expanded Version)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
G. Bruce Doern
Description
Looks at how and why policy changed, with focus on developments in the early 1980s. Analysis of macro- (federal government and Aboriginal organizations, micro- (Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and its ministers), and mid-level practices. Includes case studies.
Portrait of Palliative Care Provided in First Nations Communities in Quebec
E-Books
Author/Creator
Véronique Rankin
Linda Simon
Portrait of the Criminalization of the First Nations in Quebec: Providing Impetus for Change
E-Books
Author/Creator
Marie-Ève Sylvestre
Céline Bello
Élaine Lesage-Mann
Portraits of Interest - Sketches
Documents & Presentations
Description
Portrait sketches of key figures in the Northwest Resistance. Subjects include Mrs. T. Charles Watson, Major T.C. Watson, Lt.-Col. the Hon. W.N. Kennedy, Corporal Lethbridge, Col.-Sergt. Cooper, and Capt. Herbert Swinford. Caption of sketches: "(1) Mrs. T. Charles Watson, who has commenced a series of dramatic readings in aid of local patriotic funds; (2) Major T.C. Watson, (late of H.M. service), commanding the troops raised at Yorkton, Assiniboia; (3) Lt.-Col. the Hon. W.N. Kennedy, of the 90th Batt.
Portraits of Interest - Sketches. - 1885.
Documents & Presentations
Description
Portrait sketches of key figures in the Northwest Resistance. Sketch subjects include Lieut. A.Y. Scott, Bugler Foulkes, and Lieut-Colonel Bond.
The Position of the FSIN Justice Commission
Alternate Title
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Daniel Bellegarde
pp. 315-320
Description
Article from a 1993 Conference proceedings, discusses justice, self-government and the desire to create a solid logical and planned development process for a First Nations-controlled justice system.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
Postpartum Depression Prevalence and Risk Factors among Indigenous, Non-Indigenous and Immigrant women in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nihaya Daoud
Kristen O’Brien
Patricia O’Campo
Sarah Harney
Evelyn Harney ... [et al.]
Canadian Journal of Public Health , vol. 110, no. 4, August 2019, pp. 440-452
Description
Uses data from the 2006 Canadian Maternity Experiences Survey (MES) to examine the risk factors for postpartum depression (PPD) among different demographic groups in Canada. Findings indicate differing factors for different groups; authors suggest tailored approaches to preventing PPD could better protect the mental health of mothers in Canada.
Poundmaker and French Journalists
Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Description
Photograph. Caption: "Poundmaker surrounded by a group of visiting French journalists at Stony Mountain Penitentiary."
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
Poundmaker Surrendering
Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Description
Photograph of the surrender of Poundmaker (with blanket) to General Middleton's forces.
Caption: "Poundmaker was taken into custody for his apparent role in the looting of Battleford and the Cut Knife battle."
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
Power Shift in Remote Indigenous Communities: A Cross-Canada Scan of Diesel Reduction and Clean Energy Policies
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dylan Heerema
Dave Lovekin
Description
Tracks progress in policies, programs and regulations that impact energy systems at the federal, provincial, territorial, regulatory and utility levels. Each section includes information on jurisdiction's total number of communities, and population and diesel consumption as a percentage of national total. Based on the most recent data available in the Remote Communities Energy database.
Powering Self-Determination: Indigenous Renewable Energy Developments in British Columbia
Theses
Author/Creator
Eryn Fitzgerald
Description
Environmental Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2018.
The Powwow Dance and My Dance with Powwows
Theses
Author/Creator
Xiao Zheng
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2019.
Preface [Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice]
Alternate Title
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Peter MacKinnon
p. XII
Description
Preface to the 1993 Conference introducing the importance of Aboriginal justice questions and acknowledging the support of corporate donors to the Conference.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
Prevention Education Harm Reduction Report
Alternate Title
Circle of Eagles Lodge Society & Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network Harm Reduction Project: Dialogue and Gathering Report
[Circle of Eagles Lodge Society and Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network Harm Reduction Dialogue Report]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Sophia Vitalis
Sarah Wood
Kim van der Woerd
Amanda Card
Billie Joe Rogers]
Description
Divided into two parts: first section describes the Circle of Eagles Lodge Society's Circle of Care Harm Reduction for Indigenous Brothers and Sisters on Parole project aimed at addressing the opioid crisis among federal parolees; the second section describes the community dialogue and gathering report.
Priests Killed at Frog Lake
Images » Photographs
Description
Negative of an artist's representation of the killing of priests at Frog Lake by Indigenous men with guns.
Primer on Practice Shifts Required with Canada's Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis Children, Youth and Families Act
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
M. E. Turpel-Lafond
Description
The Act provides support for First Nations' authority over child and family services. Document discusses national legal principles, positive principles, standards and norms, restricting or constraining provisions, the interplay between elected Indian Act Band Councils and traditional governance structures, and the applicability of First Nations laws.
Principles, Approaches, and Methods for Evaluation in Indigenous Contexts: A Grey Literature Scoping Review
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kriti Chandna
Michelle M . Vine
Susan J . Snelling
Rachel Harris
Janet Smylie
Heather Manson
Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, vol. 34, no. 1, Spring, 2019, pp. [21]-47
Description
Review conducted to identify principles, approaches, methods, tools and frameworks reported from 2000-2015 in Canada, United States, New Zealand and Australia.
Producing a Society of Individuated Subjects: A Historical Sociology of Adult Education in the Kitikmeot Region, Northwest Territories
Theses
Author/Creator
Scott D. McLean
Description
Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carleton University, 1994.
Production and Delivery of Gladue Pre-sentence Reports: A Review of Selected Canadian Programs
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Patricia Barkaskas
Vivienne Chin
Yvon Dandurand
Dallas Tooshkenig
Description
Based on the Supreme Court Of Canada's decision in the Gladue case, when sentencing, judges are required to take into consideration the unique circumstances of Indigenous peoples.
A Profile of Businesses in Indigenous Communities in Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
Haaris Jafri
Alessandro Alasia
Description
The primary data source used in this analysis is the Business Register (BR), January 2017 reference period.
Progress Audit: The Education of Aboriginal Students in the B.C. Public School System
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Sheila Dodds
Jessica Schafer
Emily Yearwood-Lee]
Description
Examines whether the Ministry of Education had implemented the recommendations for actions which would close the gap in outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students found in the earlier report An Audit of the Education of Aboriginal Students in the B.C. Public School System.
Project #12: Button Blanket
Alternate Title
The Sk u k altx "To Teach in School" Project : First Nations Art and Language Course
First Nations Art Projects and Activities
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
[Butch Dick]
[Karin Clark]
Description
Lesson designed for use with elementary school students.
Taken from The Sk u k altx "To Teach in School" Project : First Nations Art and Language Course.
Prologue to the Red River Resistance: Pre-liminal Politics and the Triumph of Riel
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gerhard J. Ens
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 5, no. 1, 1994, pp. 111-123
Description
Examines the leadership power struggle between William Dease, who stressed Metis rights and Louis Riel, who emphasized French and Catholic rights.
The Promise and Pitfalls of C-92: An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children, youth and families
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Naiomi Walqwan Metallic
Hadley Friendland
Sarah Morales
Description
Act asserts Indigenous peoples' jurisdiction over child and family services and establishes national standards. Paper examines issues related to national standards, jurisdiction, funding, accountability and data collection.
Promising Practices in Suicide Prevention across Inuit Nunangat
Alternate Title
NISPS Research and Data Collection Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Firelight Research
Description
Study includes results of literature review, working group and key informant interviews, and an environmental scan of actions and interventions. Focus is on Inuit youth and report is organized around six topic areas: links between childhood adversity and suicide, and promising practices with respect to addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters, current supports within the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.
Promising Practices in Suicide Prevention across Inuit Nunangat: NIPSPS Research and Data Collection Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Description
Reports results of environmental scan which involved a literature review of both grey and academic publications, a series of key informant interviews with 20 individuals working in the field. Six topic areas are covered: links between childhood adversity and suicide and promising practices for addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters focusing on children and youth, current supports in the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.
Promising Practices in Timiskaming First Nation
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network Production
Ken Clement
Merv Thomas
Jason Lawrence
Description
Focuses on the community's efforts to deal with Hepatitis C through education, outreach, and healing.
Duration: 27:33.
Proof-sheets of a Bibliography of the Languages of the North American Indians
E-Books
Author/Creator
James Constantine Pulling
Prophecy and Power Among the Dogrib Indians
Alternate Title
Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
E-Books
Author/Creator
June Helm
Prosperous Partnership in a Green Future: First Nations/Province To Co-Manage Resources
Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 23, no. 6, July-August 1994, p. 10
Description
Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and the Province of Saskatchewan sign a Renewable Resources and Environmental Management Protocol Agreement.
Provincial Gang Strategy: Forum & Community Consultation Reports
Alternate Title
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.
Provincial Perspective on Justice and Aboriginal Peoples
Alternate Title
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Roy Romanow
pp. 32-33
Description
Brief statement from 1993 Conference proceedings, mentions provincial interest in defining roles of the three levels of government, and recognition by province of the inherent right of self-government.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
The Provincial Perspective on the Split in Jurisdiction
Alternate Title
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Brent Cotter
pp. 126-135
Description
Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, discussing constitutional division of powers in justice and the potential for reforming justice in relation to Aboriginal Peoples, the Provincial position on Aboriginal justice reform and self-government.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
Public Health Should Promote Co-operative Housing and Cohousing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amy Lubik
Tom Kosatsky
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.
Public Hearings: Toward Reconciliation: Overview of the Fourth Round
E-Books
Author/Creator
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress: Final Report
Alternate Title
Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics
Viens Commission
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacques Viens
Description
Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress: Summary Report
Alternate Title
Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics
Viens Commission
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacques Viens
Description