Research Report (Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business) ; Fall, 2015
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business
Environics Research
Description
Project explored how relationships develop, how they are structured, what stages they go through, and obstacles they face. Results based on three focus groups and eight in-depth interviews conducted in Toronto, Ottawa and Sudbury, Ontario.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, The Future of Traditional Knowledge Research: Building Partnership and Capacity, May 2015, pp. 1-13
Description
Contends that future policy regarding collaboration between non-Indigenous academics and Indigenous communities should look at the lessons learned from the work of Franz Boas, George Hunt and other Indigenous field workers.
Assessment based on topics covered (residential school legacy, treaties, historical and contemporary contributions of Aboriginal peoples), whether or not teaching is mandatory, and grades included. Carried out in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Call to Action 62.1.
Relates to the federal government's relocation of 92 Inuit to the High Arctic to assert the country's sovereignty over the area, and its promise that they could return to their home communities in two years if they no longer wished to stay.
Details the proceedings of a two-day workshop held in Australia that brought together scholars and policy practitioners from Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Canada and the United States in July of 2015. The workshop examined the implications of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) for collection, maintenance, and use of data related to Indigenous peoples and the potential effects for Indigenous sovereignties.
Looks at recent discourse on domestic trafficking of Indigenous women and girls and the shift in language and framework towards an effort to recategorize violence as worthy of legal response.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, The Future of Traditional Knowledge Research: Building Partnership and Capacity, May 2015, pp. 1-15
Description
Documents the ways Indigenous communities and research teams are benefiting from two-eyed seeing, the compilation of Indigenous and Western ways of knowing.
Looks at the challenges faced by Aboriginal youth who are trying to find a balance between maintaining cultural roots and living in the mainstream world.
Duration: 31:30.
The Northern Review, no. 41, Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic, 2015, pp. 3-12
Description
Introduction to special issue covering research on the best way to increase benefits that northern communities receive from resource development. Features research from the Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic (ReSDA) Project.
Identifies barriers to doing business or becoming employed, opportunities for employment, companies directly employing Aboriginal women, what is being done to facilitate participation, impacts of development, and types of training needed.
Website has links to: community businesses, information on duty to consult, economic development, tax programs and bulletins, initiatives, directory, federal benefits and rights, and treaty land.
Education lead for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation discusses ways in which everyone can incorporate reconciliation into daily life.
Duration: 41:56.
Presents examples of how reconciliation can be enacted in everyday life and talks about the National Center for Truth and Reconciliation, Project of Heart and the film Students in the Classroom.
Duration: 41:56.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2015, pp. 47-68
Description
Interviewed 75 Cree and Stoney women and found a feeling of loss and geographic separation from elders, family and community as pregnancy care moved out of the community.
BC Studies, no. 188, Winter, 2015/2016, pp. 108-111
Description
Book reviews of: Return to the Land of the Head Hunters edited by Brad Evans and Aaron Glass.
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To read this review scroll to p. 108.
Revisiting RCAP: Towards Reconciliation: The Future of Indigenous Governance
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Institute on Governance
Description
Summary of conference discussions which focused on six themes: state of reconciliation; imaging possibilities, assessing priorities for immediate action, identifying best practices, restoring trust to relationships with governments, and building relationships with industry.
Tool to help advocates, educators and communities develop a vision for language education, understand their current situation and resources, and create a comprehensive plan to execute their vision.
Looks at the traditional role of grandparents and options available for maintaining a connection when a grandchild is in the care of the Alberta Government.
Duration: 21:20.
General Meeting of the Royal Society of Canada ; 2015
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kathleen Mahoney
Description
Argues that Canada must correct the mythology that it was founded by two nations and acknowledge the place of Indigenous peoples in the formation of the country.
Duration: 58:45.