Outlines three areas in which the interests and goals of government and Aboriginals may differ: scope of injustices, government's attempt to draw a line through the past and legitimate current policies, and government's use of the process as an attempt to assert authority.
Overall goals of research project were to increase student success, document best practices, and identify factors which facilitate or hinder a smooth transition. Used interviews and focus groups involving 80 current and former students.
Search of literature published between 2010 and 2016 which focused on either Alberta or Canada produced 44 results. Results are arranged under the headings interconnected worldview, development of legal traditions, positive individual and collective identity, and self-determination.
Explains suicide as the cause of death for one third of Aboriginal youth. Prime Minister Harper suggests that economic development could fix the problem, but the author contends that the issue is too deep rooted for such a quick fix.
Canadian Diversity=Diversitié canadienne, vol. 7, no. 3, One Path, Many Directions: The Complex and Diverse Nature of Contemporary Aboriginal Reality, Fall, 2009, pp. 13-19
Description
Analyzes the intent, rationale and history of the treaty annuity.
Scroll down to page 13 to read article.
Uses the Community Well-Being Index, which combines measurements of income, education, housing and labour market participation, to evaluate whether participating First Nations have shown more rapid improvement than those who have not pursued the option.
Canadian Issues, Journeys of a Generation: Broadening the Aboriginal Well-Being Policy Research Agenda, Winter, 2009, pp. 25-30
Description
Looks at designing a specific health care program that balances main stream design and research while maintaining Aboriginal cultural integrity.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 25.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 4, Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research Involving Indigenous Peoples - Part 2, October 2017, pp. 1-[3]
Description
Book review: Trickster Chases the Tale of Education by Sylvia Moore.
Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing, and Teaching Genocide
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Adam Muller
Description
Discusses the meaning of genocide and whether or not genocide occurred based on two underlying issues.
Chapter 3 from Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing, and Teaching Genocide edited by Scott W. Murray.
Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs speaks about his background, challenges faced by community chiefs and First Nations political organizations, and the how the land plays a central role in attempts at reconciliation
Duration: 59:54.
Anglican Journal, vol. 135, no. 4, April 2009, p. 3
Description
Discusses the resignation of two commissioners from the Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission due to a conflict with the chair of the commission.
CFLA-FCAB Truth and Reconciliation Committee Report and Recommendations
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
CFLA-FCAB Truth and Reconciliation Committee
Description
Overview of the Canadian Federation of Library Associations -Federation candienne des associations de bibliotheques's Truth and Reconciliation committee's mandate, responsibilities and methodology and a list of recommendations presented to the incoming board.
AlterNative, vol. 13, no. 3, Fostering Cultural Safety Across Contexts, September 2017, pp. 142-151
Description
Looks at links between historic and contemporary rationales for interfering with Indigenous families and discusses how literary arts can foster cross-cultural and cross-generational understanding.
University of the Fraser Valley Research Review, vol. 2, no. 2, Through Students Eyes: Selected Papers From the Stó:lō Ethnohistory Field School, Spring, 2009, pp. 1-8
Looks at four periods: 1900 to 1945, 1945 to 1969, 1969 to 1989, and 1989 to 2006. Sources include records of Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada, National Archives of Canada, secondary literature, and personal recollections.
Comments on a group of Indigenous teenagers who use square dancing to help heal from the trauma of a suicide epidemic and bullying in their remote community.
Duration: 16:31.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 32, no. 2, 2009, pp. 3-23, 116
Description
Looks at a community participation model of research and teaching which draws on the strengths of Indigenous and Western knowledges in efforts to revitalize language and restore relationships with each other and with the land.
Two From the Island: Recent Work Relating to the Mi'kmaq of Prince Edward Island
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
John Crossley
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, 1990, pp. 143-150
Description
Review of the article: "Theophilus Stewart and the Plight of the Micmac" by Alan Andrew MacEachern in The Island Magazine, 28:3-11 (Fall/Winter 1990) and the book Micmac by Choice: Elsie Sark, and Island Legend by M. Olga McKenna.
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 168-175
Description
Literary Criticism article examines Love Beyond Body Space and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-fi Anthology edited by Hope Nicholson and Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill and how the speculative nature of the texts helps to reclaim IndigiQueer and LGBTQ identities.
Canadian Diversity=Diversité canadienne, vol. 7, no. 3, One Path, Many Directions: The Complex and Diverse Nature of Contemporary Aboriginal Reality, Fall, 2009, pp. 103-108
Description
Brief article argues that Aboriginals are the most disadvantaged of an already marginalized class and discusses whether other legal options would improve the situation.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access this article, scroll to p. 103.