Looks at current context in Alberta; need for gender-specific programming; issue of financing; lack of awareness of business opportunities and start-up resources; and need to build relationships in communities. Presents two-point plan to address needs of Indigenous women.
Material on: culture, history, mythology and language as well as separate sections for scholarly articles and theses.children's books, films, internet resources, music, recordings, curriculum materials, and textbooks.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 19, no. 4, July/August 1995, pp. 22-25
Description
Copy of Appendix 1 of Choosing Life: Special Report on Suicide Among Aboriginal People. Concerns identified in report apply to Australian Aboriginal suicide.
Reports results of survey administered to provincial school boards associations, ministries of education, other organizations and key educational partners. Responses grouped into three parts: Indigenous education structure, responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, and initiatives and promising practices.
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 20, no. 2, 1995, pp. 34-43
Description
Argues that Highway's plays have succeeded in bridging the gap between cultures through dramatizing the collision of feelings of hope and despair, comedy and tragedy, order and chaos and social issues like poverty, crime and abuse. Looks at The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 3, 1995, pp. 1-31
Description
Looks at the marketing of Indigenous spirituality and how it enables the dominant culture to secure political and social control, as well as profiting economically from Aboriginal cultures.
Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 2017.
Includes biographies of Robert Davidson, Roy Henry Vickers, Marvin Oliver, and Susan Point.
Part III: Repatriation and Protection of First Nations Culture in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
gii-dahl-guud-sliiaay
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [183]-201
Description
Discusses First Nations' conceptions of cultural property and argues, by using Haida Gwaii examples, that objects should be placed in centres managed and controlled by First Nations, not residing in museums.
Culture and Wellness in the Workplace: A Guidebook
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Imagination FX
Nene Kraneveldt Consulting
Description
Developed to help employees, teams, volunteers, board members, and social service organizations as a whole. Information is divided into three sections: take care of yourself, take care of each other, and take care of this place.
Topics include context, healing journey and resiliency theory, culturally appropriate evidence-informed practices and examples of programs in Canada and the United States.
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 41, no. 11, December 1995, pp. 1487-1498
Description
Comparison of substance abuse programs that incorporate traditional healing practices and the promotion of culture as both preventive and curing agents.
Purpose of study was to: describe extent and nature of violence/abuse, identify socio-economic issues associated with it, describe how it is identified and dealt within each community, assess available services from client's perspective, and make recommendations for providing more appropriate responses in the future.
Harry Daniels and the Daniels Case: A Son's Perspective on the Man, His Legacy and Vision for a United Métis Nation
Threading the Constitutional Needle with Sinew of Métisland and Métis
[What Brought It On - and Did We Get What We Wanted?]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Tony Belcourt
Elmer Ghostkeeper
Gabriel Daniels
Maria Campbell
Description
Speakers discuss struggles for Métis rights and recognition which led to Daniels case and the Supreme Court's ruling that Métis and non-Status individuals fall within the definition of "Indian" in section 91(24) of the Constitution Act,1867; Maria Campbell reminisces about leader Harry Daniels, who initiated the court action.
Duration: 1:59:52.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
Presenter discusses how the decision aligns with or fails to meet some of the standards set out in international law and human rights instruments, the issue of Indigenous self-definition and membership, and implications in terms of right to traditional lands, territories and resources.
Duration: 49:23.
Presentation is part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 26-47
Description
Discusses case involving Métis and Non-Status Indians. Plaintiffs sought three declarations: that the two groups are "Indians" as defined by the Constitution Act, 1867; that the Crown owes a fiduciary duty to them; and they have the right to be consulted and negotiated with as to their rights, interests, and needs.
Describes how the Innu gave up the remnants of their nomadic culture to settle in half-built houses on the northeast coast of Labrador.
Duration: 8:11.
Discusses the social disintegration of an Innu settlement and the possible causes.
Classroom lesson plan to accompany segment on DVD News in Review. March, 1993.
Aboriginal Rights Litigation, Negotiation, and Practice among the Metis of BC: Community Perspectives on Creating Legal Change
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kerry Sloan
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 48-86
Description
Case developed requirement that s. 35 rights be vested in "historic" communities (existed before European control) and there must be continuity with present-day communities. Author interviewed 23 people about problems with application of the decision in three cases: Howse, Nunn, and Willison.
Analyzes the rationale and various financing options for debt financing of infrastructure projects on First Nations.
Revision of paper prepared for Westbank Indian Band-Taxation Workshop on Public Financing for First Nations Governments January, 1993.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. [23]-49
Description
Explores collective documentary filmmaking as an instrument of decolonizing storytelling, describes the consensus-based work of a diverse group including both Indigenous and settler artists involved in the Stories of Decolonization project's first short film Stories of Decolonization: Land Dispossession and Settlement.
Research Ethics, vol. 14, no. 2, September 28, 2017, pp. 1-24
Description
Looks at ways of valuing and using Indigenous knowledge on an equal footing with Western methods, and integrating the two when appropriate. Explores issues such as disconnection from practice, unclear researcher responsibility, forms of neutrality, and overlooking participants cultural protocols.