Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 159, Summer, 2014, pp. 30-37
Description
Interviews two artists that combine emerging technologies with their art and are also featured in the Kanata Indigenous Performance New and Digital Media Art Project.
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.
[Critical Conversations on Truth and Reconciliation]
[Critical Conversations Series]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
[Greg Bak]
Description
Podcast discusses the destructing of archives which amounted to lost records of residential school students experiences.
Duration: 25:29
Accompanying material.
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.
Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, 2017, pp. 372-392
Description
Discusses how a digital map of Amiskwaciwaskahikan (Cree for Edmonton, Alberta), along with an overlay of Treaty 6 Indigenous maps onto a conventional map can be used to show Indigenous people were in Canada in a tangible way. Also looks at the Ogimaa Mikana project in Toronto, Ontario.
In Education, vol. 19, no. 3, [Indigenous Education] in Education, Pt. 2, Spring, 2014, pp. 108-122
Description
Comments on the need to address three common questions from teacher candidates, to help encourage teachers to include more Aboriginal perspectives in the classroom.
Using Winnipeg, Manitoba, as a case study, looked at concept of food security, challenges of maintaining access to culturally valued food, and made recommendations concerning policy which would facilitate access. Information gathered through interviews and focus groups.
Discusses historical and contemporary factors which contribute to high rate of homeless found in the Indigenous population and looks at 12 different dimensions: historic displacement, contemporary geographic separation, spiritual disconnection, mental disruption and imbalance, cultural disintegration and loss, overcrowding, relocation and mobility, nowhere to go, escaping or evading harm, emergency crisis, and climatic refuge,
Looks at experiences of social workers in agencies providing guardianship and protective services to children and families within and outside Indigenous communities and reports how current funding arrangements affect availability of supports.
CMAJ, vol. 189, no. 45, November 13, 2017, pp. e1377-e1378
Description
Discusses health care disparities in remote communities and argues that a more comprehensive concept of primary care is needed to deal with social determinants of health.
Looks at two examples in which community requests for formal education were ignored by the federal government until 1955, when integrated schooling was introduced.
Court case involved sex-based discrimination in the Indian Act with respect to status entitlement. Includes chronological list of federal legislation concerning Indian status and summary of issues in the case.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 1, Destabilizing Canada / Le Canada déstabilisé, Winter, 2017, pp. 153-185
Description
General discussion of consultation and consent, and analysis of recent legal cases which illustrate how Indigenous peoples in Alberta have been excluded from decision-making involving the oil industry.
Journal of Community Informatics, vol. 10, no. 2, [Building the First Mile], 2014, p. [?]
Description
Describes how the First Nation is using information and communication technology to support online delivery of education, cultural, health, policing and security services.
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 2, Special Issue 2014: Revitalizing Education in Nunangat, 2014, pp. 77-79
Description
Shows how getting a university on Inuit Nunangat lands is linked with improving education research scope and access to post-secondary education.
Entire issues on one pdf. Scroll down to page 77 to read article.
Chronic Diseases and Injuries in Canada, vol. 34, no. 4, November 2014, pp. 203-209
Description
Expert and community stakeholders said indicators related to motorized vehicle collisions, mortality, and hospitalization rates were most likely to prove useful and prompt action.
Based on interviews in two northern communities and looks at traditional wage economy, leadership role and impacts of Land Claim Agreement.
Chapter three in book: Proceedings of the CRIAW-ICREFF Conference 1995 edited by Deborah Poff and Toni Fletcher.