The Legends Project is a compilation of traditional oral stories, legends and histories of Canada's Inuit and First Nations. They are transcribed, dramatized, and cast within the communities.This audio recorded at the Blood Reserve in Alberta.
Duration: 54:05
Anglican Journal, vol. 135, no. 3, March 2009, p. 7
Description
Highlights an interdisciplinary conference held at The King's University College in Edmonton, Alberta, where students met with survivors of residential school abuse.
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 39-40, Culture - Natures in Canada, 2009, pp. 253-279
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Discusses the historical process which has led to the destruction of many of the Blood sacred sites and explains how repatriation and protection are necessary, since their relationship with the land is essential to their culture and spirituality.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 90, no. 4, December 2009, pp. 711-751
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Suggests that the event represented economic self-sufficiency, personal independence, and the development of new rodeo masculinities for both settlers and Aboriginal men in early twentieth-century Western Canada.
Examines the political, social, and economic influences on First Nation and Métis youth’s attitudes toward higher levels of education and career planning; and looks at some of the institutional and policy structures that support or hinder the ability of First Nation and Métis youth to finding pathways that will lead to sustained employment.
Native Studies Review, vol. 20, no. 1, 2011, pp. 7-26
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Surveyed eight high school students for their attitudes toward physical activity. Five themes developed: unstructured participation, relationships, expense, community support, and benefits.
Research Highlight (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Highlight. Socio-economic Series ; 09-011
Documents & Presentations
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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
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Summary of study involving eight First Nations communities selected on the basis of innovative approaches to promoting home ownership and developing support programs. A minimum of six interviews was conducted at each site with community leaders, housing professionals and home owners.
Examines how the structure of native institutions and property rights provided a relatively high standard of living in the mid eighteenth century and for part of the nineteenth, then was unable to experience modern rates of economic growth and provide avenues for further development.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 32, no. 2, 2009, pp. 62-77, 117
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Looks at effective ways to revitalize obsolescing languages through school and community programs such as the Cree Immersion Day Camp at the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Institute.
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, vol. 57, no. 1, Spring, 2011, pp. 1-15
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Discusses the themes coming out of focus group discussions for approaches to Aboriginal education: assimilation, self segregation, and mutual dialogue.
Journal of Learning Disabilities, vol. 42, no. 1, January/February 2009, pp. 76-84
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Study done to evaluate the Reading=Decoding (D) x Listening Comprehension (C) model done with a sample of First Nations children found that, contrary to the model, average decoding and listening skills did not correlate with average reading comprehension.
Follows the writer's career, first as a columnist with Windspeaker, then with the Calgary Herald and finally as a novelist. Discusses The Terrible Summer, Keeper 'n Me, A Quality of Light and for Joshua in relation to other Aboriginal authors' works.
Chapter from the book Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature edited by Donna Coates and George Melnyk.
Annual results for 2008/09 of the ministry's Aboriginal economic development partnership initiatives which provide opportunities for economic growth in Alberta.
Book review of This is What They Say by François Mandeville ; edited and translated by Ron Scollon, foreword by Robert Bringhurst.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 136.