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Debating Cultural Appropriation
Lesson plan focuses on what cultural appropriation is, how it affects Indigenous peoples and whether it should be regulated by law.
Accompanying Material: Student Version.
Developed in conjunction with the documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World.
Four Stories of an Over-Taxed Indian
Using their own personal experiences to examine the treatment of Indian Status Card users and the misconceptions about Status Cards by the general public. To view article to scroll down to page 85.
Lockbolted Letters to Turbo
Marie: A Disenfrancised First Nation Woman from Kipawa
Education Thesis (MEd) -- Queen's University, 2017.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Nine: Introduction and Directions
The Over-Incarceration of Canadian Indigenous People: Moving from Punitive Practices Towards Healing Spirit Injuries
Discusses ways to address the over incarceration of the Indigenous populations by holding perpetrators of crime accountable through facilitated dialogues amongst offender(s), victim(s) and communities.
To view article scroll down to page 11.
Special Supplement on Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women in British Columbia: Group Submission to the Human Rights Committee on the Occasion of the Consideration of the Sixth Periodic Report of Canada Submitted June 5th, 2015
Gives background to the issue, discusses the reports produced by the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, Human Rights Watch, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and reports on the response of the federal and provincial governments.
They Promised to Leave Us Some of Our Land: Aboriginal Title in Canada’s Maritime Provinces
Law Thesis (LLM) -- York University, 2015.
Truth and Reconciliation: Canadians See Value in Process, Skeptical about Government Action
Reports results of online survey conducted from June 9-12, 2015, with a sample of 1511 Canadian adults who were members of the Angus Reid Forum. Respondents were asked whether they agreed with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's key recommendations.
Related Material: Survey Questionnaire.
Understanding the Indian Act
Speakers discuss how the Act has defined the government's and Crown's relationship with First Nations peoples; how it has impeded development of communities; and how fundamental changes are needed to give First Nations' control over governance and the ability to develop mechanisms to improve access to capital.
Duration: 1:09:15.