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Applying Lessons from the U.S. Indian Child Welfare Act to Recently Passed Federal Child Protection Legislation in Canada
Looks at the passing of Canada's Bill C-92 and what it could learn from the United States' Indian Child Welfare Act in regards to the well-being and care of Indigenous children.
Exploring How Current Federal Provincial and First Nations Government Policies Support and Promote Healthy Aging Among Older Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia
Health Thesis (MA) -- Dalhousie University, 2019.
Food for Thought: Access to Food in Canada’s Remote North
Indian Act and Treaties
Website includes links to three modules on treaties and five on the Indian Act and the reserve system.
Student worksheet for Indian Act and Treaties.
The Indians of To-Day
Rev. ed., rewritten and brought down to date.
Intimate Integration: A History of the Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship
[Métis Scrip]: Lesson Plan
Designed for Grades 4-9.
Montana's Landless Indians and the Assimilation Era of Federal Indian Policy: A Case of Contradictions: Lessons for Grades 7-12
Title refers to the Chippewa, Cree and Métis.
Naming the Eskimo: Politics of Naming in the North of This Land Now Called Canada
Discusses Project Naming and photographs taken by Major L.T. Burwash and Richard Harrington.
National Conference on Indian and Northern Education Saskatoon 1967
Theme of the Conference was "We Listen, They Speak" and featured speakers were Inuit, First Nations and Metis.
Open History Seminar: Canadian History
Collection of primary and secondary sources suitable for use at secondary and post-secondary levels. Can be used to supplement Canadian History: Pre-Confederation and Canadian History: Post-Confederation.
[Orange Shirt Day (Residential Schools)]
Power Point presentation deals with the Métis residential school experience. Can be used with Grades 5-12.
Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations: Selected Essays
Reports of the Auditor General of Canada to the Parliament of Canada: Independent Auditor's Report 2: Housing in First Nations Communities
Sir John A. Macdonald Fact Sheet: Racism and Oppression Committed by Sir John A. Macdonald
Includes list government policies and legislation, quotes, rebuttal to common arguments, and points that can raised by Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
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.
“This Spurious Philanthropy”: Indian Policy, Food and Canada’s North-West As Discussed in the Senate of Canada in 1886
"The evidence provided to this commission provides an interesting record of thoughts by the government and (mostly non-Indigenous, male) experts about food, Indigenous people and the Canadian North-West ten years after the near-extinction of the buffalo."
"To Christianize and Civilize": Settler Motives and Residential Schools
Compilation of primary sources which represent the settler's perspectives on the schools.