Aboriginal Awareness Workshop: Alberta Region Module
Brief overview for orientation of departmental employees.
Brief overview for orientation of departmental employees.
General information on choosing appropriate texts, common themes, copyright and protocol and dealing with sensitive content followed by an extensive list of material with annotations for grade level, description, themes and content cautions.
Examines the impact of education and identity in predicting the socioeconomic mobility of Indigenous populations.
Created to accompany workshop facilitated by Dr. Niigaan Sinclair.
Results of a survey conducted with 3,00 Canadian adults between June 4 and June 8, 2021.
Examines the First Nations Community Education Program as a collaborative effort to address Indigenous health inequalities in Canada.
Discusses cost projections for homes, and direct, indirect, and induced economic impacts, and proposes a national collaborative process.
Looks at the underlining causes of and recommendations to address the forced or coerced sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada.
Intersectional analysis of key literature and research projects.
Using personal experiences to address colonialism and the systematic racism within the Canadian health care system.
Utilizes data from the Census of Population, Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) and the Aboriginal Peoples Survey.
Examines maternal and child health from an Indigenous perspectives.
An investigation into whether framing water as a human right could increase support to provide cleaner water for the Indigenous communities.
Discusses educational and training approaches being employed to address racism experienced by Indigenous people seeking health care.
Story about a little Cree girl who helps her grandfather regain his language after he tells her about his experience of residential school, separation from his family and culture and loss of language.
Suitable for use with students aged 9-13 (Grades 4-7) who have completed three or more years of Cree language instruction.
Review conducted to "identify the relationships, correlations, and possible causations between housing and four socio-economic outcomes: education, health, the labour market, and Indigenous languages."
Special issue of Canadian Issues containing articles which focus on the Métis and the formation of Manitoba.
Related Material: Environmental Scan; Final Report.
Brief literature review focuses on challenges faced by students, Indigenous strengths and supporting success.
Examines the levels of inclusion and exclusion of Indigenous voices in regards to energy issues in Canada.
Guidance on creating a welcoming environment and considerations before, during and after an event.
Reports results of series of questions asked of 1,539 respondents regarding residential schools.
Restoring Our Roots is research project that creates an inclusive sense of community using traditional land-based teachings to improve mental health by encourage Indigenous youth to reconnect with their own culture.
An overview of the research on Indigenous children's overrepresentation within the welfare system.
Examines an anti-racism educational program to address racism in Canada.
Lesson plans for Grades 4--8. Indigenous Perspectives section begins on p. 329.
Story about a little Cree girl who helps her grandfather learn his language after he tells her about his experience of residential school, separation from his family and culture and loss of language.
Suitable for use with students aged 6-9 (Grades 1-4). Text in English with some Cree vocabulary.
Website contains links to a series of 12 podcasts which explore the impact of words such as reconciliation, indian time, school, reserve, and savage. Host Kaniehti:io Horn engages in conversations with more than 70 people from 15 First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities.
General overview of historical context along with examples of specific schools for illustrative purposes and 'gap analysis' to recommend areas where further research is required. Second part of report is a more detailed summary of information on each school’s location and construction sequence, duration of operation, and reported cemeteries.