Video and transcript of the Aboriginal Head Start On Reserve Program in Akwesasne, Ontario, with discussion on culture and language, education, health, nutrition, social support and parental involvement.
Video and transcript of the Aboriginal Head Start On Reserve Program in Indian Brook, Nova Scotia, with discussion on culture and language, education, health, nutrition, social support and parental involvement.
Video and transcript of the Aboriginal Head Start On Reserve Program in Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, Quebec, with discussion on culture and language, education, health, nutrition, social support and parental involvement.
Video and transcript of the Aboriginal Head Start On Reserve Program in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, with discussion on culture and language, education, health, nutrition, social support and parental involvement.
Video and transcript of the Aboriginal Head Start On Reserve Program in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with discussion on culture and language, education, health, nutrition, social support and parental involvement.
Author speaks about his new book The Economic Dependency Trap including the dependency First Nations people have on the federal government.
Duration: 14:54.
Part II.
Part III.
Continuation of talk with author about his new book The Economic Dependency Trap including the dependency First Nations people have on the federal government.
Duration: 13:08.
Part I.
Part III.
Continuation of talk with author about his new book The Economic Dependency Trap including the dependency First Nations people have on the federal government.
Duration: 12:38.
Part I.
Part II.
Documentary about a community radio station and the important role it plays in the Teetl'it Gwich'in town of Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories.
Duration : 1:06:11.
Presents new archaeological discoveries about when the first humans entered the new world.
Episode of The Nature of Things which was broadcast January 13, 2011.
Duration: 45:13
Three artists who participated in the exhibition Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains discuss the relationship between their culture, personal lives, and their work.
Duration: 1:59:05.
Speaker uses examples from the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia to illustrate talk which focuses on federal government's involvement in creation and marketing of Inuit art.
Duration: 1:13:11.
University of Victoria Centre for Aboriginal Health Research
Description
Documentary takes a critical look at the environmental public health challenge as expressed by First Nations peoples living in Canada.
Duration: 30:15.
Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses the way that story shapes our understanding of people and places, and how only having one narrative about a place or a people leads to a stereotypical and incomplete understanding.
Duration: 18:33.
Six brief videos by daughters of women who are residential school survivors. Done in conjunction with the kiskinohamâtôtâpânâsk: Inter-generational Effects on Professional First Nations Women Whose Mothers are Residential School Survivors project.
Douglas Cardinal talks about the issues that arose during construction of the building and the events which ultimately led to termination of his participation in the project.
Duration: 15:59.
David Berner: Ending the Dependency Trap ; episode 8, part 1
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Calvin Helin
David Berner
Description
Interview with the author of two books which discuss First Nations reliance on the government and the need for self-sufficiency.
Duration: 14:18.
Part II.
David Berner: Ending the Dependency Trap ; episode 8, part 2
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Calvin Helin
David Berner
Description
Continuation of an interview with the author of two books which discuss First Nations reliance on the government and the need for self-sufficiency.
Duration: 14:13.
Part I.
Comments on the importance of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978 which is meant to address the problem of children being placed outside of their families and communities.
Duration: 12:00.
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences ; 2011
[Transforming the Academy: Indigenous Education]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Shawn Atleo
Description
Video of speech by the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations given at the 2011 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Duration: 1:04:53.
Speaker discusses the program of preservation and conservation undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the New Deal era. Also features screening of newsreel, Timber and Totem Poles by the Forest Service.
Duration: 45:34.
Video of speech given by the Director of Economic Development for the Whitecap Dakota Nation and Chief Executive Officer of the Whitecap Development Corporation at the 2010 Growing Saskatchewan Conference.
Three parts. Viewer is automatically sent to next part.
Total Duration: 38:06.