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First Nations, First Thoughts Conference: Abstracts and Papers
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Author/Creator
Centre of Canadian Studies
University of Edinburgh
Description
Website contains links, some with access to the full text of presentations, from a conference which explores intellectual thought and cultural development of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Many of the presenters were Canadian.
First Nations, First Thoughts: The Impact of Indigenous Thought in Canada
Alternate Title
2639
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Priscilla Settee
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 72-73
Description
Book review of: First Nations, First Thoughts edited by Annis May Timpson.
In Black or White, or Through Marxist Glasses: The Image of the Indian in the Soviet Press and Scholarship
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrei A. Snamenski
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 1, 1992, pp. 119-136
Description
Article discusses the influence of state ideology on social thought as it applies to the coverage of American Indian topics in the Soviet press and in Indian Studies.
Indian Record (Vol. XXXII, Nos. 8-9, August-September, 1969)
Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
Pedagogies of Remembrance and "Doing Critical Heritage" in the Teaching of History: Countermemorializing Canada 150 with Future Teachers
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa Karen Taylor
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 52, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 217-248
Description
Uses two examples of critical heritage discourses—social media debate surrounding Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations, and an undergraduate history education course which focused on the production of counter histories—to illustrate how critical heritage studies can expand the discussion and challenge traditional thinking around national memory and settler-colonial narratives.
Questioning Indigenous-Settler Relations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Alternate Title
Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and the World ; vol. 1
E-Books
Author/Creator
Morgan Brigg
Thalia Anthony
Katherine Ellinghaus
Barry Judd
David Nolan … [et al.]
Research Reveals Discrimination, Explodes Stereotypes
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 25, no. 1, April 2007, p. 9
Description
Michael Mendelson, a senior scholar at the Caledon Institute of Social Policy in Toronto, suggests discrimination on the part of Canadian government policies in regards to the delivering and funding of Aboriginal education.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.9.
Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Steven Hoelscher
Michelene E. Pesantubbee
Jaye T. Darby
Thomas Maxwell-Long
Barbara Krauthamer
Peter Nabokov
Greg O'Brien
James A. Lewis
Sandra Baringer... [et al.]
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 2, 2006, pp. 141-186
Description
Book reviews of:
Beyond the Reach of Time and Change: Native American Reflections on the Frank A. Rinehart Photograph Collection edited by Simon J. Ortiz.
Bringing Indians to the Book by Albert Furtwangler.
A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children edited by Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin.
Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769–1850 by Steven W.
Reviews [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 1999]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kevin Dye
Stephanie Gordon
Jan D. Hodge
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1999, pp. [101]-113
Description
Book reviews of:
Grandmother, Grandfather, and Old Wolf: Tamánwit Ku Súkat and Traditional Native American Narratives from the Columbia Plateau edited with introduction by Clifford E. Trafzer.
Native American Identities: From Stereotype to Archetype in Art and Literature by Scott B. Vickers.
The Meade Solution by Robert J. Conley.
The “Real People” Novels by Robert J. Conley.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Further Comments by Babette Bastien
Alternate Title
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Babette Bastien
Description
The file contains further comments by Babette Bastien. Bastien discusses his youth on reserve and the struggles he had, leaving the reserve to attain an education, his views on the current drive towards self-government, the federal government capping education funding for First Nations, under-representation in the professions, and related policy issues.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Gary Standing, Post-Secondary Student, Wahpeton
Documents & Presentations
Description
File contains a presentation by Garry Standing, a post-secondary student from the Wahpeton Dakota Nation. Standing describes himself as someone who has spent his entire life on reserve until the September before the Commission. The purpose of his presentation is to relay his "experiences from the last eight or nine months. Some of them have been positive and some of them have been negative." He discusses attending the University of Regina, but having to withdraw due to financing changes in Indian Affairs policy. He complains of paternalism and condescension in the approach of Indian Affairs.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Keith Chiefmoon
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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Keith Chiefmoon
Description
File contains a presentation by Keith Chiefmoon. Chiefmoon discusses racism "as it pertains here today" with a focus on off-reserve life. Chiefmoon discusses racism in the city of Lethbridge in the employment, post-secondary, and provincial government services. Chiefmoon also discusses what he deems discriminatory law enforcement practices, and Aboriginal over-representation in prisons. Chiefmoon also makes recommendations about languages, land claims, political representation in the federal parliament, and the need for an "off-reserve Indian government."
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Shacken Band School
Documents & Presentations
Description
File contains a presentation on behalf of the Shacken Band School. Martha Aspinall, Charmane Sheena, and Sally Holmes discuss a variety of concerns regarding Band Schools, post-secondary funding, racism and discrimination, and jurisdictional issues. Following the presentation Commissioners Dussault and Chartrand thank the presenters for their thoughts.
SIIT Gets $2 Million Injection From Province
Alternate Title
Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies Gets 2 Million Dollar Injection From Province
Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Lagimodiere
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 2, February 2009, p. 17
Description
Discusses the Saskatchewan Instiitute of Technologies (SIIT) plan to use funding received from the Saskatchewan government to improve its facility and develop a space for video conferencing.
Article located by scrolling down to page 17.
Sisters in the Blood: The Education of Women in Native America
E-Books
Author/Creator
Ardy Bowker
Survey of First Nations People Living Off-Reserve, Métis and Inuit: Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
EKOS Research Associates
Anishinabek Consultants
Description
Results of a national telephone survey conducted in 2006.