Promotes the study, criticism, and research on the oral traditions and written literatures of Native Americans. The website includes a Guide to Native American Studies Programs in the United States and Canada, a link to the SAIL newsletter and notes, recent announcements, and a link to archival issues of Studies in American Indian Literatures (SAIL).
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, Resistance and Resiliency: Addressing Historical Trauma of Aboriginal Peoples, March 2007, pp. 121-136
Description
Looks at the merits of university and community collaboration in the development of a community-based healing program for residential school survivors living in the Kitchener-Waterloo area.
Dispelling Common Myths about Indigenous Peoples: Nine Myths & Realities
E-Books
Author/Creator
Bob Joseph
Description
Covers issues such as adequacy of reserve lands and resources, housing, tax exemptions, post-secondary education funding, residential schools, connection between unemployment and health and social problems, and missing and murdered women and girls.
Discusses a curriculum module which looks at assimilation practices and the forcible removal of Indigenous children from their families to residential schools.
Subcommittee produced extensive report which examined the history of residential, tribal and public education and made numerous recommendations to improve the system.
"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions.
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions.
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
"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.
"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 polices of the time.
"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.
"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 polices of the time.
"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 polices of the time.
Presenters discuss issues of intellectual or cognitive imperialism; summarize the Eurocentric knowledge systems, religions, and doctrines on which historical and current education are built and the means of enforcement by which those frameworks are held in place. Stress the need for Universities to implement Indigenous ways of knowing and thinking in all colleges and disciplines in order to affect change.
Duration: 1:18:01
Historical Studies in Education, Fall, 2010, pp. 58-74
Description
Looks at nuns who staffed two schools in located in northern Alberta (St. Martin school and St. Bruno school) and their lack of education and teacher training.
Results of a ethnographic study on the views of Native women regarding work and employment eligiblility as well as the influence of educational attainment and skills acquisition.
A guide to accompany the film Kinàmàgawin: Aboriginal Issues in the Classroom to help instructors and facilitators deal with Aboriginal issues in the classroom and provides techniques and objectives for enhancing classroom dynamics.
Literacy More Than Words: Presentations: Literacy for Aboriginal Populations
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Council of Ministers of Education
Canada
Description
Contains links to webcasts and presentations on Aboriginal literacy from the Pan-Canadian Interactive Literacy Forum 2008: Legacy, which was put on by the Council of Ministers of Education and took place in nine different locations across Canada.
International Journal of Educational Research, vol. 33, no. 6, 2000, pp. 621-629
Description
Explains transitional problems as being affected primarily by community characteristics such as socioeconomic status and rural location as well as those unique to the Navajo such traditions, theology and culture.
Queen's Law Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, Fall, 1990, pp. 179-215
Description
Discusses her experience as an Aboriginal woman in the law school environment, as well as the need to reform curricula to incorporate the First Nations perspective.
Presents examples of how reconciliation can be enacted in everyday life and talks about the National Center for Truth and Reconciliation, Project of Heart and the film Students in the Classroom.
Duration: 41:56.
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.
File contains a presntation by Carol Gauthier relating to post-secondary education. She calls for more funding for Aboriginal post-education and in particular, for more comprehensive graduate studies. Gauthier briefly discusses the "Indian residential school syndrome" and also calls for funding and resources to 'complete the healing process in overcoming the devastating effects this syndrome has had within our community." Following the presentation is a question-and-answer session with the Commissioners.
This file contains a transcript of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at The Citadel Inn, Ottawa, Ontario. This is a presentation of a Model of an Aboriginal Education Initiative: Gabriel Dumont Institute by John Dorion, Director of Development and Research Unit, Gabriel Dumont Institute.
Critical Social Work, vol. 11, no. 1, Special Indigenous Issue, 2010, pp. [53]-61
Description
Discusses the impact of residential schools and the forced removal of children for the purposes of foster care or adoption. Argues that current practices and training must take into account the damage inflicted by the drive for assimilation and incorporate the Aboriginal worldview when dealing with clients.
A Syllabus for History After the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Historical Association
Description
Goal of document is to "gather together materials on Indigenous history in and around Canada that might be useful for people teaching, researching, writing history or working in public history".
Current as of 2019.
Contains links to educational modules on six topics: Indigenous worldviews, Indigenous ways of knowing, stereotypes, history of Indigenous education, reconciliation, and treaties. Intended for a post-secondary audience.
Native Studies Review, vol. 9, no. 2, l993-1994, p. 1–21
Description
Discusses the development of respectful relationships between the Garden River Anishinaabe and the Anglican Diocese of Algoma from the beginning to the present.