Advocates for four specific initiatives: establishing a Métis Education Council of Alberta and a Métis Academy (public charter school) in Edmonton, implementing alternative educational programming for Métis learners, and creating a wiki space for information sharing.
Eight images (2 scanned here) of wooden crosses and a cement monument, marking a Metis Homestead Historical Site. Photographs were taken September 3, 1974.
International Journal of Transitional Justice, vol. 9, no. 3, November 2015, pp. 469-485
Description
Contends that "the transpower of the Canadian TRC may therefore lie not in the public events themselves, but in the more carnivalesque movements that are growing in its wake".
Identifies ways in which the Government of the Northwest Territories can ensure access and decision-making roles for Indigenous women. Discusses human resource policies, educational opportunities, role of the Women's Advisory Office, and the need for affordable and accessible child care.
[Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC)]
Description
"The material provides an overview of the mandate and history of the Department, the parliamentary environment, the Minister's portfolio, key relationships, and departmental sectors and their mandates. It also includes an overview of First Nation, Métis and Inuit protocols, cultures and traditions."
Speaker talks about how some of the data has been misinterpreted or ignored by the RCMP, federal government, and media. Implication has been that most women were murdered by their spouse, family member, or intimate partners on-reserve and disregarded the role of acquaintances.
Duration: 45:34.
Focuses on the story of Rinelle Harper, a Winnipeg teenager who was attacked and left for dead, and other families affected by the issue.
Duration: 13:27.
BC Studies, no. 188, Winter, 2015/2016, pp. 117-118
Description
Book review of: A Missing Genocide and the Demonization of Its Heroes by Tom Swanky.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 117.
Book review of Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country by Elizabeth Bingham Young and E. Ryerson Young ; edited and with introductions by Jennifer S. H. Brown.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 96, no. 4, December 2015, pp. 608-611
Description
Book review of Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country by Elizabeth Bingham Young and E. Ryerson Young, edited and with an introduction by Jennifer S.H. Brown.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, Les Inuit au Labrador méridional / Inuit in Southern Labrador, 2015, pp. 141-164
Description
Paper provides documentation in support of Inuit entrepreneurs as catalysts for the abundance of trade goods rather than the missionaries or the merchants.
Created to accompany play. Includes curriculum connections and expectations, brief information on residential schools, and pre- and post-show questions.
Toolkit for Aboriginal Families Living Off-reserve
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples
Description
Contains links to user guide, life fact book, resource book, personal safety plan, and 11 fact sheets. Designed for use by off-reserve families experiencing family violence.
Briefly discusses existing research knowledge on the topic and identifies knowledge gaps relating to the technology and its applications to Indigenous communities and learners.