Plain language version of Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North edited by Fikret Berkes, Rob Huebert, Helen Fast, Micheline Manseau, and Alan Diduck.
Discusses a unique governance system and challenges facing tribal governments and communities.
Duration: 41:32. Includes textual transcript.
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Reports on information gathered at Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Workshop and through interviews with community members and service providers.
Summary of the Church's goals of assimilation and Christianization of Aboriginal children into mainstream society and statements of regret for role in the administration of residential schools. Includes list of schools operated by Presbyterian Church in Canada.
Discusses the history of Aboriginals prior to European contact and assimilation policies of the colonial period, as well as reparations needed for recovery of past injustices.
RightsEd: Human Rights Education Resources for Teachers
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Australian Human Rights Commission
Description
Educator's resource for the report Bringing Them Home: National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. Most activities suitable for grade 9 and up.
Discussion on the development of the Federal Framework for Aboriginal Economic Development; recent Federal measures including the Northern Strategy; a series of agreements between government and Aboriginal communities, including self-government and Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements; and examines how they can play a central role in strengthening the northern economy.
Guide prepared by federal, provincial, First Nation and other agencies, intended for use as an information resource for negotiation of service arrangements between the Boards of Education and First Nations.
Discusses program that developed skills through the use of environmentally sustainable building methods. Report forms part of the Bridges and Foundations Project on Urban Aboriginal Housing.
Looks at the change to Inuit life from one based on relationships and ritual to one of secular commodification as demonstrated by the fate of the sled dog.
Is This Our Canada? How Racial Discrimination in Children's Services Undermines the Potential of This Generation of First Nations Children and What You Can do to Help
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Cindy Blackstock
Description
Executive Director of First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada speaks on inequities in funding for Aboriginal children, focusing on Jordan's Principle, Shannen's Dream, and the discrimination complaint lodged with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5 (slide show)
Total Duration: 41:88.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 22, no. 2, Crossing Borders, Winter, 2010
Description
Comments and observations from a writer and photographer, who toured five tribal colleges in Montana, including noting a strong female presence in leadership roles and feeling very welcomed by all campuses.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 45-52
Description
Discusses the history of the American Indian women who initiated legislative changes to the Indian Child Welfare Act, and looks at recommendations to address the problems associated with the lack of compliance to current legislation across Canada and the United States.
Document submitted to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights. Recommendations: provide sustained and equitable funding to agencies, augment services available on reserves, ensure culturally-based services, and develop a national strategy to deal with issues.