Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Marleny M. Bonnycastle
Maureen Simpkins
Description
Of those surveyed (69), 85% were Indigenous and 57% were Indigenous females; average age for youth experiencing homelessness for the first time was 18, and most common ages were 18 and 21, which coincides with "aging out of care".
[City of Thunder Bay 2019 Report Responding to the Seven Youth Inquest]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
City of Thunder Bay
Description
Inquest investigated the deaths of seven youths who had relocated to Thunder Bay, Ontario to complete their high school education.
2017 Report.
2018 Report
The Civil War in Indian Territory, 1861-1865
Theses
Author/Creator
Zachery Cowsert
Description
History Thesis (PhD) -- Eberly College, 2020.
The Civil War Within the Civil War: The Cherokee Nation and the Third Indian Home Guard in the United States Civil War
Theses
Author/Creator
Myles Shingoose
Description
History Thesis (MA) -- University of Saskatchewan, 2017
Civilized, Roughly: Gender, Race, and the politics of Leisure in Colonial British Columbia, 1860-1871
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alice Gorton
BC Studies , no. 200, 50th Anniversary, Winter, 2019, pp. 273-299
Description
Article examines the construct of white masculinity in the interior of British Columbia during the Cariboo Gold Rush; discusses how the intersection with the settler-colonial agenda created a socially enforced code of behavior that demanded that men both subscribe to Victorian values, but also present with a roughness or heartiness about their person. Also illustrates how this construct of white masculinity justified violence towards women and racialized persons.
Claims to Native Identity in Children’s Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Debbie Reese
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 123-132
Description
Discusses successful children's writers that falsely claim Indigenous ancestry and the effect their success had on maintaining stereotypes that fit the popular conception of what constitutes an Indigenous person. The four of the writers profiled are: Jamake Highwater Anpao, Paul Goble, Sharon Creech, and Asa Carter.
Climate Change Adaptation Planning Guidebooks for Indigenous Communities: Guidebook 1: Starting the Planning Process
Alternate Title
Climate Change Adaptation Planning Guidebooks for Indigenous Communities
Climate Change Adaptation Planning Guidebooks for Indigenous Communities:Annexes
Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit for Indigenous Communities
Guidebook 2: Climate Change Impacts in the Community
Guidebook 3: Identifying Community Sustainability and Climate Change Vulnerabilities
Guidebook 4: Identifying Solutions
Guidebook 5: Taking Adaptive Action
Guidebook 6: Monitoring Progress and Change
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)
Description
Forms part of the Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit for Indigenous Communities. Guidebook 2: Climate Change Impacts in the Community.
Guidebook 3: Identifying Community Sustainability and Climate Change Vulnerabilities.
Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit for Indigenous Communities: Introduction
Alternate Title
Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit for Indigenous Communities: Guidance Book
Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit for Indigenous Communities: Guidance Book Appendices
Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit for Indigenous Communities: [Guidebook] Annexes
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)
Description
Discusses the various components of the toolkit: Anishinaabemowin Climate Change Glossary, Ininímowin Climate Change Glossary, Indigenous Languages Glossary Workbook, guidance book, and six guidebooks.
Close to Home: An Indigenist Project of Story Gathering
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathleen E. Absolon
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 9, no. 1, Indigenous Research Methodologies, 2020
Description
Author uses the example of collecting stories from her mother over a period of three years to describe an Indigenous methodology for research that is rooted in relationality, seasonal progressions, and wholistic worldviews and that focuses on research through memory and story-telling.
Closed Stranger Adoption, Māori and Race Relations in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1955-1985
Alternate Title
Closed Stranger Adoption, Maori and Race Relations in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1955-1985
Theses
Author/Creator
Maria Haenga-Collins
Description
[Indigenous History] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian National University, 2017.
Closing the Circle: Discussing Indigenous Homelessness in Canada: What We Heard at the National Indigenous Gathering in Winnipeg
E-Books
Author/Creator
Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Closing the Gap: Ethics and the Law in the Exhibition of Contemporary Native Art
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tahnee M. Ahtoneharjo-Growingthunder
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 115-122
Description
Discusses how decreased funding for museums and art galleries has lead to an increased effort to secure Indigenous art in order to acquire grants. Uses Jimmie Durham as a case study and an examination of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 to illustrate how the art community's haste to secure Indigenous art has allowed those with a fraudulent identity to benefit.
Closing the Gap: Prime Minister's Report 2017
E-Books
Author/Creator
Malcolm Turnbull
Closing the Gap Report 2019
E-Books
Author/Creator
Australian Government
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
[Closing the Gap: The Hon[ourable] Kevin Rudd]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kevin Rudd
Description
Comments on what the National Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples meant and what remains to be done as a country.
Duration: 33:18.
Coast Salish Gambling Music
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Wendy B. Stuart
Canadian Journal for Traditional Music , vol. 2, 1974, p. [?]
Description
Looks at a certain style in the music and games in British Columbia and Washington.
Cognitive and Personality Testing Use and Abuse
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph N. Cress
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 13, no. 3, May 1974, pp. [16-19]
Description
Cultural factors should be considered when testing Native American students.
Colin Trindle Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Colin Trindle
Alfred J. Beaver
Indian History Film Project
Description
Mr. Trindle, aged 78, has spent most of his adult life in the Trout Lake/Peerless Lake area and is a former chief--talks about promises of a reserve in the area; surveying of boundaries; duration of occupation of area; and traditional lifestyles.
Collaboration to Inform Strategic Planning: Developing the Alliances to Expand the Traditional Indigenous Sweat Lodge Ceremony within Alberta Health Services
Theses
Author/Creator
Jazmine Leigh Drost
Description
Leadership Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2017.
Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy: Tataihono - Stories of Māori Health and Psychiatry
Alternate Title
Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy: Tataihono - Stories of Maori Health and Psychiatry
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Maria Baker
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing - Te Mauri: Pimatisiwin, vol. 2, no. 1, June 2017, pp. 108-110
Description
Book review of: Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy Tataihono by Wiremu Niania, Allister Bush and David Epson.
Collaborative Consent and British Columbia's Water: Towards Watershed Co-Governance
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Merrell-Ann Phare
Rosie Simms
Oliver M. Brandes
Michael Miltenberger
Description
Discusses how Crown and Indigenous governments can engage with each other on the basis of a nation-to-nation relationship to develop regimes for management of resources which ensure mutually beneficial outcomes.
Collaborative Data Governance to Support First Nations-Led Overdose Surveillance and Data Analysis in British Columbia, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Soha Sabeti
Chloé Xavier
Amanda Slaunwhite
Louise Meilleur
Laura MacDougall ... [et al.]
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 16, no. 2, Wisdom of the Elders: Honouring Spiritual Laws in Indigenous Knowledge, 2020, pp. 338-355
Description
Discusses the collection of Indigenous opioid-related overdoses data that adheres to the OCAP principles and supports Indigenous self-determination.
Collaborative Game Development with Indigenous Communities: A Theoretical Model for Ethnocultural Empathy
Theses
Author/Creator
Laura K. Horton
Description
New Media Game Design and Production Thesis (M.A.)--Aalto University, 2019.
Looks at Never Alone, Mulaka and the Sámi Game Jam.
Collaborative Process on Indian Registration, Band Membership and First Nation Citizenship: Report to Parliament
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada]
Collaborative Process on Indian Registration, Band Membership and First Nation Citizenship: Report to Parliament
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations]
Description
Initiated in response to the Descheneaux decision dealing with denial of status to some members of First Nations due to sexual discrimination. Took place to seek input on implementation of removal of 1951 cut-off from the Indian Act, remaining inequities related to registration and membership and transferring responsibility for membership and citizenship to First Nations. Consisted of community consultations, online survey, regional events and expert panels.
The Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health’s Partnership River of Life: Special Issue Introduction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
DenYelle Baete Kenyon
Melissa Buffalo
Jessica Heinzmann
Michaela Seiber
Dorothy Castille
Amy Elliott
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 26, no. 2, The Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health’s Partnership River of Life, 2019, pp. 1-14
Description
In this piece the authors discuss the funding, structure, goals, and vision of The Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health’s (CRCAIH) Partnership River of Life to provided context for the rest of the special issue which shares some of the research and community results which came out of the partnership.
Collection of Documents on Gender Discrimination and the Indian Act
Web Sites » Organizations
Description
Includes legislative histories of Bill C31, its predecessors and successors, committee reports, United Nations periodic reports, reports and background information from social organizations, domestic and international challenges.
Collective Memory in Transition: Macdonald, Cornwallis and Statue Removal in Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Ben McHutchion
Description
Art History Thesis (M.A) -- Queen's University, 2019.
College Indian Art Program Will Begin Second Course
Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 4, no. 6, July 1974, p. 9
Description
Main objective of Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College course is to "train Native people to teach art to Native children."
Colonial Legacies and Collaborative Action: Improving Indigenous Peoples’ Health Care in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lloy Wylie
Stephanie McConkey
Ann Marie Corrado
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 5, Special Issue: The Impact of Reserve and Reservation Systems on Indigenous Well-Being, November 22, 2019
Description
Research uses qualitative interviews with Indigenous and non-Indigenous health care and social services providers to examine the barriers that Indigenous people face when accessing healthcare; suggests possible strategies to improve responsiveness.
The Colonial Legacy: The Legal Oppression of Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Asha Collins
Glendon Journal of International Studies, vol. 10, 2017, pp. [1]-22
Description
Comments on the role the Canadian government played in the systematic oppression and discrimination towards Indigenous women.
Colonial Trauma and Political Pathways to Healing
Alternate Title
Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling: Four Directions for Integration with Counselling Psychology
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Terry Mitchell
Description
Looks at the effects of personal and collective trauma through a political lens.
Scroll down to read paper.
Chapter from Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling edited by Suzanne L. Stewart, Roy Moodley, and Ashely Hyatt.
Scroll down to read paper.
Colonial Trauma: Complex, Continuous, Collective, Cumulative and Compounding Effects on the Health of Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Beyond
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Terry Mitchell
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 14, no. 2, Growing Roots of Indigenous Wellbeing, October 31, 2019, pp. 74-94
Description
Authors examine colonial traumas—Indigenous separation from land, culture, and relations—which occur as a result of ongoing and neo-colonial practices, as a determinant of Indigenous peoples’ physical and mental health.
Colonialism of the Curve: Indigenous Communities and Bad COVID Data
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Courtney Skye
Description
Discusses the large discrepancy between incidence and mortality rates reported by Indigenous Services Canada and those reported by communities themselves and compares the two sets of numbers in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec. Argues that jurisdictional battles between federal and provincial governments have negatively impacted both delivery of services and accumulation of accurate information, with the result being lack of accountability at both levels of government.
Colonialsim, Archives and Yukon First Nations: A Guide to Public Records in Yukon Archives Documenting the History Colonization in Yukon
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Yukon Archives
Description
Guide developed in anticipation of request from National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls to identify relevant records with a focus on material created by the Yukon government. Divided into five thematic sections: early colonization, education, justice, health and social programs and intergovernmental relationships.
Colonization, Homelessness, and the Prostitution and Sex Trafficking of Native Women
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Christine Stark
Eileen Hudon
Description
Looks at the current situation of women and girls in the United States, with a particular focus on historical context and the link between trafficking and homelessness.
The Colonizer & the Colonizer Who Refuses: Cultural Production and Colonial Crisis at Oka, Ipperwash, Burnt Church & Caledonia
Theses
Author/Creator
Katherine L.E. Milley
Description
Education Thesis (PhD) - University of Toronto, 2019.
The Color of Coronavirus: COVID-19 Deaths by Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.
Alternate Title
The Colour of Coronavirus: COVID-19 Deaths by Race and Ethnicity in the United States
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
APM Research Lab Staff
Description
Disaggregated data for Blacks, Latinos, Indigenous peoples, Pacific Islanders and Asians including actual and age-adjusted mortality rates per 100,000 and total deaths experienced by each group. Current as of Sept. 15, 2020.
July 2022 update.
Colorism’s Effect on the Presentation of Performative Justice for Indigenous Women in Video News Media
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sarah Bernal
Mundi: Global Studies Society Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, Global Connections, 2020, pp. 1-33
Description
Using a comparative case study to examine the unequal mainstream media coverage of murdered Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in Mexico. The findings show that non-Indigenous cases are given more and longer media coverage that provides those cases a "higher profile" for law enforcement.
Colouring Book
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jackie Lever
Description
Teaches children the alphabet using images and brief explanations about how they relate to Metis culture. Words are in English and Southern Michif.
Combating Human Trafficking in Indian Country: A Tribal Judge's Role
Alternate Title
Combatting Human Trafficking in Indian Country: A Tribal Judge's Role
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
William J. Brunson
Description
Includes background information on the issue, indicators that trafficking is occurring, actions that can be taken when suspected victims appear in court, and lists resources available to support victims.
Combining Knowledge: Exploring Knowledge of Indigenous Needs and Planning Practices Among Practicing Planners
Theses
Author/Creator
Nicole Goodbrand
Description
Planning Thesis (M.A.)--University of Waterloo, 2017.
Coming Out Stories: Two Spirit Narratives in Atlantic Canada: Final Report
Alternate Title
Research Project Report (Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network) ; 2017
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John R. Sylliboy
Tuma Young
Description
Through 20 in-depth interviews project gathered information on socio-cultural context, state of mental health and well-being during process, and supports which were relied upon.
Coming Together, Making Progress: Business's Role in Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Description
Comments on the necessity of a partnerships between Canadian businesses, the Crown and Indigenous people.
Commemorating Father Pandosy: Diversification of the Frontier Cultural Complex and Continued Colonial Erasure in Kelowna
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Mudde
BC Studies, no. 207, Autumn, 2020, pp. 35-65,156
Description
Looks at the 2012 unveiling of a sculpture of Father Pandosy and how the use of Sylix knowledge both mitigates the erasure of Indigenous presence and acknowledges the Indigenous community within the framework of a settler-colonial identity.
Commemorating John A. Macdonald: Collective Remembering and the Structure of Settler Colonialism in British Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Timothy J Stanley
BC Studies, no. 204, (Un)Settling the Islands: Race, Indigeneity, and the Transpacific, 01 09, 2020, pp. 89-113
Description
Article discusses the ways that place names and public cultural artifacts in the city of Victoria enforce colonial histories and the erasure of Indigenous and Chinese narratives. Uses the removal of a statue of John A. Macdonald from the entrance to city hall as a case study to examine the similarities between the arguments of apologists and the colonial practices of early Canada.
Commentary on the Recruitment and Retention of American Indian and Alaska Native Students in California Postsecondary Education Institutions
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Randall Akee
Theresa Stewart-Ambo
Heather Torres
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 44, no. 1, 2020, pp. 113-136
Description
Summarizes findings from group discussions with community members and members of California colleges during the Lighting a Path Forward symposium.
Commercial Tobacco Reduction in Indigenous Communities: 2017 Literature Update
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Michael Palmer
Michael Chaiton
Robert Schwartz
Description
Searched conducted for articles and reports published between August 2015 and January 2017 using PsychINFO, Embase, CINAHL and Medline. Identified 14 items of strong and moderate quality with content pertaining to the U.S., New Zealand, and Australia.
Commercialization and Marketing of Women’s Indigenous Knowledge Products: A Case Study of Maasai Body Ornamental Products in Arusha, Tanzania
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jehovaness Aikaeli
Beatrice Kalinda Mkenda
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 5, June 2019, pp. 41-75
Description
Discusses the traditional knowledge and skills used by Maasai women in their creation of accessories and other handcrafted goods; explores how these skills might be translated into income in both domestic and tourist markets.
La communauté comme sujet et objet du droit: implications
pour les Métis du Canada = The Law of the Community and Community Rights: Implications for the Métis in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Natacha Gagné
Claudie Larcher
Sébastien Grammond
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 142-163
Description
Based on analysis of transcripts of Hirsekorn case in which judges had to render a decision on the Métis identity of the accused and his membership in a rights-holding Métis community.