All My Relations: Making Kin and Kindred in a Postgenomic World
Ancestry, Genes, and a Colony Chief: Peguis’ People and the Red River Métis
Kinship vs. Race: Reconciling Metis-First Nations Historical Relations
Reflections on Daniels v Canada, Reconciliation and Redress: Setting the Agenda
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Robert Innes
Harold Robinson
Rick Smith
Jessica Kolopenuk
Description
Emphasis on racial distinctions between Métis and First Nations, ignores intermarriage, kinship ties, and shared cultural understandings; recommendations for agenda items for changes in Canada-Indigenous relations in light of the Daniels decision
Duration: 1:50:08.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
SA-eDUC Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, Special Edition on Education and Ethnicity, November 2009, pp. 100-116
Description
Supports the need to understand First Nations history from an Aboriginal perspective and the effects the Indian Act and residential school systems had on First Nations people in Canada.
Surveys "non-Aboriginal public knowledge and attitudes about Aboriginal peoples". Report shows eighty-four percent of Canadians surveyed want to be part of reconciliation process with Indigenous people and thirty percent of young people between the ages of 18-29 feel they have an individual part to play.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 27, no. 2, Summer, 2015, pp. 62-79
Description
Discusses how Erdrich's approach to boarding schools is one of safe haven not the historical negative effects on Native communities. Suggests instructors supplement teaching so students get a complete picture of boarding school experiences.
Presents three positions papers:
Reflections on Contemporary Indian Education by Vine Deloria.
An Historical Overview of Indian Education with Evaluations and Recommendations by Lehman L. Brightman.
Eastern American Indian Communities by Robert K. Thomas.
Lists works written by Indigenous authors published between 2000 and 2018. Focuses on substantial books, articles and book chapters on original primary historical research, research methodology and historiography.
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, vol. 2014, no. 142, Health and Wellness Concerns for Racial, Ethnic, and Sexual Minorities, Summer, 2014, pp. 37-47
Description
Looks HIV/Aids within the context of Canadian reserve system, effects of Indian Residential schools, and risky behaviors.
Guide to accompany film, The Invisible Nation". Target audience students aged 15-20. Contains start and preparatory activities, reflective sharing, comparing two Algonquin communities, observation checklist and suggested questions.
Documentary aboutthe scars and legacy of residential schools on the First Nations Reserve of Wikwemikong on Manitoulin Island In Georgian Bay Ontario.
Duration: 59:29.
Closing the Gap: First Nations' Priorities are Canada's Priorities
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Perry Bellegarde
Description
Speaks about a plan for collaborative change to close the gap between Canadian and Indigenous people's quality of life. According to the United Nation's Human Development Index country as whole is rated sixth, while Indigenous people are rated at 63rd.
Duration: 1:17:26.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, 2000, pp. 159-207
Description
Book reviews of:
American Indians in World War I: At War and At Home by Thomas A. Britten.
Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 by Brenda J. Child.
Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700 by Patricia Galloway.
Daily Life on the Nineteenth-Century American Frontier by Mary Ellen Jones.
Dancing the Dream: The Seven Sacred Paths of Human Transformation by Jamie Sams.
The Great Peace: The Gathering of Good Minds (CD-ROM) by Raymond Skye et.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 2, 2005, pp. 119-172
Description
Book reviews of:
The American Indian Integration of Baseball by Jeffrey Powers-Beck.
The Apache Indians: In Search of the Missing Tribe by Helge Ingstad.
Assimilation’s Agent: My Life as a Superintendent in the Indian Boarding School System by Edwin L. Chalcraft.
Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions edited by Marie Mauzé, Michael E. Harkin, and Sergei Kan.
Every Day Is a Good Day by Wilma Mankiller.
Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania edited by William A.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 65, no. 4, 2006, pp. 347-356
Description
Argues that federal institutions have created systemic sociocultural problems and there is a need for community-based intervention strategies to promote cultural healing.
Symposium on Reconciliation ; Toronto, Ontario February, 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
[Herb George]
Description
Satsan (Herb George), President of the National Centre for First Nations Governance, speaks at the Symposium on Reconciliation in Toronto, Ontario, February, 2011.
Duration: 4:37.
Part 3 of 5.
" ... explores the possibilities of treaty education for reconciliation with First Nations people, as corrective to the foundational myth of Canada and as a means of fostering ethically engaged citizenship."
Four women from across Canada who are artists, scholars, activists discuss topics such as racism, leadership, contemporary life, culture, popular misconceptions about Aboriginal peoples, and cross cultural relations.
Duration: 1:22:38.