Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Faith Rogow
Insighters Educational Consulting
Description
Discussion guide to accompany A Place in the Middle, true story about a girl who wants to be in an all-boy hula troupe at her school. For grades 6-12.
Watch A Place in the Middle.
A Place in the Middle: Hawai'i Teacher's Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Adam Chang
Dean Hamer]
Description
To accompany film about the Hawaiian approach to gender diversity and the true story about a girl who wants to be in an all-boy hula troupe at her school.
For use with Grades 4 to 12.
The Place of Falling Water
Alternate Title
Video Reviews
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher Paci
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 159-161
Description
Video review of: The Place of Falling Water produced by Roy Bigcrane and Thompson Smith about the experiences of the Salish and Kootenai peoples on the Flathead Reservation.
Plain Language Guide to the Nisga'a Agreement
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC)
Description
Topics in the guide include: lands, land title, natural resources, environmental assessment, etc.
Plains Indian Art of the Northern Plains: Traveling Trunk Curriculum
Alternate Title
Plains Indian Art Trunk Curriculum
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Megan Smith
Description
2nd revised edition. Uses archival photographs of material culture.
Planning for Prosperity: First Nations, Intergovernmental Cooperation and Treaties: A Leaders' Forum
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Barry Stuart
Edmond Wright
Colin Kinsley
Barry Seymour
Finlay Sinclair ... [et al.]
Description
Overview of fourth conference series with focus on positive relationships and emerging partnerships between industry and Aboriginal communities.
Planning Guide and Framework for Development of Aboriginal Learning Resources
E-Books
Author/Creator
Field Services and Aboriginal Education Team
British Columbia Ministry of Education
Skills and Training
Plant Wisdom = Dechı̨tah t’ahsı́ı nezheh met’áhodéɂá
Alternate Title
Nahe Náhodhe – Our Way of Life
Documents & Presentations
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Dehcho First Nations
Description
Describes uses of moss and the soapberry bush.
Plants and Connection to Place
Alternate Title
Yukon Grade 8 Cross-Curricular Unit
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alyce Johnson
Liz Woods
Description
Focuses on Yukon First Nations Traditional Knowledge.
Plants & Connection to Place
Alternate Title
Plants and Connection to Place
Yukon Grade 8 Cross-Curricular Unit
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Yukon First Nations Curriculum Working Group
Alyce Johnson
Liz Woods
Description
Teacher's guide.
The Playbook: Indigenous Games in the Classroom: A Play-Based Approach to Cultural Inclusion
Theses
Author/Creator
Karalee Smith
Description
[Graduate Education Project--Queen's University, 2020]
The Plight of Ainu, Indigenous People of Japan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mitsuharu Vincent Okada
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 1, no. 1, January 2012, pp. 1-14
Description
Examines consequences of government assimilation policies and discusses the need for research to promote social justice.
Policy Tools for Indigenous Governments for Exploration and Mining
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ginger Gibson
Larry Innes
Description
Workshop offers information on three tools for managing exploration and mining development in traditional lands.
The Political Economy of Federal Resettlement Policies Affecting Native American Communities: The Fort McDowell Yavapai Case
Theses
Author/Creator
Patricia S. Mariella
Description
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 1983.
A Political Economy of Native Marginalization: A Study of the Appropriation of Aboriginal Water Rights, the Case of the Mishkeegogamang First Nation
Theses
Author/Creator
Janet Armstrong
Description
Political Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen's University, 2000.
Political Inclusion of the Saami as Indigenous People in Norway
Alternate Title
Political Inclusion of the Sami as Indigenous People in Norway
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nils Oskal
International Journal on Minority & Group Rights, vol. 8, no. 2/3, Special Issue on Sami Rights in Finland, Norway, Russia and Sweden, 2001, pp. 235-261
Description
Discusses Sami rights to land and water in Norway.
The Politics of the Canoe
E-Books
Author/Creator
Frank Brown
Hillary Beattie
Vina Brown
Ian Mauro
Rachel L. Cushman ... [et al.]
2021
Possessing Meares Island
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barry Gough
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, Summer, 1998, pp. 177-185
Description
Discussion of how the island went from Indigenous occupancy to Indian Reserve status and subject to Timber License 44.
Post-Frontier Resource Governance: Indigenous Rights, Extraction and Conservation in the Peruvian Amazon
Alternate Title
International Relations and Development Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Peter Bille Larsen
Potlatch 67-67: Then and Now
Alternate Title
Potlatch 67-67 Lesson Series
Hiłt̕sist̕a'a̱m: The Copper Will Be Fixed
E-Books
Author/Creator
Kumugwe Cultural Society
Comox Valley Art Gallery
Description
Catalogue for exhibition held to mark the 67th anniversary of the lifting of the Potlatch ban.
Related material: Lesson Plan.
Potlatch: Then & Now
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Juanita Pasco
Joe Wilson
Flora Cook
Linda Manz
Jerri-Lynne Henderson ... [et al.]
Description
Designed for fourth grade students, but can be used as starting point for further discussion.
Poverty, Politics, and Petroleum: The Utah Navajo and the Aneth Oil Field
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert S. McPherson
David A. Wolff
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, Summer, 1997, pp. 451-470
Description
Authors discuss different positions and policies on resource extraction from traditional Diné territories and how these have created and maintained poverty conditions on the Navajo Reservation in Utah.
Power Struggles: Hydro Development and First Nations in Manitoba and Quebec
E-Books
Author/Creator
Thibault Martin
Steven M. Hoffman
John Bonner
Thibault Martin
Gabrielle A. Slowey ... [et al.]
Power to the People: A Rights-Based Approach to Energy Development: An Interview with Hawaiian Activist Mililani Trask
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Agnes Portalewska
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4, Free, Prior, and Informed Consent, December 2012, p. [?]
Description
Human rights advocates discusses her views on the rights of Indigenous peoples to own, develop and benefit from their traditional lands and natural resources.
Powerful or Just Plain Power-Full? A Power Analysis
of Impact and Benefit Agreements in Canada’s North
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ken J. Caine
Naomi Krogman
Organization & Environment, vol. 23, no. 1, March 2010, p. 76–98
Description
Argues that Impact and Benefit Agreements may provide more direct engagement with industry and a sharing of benefits from resource development than has been provided in Northern Canada.
Powering Self-Determination: Indigenous Renewable Energy Developments in British Columbia
Theses
Author/Creator
Eryn Fitzgerald
Description
Environmental Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2018.
Powwow: A Celebration through Song and Dance
Alternate Title
Orca Origins
E-Books
Author/Creator
Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane
Description
Advanced reading copy. "Middle reader nonfiction: Ages 9-12."
Powwow! Ochîwin the Origins!
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Red Deer mag + Art Gallery
Description
Produced in conjunction with an exhibition of 11 examples of regalia worn by dancers. Contains links to series of ten videos about the history of the powwow, curator's talk and demonstrations of the various dance styles.
Related material:
Educational Guide
Pre-Occupied
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Heid Erdrich
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018
Description
An experimental video/art poem and accompanying text that examines issues including land rights, resource extraction, environmentalism, the Occupy Movement and the activism of Indigenous peoples.
Prejudice about Indians in Textbooks
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Verna J. Kirkness
Journal of Reading, vol. 20, no. 7, April 1977, pp. 595-600
Description
Lists ten types of bias: omission, defamation, disparagement, cumulative implication, lack of validity, inertia, obliteration, disembodiment, and lack of concreteness, and provides examples of prejudicial textbooks in each category.
Preliminary Analysis of Elders' Interviews
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Rick Daniel
Indian History Film Project
Description
Brief summary and evaluation of the references to mineral rights in the Treaty 8 interviews.
Preparatory Report from the Sami Parliament in Sweden/Sámediggi/Sámedigge/Saemiedigkie/Sametinget for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Ms.Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Prior to Her 2015 August visit to Sápmi and Sweden
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
India Reed Bowers
Description
Some of issues discussed are women's rights and circumstances, resource extraction, lack of legal-political structures for self-determination and Sweden's Race Biology and eugenics programs.
Preschool Immersion Education for Indigenous Languages: A Survey of Resources
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bill Johnston
Kimberly A. Johnson
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 26, no. 2, 2002, pp. 107-201
Description
Summarizes available information on programs worldwide and examines issues involved in establishing such programs in Indigenous communities.
Preserving Languages in the New Millennium: Indigenous
Bilingual Children's Books
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy L. Hadaway
Terrell A. Young
Childhood Education, vol. 90, no. 5, Educating Children in the New Millennium, pt. 2, September/October 2014, pp. 358-364
Description
Discusses the role that books can play in language revitalization, criteria for selection, themes, and potential use in the classroom.
Prevalence of Otitis Media and Hearling Loss and Effects of Sound-Field FM Amplification Among First Nations Elementary School Children
Theses
Author/Creator
Leslie A. Pinard
Description
Thesis (M.Sc.)--Dalhousie University, 2006.
Preventing Ecological Decline in the Bras d'Or Bioregion: The State Versus the Mi'kmaq 'Metamorphosis Machine'
Alternate Title
Preventing Ecological Decline in the Bras d'Or Bioregion: The State Versus the Micmac 'Metamorphosis Machine'
Preventing Ecological Decline in the Bras d'Or Bioregion: The State Versus the Mikmaw 'Metamorphosis Machine'
Preventing Ecological Decline in the Bras d'Or Bioregion: The State Versus the Miqmaq 'Metamorphosis Machine'
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William T. Hipwell
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 24, no. 2, 2004, pp. 253-281
Description
Discusses the ecological degradation of the central Bras d'Or Lakes watershed region and the active stance the Mi'kmaq people have taken to implement an integrated management approach to the issue.
Primary Source Learning: The Wampanoag, the Plimoth Colonists & the First Thanksgiving
Alternate Title
Primary Source Learning: The Wampanoag, the Plymouth Colonists & the First Thanksgiving
Teaching Now: Separating Myths from History
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John Bickford
Description
Lesson plan designed for elementary students.
Related material: Teaching Guide.
Primary Source: Missionaries in New France
Alternate Title
Letter from Father Jean de Brébeuf
Observations of Jesuit Missionaries
The Martyrdom of Jesuit Missionaries, 1648
Hurons Have Embraced Christianity
A Varied Response to Jesuit and Récollets Mission in the Canadian Colony
Are Only the Sick Willing to Convert?
A New and Successful Strategy to Convert the Mohawk
The Education of Children in New France
Questioning the Reliability of Jesuit First-Hand Accounts
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jean de Brébeuf
Francois le Mercier
Jean Pierron
Peter Kalm
Antoine Silvy
Carole Blackburn
Description
Primarily excerpts from letters written by Jesuit missionaries describing their attempts to convert First Nations peoples to Christianity.
Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range Report: Cold Lake First Nations Rejected Claim Inquiry, Canoe Lake Cree Nation Rejected Claim Inquiry
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Historical background and submission to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding the loss of 4500 square miles of land by the two First Nations. ICC found breaches of Treaty and other fiduciary obligations and recommended the claim be negotiated under Canada's Specific Claims Policy.
Commissioners include: Harry S. LaForme, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and P. E. James Prentice. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Prince Albert -- Pipeline and Northern Oil
Documents & Presentations
Description
1 file containing a document with House of Commons Debates (Pages 1301,1305,1306,1308); debate questioning a statement the Prime Minister made about native titles to land.
Prior and Paramount Aboriginal Water Rights in Canada
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Richard H. Bartlett
Resources , no. 18, Special Issue: Legal Issues in Aboriginal Water Rights, Spring, 1987, pp. [1]-[2]
Description
Suggests that decisions made in the United States may point to the general direction in which Canadian courts may move.
Priscilla Settee: Engineering Environmental Harmony
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Fiona Muldrew
Herizons, vol. 10, no. 3, Summer, 1996, pp. 22-24
Description
Profile of women's rights activist Priscilla Settee and her contributions to Indigenous rights, women's rights and Earth rights.
Problems of Establishing Authority in Testifying on Behalf of the Witsuwit'en
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Antonia Mills
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, vol. 19, no. 2, November 1996, pp. 39-52
Description
Focuses on how anthropologists can best represent First Nations given the experience of the Delgamuukw court case.
Proceedings at Hearing: Topic-Specific Session: Asserted or Established Aboriginal Rights and Treaty Rights, January 17, 2014, Volume 23
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canada Environmental Assessment Agency
British Columbia Environmental Assessment Agency
Description
In the Matter of the Joint Review Panel ("Joint Panel" ) Established to Review the Site C Clean Energy Project ("Project") Proposed by British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority ("BC Hydro").
Producing North and South: A Political Geography of Hydro Development in Québec
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Caroline Desbiens
Canadian Geographer, vol. 48, no. 2, Summer, 2004, pp. 101-118
Description
Describes how the Cree have managed to achieve co-management of local resources through the James Bay Agreement.
Project #12: Button Blanket
Alternate Title
The Sk u k altx "To Teach in School" Project : First Nations Art and Language Course
First Nations Art Projects and Activities
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
[Butch Dick]
[Karin Clark]
Description
Lesson designed for use with elementary school students.
Taken from The Sk u k altx "To Teach in School" Project : First Nations Art and Language Course.
Project Caribou: An Educator’s Guide to Wild Caribou of North America
E-Books
Author/Creator
Kirsten Madsen
Project of Heart
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
[Sylvia Smith]
Description
Website's purpose is to examine legacy and history of Residential Schools, commemorate lives of children who died, and promote social justice endeavours.
Contains links to general news and information about the initiative, social justice campaigns and educational resources.
Project of Heart: Illuminating the Hidden History of Indian Residential Schools in BC
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Nancy Knickerbocker]
Description
Teacher resource.
Project: Restorative Justice and Aboriginal Sentencing Circle: Classroom Presentation, Resources and Lesson Plan
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ontario Justice Education Network
Description
Two hour workshop is aimed at secondary school Civics and Law students.