[What Works to Overcome Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Learnings and Gaps in the Evidence, 2011-12: Appendixes B-D]
Alternate Title
Summary of Research and Evaluation Register Items
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Closing the Gap Clearinghouse]
Description
Appendixes to accompany What Works to Overcome Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Learnings and Gaps in the Evidence, 2011-2012.
"Wheeler, Arthur O."
Archival » Archival Items
Description
File contains a photocopy of Arthur O. Wheeler's daily diary from March to July, 1885. Wheeler served in the Survey (scout) Corp for the Government, and was present during some of the battles of the 1885 rebellion.
"When are You Leaving?" Search for an Appropriate Research Methodology for Work With Aboriginal Peoples
Theses
Author/Creator
Cathy Kurelek
Description
Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1992.
When Consumerism and Art Collide: A Question of Identity
Alternate Title
The Agenda with Steve Paikin
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Brian Jungen
Kitty Scott
Nam Kiwanuka
Description
Artist Brian Jungen and a curator from the Art Gallery of Ontario discuss his art and the exhibition Brian Jungen: Friendship Centre.
Duration: 26:39.
When Disinformation Turns Deadly: The Case of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canadian Media
Alternate Title
Disinformation and Digital Democracies in the 21st Century
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Elisha Corbett
Description
Argues that the way women are framed in mainstream news suggests that they are to blame for the violence against them because they indulge in "high-risk" lifestyles and discusses how initiatives like #MMIWG are combating stereotypical representations and raising awareness.
Paper from Disinformation and Digital Democracies in the 21st Century edited by Joseph McQuade, Tiffany Kwok, and James Cho.
Entire book on one pdf. To access paper scroll to p. 19.
When Do Ideas of an Arctic Treaty Become Prominent in Arctic Governance Debates?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen
Arctic, vol. 72, no. 2, June 19, 2019 , pp. 116-130
Description
Article identifies and examines the social and geopolitical factors and questions which contribute to the prominence of the idea of an international Arctic governance treaty over time; author traces the evolution of the Arctic treaty debate from 1970 to the current moment.
When is Indigeneity: Closing a Legal and Sociocultural Gap in a Contested Domestic/International Term
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julia Bello-Bravo
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 111-120
Description
Author examines the multiple factors at play in defining the term indigeneity. Considers the right of people to self-identify, the legal implications and complications that result based on the definition, and the gap between the legal definition and the sociocultural practice thereof. Discuss both United States contexts and global ones.
"When My Hands Are Empty / I Will Be Full": Visualizing Two-Spirit Bodies in Chrystos's Not Vanishing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Crystal Veronie
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 83-114
Description
Literary criticism article that gives close readings of work from Chrystos's Not Vanishing; argues that Chrystos’s poetry work combat the rhetorical invisibility experience by two-spirit and queer Indigenous people in contemporary feminist movements.
When Research is Relational: Supporting the Research Practices of Indigenous Studies Scholars
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Danielle Cooper
Description
Overview of project which explored practices across Canada and the United States in order to support scholars in ways which would also benefit Indigenous communities. Eleven studies were undertaken by academic libraries with direction from Indigenous scholars and librarians. Provides details on how initiative was developed, designed, and fielded, and highlights key themes which emerged.
When Talk Trumped Service: A Decade of Lost Opportunity for Aboriginal Children and Youth in B.C.
Alternate Title
Special Report (Representative for Children and Youth)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond
Description
Critiques government spending, mainly channelled through the Ministry of Children and Family Development, on initiatives that have not produced concrete, successful outcomes through delivery of front-line services.
When the Children Left
Alternate Title
NSI IndigiDocs
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Angelina McLeod
Charlene Moore
Ryan Cooper
National Screen Institute
Description
Short documentary about a woman's sister who died while completing her high school away from home.
When the North Was Red: Aboriginal Education in Soviet Siberia
Alternate Title
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern series ; 11
E-Books
Author/Creator
Dennis A. Bartels
Alice L. Bartels
When the Trickster Meets 'the big Other' Coyote Goes Cosmic
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Linda Revie
International Journal of Zizek Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, 2013, pp. 1-20
Description
Comments on two authors' use of the trickster to tackle contemporary problems within hegemonic racist and colonizing contexts.
When the Wolf Came: The Civil War and the Indian Territory
Alternate Title
The Civil War in the West
E-Books
Author/Creator
Mary Jane Warde
Where Are Our American Indian/Alaska Native Boys and Young Men?: Understanding Postsecondary Education Trends
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center
Description
Reviews data from 10 states to examine possible contributing factors which would explain why male enrollment is less than half of that of female.
Where is Dr. Leichhardt? The Greatest Mystery in Australian History
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David Carment
Aboriginal History, vol. 37, 2013, pp. 189-191
Description
Book review of: Where is Dr. Leichhardt? by Darrell Lewis.
Scroll down to page 189 to read review.
Where the Earth and Sky Are Sewn Together: Sobaipuri-O'Odham Contexts of Contact and Colonialism
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Gregory R. Campbell
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 37, no. 2, The Settler Complex, 2013, pp. 266-268
Description
Book review of: Where the Earth and Sky Are Sewn Together by Deni J. Seymour.
Review located by scrolling to page 266.
Where the Spirit Lives
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rina Gangemi Spano
Teaching Sociology, vol. 20, no. 2, April 1992, pp. 179-181
Description
Includes film review, suggestions for appropriate courses, discussion of pedagogical usefulness, and study questions.
Where The Water Meets the Land: Between Culture and History in Upper Skagit Aboriginal Territory
Theses
Author/Creator
Molly Sue Malone
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2013.
[Where the Waters Divide: Neoliberalism, White Privilege, and Environmental Racism in Canada]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Rosie B. Simms
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 4, no. 3, 2013, pp. 1-4
Description
Book review of: Where the Waters Divide by Michael Mascarenhas.
Where the Wind Blows Us: Practicing Critical Community Archaeology in the Canadian North
Alternate Title
The Archaeology of Colonialism in Native North America
E-Books
Author/Creator
Natasha Lyons
Which Justice and Which Politics? Rethinking Social Justice: From 'Peoples' to 'Populations'
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Diane Austin-Broos
Aboriginal History, vol. 37, 2013, pp. 117-124
Description
Book review of: Rethinking Social Justice: From 'Peoples' to 'Populations' by Tim Rowse.
Which Sámi? Sámi Inclusion Criteria in Population-Based Studies of Sámi Health and Living Conditions in Norway: An Exploratory Study Exemplified With Data From the SAMINOR Study
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Torunn Pettersen
Magritt Brustad
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, 2013, p. article no. 21813
Description
Study of almost 15,000 participants revealed that the choice of Sámi inclusion criterion had a clear influence on the size and geographical distribution of the defined populations.
Whispering Tales: Using Augmented Reality to Enhance Cultural Landscapes and Indigenous Values
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruno Marques
Jacqueline McIntosh
Hannah Carson
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 3, September 2019, pp. 193-204
Description
Describes a project in which digitally augmented reality (AR) is used to engage people in traditional Māori land-based narratives, values, and storytelling. Argues that Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, a design approach developed to illustrate narratives using contemporary media, helps to promote “bicultural engagement with landscape.”
White Cap, Sioux Chief
Images » Photographs
Description
Photo of illustration made from photograph of White Cap, Sioux Chief, pledging friendship to his white brother, taken from Illustrated War News, 25 April 1885.
White Lies, Native Revisions: The Legacy of Violence in the American West
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John R. Legg
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 331-340
Description
Author explores the contested historical memory of violent engagement between the Unites States government and Indigenous peoples in the mid to late 1800s, and how those narratives have contributed to the idea of American innocence in relation to the displacement genocide of Indigenous peoples.
The White Man's Indian: Mythology Ignores Our Contributions to the World
Alternate Title
Dismantling the White Man's Indian
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Dawn Martin-Hill
Description
Looks at the way Native Americans are portrayed, represented and thought about.
Duration: 26:00.
[White Man Water and Interview with Erica Prussing]
Alternate Title
At the Edge of Canada: Indigenous Research
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Erica Prussing
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Description
Interview with an author about her book White Man Water and research on the Northern Cheyenne First Nation.
Duration: 29:32.
The White People Problem: Experiments in the Reverse Gaze.
Theses
Author/Creator
Kristy Boyce
Description
Digital Futures Thesis (M.F.A.)--Ontario College of Art and Design University, 2019.
The White Stone Canoe: A Legend of the Ottawas
E-Books
Author/Creator
James D. (David) Edgar
Who Am I At Work? Work Life Identity Of Aboriginal Youth And The Role Of Employees On Career Success
Alternate Title
Work Life Identity Of Aboriginal Youth And The Role Of Employees On Career Success
Theses
Author/Creator
Nicole E. Elliott
Description
Applied Psychology and Human Development Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2013.
WHO AM I NOW?: A QUESTION OF CREEK IDENTITY, 1830-1907
Theses
Author/Creator
DANIEL ANTHONY PATTERSON
Description
History Thesis (M.A) -- Appalachian State University, 2013
Who Cared for Those Who Couldn't Care for Themselves in Traditional Northwest Coast Societies?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alice Bee Kasakoff
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 12, no. 2, 1992, pp. 289-307
Description
Discusses the Northwest Coast peoples and how they cared for their dependents.
Who Is a Status Indian?
Alternate Title
Citizenship Issue: Who Is a Status Indian?
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Evann Goltz]
Description
Timeline from the General Enfranchisement Act to the Indian Act and pertinent court cases and decisions which resulted in legislation to amend the Act.
Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas
E-Books
Author/Creator
Maximilian C. Forte
Donna Patrick
Bonita Lawrence
Eva Marie Garroutte
C. Matthew Snipp ... [et al.]
Who Is Indian Enough? The Problem of Authenticity in Contemporary Canadian and American Gone Indian Stories
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Judit Ágnes Kádár
Review of International American Studies, vol. 6, no. 1-2, Decoding American Cultures in the Global Context, Spring-Fall, 2013, pp. 187-214
Description
Comments on aspects of literary ethnic/cultural shape-shifting in Canadian and American literature since the Millennium.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 187.
Who Knows What about Gorillas? Indigenous Knowledge, Global Justice, and Human-Gorilla Relations.
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adam Pérou Hermans Amir
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 5, June 2019, pp. 1-40
Description
Author asserts that Indigenous African knowledge about gorillas has been excluded from contemporary conservation efforts and that this limits their effectiveness. Argues that in order to engage Indigenous knowledge conservationists must reflect on their own ways of knowing and accept different understandings of ecology.
Who Lies Buried in Satanta’s Tomb? Co-memorating a Kiowa Warrior
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Drew Lopenzina
Travis Franks
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3, Summer, 2019, pp. 249-280
Description
Authors re-examine the discourse surrounding the life and death of the Kiowa leader Satanta; discuss how even contemporary perceptions of Indigenous historical figures are rooted in colonial narratives of conquest which sought to diminish the humanity of Indigenous peoples and extinguish Indigenous title in favour of white settler expansion.
Who Owns the Land? Norway, the Sami and the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hanne Hagtvedt Vik
Ann Julie Semb
International Journal on Minority & Group Rights, vol. 20, no. 4, 2013, pp. 517-550
Description
Discusses the internal political process the Norwegian government went through to support the Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention (C169)
Who Owns the Problem?: Crime and Disorder in James Bay Cree Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carol LaPrairie
Eddie Diamond
Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 34, no. 3-4, July-October 1992, pp. [417]-434
Description
Compares methods of dealing with crime on-reserve (communities with a majority Aboriginal population) which may not involve formal processes and off-reserve (communities with a minority Aboriginal population) which are dealt with through the criminal justice system.
Who Protected Him? How B.C.'s Child Welfare System Failed One of Its Most Vulnerable Children
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond
Description
Investigation conducted by the Representative of Children and Youth into the circumstances leading up to the Tasering of an 11-year-old.
Who Says the Montauk Tribe is Extinct? Judge Abel Blackmar's Decision in Wyandank v. Benson (1909)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John A. Strong
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 1, 1992, pp. 1-22
Description
Comments on the way tribal status was determined and depicts the historical background of the tribe which inhabited the eastern section of Long Island.
"Who We Was": Creating Witnesses in Joseph Bruchac's Hidden Roots
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary J. Couzelis
Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, [Disability and Indigeneity], 2013, pp. 159-174
Description
Looks at a young adult historical novel which depicts a family's history in relation to the Vermont eugenics movement of the 1920s and 1930s.
Who We Were, Is Not Who We Are: Wa.zha.zhe Representations, 1960-2010
Theses
Author/Creator
Thomas E. Smith
Description
[Global Indigenous Nations Studies] Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas.
Whose North? Political Change, Political Development, and Self-Government in the Northwest Territories
E-Books
Author/Creator
Mark O. Dickerson
“Whose voices are not in the room?” Indigenous Women’s Participation in the Arctic Climate Crisis Research
Theses
Author/Creator
Elissima De Oliveira Menezes
Description
Marine Management Thesis (MMM)--Dalhousie University, 2019.
Why Bears are Good to Think and Theory Doesn't Have to be Murder: Transformation and Oral Tradition in Louise Erdrich's Tracks
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joni Adamson Clarke
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 1, Series 2 , Spring, 1992, pp. 28-48
Description
Explores how Erdrich transforms her Chippewa oral traditions to create a female character who is able to transform between human and animal in her novel Tracks.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Why do they do it? Proposals for a Theory of Inuit Suicide
Alternate Title
Cahiers d'études inuit ; 4
Inuit Studies Occasional Papers ; 4
Looking to the Future: Papers from the Seventh Inuit Studies Conference, 19-23 August, 1990
Regard sur l'avenir: Communications du Septième Congrès D'études Inuit, 19-23 Août, 1990
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jørgen Thorslund
Description
Paper from Looking to the Future: Papers from the Seventh Inuit Studies Conference, 19-23 August, 1990 edited by Marie-Josée Dufour and François Thérien.
"Why Don't You Just Drop This Indian Stuff": The Living Legacy of Indigenous Selfhood
Theses
Author/Creator
Rebecca Baird
Description
Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design (MFA)--OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design) University, 2013.