Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Alex J. Ross
Description
Studio portrait of Sarcee woman.
From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers: Ch. 2 Images - Unidentified Blood Warrior
Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Alex J. Ross
Description
Subject holding rifle, sitting on animal hide wearing traditional clothing. Shot in studio. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers: Ch. 3 Images - Staff and Students of Government Industrial School
Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Otto B. Buell
Description
Photograph of the staff and students of a government industrial school in Fort Qu'Appelle. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Facsimiles of sketches furnished to the Montreal Star by a member of the Expedition - 9 May 1885.
Images » Photographs
Description
Several sketches of Metis forces from the 1885 Resistance. Includes battle scenes shown from the Metis side at Duck Lake and Fish Creek, as well as a sketch of Gabriel Dumont addressing his troops.
Factors That Support High School Graduation for Ute Mountain Ute Youth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie M. Lane
Suja George
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 57, no. 3, Fall, 2018, pp. 5-26
Description
Examines the factors that effect the high school graduation success of Ute Mountain Ute students.
Failures by Design: The On-Reserve First Nations’ Housing Crisis and its Roots in Canadian Evaluation Frameworks
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shelagh McCartney
Jeffrey Herskovits
Lara Hintelmann
Canadian Journal of Native Studies , vol. 38, no. 2, 2018, pp. 101-124
Description
Article examines the history of on-reserve housing evaluation, government policies and interventions and contrasts that framework with First Nations cultural understandings of housing and self-determination. Authors interrogate the assimilationist roots of policy that continues to implement Western housing models First Nations.
Fair
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hamza Hussain
Yuktha Kowlessur
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 13, no. 1, 2018, p. 20
Description
Students' poem reflects classroom lessons on Shannen Koostachin and her advocacy for quality education and schools on reserve.
Fallen Feathers in Thunder Bay: How Canada's Newspapers Implicate Indigenous Youth
Theses
Author/Creator
Chelsea Brianne Gabriele
Description
Social Work Thesis (M.S.W.)--McMaster University, 2018.
Fanning the Flames: Racism in Government Recommendations for the Prevention of Deaths by Fire on First Nations Reserves
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lori Chambers
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, 2018, pp. 25-42
Description
Author argues that the federal government of Canada perpetuates systemic racism through official publications responding to fire deaths on reserve; accuses the government of playing a “blame game” to detract from the reality that a lack of funding is primarily responsible for the fire deaths.
Fear and Loathing in Lamanite Territory: Lessons From Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the Mormon Indian Placement Program and Beyond
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kevin Snow
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, Winter, 2018, pp. 1-26
Description
Discusses similarities and differences between Canada's residential schools and the practice of fostering out Native American children to Mormon homes.
Feasibility of a Systems Approach to Treat Commercial Tobacco Dependence within American Indian Health Clinics
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brandie Buckless
Kristine Rhodes
Meggan McCann
Bruce Christiansen
Jean Forster … [et al.]
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 25, no. 3, 2018, pp. 52-77
Description
Article examines smoking cessation programs directed at Indigenous peoples; highlights the need to differentiate between traditional use and non-traditional commercial tobacco use. Authors asses the efficacy of interventions based on the United States Public Health Service’s 5A model, and cultural approaches used in three American Indian health clinics in Minnesota.
Federal Budget Invests Heavily in Research, Indigenous Health
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Eggertson
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 190, no. 11, March 19, 2018, p. E341–E342.
Description
Discusses the health-related allocations of the 2018 Canadian Federal Budget, including: Tuberculosis prevention and treatment, culturally informed addiction treatment, clean drinking water on reserves, a Métis national health strategy, medical services in remote communities.
Federal Housing Advocate’s Observational Report: British Columbia (August 23 to September2, 2022)
E-Books
Author/Creator
Marie-Josée Houle
Feeding Ourselves with Stories and the Gift of Having a Body: A Conversation with Deborah A. Miranda
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
René Dietrich
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 2, Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways, 2018, pp. 103-118
Description
René Dietrich’s interview with poet and author Deborah Miranda.
Feeding the Tribe: The Role of Soft Infrastructure in Addressing the Root Problems of the Navajo Nation San Juan River Irrigation System.
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tracy D. Raymond
Constance L. Falk
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 3, Summer, 2018, pp. 306-328
Description
Article describes the key issues surrounding and the causes of the decline of the irrigation system; considers historical and institutional factors and makes focused recommendations for improving the state of the system.
Females, the Strong Ones: Listening to the Lived Experiences of American Indian Women
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrea Riley Mukavetz
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 1-23
Description
Discusses the process of theorizing life experience through storytelling. Asserts that the stories told by Indigenous women about their lives should be considered as theories for the purposes of research, writing, and living.
Fertility of Aboriginal People in Canada: An Overview of Trends at the Turn of the 21st Century
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jean-Dominique Morency
Éric Caron-Malenfant
David Daignault
Aboriginal Policy Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, 2018, pp. 34-61
Description
Overview of trends, primarily between 1996 and 2011. Provides total rates and rates by age group, and data for population as a whole as well as individual groups. Sources include past censuses, National Household Survey, vital statistics, and the Indian register.
Fiction and Politics: Karl May and the American West in Nineteenth Century German Sociopolitical Consciousness
Theses
Author/Creator
Emily Scott
Description
History Thesis (MA) -- University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2018.
The Fight at Duck Lake
Images » Photographs
Description
Negative of an artists representation of the fight at Duck Lake, featuring indigenous peoples in romanticized traditional costume holding guns.
Fighting for the Tribal Bible: Mohican Politics of Self-Representation in Public History
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rose Miron
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 2, Fall, 2018, pp. 91-122
Description
Describes the process of the Mohican people of Wisconsin as they negotiated Mission House Museum for the repatriation of a Bible and Communion set over more than 30 years. Highlights issues of material culture; of accessibility, possession, and control.
Fighting Isolation: How Four Native Women Created Change at UNC– Chapel Hill
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brian Peteres
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 3, Summer, 2018, pp. 344-374
Description
Article uses a critical race analysis of oral histories and documents to examine how and why the first historically Native American fraternity and sorority (HNAFS), Alpha Pi Omega, was created, and the role that it played in experience of Indigenous students attending UNC – Chapel Hill in the mid-1990s.
Final Written Submission: National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Amnesty International
Description
Looks at the issue in the context of gender-based violence as a human rights violation which is rooted in deep, structural discrimination and intersects with socio-economic and cultural rights violations. Outlines essential elements of a human-rights based response and identifies three keys to effectiveness.
Finding a Place at Home: The TRC as a Means of (R)Evolution in Pre-Service (Science) Teacher Education
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dawn Wiseman
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 53, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 331-349
Description
Author explores what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action ask of teacher educators and specifically in the field of science education. Considers how Indigenous and Western ways of knowing might be brought together to highlight “the role that Land and the natural world might play in reconciliation via science teacher education.”
Fine Day
Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Description
Photograph of Chief Fine Day posing with rifle and wearing battle dress.
Caption: "War chief Fine Day of the Strike-Him-on-the-Back band directed the Cree counter-attack at the Cut Knife battle."
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
The First Expedition for the Relief of Battleford Attacked by Halfbreeds - Sketch. - 1885.
Images » Photographs
Description
Note: The title of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library.
A sketch of a steamboat, possibly the Northcote, coming under Metis fire during the Northwest Resistance. The title is apparently erroneous as there was only one relief expedition to Battleford and it neither came under fire or involved river boats.
First Follow-Up Report on the Viens Commission: Assessment of the Implementation of the 142 Call for Action of the Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacques Viens
Description
First Nation Networks Help Protect Indigenous Languages and Culture
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kevin Burton
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 6, no. Special Issue 2, Connectivity in Northern and Indigenous Communities, October 2018, pp. 46-49
Description
Describes the development and administration of Atlantic Canada's First Nation Help Desk network, which provides broadband services to 30 Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, and Innu First Nation communities.
First Nations Children Investigated in the Quebec Youth Protection System in 2014: Portrait of the Situation
E-Books
Author/Creator
Mireille De La Sablonnière-Griffin
Jacinthe Dion
Sonia Hélie
First Nations Community Economic Development Guide for Ontario
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Stonecircle Consulting]
First Nations Data Governance, Privacy, and the Importance of the OCAP® Principles
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Graham Mecredy
Roseanne Sutherland
Carmen Jones
International Journal of Population Data Science, vol. 3, no. 4, Conference Proceedings for International Population Data Linkage Conference 2018 , 2018, p. [?]
Description
Looks at the creation of the OCAP prinicples to help researchers appropriately collect data collaboratively with Indigenous communities.
First Nations Elders’ Perspectives of Engagement in Community Programs in Nak’azdli Whut’en, British Columbia, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rochelle Tonkin
Shannon Freeman
Jenny Martin
Valerie Ward
Kelly Skinner
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 109, no. 5-6, December 2018, pp. 717-725
Description
Study coordinated by the health centre with some support from academic partners, assessed the types of programming Elders would be interested in, and what they saw to be barriers to participation. Researchers offered participants several options to encourage survey participation including language and location of interview; a well-respected Elder was hired to conduct the interviews.
First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study: Results from Saskatchewan 2015
Alternate Title
FNFNES Results from Saskatchewan 2015
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Laurie Chan
Olivier Receveur
Malek Batal
Tonio Sadik
Description
Study involves five components: household interviews collecting information on dietary patterns, lifestyle and general health status, environmental concerns and food security; sampling traditional foods for contaminants; sampling water for trace metals; hair sampling for mercury; and surface water sampling for pharmaceuticals.
First Nations Governance Project: Phase I
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Financial Management Board
Institute on Governance
Description
Purpose of project was to examine how Indigenous peoples envision governance within an UNDRIP-defined Nation-to-Nation relationship with Canada, and begin formulating questions about how Nations would interact with other governments in the country.
First Nations Homeownership
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Chris Maracle
Description
Brief discussion of existing government programs, various initiatives such as Revolving Loan Funds, First Nations Market Housing Fund, and Habitat for Humanity Canada's Indigenous Housing Partnership, and the experiences of Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory (TMT), Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, and Kahnawake.
First Nations Innovation - Publications
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Innovation Project
Description
List of references, abstracts and links to publications produced by the First Nations Innovation project, the First Mile project, and the First Mile Connectivity Consortium.
First Nations Mental Wellness Continuum Framework: Implementation Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Carol Hopkins
Jasmine Fournier
Description
Topics include: changing the approach to mental health and wellness; steps to implementation of the Framework; understanding culturally defined standards of care; key concepts; the Framework in practice; collaborations; and implementation opportunities.
First Nations People, Métis and Inuit in Canada: Diverse and Growing Populations
E-Books
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
Description
Information from the 2016 Census of Population.
First Nations Post-Secondary Education Review: Institutions Costing
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Medow Consulting
Description
Presents high-level costing model built following analysis of regional selection of three First Nations Institutes, review of systems in the United States and New Zealand/Aotearoa, and examination of cost-drivers of post-secondary education.
First Nations Post-Secondary Education Review: Institutions Costing
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Medow Consulting
Description
Presents a high-level costing model developed following analysis of regional selection of three First Nations institutes of higher learning and international post-secondary systems in the United States and New Zealand/Aotearoa, and broad consideration of cost-drivers across Canadian jurisdictions and in international context.
First Nations Regional Health Survey (RHS) Phase 3 (2015-2016): Manitoba Regional Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Marcie Snyder
Description
Results grouped under community wellness, holistic wellbeing, physical wellbeing, healthy behaviours and lifestyles, and mobility.
First Nations Youth: Experiences and Outcomes in Secondary and Postsecondary Learning
Alternate Title
Education Indicators in Canada: Fact Sheet
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jaclyn Layton
First Nations Youth Inquest: 2018 Progress Update on the Recommendations
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Aboriginal Legal Services]
Description
Inquest investigated the deaths of seven youths who had relocated to Thunder Bay, Ontario to complete their high school education.
Grading Scheme
First Nations Youth Inquest: 2018 Report Card on Recommendations [Detailed]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Aboriginal Legal Services]
Description
Inquest investigated the deaths of seven youths who had relocated to Thunder Bay, Ontario to complete their high school education.
Grading Scheme
First People Lost: Determining the State of Status First Nations Mortality in Canada Using Administrative Data
Alternate Title
Department Discussion Paper (Dept. of Economics. University of Victoria) ; DDP 1802
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Randell Akee
Donna Feir
Description
Analyzes patterns and trends in mortality rates by using Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada data from 1974 to 2013.
First Peoples and Australian Museums and Galleries: A Report on the Engagement of Indigenous Australians in the Museums and Galleries Sector
Alternate Title
First Peoples: A Roadmap for Enhancing Indigenous Engagement in Museums and Galleries: Indigenous Roadmap
E-Books
Author/Creator
Terri Janke
Description
Includes both quantitative and qualitative information gathered from across the country. Qualitative findings are arranged under the following headings: reimaging representation, embedding Indigenous values, increasing Indigenous opportunities, and two-way caretaking of cultural material.
Related material: Roadmap for Enhancing Indigenous Engagement in Museums and Galleries.
First Peoples, Connecting Custodians: Principles and Guidelines for Australian Museums and Galleries Working with First Peoples Cultural Material: Draft for Consultation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Terri Janke
Description
Includes policies from the 2005 version with extensive recommendations for additions and revisions.
First Peoples Law: Essays on Canadian Law and Decolonization
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bruce McIvor
Description
Topics include Aboriginal title, treaties, the Métis, duty to consult, and land claims.
3rd edition.
“The First Real Indians That I Have Seen”: Franz Boas and the Disentanglement of the Entangled
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rainer Hatoum
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 2, The Entangled Gaze, 2018, pp. 157-184
Description
Author analyzes the field notes of the ethnographer Franz Boas, arguing that while he wanted to create a more authentic understanding of Indigenous people, he ignored many of the aspects of his interactions with them that would have led to such and understanding.
[First] Report of the Committee Consisting of Dr. E.B. Tylor, Dr. G.M. Dawson, General Sir J.H. Lefroy, Dr. Daniel Wilson, Mr. Horatio Hale, Mr. R.G. Haliburton, and Mr. George W. Bloxam (Secretary): Appointed for the Purpose of Investigating and Publish
Alternate Title
Report - 1885 on the north-western tribes of the Dominion of Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
Committee on North-Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Horatio Hale
Description
"Reports on the physical characters, languages, industrial and social condition of the North-western tribes of the Dominion of Canada," focuses on Blackfoot, Cree and Ojibwe/Ojibway, 1885 era.
First Shell into Batoche, May 9, 1885
Images » Photographs
Description
Image of cannon fire during the battle of Batoche. A fence is visible in foreground; horses, men and smoke seen in background.