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Creating a Market for Inuit Art: 1949-1967
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Author/Creator
Susan Rowley
Description
Speaker uses examples from the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia to illustrate talk which focuses on federal government's involvement in creation and marketing of Inuit art.
Duration: 1:13:11.
Crisis on Tap: First Nations Water for Life
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
University of Victoria Centre for Aboriginal Health Research
Description
Documentary takes a critical look at the environmental public health challenge as expressed by First Nations peoples living in Canada.
Duration: 30:15.
[Episode 8. Part 1: Calvin Helin]
Alternate Title
David Berner: Ending the Dependency Trap ; episode 8, part 1
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Calvin Helin
David Berner
Description
Interview with the author of two books which discuss First Nations reliance on the government and the need for self-sufficiency.
Duration: 14:18.
Part II.
[Episode 8. Part 2: Calvin Helin]
Alternate Title
David Berner: Ending the Dependency Trap ; episode 8, part 2
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Calvin Helin
David Berner
Description
Continuation of an interview with the author of two books which discuss First Nations reliance on the government and the need for self-sufficiency.
Duration: 14:13.
Part I.
[Is There a Traditional Perspective of Truth and Reconciliation?]
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[Indigenous Knowledge Seminar Series, University of Manitoba]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Murray Sinclair
Description
Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission speaks about background, mandate and approach of Commission. Also explains the history of governments' attempts to eradicate Aboriginal culture by forced assimilation of children through the residential school system.
Duration: 1:39:29.
[James Bartleman on Challenges Faced by Aboriginal Kids]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Cheryl Jackson
James Bartleman
Description
Ontario's first Aboriginal Lieutenant-Governor and author of the book As Long As the Rivers Flow discusses the legacy of residential schools.
Duration: 18:57.
Martha of the North
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Marquise Lepage
Martha Flaherty
Description
Documentary about federal government's relocation of Inuit families to the High Arctic and the hardships they endured.
Duration: 47:40.
Passamaquoddy Peoples: Canada's Denial of Recognition as Just Another Path to Extinction
Alternate Title
Native Awareness Days ; 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Hugh Akagi
Description
Speaker discusses the implications of the Federal government's refusal to recognize the First Nation.
Part 1: 23:48.
Part 2: 22:55.
[Professor Castellano on Reconciliation. Part 1]
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Symposium on Reconciliation ; Toronto, Ontario February, 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Marlene Brant Castellano
Description
Marlene Brant Castellano, Professor Emeritus at Trent University, speaks at the Symposium on Reconciliation in Toronto, Ontario, February, 2011.
Duration: 4:49.
Part 1 of 5.
Reconciliation, Recognition and Resentment in Indigenous Politics
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Glen Coulthard
Description
Duration: 1:17:38
[Satsan on Reconciliation. Part 4]
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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: 4:47.
Part 4 of 5.
We Are All Treaty People: Maritime Beginnings
Alternate Title
Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
James Miller
Description
Canada Research Chair in Native-Newcomer Relations traces the history of treaty-making from its early beginnings with the Peace and Friendship Treaties through to the present day.
Lecture given at Dalhousie University.
Duration: 41:17.
We are All Treaty People: New Models for a Shared Future
Alternate Title
Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jim Miller
Description
Speaker discusses the initial relationship between Aboriginals and Europeans, the motives behind the numbered treaties, the two parties' differing interpretations of the agreements, and the modern situation.
Lecture given at the University of Victoria.
Duration: 40:16.
We are All Treaty People: Redefining the Relationship
Alternate Title
Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jim Miller
Description
Canada Research Chair in Native-Newcomer Relations traces history of treaty-making in Canada, with particular reference to Ontario.
Lecture given at the University of Waterloo.
Duration: 44:36.